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goats no why

all goats are circles

I am a goat deal with it

did you know trees are actually goats

goats are great

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Dragonball z is pretty cool

True, thanks

In addition Trying to control feelings of powerless and lowness by numbing out desires and accepting everything, is an equal avoidance of feeling low and powerless Non doing bah

The power of acceptance Posted on October 24, 2011 Truth can hurt Last post I talked about judgment. Now I want to talk about acceptance, which is the opposite face of the same coin. Like judgment, problems with acceptance reflect similar issues of control and mistrust. At its core, acceptance is an acknowledgment of powerlessness. One of the great paradoxes of being human is that ultimately we each have very little power in our lives, but when we can realise and accept this, our power becomes enormous because then we are fully grounded within our own reality, and not easily moved or manipulated by external events. Grounded people, people who really know themselves, are the most powerful people we know. In society, power is almost always represented as wielded by those who possess economic and political influence, but there really is no connection between those realms and true power. All one needs to do is look at what happened with Ghadafi to see how delusional such power is. Most of our life’s struggles involve illusions of power: paying bills, beating traffic, even putting on makeup is a struggle for power, an effort to influence and control an outcome, even if that is just the approval of others. As children we learn that external events have profound emotional and physical impacts on us, often in ways we have little control over, and we adapt to this powerlessness by acquiring skills of control and manipulation. We react in an almost Pavlovian fashion because our undeveloped cognitive abilities do not allow a deeper consideration. It’s not much more than a lizard scurrying away when jabbed by a stick. Unfortunately, we carry these traits into adulthood –stimulus, react, judge the outcome. The more our reaction affects the outcome, the more we believe our power to be. But what happens when two people encounter each other when they both carry the same paradigm? A subtle jockeying for power, and one’s perceived position, one’s sense of power depends on how that unfolds. It’s no wonder that those most aggressive and domineering tend to rise to secular power. But what rests at the core of his dynamic is a deep sense of personal powerlessness that the individual believes must be overcome by trappings of external power. Unacknowledged and unaccepted powerlessness is deeply painful, and it must be buried by as much external power as possible. Which is why so many wounded individuals become tyrants, domestic or political. The tyrant does not own his powerlessness, and in a way we are all tyrants, all doing our best to overpower and manipulate our worlds as best we may, not trusting that it is merely ourselves that need watching and controlling. When we look inside ourselves and recognise our deep inner powerlessness and the pain that it causes, we are then released from a need to have power over things outside ourselves. And in doing so, external events cease to have power over us. Acceptance means I am powerless to change something, nothing more. It is not forgiveness nor is it a synonym for “good”. In fact, most things we need acceptance for are unqualifiedly “bad” or unpleasant. The past is a big source of non-acceptance, especially around wounds and perceived slights. Limitations we see in others and especially ourselves is also a big one; in a personal example, working in a 9-5 job is soul destroying for me, and no matter how I wish it were otherwise, that cannot change in any way that I can foresee. I am powerless to make that different, and the only way forward for me is to accept that I also tend to not accept the wealthy and politically powerful in the world, and that is equally as foolish because again, there is nothing I can do to change that reality. I can personally do nothing to alter climate change, heavy traffic, or the devaluation of my boat. The fact is that except in a few very specific instances, I’m almost totally powerless in the world, and the few ways I do have power generally involve my capacity for improving myself. That doesn’t at all mean we don’t do anything, we don’t try to make it a better and more just world. We still have obligations and responsibilities to each other. But what it does mean is that being powerless, we cannot expect to change outcomes, and so we let that go. We do things because we believe them to be right and just, not because we think we have control over events. Occasionally we might experience a happy and unexpected result of our efforts, but we realise it had little to do with us. We are confronted by the need for acceptance every day. I tend to need reminding of his constantly, as I’m stubborn as hell and hate being thwarted, even by inanimate objects. Just recently I got my ‘68 Yamaha on the road, and as is usually the case when first firing up along-neglected vehicle, a number of issues have arisen. Because the weather is glorious and I’m very impatient to be riding, I’ve been banging my head against the thing hour after hour, day after day, and it feels like I’m not getting anywhere. I’m determined to bring it to heel, and so I’ve surrendered my power to stupid, random luck. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get it fixed, maybe not, but I’m sure not having fun, and I feel like pushing the damn thing into the sea. A much healthier and enlightened approach would be to simply let go. It isn’t running now and I don’t feel like working on it, so leave it until I do. Meanwhile go for a walk or write. If I never touch it again, it’s no matter; hell, I can just give it away. Much better to forget about riding for now and instead seek another way to feel the freedom that riding gives me. And letting go of the bike for now would be an enormous step in that direction. But then I would have to face my powerlessness. It doesn’t run right and I cannot simply will it work. I can bang against it until it’s fixed, but since I don’t actually want to work on it, I’ve lost my power in seeking power. Making things go my way is certainly not power, and yet it is what I strive for. Owning our powerlessness allows us to see ourselves and others in a more realistic light, and we cannot but feel compassion, just as we might for a baby bird, or a puppy. We are likely to speak in soft tones and consider others first. Imagine a world where our political leaders and captains of industry did the same. And in this regard I know if I’m not part of the solution, I’m most assuredly part of the problem.

well I am pretty sad at the moment though perhaps the high comes from the low, and power comes from powerlessness

100 years ago if someone tried to lock in you prison for the rest of your life, or rob everything in your house you would kill them DO you really think a warrior would just sit there So today when a bailiff wants to arrest you and put you in prison for not paying for a 5 pound ticket laws aside it makes logical sense to want to kill them If someone wants to put you in prison for the rest of your life or kill you with death sentence like in america It makes logical sense to defend yourself and kill them If one is surrounded by 2 people much bigger than you, CHances are you cannot defend yourself Bigger people can adopt legal ways to attack and threaten you Maybe theyre not trying to kill you Maybe they want to hurt you really badly SO why cant you kick them as hard as you can in the balls Maybe thats not legal But bigger people can legally defend themselves Laws have nothing to do with logic Most people are brainwashed to follow the law at the expense of what is logical

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Well yes, but I suspect you know what is happening through my posts