What do foreigners know about the A.M.S.? APPARENTLY “ONE HELUVA LOT” BECAUSE THEY WERE RUNNING MANY OF THE MUSIC COMPANIES AT THE TIME!
Was told it’s not the water but the cooking oil that is at issue in Mexico making tourists sick!
If you had to be stuck with 2 staples on a deserted island; I was told “beans and rice” would be it.
Nowadays, athletes are not happy with 30 40 50 million a year. It used to be that they would pay money out of pocket to be able to play in the professionals. My how times and attitudes have changed -along with ego’s!
Names???
Human beings have other identifiable [distinguishable] signatures besides fingerprints and DNA.
Can man make the sun come up? Can man create life? Can he heal a wound? In the program we do everything to promote healing but we ourselves cannot heal. In the program we do everything to promote growth with a seed -but we ourselves DO NOT… are not actually responsible for “THE PROCESS” which takes place. Perhaps someday… 🤷♂️🤷♀️
“You throw yourself out there, there’s always a certain amount of risk involved with the spoils.”
The part of us that is not good is the part that needs the healing most. The part I call “my little Ricky” is that part of me -THE DEFENDER! -THE RETRIBUTOR <-[had to verify 👍]!
I remember watching the movie tombstone and seeing the part where the question was asked, what does ringo want why is hes so angry? I’m before the words themselves came out, they rolled off of my lips “For being born!” It’s as if in that moment 🤔 we were one in the same!
I’m beginning to realize that there are human beings involved on both sides. For example, when I have a loved one in the hospital…… I try to consider both the person I love and care for deeply as well as the person or people in charge of caring for them however flawed or limited or compromised they may be in doing their job for any number of reasons. People are people are people or people and should all be treated with do do respect and consideration 🤔 -if not love!
Let us try to concentrate on what GOD is doing and not what the world is not doing for us. Or as a friend of mine puts it, “What the world is doing ‘for us’ -not to us!”
When you are beneath a situation -you come out with both barrels loaded-you come out “swinging”! When you are above a situation -you come out with “understanding and compassion”! 🤷♀️🤷♂️
“Don’t get ‘broad-sided'”.
Some people manage to save up or accumulate a store of energy in preparation for a situation -this tends to serve them well! 🤔
Working out without proper rest and nutrition is counter productive – As is improper dieting!
Most people’s f***** u* s*** tends to revolve around other human beings; in relation to themselves of course! Human beings are still very much hunters and fishermen-fishers of men! But not like in The Bible! Companies go around putting alluring things on hooks to catch man, to capture their money to be more specific. We as men have to be more than just a fish. I’ve said it many times, if money is power wire so many of us giving it away? Giving it away to other people so that they can have more and more power over us? Why? Why? Why? Why? As a highly intelligent and sound minded individual once put it “We’re doing it all wrong”. Having excess riches and excess power -does not condone one’s choice to slump or slum or slumber!
When I was younger I used to connive and scheme like any needy child.
I stuck around this town for over 30 years, scared and emotionally dependent on my family and familiar surroundings-never really realizing that there was nothing there to depend on!
When you are preoccupied by how you act, come across, or are perceived by others -You are into self, and actually create the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve with regard to others!! Most people are self-centered to a certain degree-and the thing many of us load most is being around self centered people! We can’t be the center of attention when we’re surrounded by people who are also interested in being the center of attention! Which is one reason why so many self-centered people enjoy being surrounded by non-self-centered people
Power begets more power; and self centeredness begets more self centeredness!
As long as we keep pursuing “X”, “Y”will never entirely win over us! In some cases we may even enjoy an absolute victory over “Y”!
With regard to recovery, it’s a learning experience and very early on we have to recognize our own limitations. Not all men are created equal under the umbrella of addiction! One person can get by with a meeting a week while another needs 3 A-day! Just because we see one man getting by on a meeting a week doesn’t mean we can. Doesn’t mean hes actually getting by all that well either!! He may just look like he is!
Every time I start up I say God told me… people look at me strangely… or worse yet.. But God talks to every man Every time I start up I say “God told me…” people look at me strangely… or worse yet.. But God talks to every man. But not every man listens!
The fact of the matter is 🤔 we don’t know what people are putting in our food and what they’re making our clothes out of and so forth… What we’re breathing in or soaking into our skin or ingesting…. In man’s own ever-increasing haste for profit -among other things…. Inherently, or necessarily, HUMANS DO NOT, OR CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT TRUSTING! WE DO OUR BEST TO “CHOOSE WISELY” is suppose. But it is wise to sharpen our abilities in this area. It’s probably just as important to not mistrust situations that are trustworthy; as it is to not trust situations that aren’t trustworthy. 🤷♂️🤷♀️
The less we get away from principles the more we begin to thrive on the material world. The more our means [methods] of attaining these things will become scrupulous [had to verify 🤔]! Man is also becoming more refined and more detail-oriented with regard to his quest for material-things and riches and status!
I told you the man was gonna be charging more for shirts that are larger than for shirts that are smaller -this came to me about 25 years ago. Now they’re charging more or less for certain colors. It’s already begun.
I think I see the problem in this case with the attitude of our nurse. Many of the people in the general population here suck, and as a result this poor woman has probably been dealing with hundreds or thousands of them over the years and so her own attitude has come to suck.
The more quick a person isn’t there awareness of a thing or they’re surroundings… the more quickly they will recognize the positive and the negatives then will others! A quick study trying to have a conversation with a slow study about a particular thing or place……. May not go so well
I f you continue focusing on something and with increasing emotion, you may find that your understanding as well as your relation to that thing increase dramatically-and possibly infinitely too!
By the time we notice it it may be too late. By the time we start to do something in order to be fit for the ensuing challenge, it may be too late for us! When we allow ourselves to become weak in a particular area, life is better able to overwhelm us! Which is why it’s always best to remain strong in all areas as much as possible -to the last
The last thing we are willing to give up…. is control… and to admit defeat! But in many cases it’s the only way thru!
Often times, it is those mo.ents we are least in control [which so many of us hate,, fight,,… and which is why FAITH is soooo important for us] -GOD is best able to step in!
The strongest thing in us usually wins [+ /-]. But it also needs a vector.
There is, 🤔 always has been, 🤔 always will be… 🤔 a precise correlation between our spiritual, moral conduct and that which we will experience on the material plane!
Are you bad people in the world, be grateful that there’s still some good people in it-otherwise God would do away with the whole thing!
Perhaps when the universe can no longer stomach the state of mankind debauchery… that is when God will come down on the day of judgment! Or when everything gets so bad that man is finally willing to across-the-board get down on his knees to the Almighty! Why doesn’t God take us when we’re children and I’m still free from sin? 🤔
It can take a while to train the mind and transform the heart from being selfish and self-centered to other-centered! There is constantly opportunity to apply thoughtfulness without having to be overly imaginative or overly helpful.
People are quick to complain slow to say thank you. Quick to criticize slow to compliment.
We must always be on the lookout for selfishness and self centeredness. And when we spot it try to move towards selflessness and concern for others once again. Nothing to be ashamed of so long as we’re willing to move back…
If we don’t heal from… Its symptoms will likely continue to haunt us. Emotional ills and spiritual ills…. It’s amazing how quickly we run to the doctor for physical ills but not emotional and spiritual ones!
For some people it’s hard to cut loose and for others it’s hard not to!
People have gotten to the point where they think they need to tolerate the system we’re living under high for nothing could be further from the truth! Course I didn’t say it would be easy because it’s interwoven with the needs… That’s what keeps it in place is that it’s inner woven with our needs. That’s how the people designed and get you.
