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Age wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:16 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:48 pm

Age wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:53 pm

WHY do you think that the human being here known as "alexis jacobi" is so-called 'not well', and that "alexis jacobi" could do ' immense harm with that 'not wellness' '?

If you don't know, then my hunch is wrong and I will have to seek another route to world peace.

Okay.

Don't mind me Age. I'm mostly "insane" and a poor fit for the world we live in. Only a callous monster can truly thrive and flourish in this world. I don't know how old you are but I'm sorry to be a bearer of hopelessness. If you are young, then you deserve to know what is ahead. Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:27 pm

Age wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:16 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:48 pm

If you don't know, then my hunch is wrong and I will have to seek another route to world peace.

Okay.

Don't mind me Age. I'm mostly "insane" and a poor fit for the world we live in. Only a callous monster can truly thrive and flourish in this world. I don't know how old you are but I'm sorry to be a bearer of hopelessness. If you are young, then you deserve to know what is ahead. Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

You have a hidden agenda,Gary. You want someone to show you there is something worth fighting for.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:27 pm Don't mind me Age. I'm mostly "insane" and a poor fit for the world we live in. Only a callous monster can truly thrive and flourish in this world. I don't know how old you are but I'm sorry to be a bearer of hopelessness. If you are young, then you deserve to know what is ahead. Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

I just took this picture of the view from my window. All is peace and tranquility. It's pretty much the same every time I look out; no soldiers, no fighting, no famine, floods or pestilence, nobody committing attrocities. I feel so lucky to live in a place like this, and especially so when I think about what you must experience every time you go out onto the street.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:06 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:27 pm Don't mind me Age. I'm mostly "insane" and a poor fit for the world we live in. Only a callous monster can truly thrive and flourish in this world. I don't know how old you are but I'm sorry to be a bearer of hopelessness. If you are young, then you deserve to know what is ahead. Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

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I just took this picture of the view from my window. All is peace and tranquility. It's pretty much the same every time I look out; no soldiers, no fighting, no famine, floods or pestilence, nobody committing attrocities. I feel so lucky to live in a place like this, and especially so when I think about what you must experience every time you go out onto the street.

I experience much the same thing where I am.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:01 am
I experience much the same thing where I am.

My mistake; for some reason I thought you must live in a war zone.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:06 am

The tranquility of the sea, as seen through the watery window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUtiIFOsrs

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:11 am

The tranquility of the sea, as seen through the watery window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUtiIFOsrs

That takes me back. Life was so simple then, when all we had to worry about was which window to look out of.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:18 am That takes me back. Life was so simple then, when all we had to worry about was which window to look out of.

I like this window. The window of perception.



The window consists of four segments (or panes) of human interaction and how they are perceived by others.

1: Open, 2: Hidden, 3: Blind and 4: Unknown.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:09 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:01 am
I experience much the same thing where I am.

My mistake; for some reason I thought you must live in a war zone.

No. I don't live in a war zone. Was it my mistake to care that others allegedly are? If the news I see is correct, then there is a war in Ukraine. The US is giving the Ukrainians weapons to fight it. The Russians are attacking Ukraine. That's most of what I know that is going on. I can only go off of what information I see presented to me. If I am not seeing gory details of that war, then I don't want to see them. However, I only know now that ALL wars must stop. And if that is not possible, then living with my "insanity" wasn't the right thing for me to do.

But what matters most is how you see yourself, either on the conditioned human level, fettered, limited.
Or on the absolute unconditional level, unlimited, free.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:33 am But what matters most is how you see yourself, either on the conditioned human level, fettered, limited.
Or on the absolute unconditional level, unlimited, free.

I don't know what I see when I look in the mirror anymore. I guess I mostly see a person who needs meaningful employment doing something that, at the very least, won't harm others. Ideally, it would be doing something that would help others to have happiness.

Belinda wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:25 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:27 pm

Age wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:16 pm

Okay.

Don't mind me Age. I'm mostly "insane" and a poor fit for the world we live in. Only a callous monster can truly thrive and flourish in this world. I don't know how old you are but I'm sorry to be a bearer of hopelessness. If you are young, then you deserve to know what is ahead. Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

You have a hidden agenda,Gary. You want someone to show you there is something worth fighting for.

No. I don't want anyone to show me there is something worth "fighting" for. I don't want to "fight".

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:27 pm Don't have children of your own. That's the only advice I can give to anyone who has already been born. If that's "bad" advice for future generations, then it is only because children need to born for little other reason than to be soldiers and then breed future soldiers.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:30 am No. I don't live in a war zone. Was it my mistake to care that others allegedly are?

Nothing wrong with caring, but what good are you doing by inducing yourself to suffer on their behalf. But even if you can't stop yourself from suffering along with them, you don't seem to realise that most of the rest of us can, and prefer it that way.

I only know now that ALL wars must stop. And if that is not possible, then living with my "insanity" wasn't the right thing for me to do.

Wars have been happening throughout recorded history; I don't see any reason for expecting them to stop. I don't know what you mean by your living with insanity being the wrong thing to do.

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:07 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:30 am No. I don't live in a war zone. Was it my mistake to care that others allegedly are?

Nothing wrong with caring, but what good are you doing by inducing yourself to suffer on their behalf. But even if you can't stop yourself from suffering along with them, you don't seem to realize that most of the rest of us can, and prefer it that way.

I only know now that ALL wars must stop. And if that is not possible, then living with my "insanity" wasn't the right thing for me to do.

Wars have been happening throughout recorded history; I don't see any reason for expecting them to stop. I don't know what you mean by your living with insanity being the wrong thing to do.

Seems to me the caring depends on how large your world is, or how large your humanity is. I believe the world would be a better place if people considered themselves citizens of the world, rather than limiting their humanity to nationalism or the context of family and friends. The more limited one's humanity is, the closer one approaches life as a psychopath, which is interesting when applied to nations. I believe the nation of America would indeed be an example of this. This occurs I believe when the government is able to keep its people from knowing what it does in their name. Mythology plays a vital role in managing the American people--- mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all!