| Loving each other!
Posted: 8/31/2005 1:57:20 AM | We should show more love to each other and people we interact with in our everyday lives.Sometimes we get so caught up in these debates that we forget about the feelings of others.Everyone has the right to believe what they want.But we are all human beings.Even if we can't agree on religion or whatever, we are all still human.Most of us get on here everynight to see what's being said.We should appreciate each other more than we do.This has been a learning experience for me.I don't know about the rest of you but I look forward to getting on here and learning something knew everynight.Even if it's just learning something about another person.Everyone has their flaws.We shouldn't be hateful because one person is different than the other.Difference is what makes us all unique.We should be more loving and caring about others.We should have more sympathy towards each others needs.We should treat everyone as if they are part of the family.We should learn to love the consistancys and inconsistancys of everyone.Things are meant to be shared to bring light to something that you're not clear on.We should be able to come together when someone is in need and help that person out.Some people get on here just for that reason.Just so they can get advice.So we should be more loving of each others needs.
Have you told anyone lately that you loved them? Have you been holding a grudge against someone in your family? If so I suggest you forgive them before it's to late.Sometimes it's hard to forget what someone has done to you but just because you forgive them doesn't mean you have to trust them.It isn't easy to earn someones trust back but it is easy to forgive someone of their wrongs.Sometimes this is just what a person needs.Sometimes people let pride take root in their lifes or maybe they are just so ashamed that they can't apoligize.Sometimes people get really depressed because they are scared to apologize.Because they live in fear of what the person might say if they do apolagize.So you might have to take the first step but a lot of times it's well worth.We only got one life to live.It's always the right time to do the right thing.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,but their echoes are truly endless-Mother Teresa
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 3:10:10 AM | I've found it something of a drug, I think I was subconsciously looking for a site like this. It's also good to vent, air and digress with people from other lands and cultures. I don't think it hurts to have or develop a sense of humour... most do and I can appreciate that. I only have one little niggly point jimmy, put a shirt on mate; you’re not on Man 'o' Man!  | |
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| Loving each other!
Posted: 8/31/2005 3:53:45 AM | Love thy enemy says the Bible, spoken words by the messiah.
I liked what you had to say jimmy. May God bless you as well. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 4:29:22 AM | very well said jimmy66
change begins with just one person. and we may not be able to change the entire world but we can make a difference in our own.
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Posted: 8/31/2005 8:48:23 AM | | I also take this point, but it has to be a MUTUAL love and respect that is required to make the change. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 9:00:17 AM | Yes you are right sky but not in all cases.For instance if you are forgiving someone who has wronged you or maybe you have wronged them someone has to take the first step.I will use Christ for an example.He loved EVERYONE so much he put his life down for everyone.Would you be willing to go that far?We should all learn to love unconditionally.If we could all learn to forgive others and set our pride aside this world would be a lot better off.Someone has to be the bigger person.Someone has to put an end to the cycle.We could all sit and hate everyone.We could all sit and keep an argument going but someone has to be the bigger person and set all differences aside and do what's right.So are you gonna be the bigger person?Or are you gonna keep thinking that there has to be a mutual understanding.Most of the time if you take the first step and show love and respect regardless of what the other person feels you will make a difference.It may not happen right away but that person will have that memory of you showing love thru everything and that thought will eventually festur and grow.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 9:01:58 AM | Believe it or not.I had a dream last night and I got up at 4 o'clock this morning and posted this.I will not try to explain this dream but this is what I thought.Well sometimes dreams do come tru.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 11:19:05 AM | I thought this form would get more replys.I guess most of us are only worried about arguing.I appreciate those that did reply.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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| Loving each other!
Posted: 8/31/2005 11:21:18 AM | | Loving eachother is an essential part of humanity and i feel without a genuine sense of love we cannot make good progress. It's in our nature and it's a Divine Commandment | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 5:33:15 PM | Jimmy,
Yes you are right sky but not in all cases. For instance if you are forgiving someone who has wronged you or maybe you have wronged them someone has to take the first step. I will use Christ for an example. He loved EVERYONE so much he put his life down for everyone. Would you be willing to go that far?
