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i am disgusted
well like the title says i am disgusted, with the closemindedness and ingnorance of others it makes me sick and the anger inside me reaches a boiling point when i talk to these ppl who are so unwilling to even consider the possibility that other ppl are right:mad::mad::mad:.
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aww yes the every one has an a@@ an they all stink ppl, opinions and the dislike of them. if i am right then how could you be huh. it is a dilemma of the human mind...can i be right an wrong at the same time? or am i right? or am i wrong?
most don't consider any but there own point and thus the travesty in which I am in agreement with you.
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i am always open to other ideas and beleifs nd constantly changing and tempering ,mine not by what i think is right but always keeping in mind that i have no idea and am prolly wrong, but there is the one person in my life i consider family who is of such ignorance that he can not even admit he is wrong when it comes to the simplest things, the last time i talked him it made me physically ill, sometimes i am ashamed of being human.
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A couple things to keep in mind with issues on closed mindedness.
They are people too. They bleed like you do. They cry like you do. They die like you do. However, it doesn't give them the right to treat you like **** and view you as lesser. It doesn't give you the right either to treat them like **** and view them as lesser. Everyone is a person and trying to get through life the best way they can, but people are flawed and can't see the other side of things.... It is those people who REFUSE to see your view point that are slime... but even they have a reason behind their thinking.
If everyone could stop limiting themselves with Expectations... (a form of Maya-Illusion), then everyone could live happily with one another. However, this cannot happen when everyone is conditioned not to be themselves.
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i accept them for who thy are and i would never try to change them, it just makes me sad and whole bunch else that they will always be stuck in there one facet of knowledge in the infinitismal sided jewel of life.:(
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Truth is rarely so binary as we would like to think. It is mutable and one must realize that many of the truths we cling to are no more than artifacts of our particular perception of reality. Why waste your energy in fruitless aggravation when it could be applied to more fruitful avenues. I think one of the key aspects of magic is the ability to control and harness one's emotional energy towards a constructive end as opposed to wasting it.
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Meditation, personal energy work, external workings. Anything which puts the energy to use in a constructive way instead of just venting it out into nothingness. Someone wrongs you and you get angry. You can yell and swear at them or you can sit and brood but, that doesn't accomplish anything. Someone goes out of their way to do something nice for you and you get happy. You can hug them and thank them and show them affection but, that also accomplishes nothing in the end. It is better to harness those energies towards an actual goal or end.
To steal from Bruce Lee, Magic is not about exhibition of technique. You need emotional content. It's this simple truth that leads many neophytes to give up because they cannot get the ritual to function and that is, in large part, due to the fact that they are doing by rote, much like we say the Pledge of Allegiance in school. What also becomes a stumbling block is the inability to focus the emotional content in a useful way once it is harnessed. This can only be accomplished by a disciplined mind, properly honed and trained and, most importantly, self aware.
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i agree with you vir sapiens and i try every second of every day to focus my my "mind" and "emotions" to some goal or ends, i just have problems contolling very strong emotions, as wich everyones does cept for those who have earned the title "master", but i get better at it every day bit by bit.
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It helps me to keep in mind that I was one of those closed minded people 10 or so years ago. If I am not careful become just as set in my occult mindset that I might as well be that closed minded bi-polar mind set person again.
In my mind truth changes as the world changes so we must always examine how we are and change with it.
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lol esoterica although i am pained sometimes by their ignorance i find it greatly amusing to watch them work themselves into a heart attack in anger at the mere idea of their religions and beleifs to be wrong.:p:D