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Sounds like good advice.amity_blu wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 1:58 pm'Seems' being the operative word.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 1:51 pm
...So if it matters what other people think, then if they think I'm incompetent, doesn't that matter? It seems like it matters to me?
Perception of self and others is often skewed and based on prejudice/bias/ignorance/misinterpretation.
Know Thyself.
Because only 'you' adult humans cause and create 'that world' and because the word, 'I', means and refers to some thing other than 'you' adult human beings.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 4:35 pmWhy don't you use the word "we" when you say "adult human beings are to blame"?Age wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 4:51 amYes.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 2:42 am
If you truly believe that you "share responsibility" for the world's problems, then I think you should use the word "we" when you say "adult human beings are to blame". Can you clarify why you don't use the word "we" when you say "adult human beings are to blame"?
But, you adult human beings make 'the world' 'the way' it is.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:49 pmWe make the best of the world that can.Age wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 2:28 amHow many times do you have to be informed "gary childress" that the 'only thing' that creates 'the world', in which you are referring to, here, is you adult human beings.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:39 pm
Nah, God has it so much more difficult than the rest of us. You know, not always being adored and worshiped by everyone. It's a tough job but some deity has to step up to the plate and run Hell, or sort out the bodies after a senseless war.
If you ask me (which few do) a world created by a God sure looks and behaves a lot like a meaningless, unjust, and purposeless dungeon. How strange is that?
Absolutely nothing else does, okay "gary childress"?
Or, are you going to 'try to' claim that things like buildings, transportation, mines, factories, pollution, prisons, and war zones, for example, were created by God also, and not by you adult human beings, as well?
Are you, really, still, that far behind, here?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:49 pm We all do. God designed the way the world works, not us.
So, you present 'your self-pitying', here, publicly because you thing 'self-pitying' makes 'the world' a better place, right?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:49 pm Or if there is no God then there is no one responsible for how the world works. People aren't evil on purpose. Evil happens when situations arise that cannot be resolved peacefully. Everything we do is done because we think it will make the world better in some way.
You really do have so, so much more to learn, and understand, here.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:49 pm But nothing we do is purely beneficial to everyone. That's the way reality is. Humans do not create reality. Reality happens independently of human desire.
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you are, another, prime example of just how narrowed and closed the human being can become.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 6:49 pm If humans had created the world we would choose oil to be universally beneficial. But it is not. And there is no viable alternative at the moment to burning oil. It is the way the universe is. We can do our best to mitigate disaster but we cannot 100% stop it at this moment in time. It is realistically impossible. If the world was created by something called "God" then it is God's doing that we are, as individuals, unable to save ourselves from disaster, if there are no clear solutions.
Well, speaking from "I", I think all of you adult human beings should use the word "we" when you're describing something that you're all to blame for.Age wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:35 pmBecause only 'you' adult humans cause and create 'that world' and because the word, 'I', means and refers to some thing other than 'you' adult human beings.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 4:35 pmWhy don't you use the word "we" when you say "adult human beings are to blame"?
'I' speak for 'I' only, and not for 'you' adult human beings.
Which just goes to show, and prove, that 'you', still, are not yet able to answer the question, 'Who am 'I'?' properly and Correctly.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:31 pmWell, speaking from "I", I think all of you adult human beings should use the word "we" when you're describing something that you're all to blame for.Age wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:35 pmBecause only 'you' adult humans cause and create 'that world' and because the word, 'I', means and refers to some thing other than 'you' adult human beings.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 4:35 pm
Why don't you use the word "we" when you say "adult human beings are to blame"?
'I' speak for 'I' only, and not for 'you' adult human beings.
I think you're making up all the stuff about "I" and "Thee Truth" and all the other special terms you use. You're just like the rest of us, Age. There's nothing monumentally special about you any more than there's something monumentally special about any of the rest of us.Age wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 2:04 amWhich just goes to show, and prove, that 'you', still, are not yet able to answer the question, 'Who am 'I'?' properly and Correctly.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:31 pmWell, speaking from "I", I think all of you adult human beings should use the word "we" when you're describing something that you're all to blame for.
And, that 'you', still, have no intention to learn, nor understand, who the 'I' word refers to, as well.
Of course 'you' would.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:09 pmI think you're making up all the stuff about "I" and "Thee Truth" and all the other special terms you use.Age wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 2:04 amWhich just goes to show, and prove, that 'you', still, are not yet able to answer the question, 'Who am 'I'?' properly and Correctly.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:31 pm
Well, speaking from "I", I think all of you adult human beings should use the word "we" when you're describing something that you're all to blame for.
And, that 'you', still, have no intention to learn, nor understand, who the 'I' word refers to, as well.
And, just like every one of those above 'once thought were just made up stuff' they all came to become real or true, with each one coming into being from one of you human beings. So, each one of those things came from one person who was 'just like the rest', if 'you'.
Who ever thought otherwise?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:09 pm There's nothing monumentally special about you any more than there's something monumentally special about any of the rest of us.
I will again suggest that before you even begin to think, assume, or believe any thing that you just 'seek out' and obtain actual clarification, first. See, if and when you do this, then you will not be so wrong, nor as often wrong, as you are, here.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 5:09 pmI think you're making up all the stuff about "I" and "Thee Truth" and all the other special terms you use.Age wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 2:04 amWhich just goes to show, and prove, that 'you', still, are not yet able to answer the question, 'Who am 'I'?' properly and Correctly.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:31 pm
Well, speaking from "I", I think all of you adult human beings should use the word "we" when you're describing something that you're all to blame for.
And, that 'you', still, have no intention to learn, nor understand, who the 'I' word refers to, as well.
How we live our life is the message we leave the world.
mickthinks wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:50 pm I think your problem, Gary, is that you are in love with yourself but you have no self-respect. That sets up a cognitive dissonance that you can’t cope with.
The quote is likely a variation of "Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself," which suggests that individuals who are prone to conflict will turn that energy inward when there is no external enemy. Another related quote is: "If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself," which comes from Cheryl Richardson and speaks to the negative consequences of suppressing internal struggles.
Variations on the theme
"Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself": This quote implies that a driven or combative person will find challenges and battles to fight, and without an external foe, they will turn their focus to self-improvement or internal struggles.
"If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself": This quote, from Cheryl Richardson, emphasizes that avoiding difficult conversations or situations to maintain external harmony can lead to internal turmoil and unresolved issues.
"A man at war with himself creates unnecessary conflicts for others": This idea, attributed to Mario E. Aguilar, suggests that an internal struggle can manifest as external conflict.
"People who are at war with themselves can't give you peace": This statement argues that individuals who are not at peace internally are unable to offer peace or genuine qualities to others, such as honesty or loyalty.
Well you are certainly not alone.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:54 am There is a war between things we call good and evil and I don't know which side I'm fighting for because I don't know which is which.