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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (84073)	7/24/2000 7:12:07 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 108807

Changing The World (2)..... >>A combination there of. The world is a perfect representation of what the messengers of God told us it would be. There are blessings a plenty. There is also pain and suffering and injustice.>> Yup. Some people like to perceive/process themselves and others as if we were part of one giant pickle plant: adding salt, vinegar, etc. and then preserving, canning, storing distributing them on jar or box at a time, etc. Some people like pickles but eating too many can wear on the stomach. Others learn the value of making candy, baking bread, pies, planting seeds, growing vegetables, flowers which they freely and openly share with others who may also be pickle lovers. Nothing wrong with making, eating or distributing pickles. Just know that there is a cause and effect. If the world creates more vinegar than milk the results are obvious. This doesn't mean the producers are necessarily bad, evil or mean for they have got what they have bargained for. I just think more and more individuals are going to decide to make new things which create different outputs which will unlock more wealth and positive energy. For if I judge the pickle maker, the pickle eater or the pickle distributor I am shutting off the potential they all have to distribute goods and services which are more lasting/fullfilling and create more energy, etc. And if I shut out/off this potential I am limiting myself by judging myself as being defined by their shortcomings. I'd rather frame myself by their unlimited potential to work/act in partnership with me to effect massive, positive change. Alone I am nothing. Any value I may bring can only come from helping and serving someone outside me. >> I marvel at the wonders presented to me on a daily basis. I am highly motivated to explore and create within my capacity to do so. I also, feel bound to confront injustice within my sphere of influence. It's an ozzie world if you narrow it to one perspective. It ain't Ozzie and Harriet and it ain't Ozzie Osborn...and "Oz never did give nothin' to the tin man that he didn't....didn't already have." >> We each carry the Wizard's legacy. Each of us have blown smoke and fire. If someone pulls the curtain on us, the question is not what smoke and fire we've blown, but how we react when the curtain gets pulled. If we openly embrace and share in positive ways we can all find our way home by showing the way for Dorothy to get back home. Sorry to sound so syrupy, but there's a lot of cold vinegar, fear, hot fire and burnt brooms which gets us to this individual/collective point. Peace. GO!!