Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one and they don't hold a lot of water.
That's a standard no-one can live up to.
My Mrs. wanted a couple of kittens for the kids. At the time I was aware that in Haiti they were eating mudcakes due to food prices
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/29/food.internationalaidanddevelopment
realising that taking on a couple of carnivores would short the world meat supply further and make it more expensive, I resisted on the basis that other people would be looking for kittens as well and us taking them increased the demand for kittens which would be met. So effectively if I relented I would be taking the food supply for 1 person out of circulation.
I eventually caved in.
A couple of years I went to a shop and tried out a whole bunch of knives. The only one that actually fitted my hand was £130. A £10 Mora would have meant that the remaining £120.00 could have gone to water aid
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what-we-do/the-crisis/statistics
I can also spend an hour a day not ignoring evil by signing online petitions, that will mean neglecting my kids.
There isn't a decision out there that doesn't short somebody of something.
I was in awe of, but couldn't understand, Paul Eddington's final interview where sitting ravaged with skin cancer he said
I couldn't understand why you couldn't live a life with zero harm done. It's starting to become clear now, but I'm a long way off living up to "he did very little harm".
"I am what I am - and that is all that I am."
Guess who said that most famously
Robin Williams in Popeye movie
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"I am what I am - and that is all that I am."
Guess who said that most famously
Jesus? It's a serious guess, no offence intended.
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.
Man with two holes in pocket not feel too cocky all day.
Man with two holes in pocket not feel too cocky all day.
I think he's saying the quote is from Jesus. Not one ive heard
I know what he meant bud. Was just messing
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Swallow- and i meant that leaving vulnerable animals in a bag to die showed no compassion regardless of how many mice later died as a result of this decision, we live in a society where such compassion is becoming a rare entity and one would hope for better from the knights of the green table. Still each to his own. You feel it was no big deal and i believe it was something which may haunt the individual concerned. No worries what's done is done.
I didn't say it was no big deal.
And that post is not limited specifically to that situation. As you can see from the real-life examples I gave, the first of which does haunt me.
It's a long story...
Ah yeah now I remember, he dies in the end right? (Whoops spoiler alert).
Made a mess of that. I'd like to tidy up then shut up.
We can do anything but we can't do everything.
So we will have to make a choice.
What choose to do at any given moment, will be a product of how the ever shifting balance between these influences below sit at that given moment.
What we are aware of in the first place.
What we want to do.
What we can do.
What we think we can do.
What we think we should do.
What we think others think we can do.
What we think others think we should do.
Compassion = to suffer (passion) with (com).
Unless you are a Bhudda or something you won't be able to do this for every living thing without being a basket case, so you will make priorities or choices.
Those choices will based on whatever influences you are under and the will be pretty personal and based on whatever thoughts are dominating your awareness in that given moment.
It was Popeye - well before the film!
I always thought it was Descartes.
But it's easy to get those to mixed up.
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