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handwriter

handwriter

Norway

April 24, 2013

More entries: Half-Wit (3), Come Home Son, Life Is A Risk, Words Are Not Action, JOY, Here's a shot of me doing my one--and only one--yearly exercise (1), Indeed A Higher Law of Justice, Gotcha! (1), A Belated "I'm Sorry", The Fruits of Our Labor?

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06:37 AM Apr 26 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

Handwriter, partially agree with you. For somebody a free spirit is good choice. I used to be driven by that in my youth, when everything looked like possible, but with the years gone by, I switched a little bit to different thinking and I feel much happier with it.

06:05 PM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

About those things that you suggest "gets" us happy or upset: only ourselves can make ourselves feel sad, happy, offended, lost, lonely, arrogant, proud, ashamed, etc., -- no other person can do this to us -- now we may allow others to trigger emotions (as we often do) within ourselves, but of these emotions, we are their master -- if we have the brain capacity to do so -- some don't.  Now God, He could control or force our if he choose to -- but He won't.  He has made us agents unto ourselves.  We are free to feel what we may.

05:53 PM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

Is it really up to any one of us to judge which is excusable or not?  Again, I won't be the one who judges another.  I either believe in the words of the Bible or I don't.  It's not a Book that has for example, "Choose (a) or (b) -- accept one law and reject another.  

James 4:11-12 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.   

12:06 PM Apr 25 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

That would be a good exuse for offender.

"Can I beat you one more time, it won't hurt" ;)

There're some things that gets us happy and there're some things that makes us upset.

11:06 AM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

Logical are your words.  May I suggest that the true 'offender' is oneself?

09:28 AM Apr 25 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

When we throw a stone in water, it produces a ripple effect with many circles around. Then water is smooth and clear again. That is the same  with us when somebody says anything offensive, hateful to us and that should be  conquered with kindness. A bad word like a bad stone got sunk in your soul and again everything is smooth. You just look at the offender and ask why he's so cruel and hurting.

The ability to go through problems, to surmount them by staying the same, calm, not to copying your offender that's what I think is the beginning of the good.

If answered the same there would be an argument, war and something scary..

09:11 AM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

History books are filled of stories of men and women and even children who have fought and died for their counties -- what about their countries; what makes any one country worth dying for: is it for the principles or the moral opinions of that country -- is that what makes dying for such a gallant or prized value?  Again, whose morals are right and whose are wrong; what does it even mean to be of a moral character?   Almost everyone tends to agree that no one is perfect -- but are there degrees of perfection; are some closer to perfection than are others; and if so, will those who are closest to being perfect -- will these be those who are granted to be awarded the title of having been 'good,' and for those who fall shorter than being closer to being perfect -- will they be eternally labled as having been 'bad?'

08:18 AM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

That's my point: whose morals -  yours, mine, and who sets or establishes these morals?  Okay, maybe some say, "God -- God is who sets morals.  Then comes the question, "Whose God; yours or mine?" Then comes another question: “What about the genetic components associated with those aspects of what we attribute to human characteristics including personality subtypes, language capabilities, mechanical abilities, intelligence, sexual activities and preferences (including any moral responsibility), intuitive thinking, quality of memory, willpower, temperament, athletic abilities, etc": should all these be considered to be equal in all of us, therefore, equally inexcusable for any lack of ability or performance or for any shorting of any of these traits as set therefore, with a set standard of public acceptability? -- and then again, whose public?

07:24 AM Apr 25 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

About willpower...

Let's start with the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And when these intentions will not carried out, then the willpower is not that strong or maybe is missing at all. When you make a what-to-do list for a day and won't go through it, the willpower is left to be desired.

 Vulture and a child.  The animal driven by the instinct to survive. No morals. Driven by  territorial rules, alpha/omega principal - who is stronger. But above of it what distinqishes it from Humans is the lack of morals, abstinence, fairness. The cruel world of the strongest is to survive.. Animal kingdom.

Well, when all these traits are incarnated into a human being (different category from the animal), I think this is wrong.

07:03 AM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

The truth is, no truth can be found by trying to excuse or justify any wrong -- there is none.  However, to try and muffle truth by suggesting that everyone has the same ability to control their actions based on one simple truth or one way of judging what is wrong or what is right is a flawless wrong  -- it's a perfect lie -- being a self righteous and arrogant reflection of one's own prejudice and/or agenda.  As with the image of the dying child and the vulture: one might suggest that for the vulture to standby in anticipation of the child dying so that it can rip away the innocent, warm flesh from the immature bones while the flesh is still warm and filled with running blood only to satisfy its hunger is unjustified and so horrendous as to possibly justify a bullet being shot into the vultures brain.   No, no wrong can be justified -- there is no question there.  However, there is a question: what exactly is wrong, and what is exactly is right?  As well, does every mind have the same ability to control the body of that mind?  What is willpower; does it truly exist, or is it a convenient word designed to justify the mandating of the definition of right and wrong based upon a self-selected few?  I appeal to God that He be my judge and my disciplinarian.   I ask that none of you try and take the rightful place of God.  I will also try not to judge any of you. 

03:23 AM Apr 25 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

yep, not perfect at all. But, i think, that every day there should be a sort of reminder. Today I'll try to be nice, think twice before saying sth, or if it was on the spur of the moment awkward word, just to  make it up for it as soon as posible. I'll try to be a good listener, interesting communicator, sympathetic, loving friend, devoted parent... 

Just the saying, We're all not perfect sounds like an excuse and an invitation to continue in the same vein.

03:15 AM Apr 25 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

jeje  Hopefully not anything so grievous as maybe these words may suggest.  I wrote the words for a friend of mine who had hurt someone in her life and was looking for words to describe her worries.  But again, I don't think any one of us are as pure as we might like to think ourselves -- we all have 'baggage' -- little smudges that can use a little 'divine whiteout'.

09:03 PM Apr 24 2013

ola33

ola33
Japan

Oh my Gosh, what have you done? :)

11:18 AM Apr 24 2013

handwriter

handwriter
Norway

Being human, I have made my share of mistakes, and most of them could be corrected with a little dash of corrector. However, some of my mistakes, the ones such as hurting you, will take a divine power to correct. I pray to God that He will correct the pain that I have caused you, and that through Him, you will find the strength to forgive me -- to correct the mistake that I have made with you. I am sorry; I love you, and I miss you.