Relationships I think are about 2 things: Being emotionally able or capable. And if you’ve been hurt or abused or traumatized, then healing to the point where you are [avail]able or capable; the other part is knowing, or learning what to do. By what ever means, knowing or discovering just exactly what a person is supposed to do in or as part of half of this thing called “a relationship”. 🤷♂️
In football you make a cut when the person’s foot is just leaving the turf -There’s really no way to defend that. Same thing in basketball. 👍
BLASTING ANOTHER ONE OF satan’s MYTHS OUT OF THE WATER ALONG WITH DARWIN, PLAGUES, AND…: 🤔 “IF GOD IS A PUNISHING GOD LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONOMOUS ALLUDE TO, THEN ANSWER ME THIS “WHY ARE THERE SO MANY “BAD PEOPLE” RUNNING AROUND “UNPUNISHED”? The fact of the matter for many Alcoholics coming into recovery is likely this: THE FEEL SO ASHAMED, SO FRIGHTENED OF A PUNISHING GOD WHO CLEARLY HAS THEIR NUMBER! THEY ARE THE ONE’S WHO FIGURE “THEY’VE GOT IT COMING”! SO THEY DECIDE TO TAKE IT OUT ON GOD BY LABELING HIM; OR BY 🤔 BEATING HIM TO THE PUNCH [WE’LL GET AROUND GOD PUNISHING US BY DISOWNING HIM!!! RIGHT??? NONSENSE!!! They’re wrong about God being a punishing God and they’re wrong about getting around consequences by disowning God or by changing his character!
Sometimes “WE PICK THE WRONG HORSE”. And GOD doesn’t go along with us!
I’ve met a few extraordinary women -either didn’t know it [at the time by demeaning them by questioning their character] didn’t know what to do with them!
Man chases things. It seems to be part of his makeup. How many things in this country do we chase the cause us to lose our peace of mind and our serenity and even disrupt our own value system in the process -thus throwing us out of kilter all together? We give up the very things we’re looking for in their pursuit of… -hoping they will give it back to us in even greater measure [you can’t compensate for that which is incompensatable (like violating your own “values-system”) 🤷♀️🤷♂️]! Maybe we’re simply satisfying our self-destructive, self loathing nature; our “need to ‘hunt-and-gather'”, as well as our “insatiable-hunger” for either “more-than-our-fair-share” or “something-for-nothing”. Man is always trying to find ways to get more for less! But we all know how the universe works! And we’ll know what building character requires! We also know that “anything worth having, is worth working for”. 💪 🤷♂️🤷♀️
People toil and toil and toil hoping that one day they will set aside their “beast-of-burden” years [tribute to Stones 💋] and live comfortably and happily. Living comfortably and happily is a choice depending on where we set our standards at that moment! And really it all comes down to gratitude! Gratitude and Attitude! These are simple concepts that eliminate the need for years of toil to reach a particular place on the physical plane! They also eliminate all the uncertainty that exists in the world! They eliminate all the uncertainty that exists in the world that often times compromises or limits our quest for said things on the physical plane! The choice is simply ours to make!
BY-PRODUCT! Some things simply come as a by-product [not as a product you buy]! But we try to go at them directly by by-passing “the natural process” itself! A guy decides he wants to work as an attorney so 🤔, he wakes up one morning, goes out and knocks on the door of a local law office, walks in and says “I want a job as an attorney”. The lawyer asks him what his background is as well as his education. The man replies “I don’t have any, I just want to be an attorney”. Well I think we can all see where this is going -as well as the moral of the story. So yes, while it is true that in man’s world you have to earn your stripes, earn your place… It is also true that “basing internal things on the external things” is not only is unnecessary, it’s unwise! Another example, this guy is on drugs, dirty and dingy, broke, socially inept… maybe even has a few emotional/mental issues going on there… He walks up to this very beautiful girl and says “I want you, can we go out on a date and have sex?” The girl looks at him in utter shock and dismay -and naturally turns him down. The following year the young man gets his s*** together -decides to clean up his act, go to counseling to get better -and to become gainfully employed. In other words, to once again become a contributing member of society rather than one who is problematic to it. Even starts going to the gym and working out, eating right etcetera… A year later, that same girl notices him at the gym but doesn’t recognize who he is from before. She gazes at him smiling from across the room and draws his attention. You see the concept here? But once again, it doesn’t mean we rest our peace of mind and our joy upon external events or outcomes. But in order to be a contributing member of society and a member of the human race… as deemed by GOD as right and good… we do have to follow certain processes. However, it is always good to keep in mind that there is a variance between following processes which lead us to what GOD would have for us on the road ahead versus following processes which lead us to what man would have for us on the road ahead. GOD always wants what’s best for us 100%! Man is always looking for his cut [HIS OR HER “TAKE”] -in any given situation! See the difference in following GOD’S PLAN versus operating in man’s realm? 🤷♀️🤷♂️
In the Western civilization we’ve constantly overlooked the ways of the eastern teachings. We chase after something that can only be had through accepting it as GOD’S gift to us! By allowing it to happen through placing material things at the lowest possible end of the spectrum of importance!
Most human beings in this country have at least one major issue do and a few minor ones they’ve yet to conquer or address!
Maybe some of the cures for our illnesses are not so radical as we might think. Maybe we need to start daming the radical is normal and the uncommon as common or the common as uncommon! For example, who knows what the medical value is behind inhailing a little bit of crushed cinnamon into our lungs. Or what the harm is in accidentally inhaling… x, y, z… God placed things in the world that are harmful to us I suppose. Man comes along and follows suit! But I’m guessing in the grand scheme of things they are both very different! God does things with a very different intention and is perfectly in tune with…
When man makes an assertion, he is subordinate to the realities around him -though he often attempts to turn the tables on GOD’S creation [or attempts to fool himself in an attempt to prop up his inadequacies and bruised, or deflated ego]! When GOD makes an assertion, reality is changed to just that!
What law did mankind ever create the? What life did man ever create?
A man and a woman United and who have GOD’S blessing have enough troubles of their own. Just think of the troubles involved in the same sex relationship where GOD has not blessed that Union!
None of us gets everything we want. People who have aspirations of being a singer… or a doctor… or a nurse… or a teacher…. People are denied these dreams all the time. 99% of the population looks forward to a relationship. A healthy and happy relationship that A healthy and happy relationship that… Has guards blessing as well as the blessing of those they love. Homosexual relationships have struggled mightily with the teachings in The Bible and with the stigma of societidy born in bred in the teachings of The Bible itself in most cases I’m guessing. Think about what our world would be like without Jesus teachings. I’ve heard many homosexual say they didn’t ask for it. Many in fact say they don’t want it. But there is an alternative. Giving up your dream like so many! Everybody has a dream they have to give up! But when it comes to relationships, most people are unwilling to give that up! It’s too unfair! Too close to the heart! But it’s just another one of those things, however painful…. As with anything else in life that… Just like most of us want to be billionaires but only a handful ever make it there. Is it unfair? I have no idea! But making a s*** load of money and having a relationship are probably the 2 most important things in American society today! Most of us end up doing without the money so why wouldn’t a few of us do without a relationship? The 10% rule exclamation 0.10% are alcoholic exclamation 0.10% are homosexual! What’s with the 10%?
A lot of children in this country drink alcoholically but are not alcoholics! Because of how it makes them feel and because of social norms and acceptance and because of the campaign by alcohol alcohol beverage companies making it all the more alluring!
A lot of parents say that they will allow their own children to eventually make up their mind about drugs and alcohol usage! But they fail to realize that they taint their children’s decision making by they themselves setting a poor example! For example, they tell their children not to smoke -while they themselves are smoking in front of them! Obviously they are telling them this because it is bad for their health -while demonstrating that they themselves care little for their own health! Backwards at best! Don’t we really have any idea how much we injure our children by our examples! Are we so ignorant as to believe that we are going to set one example, then expect our children to make a level-headed decision about that very thing on their own? We don’t want our children to make a fair decision. Actually what we want is to distort their decision making so badly that they will never ever choose drugs or alcohol or smoking!
I used to do the groups up at the hospital and saw the laxa daisical motivation on the faces of many of these people… People who in fact would often talk of how they were doing what they were doing for their families and for their children… I would say to them two things:
● Don’t you think you are as important as your children?
● If your children have cancer, and you are sitting in here listening in on a briefing to improve their chances of survival.. What would your attitude be then?
What is the truth? What is the difference between a truth and a lie? The truth and a falsity? Your children is on death’s bed and a man approaches you and says walk out your back door and dig a hole 3′ deep West of the cherry tree and you will find a cure for your child’s illness. It’s the follow the instructions and it’s not there. It was a falsity or a lie! A woman approaches you and says walk out the back door of your house and dig a hole 6′ deep underneath the elm tree on the North side. You do so and find something there. You give it to your child and they miraculously recover. This is the difference between a falsity calm a lie, and the truth! This is the difference between satan and GOD!