It seems to me it is more a question of extremes (as with most of these religious debates) and, I gotta tell you that is not my scene. I am ultra-sensitive (some may say paranoid) about violence. This could, and probably does, go back to infancy for all I know, but it is the world's turn off to me. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 6:21:35 PM | This is a sick-sad-world and violence is a cruel thing.I grew up in a violent home so I know from experience.Hopefully this world can learn to love but I don't think that will be possible until a major catastrophe happens.Probably world war 3.Who knows.But it will probably take something traumatic to open peoples eyes.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 6:42:32 PM | | I appreciate this site about as much as I appreciate my diary (if I had one) I take everything here as a forum with no real human experience involved...like talking about water all day but never getting wet. If someone's angry, let them be angry as much as someone that is happy has an invitation to express themselves. Let's face it, at best this site helps us in better understanding our behavior outside the virtual world. And I agree with loving each other...love without regard to outcome, I will add. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 6:44:55 PM | Amen to that brother.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 7:03:47 PM | You’re right it is an ugly world, Jimmy, but somehow you are not understanding my point. I too have been witness to some bad stuff, but the kind of extremes I'm talking about are those that can be avoided.
I honestly believe The Creator of Existence (as we know it) would show His/Her creation a supreme example of Love and not a negative angry violence.
getting late, signing off ... | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 7:12:18 PM | We do and His name is Jesus!
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 7:32:13 PM | | Jesus is Jesus and God is God. I have been talking about GOD Jimmy... nighty! | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 7:35:48 PM | I know, just thought I would throw a screw in the gears...lol
Goodnight and have a better tommorrow,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 8/31/2005 9:09:30 PM | Jimmey you speak so wisely for such ayoung man, i enjoy reading the things you post and for the most part i agree with you on the things you have to say,...this world is such a big and beautiful place and just imagine how much more beautiful a place it would be if there were more people loving each other instead of carrying grudges or disliking someone for there religous believes ...we are suppose to be "onenation under god"and we need to start acting like it, if everyday you told someone you loved them,and they in turn told someone and so on..just think of how many people would feel loved...i truly believe that love can be the best form of medicine we have that we can give freely..and its not painful..love is not suppose to hurt, isnt that what love is.. just that love..a heart felt warm,caring feeling that can make you smile..i just think we all need to show each other how much we care..smile at someone you dont know, ask him/her how they are, let people know that they are important..you'll be surprised at how often yoyu get that warm fuzzy feeling because you know that you made someone elses day,.... god bless everyone and i love you all Mickie | |
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Posted: 9/1/2005 8:41:08 PM | And we should pay it forward everyday.People are so caught up in their lives they don't realize what they are doing to others around them.
A teacher decides she is gonna start a project at school so she decides to make up a bunch of blue ribbons.On the ribbons were the words "you are special".She gave these ribbons to everyone of her students and called them up one by one to the front of the class where she told each and every one of them how special they was to her.Then she gives three more ribbons to each student and tells them to think about someone real special and take them the ribbons.Give them a ribbon and tell them how special they are to you.Then hand them the other ribbons and tell them each person that gets a ribbon has to report back to him so she can see how much telling someone that they are special makes a difference.A little boy from the class thinks of his neighbor.His neighbor is a young guy in his late twenties and works in a big office but him and the kid talk all the time about different things.The kid usually goes to him for advice.So the boy gives him a ribbon and tells him how special he is to him.He also gives him the other two ribbons and tells him he has to go to someone and give them a ribbon and tell them how special they are to him.He also tells his neighbor to report back to him with all the reports with all the ribbons.He explains to his neighbor that he is doing a school project on how telling someone their special can make a difference.The man agrees.
The man goes to his boss at work.Hands him a ribbon and tells his boss that he thinks he is a genius and he admires him.He also explains to his boss that he has got one more ribbon for him to give to someone special but that he has to report back to him with what happens.He expplains to his boss that a kid is doing a project on what telling someone that they are special has an impact on people.
So the boss is driving home and decides he is gonna give his ribbon to his son.When he gets home he goes into his sons bedroom and says " son the most incredible thing happened to me.One of my employees came in, gave me this ribbon, and told me I was a genius,Imagine that, ha I'm a genius.He told me to give someone else this ribbon.I thought long and hard about who I was going to give this ribbon to.First I thought about your mother but she knows I care about her.But I work really long hours and I don't get to spend much time with you.I know it isn't fair but I want you to know that I think you are really special and I don't know what I would do without you".
The boys bursts out into tears and says "dady, I thought no one cared about me and I was gonna kill myself tonight.I left a letter upstairs for you and momma.I thought no one cared about me but I don't think I will kill myself now.I love you dady".
