crouchingtigress -> RE: lies, falsehoods and honesty (5/30/2007 9:49:58 AM)
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Faramar, i think you make a very good point, about true sorrow, i am sorry for your friends loss and impressed at your vulnerability in sharing that story. and i liked your first post very much as well. i also thought he was having a pity party and told him so. what i was finding fascinating was human dynamics, how there is the odd sort of bullying that was going on, that seemed unconstuctive...more like picking on him and calling him names like in the school yard, rather then offering him a chance to see that he was coming from a loosing position and telling him how he could change that. i appreciated both your posts, i esp liked the "no one owes you a fucking thing" and the fact that he was making it worse by defending it, you seem to be coming from a constructive place, and your words bulged and throbbed just like you muscles...and i hope made an impression. but why do we feel the need to pick on folks when study after study show that it is non an effective way to shift behavior? when research and common sense and our own life experience tells us that folks learn better and faster in a supportive environment. i think human nature is fascinating, the jockeying for top position even on these boards is very interesting to watch, and what i ireally find interesting is how easily you can see through what a persons intention is, weather it is purely self promoting, or coming from a place of offering up the best wisdom they have ...or a medly. there are many dads that still to this day beat their sons to toughen them up, they dont know any better, i cant judge them, and when those kids grow up and beat their sons i cant judge that either, but what i can do, is to show that person how they can be much more effective at their goal of education of thier offspring into a truly great man, by other methods that they themselves might not have thought of. ....so thats what i try to do. i think that self mastery, and "bearing dissapointment and endurance" are virtues myself, and very important in becoming a solid person and a solid integris Dom, in fact i think self mastery is the pen ultimate of all virtues, and life long commitment, that you can "work out" every day and soon have a strong, toned, sexy mind that serves you and humanity in a way that the unselfmastered, flabby mind...never can.
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