It’s demanding for me to act in such a way that is acceptable by society standards [to allow relationships to form I suppose I should say]. But not impossible as it used to be at 1 point in my life. Or should I say the vast majority of it!
Gambling outfits enjoy an offset advantage. When someone comes along for example counting cards to offset that advantage, it is considered illegal -is that some kind of a joke? Do you think most people are in it for the entertainment value? They wanna win money too!
Would you rather have your child die at an early age and then end up spending the rest of eternity and heaven with you? Or would you rather have them here and now for a short while? People never think of things in these terms.
When a child or other family member is taken prematurely, and It is done so to pay for the sins of the others in that family, that they too may enjoy eternity and heaven… those people who have been spared will be eternally grateful to God and to that loved one for their sacrifice of love eternally! Literally!
You don’t think people pay for their behavior? The universe is the most precise mechanism there is! Albeit ran by a merciful God who is All-powerful and all-knowing and all loving!
Man is in a hurry to seek vengeance and to seek punishment! GOD always knows where we are -and wants to give us “the opportunity” atine for our own transgressions wilfully -therefore, HE is not in any rush, or in any sense of urgency. Understand?
Man wants GOD to punish his enemies. But begs for mercy when it comes to his own ill’s! This is one thing we hate about GOD -is that he lacks a double standard!
When we get into a dispute with another human being, we want Justice from the Old Testament. When GOD sees 2 people fighting or in a dispute, HE sees 2 of his children! Now just imagine the dispute or fight being between 2 of your children! 🤔
Man so often is too quick to abandon his fellow man when trouble is at hand! While man does not necessarily see humanity has his family –GOD does! And man hates it when GOD [circumstances] forces him to behave as such!
Very few things God asks of us to make a commitment to and then stand by it! Marriage is one of them! And man can’t even do that! His happiness is far too important to him!
When we see people getting special treatment we complain -in many cases we want it stopped [because we don’t like the way it makes us feel*]! Knowing that we ourselves will not receive it, we attempt to prevent others from receiving what we would ask for ourselves, what we all in fact should receive. Instead of being happy for the few who are receiving what we can perhaps only dream of… we try to stamp it out as quickly as possible!
*Instead of standing up for our own justice, we seek to thwart the good-fortune of others! 🤔🤷♂️🤷♀️ It’s not only illogical, it’s despicable!
People have always been preferential in their attitudes and behaviors. Perhaps the worst example is with our own children.
People who kiss a** find it often works! For man is often a vain, arrogant individual!
How can one person in a town think it’s wonderful and another one think it’s horrible? How can one person think of a person as wonderful while another person thinks of them as horrible? Different standards? Different behaviors [treatment]?
If they are spending 100,000s of thousands on commercials… for UTIs then there must be something going on possibly? Some thing new happening with humanity. Or 🤔 man simply waking up to another age-old issue he/she can capitalize on!
Man doesn’t want to go entirely with GOD and he doesn’t want to go entirely with satan because he doesn’t like the consequences of either! 😇😈
One thing I could never do was recognize android step back and see what the nature of a situation ory person is and move forward accepting it just as that! To say “OK, this is what I can expect from this person -even though it is limited, or short of my own expectations, or GOD’S standard!
Even though I was getting more from having a relationship in my life -I destroyed them because it wasn’t as much as I wanted!
When you are a “complete individual” you A] have more to offer and B] are less inclined to place demands on your relationship or be affected by events, circumstances etcetera…
Why did GOD have to make sex so enjoyable? 🤔
When we become overly sensitized to something or decent citized to something.. Things stop working rider they stop working at all!
Anything man is offering karma in most cases you confess you’re gonna get the short end of the stick. As time goes on, and man figures out more ingenious ways to squeeze profits out of his “dealings”… Expect us to get more and more the short end of the stick to get shorter lol. If we go backwards and reverse this trend… or if we move forward reversing this trend…
So 🤔 what’s the difference between bad-people and good people who are fed up with bad people?
Bad or sick GOD eagerly awaits our sincere call to be forgiven! But our fellow man is quite a different animal!
We want GOD to accept us unconditionally; but many of us accept HIM conditionally! 🤔🤷♂️🤷♀️
Things like guilt ARE NOT SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLES! REMORSE IS THOUGH!
Not everything GOD or AA asks of is is a struggle! Some things are a great relief! Like not beating our selves over the head with shame and guilt!
I remember coming to the realization early in my recovery that in order to get “over there” I will have to go through… to get there! Swallowing hard, I realized that that was me digesting a chunk of reality semi-willingly, semi-knowingly for the very first time!
●“IF YOU WANT SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER HAD BEFORE; YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER DONE BEFORE!”
Most people want a good life! They don’t really want everything that matters to them destroyed!
“WORTH” is one of those words in the human lexicon that…. if a person feels unworthy.. BECOMING USEFUL, DOING THINGS USEFUL AS OPPOSED TO “COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE” GUILT, SHAME… WALLOWING!!!!
No body likes to go to the EMERFENCY-ROOM but… 🤷♀️🤷♂️
Don’t have to keep looking over my shoulder; Don’t have to worry about taking a trip and getting busted on plane or border-check. And, you have time and money to do the things drugs and alcohol compromised -swallowed up! Go out and begin to do those things [again] drugs and alcohol eventually robbed you of!
Oh thank you GOD THANK YOU!!! FOR ANSWERING A PRAYER YESTERDAY AND REMINDING ME I ASKED!!!
●“I DON’T NEED TO BE FORGIVEN AND I DON’T NEED TO BE MADE AMENDS TO -MY OWN RECOVERY IS COMPLETELY UP TO ME!” [BETWEEN GOD AND I]. NOW INSOFAR AS AA GOES, THIS PERFECT PROGRAM… GOD SET IT UP SO WE NEED EACH OTHER… SO THAT WE CAN GET, INOST INSTANCES, WHAT WE NEED FROM EACH OTHER BECAUSE -WE NEED EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!”
Until we take the horses back… people think not hurting others is enough! Oh, now that I’m no longer drinking, raging, hitting… oh that’s good enough!!!! BS!!!!! We have to repair….
Big problem in this world 🤔 -lot of people running around with a s***** attitude! The problem doesn’t just exist within the realm of humanity itself however in so far as the effects it has!! The whole world and universe suffers from this plague! Nature… Vibes radiating towards and back from the universe…
We were not put here to deplete -but to replenish!
“GOD DOESN’T GET NEARLY ENOUGH CREDIT FOR HIS SONGWRITING!”
What is with all these people trying to screw each other over in the world???? Simply put 🤔 –THEY’RE SICK!!!! People satan is controlling hate when you identify them as such!
FACEBOOK “Ahem! The 🌎 we all live in [today]: We’re either part of the problem; encouraging it; allowing it; or discouraging it. And I don’t see nearly enough discouraging going on these days [no crusaders]!”
The way to expose satan is through being open and telling the truth! Man conceals satan through his secrets and his untruthfulness!
How to prevent man from making changes to his world 🤔: Making feel himself is not in danger; Make him feel any attempt at change will go badly for him; Make him unaware or dull to the fact there’s even a problem; Make him feel powerless to do anything; Even though he is aware of the problem, make him so detached from the sense that he has any clue what to do! Attacking his strengths using combinations -generally works best!
It used to be I did all kinds of crazy s*** when I couldn’t get enough of this world! But now that I’ve had too much of it…
You want to find a person who is strong in a particular area and then further their edification or skill in that particular area -and they will go the farthest! But never underestimate the power of someone’s will exclamation poand and there is a 3rd thing or is the will the 3rd thing?
You know there are things that are there but you can’t see them but you can sense them. Michael Angelo statue of David was there before he ever sculpted it. I believe it just needed the access removed.
Humans are seldom willing to take on the burdens, or the afflictions of their fellow human beings! There are some people however who would even be willing to take on the sins of the world though there was only “ONE” who had the actual ability + willingness to do so!