Father and son hug each other, crying, for a long time.Then the father tell the boy to go to bed and he walks upstairs and sure enough he finds a long death letter.
Now I pass the ribbon on to every one of you here at POF.You are really special.I ask you to pass this ribbon on to someone else.Tell someone you care about how special they are to you.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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Posted: 9/1/2005 9:16:50 PM | Good thread Jimmy... that is our purpose I believe... to learn to love. If we were to realize we are all one being, just different extensions... I think we would have to stop hurting each other...
but the problem is, love is selfless, and it takes a lot of spiritual evolution in a being to get to that point. I believe we all will...
Good thread.. and keep loving. Please. | |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 6:18:08 AM | | The greatest education anyone can get is in the experiences of love. I'm old enough, and thankful enough, to have sampled all the different kinds there are too. | |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 11:59:08 AM | An Amazing thread, Loving each other, ....hummm
so you know the glass is full of water with a good element of poison in it, the other person picks it up and begins to drink from it what do you do? love this person? or let them drink?
What would one do? We wonder?
We all love everyone regardless of what does happen. A great love for God's creation. Man well there is not enough. simply said.
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Posted: 9/2/2005 12:54:55 PM |
(The Byrds, Wilson Phillips, Dolly Parton)
Turn, Turn, Turn (to Everything There Is A Season)
To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of peace, I swear it’s not too late
My neighbours are causing me a lot of harrassment right now, all because my son is disabled and they don't like the idea of an access ramp (which incidentally in the uk since last october is a requirement of the law for the local housing authority to provide him with in this flat/apt).. I don't understand how it affects them negatively for this ramp to be built at the entrance of the building... At the moment I am getting a lot of verbal abuse and threats mostly at night from the bullying ringleader of the crew, when he is drunk, and when i've called the police the other neighbours (who all have kids aswell) go and speak up in his defence to them... I don't understand this and I have to say in this situation there is no way that i feel any kind of love for them. However, they made me privvy to knowledge when they first started to get to know me when i moved in last year, before the bully decided he didn't like me because unlike everyone else i chose not to take his BS lead in any matter, and when he's abusive i don't back down as such, i don't shout abuse back either, just tell him that when he has the decency to approach me in a civil manner i'll be more than happy to speak any dispute through with him, and shut my door on his abuse and cursing; I havent used this information against them but i could if i choose to get them into a lot of trouble with local authorities in several fields; but I wont go down that route, and i believe that is due to the children, who i don't want to see become homeless, or without food or losing a parent to jail...
What I'm trying to say is love has to be about respect and it has to be sort of mutual, for your kids there is unconditional love (well some parents are capable of that and i am too), for your friends there is love and respect unless they start to use and take you forgranted, and essentially taking you for your money's worth; and for lovers everything has to be on equal partnership, you go a mile for your partner through the rough and the smooth, they go that mile for you through the same; it's hard to learn the difference between going that mile and going a one way street, but with friends and lovers (in my own life anyways) one way streets have become aparent when i have been in situations of need.
Maybe also what i am trying to say that i love fellow humans, until they treat me badly, and also if i have to i will defend myself, rather than let a stupid angry person kill me, and many many people will do the same.
When I'm walking in the street going about my day to day business, I'll often go out of my way to help a wheelchair bound person who's stuck in a rut in the sh*tty pot holed streets of my town, or to help a blind person cross the road, or to help a mother struggling with a baby and a buggy on or off the bus... Little things like that make my day, and i really wish that people would hold doors open for me instead of allowing them to slam onto my son's wheelchair so often though, more often than not these days i go into shops backwards to open the door myself and make sure it don't slam onto him...
I don't know why i shared that but i guess maybe folks know me better after reading that  LOL | |
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Posted: 9/2/2005 1:29:05 PM | I know exactly how you feel.I was once in Hardee's eating and across the room I seen an elderly woman and what looked like her son.She was in a wheelchair and he was pushing her.This restaurant was pretty big but I rushed over there to help them.It had two doors and they were pretty close together.I had to hold open one door while they came thru.Then the started trying to open the other door.I told him to scoot up and hold on and I would get that door also.When they finally got outside they could not stop thanking me.
Before they went to the door people came in and didn't even hold the door open for these people.Some people can be thoughtless of others and their feelings.But I say we shouldn't worry about those people who don 't care.We should stand up and be seen by them helping people.
A great teacher never strives to show his vision-a great teacher invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
God bless and take care,
Jimmy | |
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