Love Your Neighbor

You say for me to say I am giving you anything is dishonest. That verdict brings dishonor to both you and I in your perception. Not only am I dishonest but you then are the victim of it. So I ask you what role would you have me play that we restore some honesty to the situation.

 

What's the purpose of this conversation at this point?

 

As you posit your understanding of the teachings I would tend to agree with you. My purpose is to offer another idea because the teachings are true and we can demonstrate this easily.
Christ teaching consists of axiomatic sayings that serve as a basis for further reasoning. They focus on the laws of perception, not behavior, and this changes the whole perspective. The kingdom of god is in you and among you but you cannot see it, a matter of perception. For example the measure you give is the measure you receive. The measure given is your evaluation. As you evaluate things so their value is to you. The more valuable a thing is to you the more you are willing to invest in it. Where your treasure lies there is your heart also or in secular parlance follow the money.

 

There are no laws of perception without behavior. That's all rationalist nonsense. Hence the organized insanity.
Also, stop scolding me. None of this is my fault.

 

I wasn't aware I was scolding you. Our passionate responses or behavior in life are based on our sense of rightness and perceived necessities. Conception comes first and then behavior. You become aware of hunger, then you eat.
If you perceive someone as a stranger you are apt to be a certain level of reserved or perhaps even suspicious and these would be reasonable responses based on that founding sense of identity or lack of personal familiarity. I never find anyone a stranger because I know our perceptions are all formulated in the same way, We believe in order to see or look for something and we see to believe or to confirm we found it. Our vision never contradicts our narrative and we are all in the same boat of feeling justified in our words;

As far as this being your fault I don;t know what this is but I do know we cannot escape the effects of our own thinking and these are the acts we undertake in life. If you are afraid you will naturally and spontaneously seek to defend yourself. If you are loving you will naturally seek to nurture good fortune.

 

Is that neodude1212 on thedope?

 

I was mocking you.
I'm sorry. I'm not a good person.

 

I think you fulfill the role of being a person just fine. I like sarcasm.

 

I don't.

 

since I don't take offense i find sarcasm to be funny in it's juxtapositions
A sense of humor makes the otherwise thin skinned impervious to pricks.

 

Know why I don't like it?

 

I think I do, that it is meant to be aggressively negative but it appears more to me like satire. The irony of sarcasm is that the disgust in it is self defined, a measure given and received. It reflects personal associations with past experiences, theirs, not the past of the person who is the object of scorn. His past has led him to a different set of associations which is why he has a different narrative of events.

 

I do not think that this commandment means Christians are to be trampled on, but to recognize the needs of the most needy and at least try to help see them completed.

Loving our wealthy sinning neighbour does not mean giving to him/her everythign we own but to, out of love, be a model for God's forgiving and unconditional paternal/maternal agape love.

Loving that homeless person means possibly seeing to their needs that are no met within our means. I can also mean looking at them as a person with dignity inate in all people. Loving refugee children means this: https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6013/5918017660_281b809847_z.jpg not this: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140718-nm_18borderprotestcover.jpg.ece/BINARY/w620x413/NM_18borderprotestCOVER.jpg

Suffering is not for ourselves, but we can unite it with Christ's suffering for the good of others.

 

Compassion means to suffer with or to make relief of our suffering common cause. We don't suffer for love we redeem from suffering with love. Poverty is redeemed in sharing,. those with temporarily more with those with temporarily less. Satisfaction is found in agreeable being. Having and being are the same

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4cWPKRhwIc

 

I don't know about a better home in the sky but I know that pleasure is preferable to pain. I know that ease of being is delightful and to struggle with or against is a struggle. There s a better way to use our powers of distinction than making moralistic comparisons and that is to distinguish between what is the same and what is different to determine what a thing is for and on that basis whether a thing is useful or not.

 

This guy always has an answer lol

 

I only pass it along or share my thoughts just as you do yours. Only your answers count for you and wisdom is justified by her deeds.

 

You definitely don't share your thoughts as I do mine.