In spiritual matters, strength, power matters also. When we prayer, if it is weak… 🤷♂️🤔🤷♀️
Yes, GOD can see the future; but the age-old answer to the age-old question of whether or not; the future having been written [fate], can be changed; 🤔 it seems fairly simple once one is open to the answer, truth, included in, INSCRIPTED ON GOD’S SEEING OUR FUTURE ARE “THE CHANGES THROUGH THE CHOICES WE HAVE MADE”; AND PROVIDED THEY ARE NOT DONE TOO LATE, OR WITH TOO LITTLE RESOLVE, I BELIEVE A CHANGE IN COURSE [FUTURE] CAN BE MADE OR EXPERIENCED! I suppose most people really, rarely give sufficient thought to the answers to such questions -which is why for so long, they tend to go unanswered!*
*There is an eventual outcome; but to say “we have no say in it” -Poppycock! Bullocks!
Nurses don’t even [want to] touch the patient nowadays. Gloves! Gloves! Gloves!
It should be easy to operate above the average person -but I struggle! Was I like the elephant conditioned to believe he is a mouse?
How much of your own amimosity towards others do you tolerate, even condone within yourself?
If you’re not kind to people 🤔 then all that talk of JESUS, quoting of the Bible… what is it all for 🤔 what is it really saying about how serious you are?
Why can’t people just act right? Well part of that answer lies with the people who presumably do!
KEEP IT SIMPLE! I am finally beginning to recognize the value of this sge-old AA slogan! The simpler MY LIFE IS -the less room there is for my “Alcoholism” to come out and play! 🤷♂️
In my experience, when the program fails -IT IS ALWAYS THE PERSON THAT IS @ ISSUE! 🤷♀️🤷♂️
This program for me addresses:
●Alcohol
●Character-defects
●Better way of living
●Better relationships with GOD, self, others!
Anything we’re closed to PROBABLY ISN’T GOING TO WORK!
●Church
●Counseling
●AA too
For some people AA is a step up, others, a step down, still others a way through!
Whether you enjoy AA or not, it works! There’s definitely a lesson in there somewhere! 🤷♂️🤔🤷♀️
If you do it, the results will come –action tends to trump attitude [or feelings]!
Why do most of us [in our prime to midde-age] not have issues with children and “old-folk” Why do we have issues with [or take issue with] people in their prime-middle-age? When for example they 🤔 cut in line in front of us, or 🤔 flip us off! 🤷♀️🤷♂️Do we not like ourselves much -and we see our selves in them? 🤷♀️🤷♂️
I’ve heard some people sat they’re grateful to be an Alcoholic! 🤷♀️🤷♂️🤔
1] Working with others
2] Intolerance for spiritual principles
*Lot of things in that book…. if you string them together…[from different sections] 🤔🤔🤔
We think we’re guilty only after we do something; But since God knows our hearts inside and out he knows exactly what we would do in situations before they’ve even occurred or ever will! God knew what we would do. So let me ask you this; What kind of a person or add it to do you think you would hold during the slave days of this country? Would you be the type of person that fit right in with The Times or would you be the kind of person that would stop and think to themselves “this can’t be right”. What kind of a person would you be in Jesus time? Would you be the one with sympathy or the 1 throwing the rocks? You’d be in the majority throwing rocks or would you be in the minority having empathy?
You know I’m not as f***** u* as I thought I was! At this time in my life I am seriously reconsidering… Babe. All my life I thought I was screwed up. Oh my wife other people fell in the screen drop. Having just had lunch with the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world… that a large part of my problem throughout my life has been to purposely or subconsciously do things to put people off or push them away. I’m gonna hold another dimension no trying to allow myself -and bring this other person closer to me. When you’ve been practicing things to the contrary all of your life it’s a bit of a challenge.
When you can envision the change and people’s attitudes towards you before you leave an altar the behavior…. It’s magical.
The key to life is to always attempt to surpass whatever she exacts from you; and not to try and skirt or scurry [shy] away from it!
There are a ton of people who can sing like superstars; but only so many slots for millions to be made.
The number of rich people in this country is growing significantly but the size of NBA basketball arenas and NFL football stadiums hasn’t grown so that is why the poor in the middle class need to move over for the rich. That is why prices are sky rocketing. Because group X doesn’t give a s*** about XY
One of the greatest weaknesses man has going against him is -his concern for his life above all else. Some things gnaw at men more than dying.
Some people have way more attention than they need and others have way less -what’s up with that?
What’s up with the 14 year old girl having all kinds of power -and a grown man has none?
What type of people who have more power than they know how to handle?
Some people believe if you can’t protect it -then you don’t deserve to keep it! These are people operating from an entirely different principle!
Courage & Strength! Courage & Faith! Courage & Effort! Courage & Consistency! TO STAY ON “THE BEAM”! Courage because fear is the first thing to weaken and compromise! Strength because Strength is “the antithesis” of weakness! Faith because Faith gives us strength! Effort because Effort helps to foster consistency! Consistency [is the antithesis of compromise -for better or for worse] because weakness and thoughts of compromise are always lurking!
*…because fear is always my immediate reaction [the problem, or prompter]. The others 🤔 are to keep us “steady”. Just imagine what it would be like being “remarkably unshakable”!
Man is more likely to change things out of a lack of consideration -rather than kindness!
11 -Aunts WBC [down from 19 told previously] according to “Big “RON”” That number, as does on occasion, came to me just a second or two prior to his giving us “the numbers”.
I have developed, over the years, many [a number of I should say] layers [defenses] to my personality. It is a struggle to keep them in check; and 🤔 I am finding out -very tiring! While others seemingly have very few layers [variance] to theirs at all. So consistency for these people is not only highly likely, there really seems to be little in the way of “any other option”. These people, in all actuality, would struggle [tire in their efforts] to be “inconsistent”. For every “Yin” there is a “Yang”!
People who have been traumatized, but are also more forthcoming and honest, are more vulnerable to ensuing bouts of fear. But tend to heal at a higher, and faster rate [clip].
Some people have multiple personalities; some people have “a multi-layered personality”.
Riddle-me-this: “Paranoia* and boredom 🤔
*it’s only Paranoia “when you’re wrong”!
However stupid the assertion… when you’re wrong, you really look “stupid”, but when you’re right 🤔 you look like a genius! Have we exhausted most avenues of “common-sense” 🤔 and is it “the age of ‘uncommon-sense'”? Just as 🤔 “Rock n’ Roll” may have withered because they ran out of “chords on ‘the guitar'”? I mean look at what they went to! 🤷♂️🤷♀️ it’s as if it was “the only option” lol
When you are trying to draw something or someone out you doe “X”; when you are trying to fend something or someone off you do “Y”. Now with regard to relationships -this is what makes them so intriguing and challenging! Just because someone is coming at you doesn’t necessarily mean fending them off is the right move in that particular instance; 🤔 or with that particular individual. And just because someone seems withdrawn doesn’t mean we should try to draw them out either necessarily.
Which is worse 🤔 -not knowing or knowing and not having the courage to…?
While it may be true from what I have been told that women get in sync with her. With one another, I think it’s also true that they get in sync with the attitudes they hold
Sometimes we have to be stronger, and perhaps more humbles than our partners.
There are certain things in relationships you stay away from There are vast multitude of them I suppose when one wants to get intricate and detail. You avoid comparisons between yourself and their previous partner. And you avoid comparisons between your previous partner and them. You don’t give someone a gift and constantly hound them about it afterwards. Get the picture?.
It’s not that GOD doesn’t listen it’s that we don’t listen or that he knows we’ve already made up our minds!
Man frivolously and carelessly and liberally takes advantage of the self will [and the freedoms] GOD has endowed him with!
It’s absolutely shocking how much of man’s literature doesn’t include GOD IN IT! We’re so concerned about imposing spiritual or religious views on other people to the point where we eliminate that which has makes all things possible?
I’ve never known GOD to come down and tell me who to marry or what job to choose [And when he does -I can’t hear HIM or I don’t listen]. But once we have made our decision and acted upon it, GOD has given us principles and direction for how too act and get through these situations.
Animosity towards your partner is never a good thing. Oftentimes it starts with something small or even unfounded. It’s amazing how many people don’t know how to put a stop to this. It’s amazing how many people buy into it!
When you’re not hearing from your partner and feeling suspicious or neglected… think about it like nicotine in the bloodstream, the longer you go without it -the urge or sensation to have it begins to grow -not only in you, but in them!
You skirt the line with your spirituality Rich! When in fact you should be doing everything you can to steer as clear and far away from spiritual-atrophy as much as possible! By now you shouldn’t know how to do that!
