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Perhaps see how the word detachment feels instead of apathy. You can care and feel compassion and even try to solve problems without letting it take over your emotional or mental state and vibrational rate. So you are connected always acknowledging and perceiving and you're thinking maybe ignoring the right choice. I don't know if you've been around kids much? Maybe apply it to a 2 year old, even if a toddler is screaming and fighting and nothing can sooth him or her til the course of the tantrum has run it's course, hopefully the caregiver can still feel love for the child even while it's going on and stay calm and patient without taking it personally. The interesting thing is sometimes if you can breath and find a peaceful expansive mind amidst stress it can really be a positive and calming influence. Is it apathy or ignorance? I don't know and I don't care!

How do you know how people are when they're not around you to determine if they are different when they are around you? All these crazy people I come across. Maybe it is just me. Although I do not think the poofster stray cats that come to the porch care about me. They just like to tease the dogs and entice my young cat to come out and sniff catnip and ride motorcycles with them.

I had a cat who used to play fetch with ponytail bands and little foam balls. We'd snap them across the room and she'd chase them and bring them back.

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I think the Greek words are better. Romantic love is Eros and desire is inherently conditional. What you are looking for is Agape, which I think you can feel in addition to romantic love, but the 2 types are different. Can't make yourself feel either. Our souls mesh in different ways. Agape is unselfish so if you want the person to be irresistibly attracted to you it won't happen. You would the best for the person even if it wasn't you. For developing capacity to love unconditionally I agree with posts above.

I think the cult of personality is too deeply embedded for even revolution to uproot. Revolution is upheaval and sweeping change, even though I think change is needed, I don't want that. People might die and too many already fragile people will be broken. I'd rather see gradual purposeful change with reassessments and adjustments based on intellectual criteria not what leader (or celebrity) pulls out the most charismatic message. No quick fix for complex systems.

Maybe self conscious. For some reason, I used to feel weird to go do qigong with random people around, but past few years I can go to a park and practice alone and it doesn't bother me if people are around or coming and going as long as it's a relatively peaceful setting.

So don't rebel by being miserable and hurtful or breaking rules just to see if you can. Rebel by being smarter, happier, more virtuous and altogether better. There's an unwritten rule that you can't do it and you might have to be a little crazy to try.

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I am human and there is sweetness in suffering and sorrow. It is in guilt, but also in compassion.

Then I would sorrow that I never would be able to give all I had.

Wondering what both are like for masochists. Even athletes and outdoorspeople know, a little suffering can be enjoyable.

Orbit.

Scatter the cosmos might follow the drinking gourd up on the downside.

.I see the urban and rural poor getting poorer and harder and more closed off. If the Awakened see these flesh and blood people as powerless inconsequential exceptions, I don't like it. Class divides are getting bigger. It sounds like Russel has tried to move out and have conversations with flesh and blood people and I do admire that. Many people are badly broken and perhaps need to be protected. Perhaps others who are not Awakened or currently in positions of power can find their own power someday. I wish I believed a potential Revolution would be something but a transfer of power from one group to another. Nothing new under the sun. Pretty much one group of rich white males to another- and then the heathen Indians got discarded. Certainly nothing wrong with hugging trees. It's going to get a lot worse first, hope eventually better. Worried for future of my kids and potential grandkids. I'll look for that.

Maybe you should make a second thread, both ways sound good.

Celebrities are like our gladiators, but instead of physical torture we enjoy seeing their personal life and privacy crucified. I'm not against what he said, but it was emotional appeal and not an intellectual argument. Too much based on images and fame and sound bytes. But not really intellectual to step away from the screen and feel love for people either. Doesn't take fame or lots of money to give your lunch away or pick up some trash.

I just looked him up on the Internet because I can do that and truly never heard of him- til BGKA posted the video last week. Not too impressed, pretty much found what Brian posted is what I saw about him. Tv and and in many applications Internet seem like more a sedative. Bread and circuses.

But they can't. We were talking about this today in light of disconnect between government and people in Appalachia and further west. Everyone is supposed to be able to go on a web page and if the web page worked right proceed to figure things out People in rural counties do not have reliable high speed internet. Assumption of use of technology has gotten ahead of infrastructure. And as for all over the world, not everyone even has electricity let alone internet- or literacy. Adults over 40 or so who have worked manual labor jobs all their life are not even necessarily comfortable using computers. Not everyone uses computers or internet. I usually like your posts Spotless, but today I do not like the assumption that Everyone uses the internet. Not even sure the internet is even that helpful; we sit on the couch and talk to people all over world and barely know the people who live across the street.

They give people who are using it as primary residence first chance to get at the low price. It is to help the neighborhood since residents may make better neighbors than investors who will rent the place out. So, I would think if you approach from attitude of being a good neighbor and transforming your home from a negative to a positive spot for the community it would be very good karma for you. I would want to do very good physical and energetic cleansing upon moving in though.

Mind is on matter Dreams fade to not even dust thought conservation so where does it go? doesn't matter, never mind Time to sleep later.

Or creating one? They used to knit and darn them Lots more at the mall.

helpful hint: don’t volunteer for things.

Boys are wired differently. I didn't properly realize that til I had kids. Things like sticks and wrapping paper tubes turn into swords at a young age. People seem to think it's problematic and drug kids so they'll stay in their seat. Chairs are no good for anyone anyway. I tried to explain kinesthetic learning to a 2nd grade teacher once, might as well have told the chair about it. When I was in grade school, boys got paddled, now they get drugged. Terrible waste of fabulous creative energy.

I thought they decided brain structure was more important than size since homo florensesis (?sp) had fire and used tool. Parrots have relatively small brains, but high among animals for intelligence.