What Do You Expect From People? (page 2)

troucul

true dat martin...unfortuneately, the posters about which min speaks, while somewhat intelligent, are somewhat ignorant, and therefore will continue to piss and moan. I guess you can't please some people at all...

JH

Jesus said to love your neighbors as yourself. This goes both ways. If everybody practiced this then we would live in a wonderful world. Can we really expect this?

freedom96

I expect integrity and honesty. It doesn't always happen of course. I think people as a whole are very predictable.

Solace

I have learned never to "expect" anything from anyone.

Noone can ever be sure of someone elses actions or reactions. We have no control over another person and I have learned never to expect anyone to act any "certain" way or to expect anything from them.

People will always react based on how they feel at the moment and their experiences with what you happen to be discussing at that time. We can never be absolutly sure of these things.

I do know that people will always disagree. I guess I have come to expect that, so when people all seem to be on the same page, I am pretty surprised.

reubenfine

I expect people to act 99% of the time in their own interests. I don't mean this is necessarily a bad thing, but people desire to be comfortable, happy, and unique. They will usually do things to enhance those desires. Even a lot of charitable work is done to make themselves feel better. When someone does something that bothers us, it is probably because we don't understand entirely why they did it or because we had the wrong impression of them.

I got this idea from a book entitled "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne, a fascinating read.

Big Tex

Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.

Usually in life you receive what you send out.

bikerchic

Usually in life you receive what you send out.

So true Tex! The big guy is right......

I have an uncanny sense about people and they seldom dissappoint me. I always treat everyone with honor and respect until they prove otherwise. I love people, I learn a lot from various types of people and even the worst of relationships I take the good and forget about the bad.

Katie

A Paduan

What I would enjoy seeing in people is the promotion of life through faith in life and goodness - i.e. give one of their coats away etc, in the wonder of life.

The fundamentalist religious ideals like jwism are self-directed lies, orchestrated for feeling better about themselves amidst the confusion which is themselves, because their possession is the murder of other, and that's too horrible to think of themselves - and rightly so, because they are able to be more - it confuses their own minds as to who they even are - literally not knowing themselves - and then comes the, "Oh, but I'm saving people from being destroyed by God at armageddon" - yeah, whatever.

please go away from Me, I don't know who you are

paduan

Sentinel

Yep, guess I fall into that category. For the most part, I'm awfully hard on myself, and I usually expect others to try as hard as I do, and I'm disappointed when they don't. I'm disappointed a lot.

I try to treat people the way I'd expect to be treated--the Golden Rule. But, I have to admit, one has to be willing to "allow" others to exist on there own level. (Of course, this doesn't include abuse, it just means normal behavior, work ethics, driving, etc.)

I can only change myself. Letting go of the burden of expectation is a great release. I can only fix myself, and I have lots of work to do.

Prisca

For the most part, I'm awfully hard on myself, and I usually expect others to try as hard as I do, and I'm disappointed when they don't. I'm disappointed a lot.

I'm alot like that myself. I was brought up with a high sense of standards, and I seem to naturally assume others have the same standards as me. Although as a JW, you assumed that "worldly" people had lower standards to you.

I try to treat others as I'd like to be treated. If I am being insulted, or I see one of my friends being insulted, then I tend to react likewise. But I believe in doing good to others as much as you can.

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