It’s not just what we do and don’t do but the zone we inhabit at any given time that plays a tremendous role in what [who, when, where, why, and how] we do and don’t do! And some people pick up on that more than others.
The thing about having the conviction to do anything in the world to help a stranger… How much more would we be willing to risk or give up for those we love! Now think about this when we have a love that is reserved only for those… Well, those we love… When it becomes something of a private club of sorts… Well then the reverse holds true with regard to the rest of the world, the rest of life! If our love is only parceled out to a very select few… then how much “less” are we willing to do for the world around us? For a world desperately in need of all we can give? The world is slowly shriveling because man continues to take more than he gives!
Love is not something that you parcel out… You are their love completely and all peoples and all of life… Or you are fooling yourself about what you believe to be love! Conditional-love doesn’t have love in it at all -in my humble opinion.
If I was running a gambling operation – We’re coming out ahead was the name of the game. One of the things I would most definitely consider is how often the favorite fails. Then I would set the odds to make sure that when they do fail, I can make up my earnings elsewhere on the back end. The guy vets the favorite 5 times in a row and wins 4 out of 5. That means the houses out right?. No, not if you set the 5th one… The odds on the 5th one has such so that you get your money back plus a little extra to account for the other 4 wins. Betting isn’t fair, it’s all about them! Betting is one of the most ruthless and cut throat endeavors man ever invented! Sales of goods and services is a close 2nd.
One thing you can always count on is GOD looking to encourage us -not discourage! But there’s a fine line between encouraging and not perpetuating growth in a! Growth which more times than not must come from resistance instance and failure!
If man has it within his grasp or control to make millions more, do you think hes gonna let value stand in the way in this day and age?
Nobody goes in to acting or singing or business to be mediocre do they? 🤔
Clones don’t have a soul. They said you couldn’t clone a soul. A human being!
It doesn’t always work, but if you treat people right through thick and thin, you tend to touch their heart in such a way that they begin to melt.
What are the things that are present in a long term relationship that may be in abortion term relationships? Let’s face it, most of us are successful early on in
People look weird or stupid doing things in this country until we find out they’re getting paid a shitload of money to do something stupid or relationships right? But what takes place in the transition from new to ongoing? In relationships that stand the test of time? What’s the transition that short term relationships never seem to find?
People look weird or stupid doing things in this country until we find out they’re getting paid a shitload of money to do something weird or stupid? But isn’t it still weird or stupid?
You see a woman running down the street with a hatchet chasing a man and you freak out [on her], until you are told the man burned the baby!
I think Society ask too much of men and women sometimes with regard to adhering to the law!
Takes 2 minutes to brush your teeth and 8 hours for sugar to work on your teeth overnight if you don’t brush them
They adjust the rules in football to get a reasonable result.
“Talk yourself through it”.
When a human being is either open or closed-what a world of difference between the 2.
Oil glands eliminate cholesterol and artery blockage as well as keep the skin, in my case on the face calm moisturized. I guess some people don’t have this as much as others.
When you lose a bed calm and keep doubling the bed until you get your money back
Buy a candy bar for a quarter seller for 50 cents buy 2 and sell them for 50 cents and buy 4 and sell them for 50 cents Is there a wall or a ceiling here?
If you could do one thing no 1 else in the whole wide world could do 🤔
They use the same bait over and over and over again. They keep going for the physical senses!
Animosity & Affinity
The answer is: Settle in. Be yourself but never “settle for”. Be @ your best self [@ all times -never drop your guard; not even for a moment; one weak moment can destroy a lifetime of work]!
GOD always guarantees us the 🌞 coming up! What would always non essentials withhold such high regard for a word to us if the sun stopped coming up?
“It takes a lot of work to get sick just like it takes a lot of work to get well!”
You’ll never be your best self with the thoughts you have going around inside. The thoughts you allow and the thoughts you instigate!
As when 2 teams and sports come together at the top of their game having their best night all season!!!! I said earlier, “all the person can do is their part”. When 2 people come together in a relationship who are at the top of their game… When the best and when human beings comes out in a Union…. It’s something magical and startling to behold!
I think a big part of what’s lacking a proper and the greatest possible examples among human beings! How important is what we pass on to one another versus what we know instinctively or learn on our own? Are the best human beings out there a product of learning or of our own discovery?
With regard to this new relationship you are embarking on… do you know what you’re doing? How well do you know yourself? How well do you know the other person? Would you rate it at 30%? Would you rate it at 50%? 90 think is the minimal!
Maybe this relationship will last, or maybe it’s just preparing us for the next one come or maybe it’s just preparing us to go to the next level in ourown evolution spiritually! Hard truths that we should all be prepared for in any case!
GOD is not so much interested in whether we succeed outwardly as he is whether we succeed inwardly! Man on the other hand… deadlines karma quotas..
With God come a man’s best is always good enough! With this fellow man, is best to sell them good enough! On a side note…. How often does man give his very best? To God or to his fellow man!
Man the manipulatr: Just look at the words and the approaches he uses an advertising!
When things don’t go our way we either did it wrong, didn’t do our part sufficiently, or God is looking out for a! How often do we blame God [or others]? 90% of the time when in fact 90% of the time we were insufficient for derelict in our own efforts and responsibilities!
Man’s always a lookin’. Sometimes hes even looking looking. And sometimes hes lookin’ lookin’ when he shouldn’t be lookin’ lookin’!
I think the key to a long term relationship is to remain the same person you were that attracted in the 1st place-and keep on attracting! To remain the same person you were then -from there on!
We’re not paying for the energy, nor for the materials that man puts together to supply us the things we want and need… those things are God-given! What we pay for is man’s efforts to put them together and bring them to us in the form they are now in period
You can’t look at things that way! The way you always looked at them in the past!
What do unhappy and angry people tend to think about? Surely not the same thing happy, serene people think about! Everybody goes through bad times. Some more than others obviously. Some things can’t be helped -But what we focus on and how often we stay there can!
Why do we need a lawyer -DOESN’T “THE JUDGE” KNOW “THE LAW”?
Pastors who are rich. Christians who think “GOD wants the living the “good-life”. REALLY????? IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK????? PICTURE JESUS OUT EVANGELISING TO THE POOR IN A GRAND-OL-CHARIOT!!!!! 🤔
When you’re in a good space, what preceded it and what is happening in that moment? When you’re in a bad space…
People who DO NOT PRACTICE some degree of chastity, poverty, charity… 🤔🤷♂️🤷♀️
Picture this -> people going to jail, people in dispute… simply telling ot like it is! You know one way of yelling people are yelling the youth? When they incriminate themselves! 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Courtrooms are filled with people unwilling to take responsibility for their actions. People being misguided by their council! It takes a great deal of maturity and character to step forward and admit you’re wrong! OR is it perhaps that the consequences are too harsh? 🤔 *in courtrooms, and out in the real-world, we constantly use other people conduct -TO JUSTIFY OUR OWN!
Openess and power are the keys to the human mind and spirit!
These writings [one or another] will invariably rub just about each and every person with even “the slightest tracing of” HEDONISM EXISTING WITHIN THEM!
Just as when our own efforts [knowledge] are lacking [insufficient] in the material-world, so it is the case in spiritual-matters]. However, it is amazing that…. how long people go failing to address their spiritual wounds, injuries, limitation, shortages… We run to welfare, food-bank, emergency-room for our physical dilemmas…
Some people it’s difficult NOT TO LOOK AT! 🤷♂️🤷♀️
People are searching for answers; you give it to yhem; they don’t like it; they tell you “that’s your truth -not mine”. 🤷♀️🤷♂️
“Do you think ALL THE ANSEERS to my problems I HAVE LIKED????? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!! PROBABLY NOT MOST!!!!!!
The thing you never compromise is GOD’S PRINCIPLES [values]!
When we retaliate: we give people the opportunity to justify their own conduct! When we don’t, they might even reflect on their own conduct -MAYBE!
As long as I adhere to GOD’S PRINCIPLES and not my own, and don’t drink!!!!
I think some people recognize irritating things as small and treat them as such, whereas other people do not recognize them as such or if they do, they are unable to treat them… unable or unwilling to treat them as such!
You look at the situations people walk into after the fact and you wonder why they didn’t think of that in the 1st place? Especially if they’ve been around!
