i can't help but think that my son looks like a little jw in this outfit.
maybe this halloween he can go as one!
this picture was taken yesterday.
Nah, he's enjoying himself way too much to look Witnessey.
Some ex's who by their own admission still have some issues with the Witnesses can have tattoos and piercings, but there is still that Witness vibe in the way they carry themselves. What you wear is much easier to change than that kind of Leave it to Beaver thing. (no offense to Leave it to Beaver fans)
when i was a teenager i became familiar with transactional analysis.
it says we all have life scripts we live by.
here is some information i got from various sites online.
If you want to see through your conditioned thinking patterns, you have to be willing to not know.
For whatever reason people have this idea that just because they have accumulated a lot of information in their minds that means they know something. I mean sure you know all the information you've got in there, but how do you know what's really true? And I don't even mean where someone is full of themselves or anything, it could be very innocent because that's all they know - like that's what you were taught and so forth, whether it's the JW thing or something else.
The content, what you think you know isn't really important in this case - it's the behavior of thinking you know. Actually, all delusions are dependent upon this mental movement aren't they? It's not a matter of buying out of the script, it's just a matter of not buying into it. If you're out then it isn't about someone wanting to be free from it, it's just a matter of distinguishing between your views and what is actually happening. Because if you don't like the script you just have another behavior that is dictated by it, it's avoiding the script.
Ultimately, if we are interested in truth and some sense of objectivity, we would not even be motivated by wanting to be free from it, the motivation is simply seeing what is true. But of course it is when you have some perspective on things that you can truly be free from it, because you are not just reacting, rather you see the proverbial "big picture", which can be very simple - things just as they are. Notice that this capacity to see all that is reactive including yourself and others is unmoved by any script, yet it is obviously a part of you too. Take some time and explore that, otherwise this message will just become more accumulated "knowledge" amidst a sea of other ideas.
when i was a teenager i became familiar with transactional analysis.
it says we all have life scripts we live by.
here is some information i got from various sites online.
I was just talking to a therapist friend of mine last night about someone that has a rather "far-out" story, we didn't talk about TA in particular but now that you mention it it is certainly related.
These days a lot of spiritual circles have people who are "working on" this too, the idea is to see through this core story rather than some kind of adaptation to a spiritual story, which evidently is what happens more often than not.
The thing is a story can just mean something you refer to and not necessarily in the sense of a story book kind of thing, in which case a lot of people who are otherwise free and relatively mature psychologically speaking are still caught in particular ideas about how life should be and so on - it could just be a philosophy.
A more fundamental underlying principle is not referring to any kind of thought/belief pattern, which gets to be confusing or stretches the mind because you have to step outside of that - but that is what it means to be free from it. This kind of thought based barriers may appear to provide some security, but there is no question that it is limiting. What does it protect except the existence of that very pattern which is so confining?
But you can play the game if you want to, if you know better then you're not lost in it.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/12364/1510622/post.ashx#1510622
*thinks of Domino's Pizza*
you know that d.c. isn?t the capital where the president of the united states lives .
a pioneer isn?t an 1800?s historical figure who traveled the west.
the majority of books in your parent?s bookshelf have years on them.
... you always have a third person on your dates.
you know that d.c. isn?t the capital where the president of the united states lives .
a pioneer isn?t an 1800?s historical figure who traveled the west.
the majority of books in your parent?s bookshelf have years on them.
... you have a party with your friends and family on holidays, but you don't celebrate them.
that was the title of a fabulous u2 cd, but i borrow it here to ask you all, old friends, a question.. first, apologies for being absent for so long.
"real life" projects have cut into my online time, been so busy i haven't had time to turn around twice.
but you are in my thoughts, daily.. my question for pondering...how do you know what to keep and what to throw away?.
You leave everything behind to find love, only to find that love doesn't leave anything behind.
Similar to what James was saying, I heard a Sufi teacher quote his teacher in saying that everything needs to be loved, and the way you do that is to touch it or give it your attention, if you're not giving it your attention you should give it away. Now of course this isn't like some kind of rule, but it does reflect this principle of leaving nothing behind. Because of course it is when everything is included that we find union and wholeness.
okay i got back from the doctor yesterday, and in the past 11 months, without doing anything in particular for diet and exercise, i've lost 12 pounds.
12 pounds!
i've been overweight my whole life and being able to "live" while losing is huge.. i joined curves and will be doing that 3-4 times per week.
Hi Cerise,
Hatha yoga basically refers to the physical poses, other things like karma yoga or what have you refers to practices like doing good deeds, meditation and so on.
My only thought for you would be to just keep it simple and just get a good feel of the basics, I mean if you can do the sun salutations really well it'll be much better than doing a lot of different poses half way. Enjoy your body and enjoy yourself.
personally i think it's about as useful as a bag full of farts.
what do you think?
It's all good guys, I feel compelled to say I don't really care who believes in what anymore, I certainly don't think about believing this or that - it's just nice to be chatting with you all.
these last 2 months have been the worst of my life.
i can only answer my subject question by saying the purpose of life is the 4 things sought after in the wizard of oz: love, courage, intelligence, and home.. and we all possess them whether we know it or not.
and especially love.
Although I haven't had the good fortune to witness the love you've experienced in this time of hardship, it is always beautiful to see how someone's life is touched. That's when we really start living isn't it?
Can someone post the link to "the awakening" thread since search is not working?
Here is a link to the Vincent thread as this post brought to mind this song I've been enjoying lately:
