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What is the soul?

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Ironwood

There is nobility in the thought, but its not a healthy practice sometimes


"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

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thoughtmanifest

Welcome to the land of the living leftwood. I think it is a very healthy practice... the healthiest. You get what you give.


"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

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Ironwood

So when you profess love and recieve hate, how do you still get what you give?


"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

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Angel Of Death

Inevitbly people will come in ur life who will produce problems.Love them, and feel sorry for them, for they don't what they do. Loving all of creation doesn't mean u don't take action. Jesus loved everything from ordinary rocks to his enemies, but that didn't mean that if somebody hit him, he would do nothing.


"I'll heal ur woundz I'll set u free, I m jesus christ on xtacy"

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Angelfire

Isnt that exactly what Jesus did? Do nothing?


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

269 Posts / 52M
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thoughtmanifest

"So when you profess love and recieve hate, how do you still get what you give?"

If you profess pure love you don't receive hate. That doesn't mean that no one expresses it to you, it means you don't "receive" it, you don't take it in, it doesn't affect you.


"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

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Angel Of Death

Yes, very well put.


"I'll heal ur woundz I'll set u free, I m jesus christ on xtacy"

1669 Posts / 64M
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Angelfire

Have you guys heard of the League of Nations?


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

269 Posts / 52M
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thoughtmanifest

I've heard the term but don't know anything more... what is it?


"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

1669 Posts / 64M
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Angelfire

It was the forerunner of the UN. Except it didnt have US money and guns behind it. It was an anglo-french thing. To make things short, it was this organisation which basically surrendered to imperialism, and simply let fascists like Hitler do what they want. Its naivety was a prime cause of WW2.

Simply, you have to fight sometimes, you cant say "oh I dont care" and pretend you arent hurt. They can hurt you, they can rob you and if you dont fight back they might kill you.


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

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thoughtmanifest

Your thoughts that we're saying "I don't care" is an assumption, and an incorrect one at that. I, for one, do care – a lot.

"Pretending we're not hurt", another assumption. When I am in the clear state I described I don't get hurt. Period. If I'm not clear then yeah I get hurt.

I have spent most of my life unguarded, unsuspecting and strong in the idea that I am getting what I give and, quite honestly, everything's been pretty smooth sailing. Any of the minor mishaps that have happened along the way have been because I was guarded, suspecting, suspicious – not trusting; and/or giving "crap" to someone somewhere.


"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

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Angelfire

The point is, if someone starts beating you up, you'd use your ghandi powers and do nothing.

If you didnt live in a free country you'd be dead ten times over. I mean, Tibet is the epitomy of what you describe, gess what? They're now under authoritarian China.


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

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thoughtmanifest

The point is, as long as I have been in this state, no one has ever beat me up, and never will.

Tibet is NOT the epitomy of what I describe, Tibet is "anti China authority", which is why they are under authoritarian China. Tibet is the epitomy of what you describe... fighting against something.


"Love everyone, question everything and look up!"

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Angelfire

"Tibet is NOT the epitomy of what I describe, Tibet is "anti China authority", which is why they are under authoritarian China. Tibet is the epitomy of what you describe... fighting against something."
The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace prize for his lack of resistance. He goes about trying to round up sympathy, and gets no practical help. Tibet is anti-China, but extremlely passive, just as Britain and France were passive in the face of Nazi Germany. It gets you nowhere, but it helps those who abuse you.


"The point is, as long as I have been in this state, no one has ever beat me up, and never will."
Only because you are in a free country. Dont assume that by playing Ghandi you will be safe, or by turning the other cheak you can pretend you're invincible.


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

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Angelfire

I mean, the only reason it did work for Ghandi is because the British were a relatively reasonable people, Empire wasnt about ideology, but about profit. It wasnt profitable to hold on to India, so Britain let go.

But when your foe is not rational, then look at Czechoslovakia, they had a puppet regime who took orders from the Soviet Union. The Czechs resisted replaced their government, and then didnt fight. The soviets just came, replaced the gov again, and the Czechs responded by putting flowers into tank cannons.

In the end it didnt help them, they were just as oppressed.


"Durch Nacht und Blut das Licht"

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