Words spoken from the mouth often take but a few moments to express. The meaning behind them can often mean a lifetime of commitment and sacrifice and hard work and being vulnerable and being humbled. Man too often speaks above his abilities and his willingness. It’s only a matter of time and observation to determine whether or not what comes out of a person’s mouth is aligned with the content of their character! Thank you my GOD for answering this prayer within a matter of minutes -1 or 2, or at best 3! 🙏🏻
If you stop doing something long enough -you are no longer that thing! If you stop doing something long enough -are you no longer that thing? You are a liar and a thief and a cheat, whatever your conduct may be in the moment… eventually those behaviors will surface! If they do not, then I guess you are no longer a liar and a thief and a cheat! How can you be something if you are not producing its fruit?
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As you begin to work in a particular area -you begin to experience an inkling. Then it starts coming more frequently. Then it becomes something stronger. I’m beginning to feel a surge of all that life can be -if we are willing to become all we were meant to be! By the way I’m listening to silent lucidity on YouTube. “Minute into S.L. I’m thinking… I don’t know how far I am going to get on this journey; People need to see these things though; A journey of a spirit growing ever-closer to GOD; BECOMING ONE WITH GOD; A RECORD; A RECORDING OF THE INTERNAL EVENTS AND INTERNAL CHANGES; NOT UNLIKE JAQUES COUSTEAU IN A MINI-SUB UNDERNEATH THE OCEAN AT DEPTHS NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED!
Thought about donating my mind to science so they could see where all this is coming from.
It dawned on me earlier in the day that too many people try to use conventional means to relate [in non-conventional relationships (soul mate stuff)] and when they fail, the relationship goes south, is considered, or rendered “a mistake”. Stop trying to use conventional means or material means or physical means with your own spiritual relationships. Feel them! Feel them! If you cannot transition with the relationships as it is evolving more and more on a spiritual level… 🤷♀️🤷♂️🙏🏻 What often happens in relationships with people run out of words. So stop relying on words! Start relying on feelings! Let your spirits begin to speak to one another! Let your spirits begin to embrace one another! God told me a long time ago that it’s the spirit we fall in love with not the person! Some people never get that!
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Some people don’t seem able to convey adequately or accurately or easily that which is on the inside outwardly! They either don’t see many of the things around them, or if they do, see I’m unable to adequately or accurately put those things in the words! I also heard many years ago that if you can put it into words -you’ve lost its meaning! But anyways, with regard to the initial point -I don’t seem to have that problem! 🤷♂️
You must always keep in mind that we are trying to help people! A lot of the attitudes you Andie encountered in the world are the result of people not caring with him this attitude out there front door! In addition, or rather…. as a consequence… an attitude of helping, showing concern for others others -will in turn help to calm the attitude that is becoming increasingly prevalent out in the world today!
You may hurt me; but you only harm yourself in doing so! And offend GOD worst of all!
Remember where you come from and remember your history!
MAGGIE Girl at the music bookstore. Half these people don’t know what great is. They see it on TV and realize how s***** their own lives are. Then somebody walks into their store and represent something beautiful I don’t know what the f*** to do with it. It’s not you it’s them! You’ve been subject to the scene for years in this town. Some women can’t stand men who are more eloquent than they are [beautiful] remember. Maggie sees you for who you are and she doesn’t have any hang-ups about it! So start getting used to it! You told her earlier in the kitchen that you were practicing listening more and talking less because it’s safer. She responded by saying safer for who? You responded by saying safer for me. Oftentimes I don’t get very good reactions from people when I talk too much. Her response, I love listening to you talk. That’s what this town is good for, destroying everybody’s self worth and self image! When they see something beautiful, it’s so disrupts their own worthlessness that they want you to feel like the ugly duckling just like they do! That’s the Mexican way come and anybody who makes you feel a nip through it right back at him! Even if they just walk in the room and happen to look that much better and to make you feel small by being in the same room.. That’s the Mexican macho way! Extremely childish!
“Remember your place, Sir!”
Too many things to remember? Pick a couple and -HANG ON!
By worrying about such things; you wound the very thing you hope would remain in tact [your spiritual purity]! It’s a tricky thing ~being caught between life [reality out there: games people play; harshness and cruelty…] and ourselves [the constant battle over what we perceive ourselves to be versus what others perceive, or would have us be]~ 🤷♂️
The mistake many of us make is when we don’t have to work too hard for a relationship [the one or one’s that seem to be falling into place naturally]; we then have a tendency “not to work too hard for ‘that’ relationship”! The relationships that were perhaps “doomed to fail from the start” were the relationships I put the most effort into! Understand? ALL RELATIONSHIPS require constant care, and nurturing! Trying to glide or skate-by always catches up with us!
GOD seems to be guiding me irrespective of a world I so long to be apart of; accepted by!
“There is only so much of us to go around -or is there?” 🤔 Some men, and some women certainly seem to get around more than others!
It’s simple but not easy. So, does that mean something things are complicated, but easy?
Why do so many beautiful people gravitate to powerful people?
It’s not just how we act or our frame of mind rather. When we’re loaded with spirituality we emanate that outwardly. We’re not we don’t! Most people love the experience of spirituality emanating from those around them! 🤷♂️🙏🏻🤷♀️
My processor’s way too small for my… Amount of memory!
I feel weak spiritually!
When a human-being feels “small”, our tendency, quite often, is to GO/GET BIG! The complete opposite of “the right move”! 🤷♂️🤷♀️🙏🏻
It’s about the kindness, not the credit -except when WE give it to “HIM”!
Even an unattractive person gains some degree of attractiveness by dressing well!
“PLEASE GOD HELP ME TO ACCEPT YOUR WISDOM REGARDING MY CHILDHOOD! AND HELP ME TO REMAIN EVER-SMALL!”
When we are smaller than “ut” 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 When we are bigger than “it” 👎👎👎[we begin to feel… and we sense “we’re off” somewhere, somehow]!
Anyone in here think they can see into the future better than GOD? Anyone think they can see into another man’s ❤ 💙 💜 better than GOD can?
We hear sanity largely, in the rooms of AA!
Does GOD MAKE UGLY PEOPLE? We only this much: For everything, GOD has a reason!
Everything has an angle to try and cater to or to manipulate the opinion of the public or opposite. Something happens to a woman we got a woman reporter. Something happens to a black man with a white police officer and we have a black reporter woman. Where does it end? It’s not just what these people are doing but it’s the attitude of the public that’s also the issue. They react to these sort of things. Why else would the authorities be doing it to? What else would the news be doing it?
How can a person gain confidence from doing the right thing -when failure is the repeated outcome? I’m speaking of my dealings with people in this local area. How can I gain any self worththless positive image of myself when things continue to fail?
IN DOING THE “RIGHT-THINGS”, we systematically “GIVE SOME THINGS UP”! But we gain so much more! But not in our minds if our priorities are skewed, or twisted! Man is there now in this country!
Has the news, law enforcement, politicking, Doctoring…. all become BIG-BUSINESS??? It just cannot work that way!!!!! We investigate someone famous, it’s opportunity!!!!! Really???? Capitalizing on others misfortune!!!! This, along with 25٪ interest-rates used to be wrong!!!! GEEEZZZZ Becoming famous by reporting, or prosecuting, or even arresting someone famous, or infamous!
What happens when instinct goes in one direction and character goes in another?
People have no idea the value of asking God… when 90% of the population cannot ask because of pride… those that do… mean the world to him and he will not fail them!
Some men are constantly in the red and some men are so far into the green that they can take a woman… they have so much wiggle room as far as love, patience…Some people have enough talent for ten people!
Why bring each other down?????
If you keep doing what you did before -you’ll keep getting what you got before! And we all know if you keep making poor-decisions -you’re going to keep getting poor-results. But where I get a little confused is where man is making good-decisions -is getting good-results -and then and then resorts, or reverts, to making poor-choices [once again]! 🤷♂️🤔🤷♀️ [ebb and flow of man’s divinity along with his fallen-nature?]
Desperation and haste are the enemy of those in business! In addition, just look at people swarming to pawn shops -and desperate for loans.
When man really wants to get on top of something -he can and does! You can’t use money in replacement of love because it’s too finite! Love is inexhaustible for a reason, and money finite for a reason! 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Man picks and chooses where he puts his efforts, and his resources -and doesn’t always xhoose wisely. And often does so at his own whim or to soothe his own conscience or to bolster his own ego rather than addressing the actual issues that should be of the highest priorities in precise order!
