Empathy

[getaway]

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding ;0)​

 

[shaggystu]

we've got three sheds in our yard

 

[Shewie]

 

[Bushwhacker]

Hahaha yeah totally. Uh what?

 

[RonW]

He/she's right though....

 

[bushwacker bob]

You guys need to empathise a bit more and sympathise with the OP who made a perfectly valid point in a text too small for me to read. What does it say?

 

[Retired Member southey]

There can never be peace with out the threat of war

 

[Toddy]

A different take on e=mc squared I suppose

cheers,
M

 

[British Red]

Stop sniffing the spray starch fellah

 

[mountainm]

But what does it mean?

 

[shaggystu]

......But what does it mean?

that it's really hard to capture a double rainbow on camera?

 

[mountainm]

Even harder on a phone, but I did it.


Sorta....

 

[blacktimberwolf]

We need another & a wiser & prehaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature, & living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge & sees thereby a feather magnified & the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, & greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older & more complete than ours they move finished & complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life & time, fellow prisoners of the splendour & travail of the earth.

-- Henry Beston,......The Outermost House.

 

[British Red]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

. .

 

[Retired Member southey]

i am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in the world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

 

[Toddy]

"This thing all things devours,
birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
slays kings, ruins towns,
even grinds high mountains down."

 

[British Red]

Time honey, just time

Now, what has it got in its pocketses?

 

[shaggystu]

never been a big fan of shakespear BR, but i do like that quote a lot. it knock's it all into touch somewhat

 

[blacktimberwolf]

By the vanity of the same imagination he equals himself to God, attributes to himself divine faculties, & withdraws & seperates himself from all other creatures; he allots to these, his fellows & companions,the portion of faculties & power which he himself thinks fit.
How does he know, by the strength of his understanding, the secret & internal motions of animals, & from what comparison between them & us does he conclude the stupidity he attributes to them ?...

-- Montaigne......The Defence Of Raymond Sebond.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

I thought I saw Jesus on a tram, I said are you Jesus?

He said, yes I am.

S. Milligan 16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002