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In a totally new place and need perspective? Cedar? Anyone?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 665518" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Most everybody can choose. That is the gift of being human. We define ourselves by our choices. Imagine that. </p><p></p><p>Imagine using the one gift we have in life, choosing, to do wrong, to be weak or small. </p><p></p><p>We do that I think because we are operating from a zero sum game, a culture of poverty, where there is only so much to go around. Like zero. We believe that it is either us or them. And we descend to a level below mammals to grasp and ingest like reptiles. Without consciousness.</p><p>I think this is true. And I wonder why. </p><p></p><p>Greater strength and flexibility? Access to intelligence? Constancy to self? Power? Do they want to break us? Humiliate us? Humble us? Rub our faces in our temerity and resilience to think we deserve integrity instead of humiliation? To think we might be mammals and not reptiles, like them?</p><p></p><p>Imagine living as they do? I know my sister feels she is a big cheese. She was long a sponsor in AA. She really bought her story of redemption. </p><p></p><p>Gloried that she was an esteemed professor, a MOTHER, a matriarch, with all of her things that corruption bought. Does she know inside her self that she is corrupt?</p><p></p><p>If we look at it like this, it becomes clear that there is no way for a person of integrity that aspires to transcend her beginnings, can accommodate to a worldview...of seize and ingest.</p><p>Funny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 665518, member: 18958"] Most everybody can choose. That is the gift of being human. We define ourselves by our choices. Imagine that. Imagine using the one gift we have in life, choosing, to do wrong, to be weak or small. We do that I think because we are operating from a zero sum game, a culture of poverty, where there is only so much to go around. Like zero. We believe that it is either us or them. And we descend to a level below mammals to grasp and ingest like reptiles. Without consciousness. I think this is true. And I wonder why. Greater strength and flexibility? Access to intelligence? Constancy to self? Power? Do they want to break us? Humiliate us? Humble us? Rub our faces in our temerity and resilience to think we deserve integrity instead of humiliation? To think we might be mammals and not reptiles, like them? Imagine living as they do? I know my sister feels she is a big cheese. She was long a sponsor in AA. She really bought her story of redemption. Gloried that she was an esteemed professor, a MOTHER, a matriarch, with all of her things that corruption bought. Does she know inside her self that she is corrupt? If we look at it like this, it becomes clear that there is no way for a person of integrity that aspires to transcend her beginnings, can accommodate to a worldview...of seize and ingest. Funny. [/QUOTE]
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