It’s not who you are willing or able to be in a relationship short term but who you are willing or able to be in a relationship long term! I know it’s a tricky situation but… Being who you’re not in a relationship early on just to cement the foundation really isn’t a very good idea no unfortunately the people across from you are relying on that as well when they shouldn’t. It’s why women so often get taken in by man and it’s why so often con-artists [and Politicians] are able to con. For now it’s just an ongoing part of the human reality. Getting back to the real issue here -Decide early on who is the person you are going to be for the long term -so that the other person can decide sooner rather than later whether it is or isn’t going to work for them. This requires a lot of strength and maturity and soundness of mind to risk more often than not losing the other person. Losing the other person before things even get started perhaps. But isn’t that better than months or years of heartache and wasting each other’s time? And perhaps even guilty feelings over having lied, or manipulated the people we presumably care about enough to want to spend the rest of our lives with?
The problems this country and its people are facing cannot be fixed by a politician, they need to be fixed by us the American people! But most Americans are both tired and ignorant of the solutions, if not the problems themselves in certain circles! Sadly, much of this is being done deliberately to keep people from stepping forward and causing the authorities in charge to stop fooling around childishly and maliciously and start addressing things by doing their jobs! Man the great manipulator! When hes not the great self indulgent!
Animals rely on the laws of nature to survive -and rightly so as we’re dained or deemed by GOD! Man on the other hand often tries to circumvent these natural laws because he either wants something else or something more or more of something [or less in regards to consequencrs]* than GOD and his laws naturally dictate. Or as usual, he tries to find the easier softer way!
*I suppose animals do the same thing -to an extent.
“I think I’m the sanest man I know honestly lol -maybe that’s ‘the problem”… what’s driving me insane” LMAO
I now recall that there were some tests done on the power of prayer at a rather prestigious University in our country some years back. Any idea what the results were?
Ever do something for the 1st time with the feeling that it’s going to be very easy and that you are filled with confidence? Ever gi into a situation feeling just the opposite? Can you recall any instances where you were wrong in both cases?
I don’t think people are able to accurately recognize where the line is or should be, as far as protecting ourselves from the outside world and how it damages other people in the process -whereas putting that line a little less conservatively, will allow others to recognize that the world is not such a selfish, or bad place after all!
Intimacy is a need while sex may not be as much so. I always said that if we deprive people in prison of their basic needs in a healthy way, they will meet them in an unhealthy way! Then it becomes the system that is propagating “the issues”. We force people into… we create an environment whereby “if a person cannot meet their needs in a healthy way… they will inadvertently meet them in an unhealthy way. People eating out of garbage cans or people meeting their intimate and sexual needs out in the world today in an unhealthy way because society in general so unwilling to trust -and hence, let one another get close to each other.
I don’t know if it’s a good thing to be opening up your partner’s eyes too much-certainly it’s not a good idea to try and take the place of God and opening up your partner’s eyes! Sometimes opening up someone’s eyes can cause them to think things and do things that negate from God plan, ultimate plan! Sometimes we can get people to thinking about things and yours and there’s relationships that they have no business thinking about! Awareness is planned there by satan and not by God! However reasonable… The reasoning may appear at a glance or on the surface! Do you think it was reasonable to take a bite out of the Apple from the tree of knowledge? We all know what that got us!
God takes into account all things with regard to each and every individual! Man on the other hand, is not only unable but oftentimes unwilling to do the same!
It used to be a dime difference for supreme versus regular unleaded now it’s 54 cents
The more humble you become, the more amazed, and dumbfounded people will be at the things you are willing to do!
You would amazed at how many problems, would disappear and long dormant things of beauty would appear if the world suddenly became interested in giving instead of taking!
Relationships to me, aside from growth and self discovery…. Are about 2 people building each other up in the areas where we ourselves cannot! Happy, Special, Valued, Loved as well!
One of the biggest problems in American society is that people don’t know how to treat a person who is handing, who is placing their heart in their hand so fragile and wounded and sensitive. When we make ourselves vulnerable to someone else… It’s a major turning point!
Why doesn’t GOD guide each broken person to the perfect person for them in any given moment?
I think, not only does a person have to have e certain level of anger, but something else! Something else in order to be a murderer or harm someone severely. I think at 1 point in my life I had the anger but not the other.
It’s easier to ask saying when you are saying! It’s easier not to act angry when you’re not angry! I tried covering up or squelching my anger for many years without success. It wasn’t until I was largely rid of it that I did!
Do pedophiles and ax murderers need love any less than you or I do?
If I don’t stay spiritually fit I tend to revert back to pushing people away, and throwing people off! Which tells me that those old coping mechanisms are still very much there -albeit dormant! True recovery means the elimination of them? Why haven’t it attained that level of recovery apparently!
Why would anyone want someone who doesn’t want them? Some people are just made that way I suppose. Some people don’t care how the other person feels.
FACEBOOK Look at the “bright-side” –Not having anything to talk about isn’t such a bad thing. Some people resort to “constant complaining”, while others resort to “constantly talking about themselves”. 🤔
FACEBOOK To the extent we tell the truth; and to the extent we do the right thing; in the face of adversity, danger, our own fears, our own egos… We allow GOD’S outcomes [and not ours, and not satan’s] to unfold in “OUR WORLD”! Threats of personal and material losses…even threats to health, and to bodily harm… You see the operative principle in many of the aforementioned are Courage! Selflessness! Humility! Combating evil! Dignity and self respect! Love for one’s self, one’s fellow man, for God! ONE’S WILL TO PLEASE GOD SHOULD NEVER BE OVERLOOKED, NOR TAKEN LIGHTLY!!!!
FACEBOOK When we say to ourselves “that isn’t fair” do you suppose that’s JESUS talking, GOD talking, or satan talking? When that little voice inside says “that’s not right”, is that JESUS talking, GOD talking, or satan talking? What is the outcome when we act upon these thoughts? When we say “that isn’t fair” are we not usually talking about our own self-interest -“Where’s mine?” “What about me?” When we say “that’s not right” -are we speaking to our own plan [what brand (nature or quality) of harmony or discord do our choices tend to bring about?], or GOD and HIS? Should we speak up [even when doing GOD’S work], or simply remain silent with regard to a higher plan or purpose which lay ahead [you can bet JESUS didn’t speak up for every injustice that crossed HIS path, or came crashing down on HIS BACK literally -HE was likely focused more on a “HIGHER PURPOSE” overall (as should we be also)] -and in which only GOD knows! NOW ABOUT Harmony and/or Discord? You say JESUS created discord HIMSELF! It’s right to create discord when it serves GOD’S purpose (and timing). And anything that creates harmony outside of GOD’S purpose is no harmony at all! 🤷♀️🤷♂️
FACEBOOK A man who has made little-to-no-impression -or a bad one, is soon forgotten in the mind of a woman. A man who makes the greatest of impressions, however brief, can remain on her mind, and in her heart for a lifetime…!
FACEBOOK When we can say to ourselves “even if what satan is telling me is true, I’m going to hold firm to GOD’S -principle’s anyways” GOD’S WILL FOR US, FOR HIS PLAN “IS THEN” ASSURED” [and satan’s isn’t]! Men before me are fully aware of the power that exists behind “the taking of this position” along with it’s “rarity amongst man”! Man is often easily derailed by both “life and lies” -particularly with regards to… 🤷♂️🤷♀️
FACEBOOK There’s a world of difference between trying to be humorous or cute -when one is “spiritually unfit” versus “spiritually fit”!
Participating in life can be very cool. Playing out certain things in life can be really cool -life is something of a play correct? But when you try to break down the play or the script, people can often times start looking at us with rather strange looks on their faces.
FACEBOOK Love is being happy for people in whom good fortune befalls. Not being jealous or hateful about it! When we love everyone, this tendency vanishes! When we don’t love people, the aforementioned tendencies surface.
FACEBOOK All we can do – In any given situation is what GOD asks of us. That goes double for relationships! We don’t ask or expect anything of things; but when it comes to people, it’s a completely different situation to us. Actually, we should ask more of things than of people -because things guided by the laws of GOD -are more reliable and predictable [because they obey]. I think where alot of people mess up is… [it would actually be refreshing if we wanted other people to act the way GOD would want them to act as well] that many of us are more interested in having people act the way we would have them. 😔 And that just doesn’t work!
If I could humble myself it would be an eagle feeding proposition.
We learned at a very early age for example that a certain height that we fall from will or will not result in harm. Why couldn’t we learn early on about the true face of alcoholisminute diction like we learned about so many other things at an early age?
If omebody paid you a million dollars to jump off the 1st national bank tower would you do it? Why not? Exactly calm because you wouldn’t live to spend the money!
The measure of mankind: Embracing the twisted and deformed and malformed and defunct! Have we accomplished this?
Making a camera from cyberware! Making anything from a few basic… [non-physical…?]
As time goes on the list for fetched man’s ideas appear! Technology begins to evolve calm of the less far fetched man’s ideas appear.As we rely more and more on technology and less and less on principles, the more far fetched man’s ideas become!
One company gets strong and buys out its competitor-for what? To be king!
Companies grow from the business of the public, then they turn around and start taking away all of the perks they initially offered us to get there. Does that make a lot of sense? Don’t give me any of that business -it’s just business c***! When somebody helps you to grow you don’t screw them!
Some people can tell sizes accurately with prospective in relation to other sizes that would normally throw the ordinary person off! Distances, heights… tell me “there’s no GOD”.
Not everything is drudgery or trudgury in the spiritual Realm! Like for instance, they tell us that shame and guilt make us less useful, and should therefore “be abandoned”!
When a woman isn’t interested in you [a man who indicates he is], or is uncomfortable around you, she tends to get an attitude. When a woman is interested in a man who shows no interest in her, she tends to get an attitude. True or false -atleast some of the time?
When a person has been shattered and GOD puts them back together.. Ever see those glasses with the real cool metal like stained glass used to put a glass or a cut back together? People can get pretty creative as well! But not as creative as GOD I’m guessing!
This morning I had this thought “this is challenging”. Then another voice said “Are you up for the challenge?” But like challenging me.
What it comes down to as many people as they simply “want to be stimulated”.
Just the right sorts of traumatic events at just the right point in your pets development can produce startling -and even amazing character traits! But someone astute, watchful, patient… 🤷♂️
GOD, I don’t think holds it against us -when we want the best for our loved ones however short sighted our intentions.
GOD doesn’t need our prayers -we need our prayers!
Alcoholics Anonymous is a spiritual program that has been proven to work! But if it is a spiritual program -then we must have a spirit! And if we have a spirit -then there must be a GOD that created it! 🤔💡
An important factor or character trade in relationships is getting over things quickly.
Trust is a marvelous antidote for satan’s wiles! He constantly uses truth and wise to goad us! –Even if it happened to be true.. If you discovered it and did more harm than good… then would it really be good to know in the 1st place? Why go to such lengths to find out the truth -with the intention of getting even or harming someone? Doesn’t make a lot of sense when you think about it!
Oftentimes your response or approach will be the same regardless of the situation! If your wife is a good wife you treat her with respect and kindness and love. If your wife cheats on you you treat her with respect and kindness and love! It plays to who we are versus what the world would provoke us into being or acting like. Jesus never stopped being Jesus for 1 second of his entire life! How many times have we stopped being ourselves 4 far longer!
You did the same thing with those 2 counselors at Z recovery as they did with you with whoever told them what they told them…
If you don’t fight back, they’ll never know whether they can actually beat you are not! Whether they’re better than you or not! Isn’t that the worst thing of all if somebody’s got the character to recognize that!
Some people are here to be served; most to serve. You find out pretty early on, which you have been “brought here for”! When WE recognize our place, and follow thru on it, it saves us, and others, alot of problems! For the longest time… “I”… refused to accept “my place”. Still not entirely sure about it 🤔 Alot of things are neither here-nor-there with GOD; and alot of things we value “more-than-others” GOD sees [deems] as “less-than-others”! 🤷♂️🤷♀️
Would you really trade places with that person you’re envious of? Because that’s really what envy is ultimately-bad… It doesn’t make a lot of sense just to pick and choose a micro-aspect of somebody’s life and compare it to your whole life. Compare your whole life to their whole life and then see if you feel the same way! When you do it this way -it takes the sting out of satan’s manipulation and lies! Remember, everything satan does is designed to kill, steal, destroy! And he will even spread goodness [initially]; in order to achieve “that ‘ultimate’ end”! Tricky! Tricky! GOD can see right through it -but man??? 🤔 Unless a man “is not looking”;which even the most innocent of men [not spiritual -for that would mean “prepared”] can have “aroused in them” “visions of pomp and grandeur”!
People occupy many positions in life -many of them unqualified! “Professional “Job-getters!”
My password is “What was that?” Or “Pardon me?” Or “Come-again?” Or “Say-again?” 😆
“What’s the “kindest-thought” you can think of?”
“”Shock” is just one way GOD shows [HIS] “mercy” to nature!”
People [on this country] get so confused between what they think they want; what they want; what they think they need; what they [truly] need -NOT GOOD!
“PRAY TO HAVE ‘ALL’ ANIMOSITY REMOVED!” ANIMOSITY, LIKE SUCH THINGS AS ‘ALCOHOL’ IS/ARE NOT ‘OUR FRIEND’!”
Isn’t sex wonderful when there’s no baggage between the 2 of you? Maybe that’s truly what’s so wonderful about it the 1st 2nd and 3rd times…
Some people are nicer to people who are strangers than they are to those who are closest to them. Too possible reasons: 1) baggage, unresolved fear [anger] or resentment; 2) fear of intimacy.
There are plenty of strong people in the world -but what the world needs now more than ever -is strong, caring people!
When people do for each other -it’s a sign!!!!!!!! Of character, of Love, of GOD in them!
Just do a little bit every day in the house or apartment and rotate as far as cleaning go. Why spend 6 hours on a Saturday
It’s better to do the right thing and get chewed out or confront it or embarrassed then it is to do the wrong thing and get chewed out or confronted or embarrassed.
GOD either gives us the power to do to something specifically. Or he gives us general power to use as we see fit.. Man’s got to have power in order to learn and grow…. In order to fight off evil… To exert his free will!. To think of and help is fellow man! To choose an act upon evil if hes so desires!
Humans can be extraordinarily powerful with one another. The traits. The principles. The abilities. The help. The drive.
Relationships can be very powerful but also be a very precise balancing-act! The higher the quality, the more precision is required I believe.
Where man goes wrong is expecting GOD to do what he [man] thinks is best for him [man]!
Once a person has developed their ability to be worst of people…. Then the best of people comes all the more easy!
If you give too much in a relationship you could be replacing their initial reason for being in it in the 1st place!
Which would you choose, GOD’S-way -however difficult; or your way‐ however easy? Let’s just think about tha; GOD’S way however difficult -is always the best way!t Man’s way, however easy -seldom is!
Think about credit card! I had a credit card and I paid it off. It might have even been no interest or low interest. They gave me more credit. Did they give it to me because they were grateful or did they give it to me so I can get an even deeper debt in the hopes that they will somehow make their money back for the 1st loan that was low interest or no interest? What do you think companies are about? It’s hard to tell which ones care about people in which ones are business as usual! This much I do know… Many people struggle to pay off their credit card debt -or simply make their payment! Some people are making a living off of this while others are getting rich! But doesn’t anyone see anything wrong with this? You can’t tell me that GOD, benign GOD and creator of the universe -did not weave into the fabric of it all away for so many people to make a living other than exploiting one another!
If you want to rid yourself of even the slightest possibility of doing harm to your relationships, the way of doing so which yields the highest [greatest] possibility for success is: to rid from within yourself anything potentially harmful to your relationships!
Why would you want anyone” who can treat “the one you love” better than anyone else -not to be “the one” apart of their life?
“Why would you not want “the one”, who can treat “the one you love”, better than anyone else, to be “the one apart of” their life?” 🤷♀️❤🤷♂️
I am confident I can protect myself in:
a) all situations
b) in most situations
c) in some situations
d) in very few situations
e) no situations whatsoever
Once you have been around open people, you can begin to recognize just how closed certain people are! You may have to experience people who are open in various areas in order to recognize close people in respective areas!
Repression sometimes results in expression later on! Extraordinary expression in fact!