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Nobody here understands me!
- Thread starter Jim
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Now I'm busy at work....u can PM later if u want...
Jim
Nets of Wonder
@lewisnotmiller Yay! I think that maybe what I would like is for someone to understand what I've been trying to do here, in the last few weeks. Do you have any ideas about that already? It might help to go to my profile and look at the titles of the threads I've started.
Just in case mods might think my <funny> rating of your post is abusive,
I'm looking for some volunteers to try to understand me.
I'll state that it is not. I heard the first sentence in a particular tone,
one which I believe you intended. Further deponent sayeth not,
lest that prickly @lewisnotmiller rap me knuckles.
Btw, I don't think of you as a Bahai or any other faith.
You are what you post. And that's fine with me.
Jim
Nets of Wonder
Yes, you were right about the humor that I intended. I forgot about you, when I said that nobody understands me. There might be others too. I was just in a bad mood, because I bumped my head on a projecting rock, figuratively speaking. It would still be fun for me though, if I could see someone understanding what I've been trying to do here in the last few weeks.
Dan Mellis
Thorsredballs
I'm looking for some volunteers to try to understand me.
Jim, I'm afraid that often times I don't even understand myself. Especially in hindsight. I reflect often about past decisions wondering, "what was I thinking". Oh well, the only consistent is change. I do enjoy your threads @Jim , even if I don't often comment on them.
No one will likely truly understand you, but you can communicate some things to others to help others understand some aspects of you. In some of the threads that address aspects of our belief in the Baha'i Faith we seemed to have some aspects of understanding in common. I have always been willing to listen and communicate.
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Jim
Nets of Wonder
@Estro Felino @Firemorphic @Amanaki @lewisnotmiller Thanks for volunteering. It might be a day or two before I come back to this. I'll PM the ones who invited me to do so.Thanks! You're welcome to PM me, too.
Jim
Nets of Wonder
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I think what I was wishing for when I started this thread was for someone to understand what I've been trying to do here in the last few weeks. That was an impulsive reaction to someone reading "practicing fellowship and collaboration across religious divides" in the title of one of my threads as "leveling out differences between religions." Later, puzzling about that, it dawned on me that people don't always read the OP before posting, and that when people quote me in one of their posts, it doesn't always mean that they're talking to me.
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Jim
Nets of Wonder
@Estro Felino @Firemorphic @Amanaki @lewisnotmiller If you're still volunteering to try to understand me, see Looking for people who are working on forum social development
Jim
Nets of Wonder
This thread might be a good place for me to think out loud, and post some half-baked ideas where people might be able to help me finish baking them.
I’m thinking that our views and ways of thinking can be tools that help us think about what to do and talk to each other about it. It seems to me that whenever people call their views “beliefs,” religious or not, there is some belligerence in that which ultimately and inevitably leads to ever-increasing cruelty and violence. That’s why I decided to try not to have any beliefs. Now that I think of it, it might be better to just try to free myself from all belligerence about my views.
I’m thinking that our views and ways of thinking can be tools that help us think about what to do and talk to each other about it. It seems to me that whenever people call their views “beliefs,” religious or not, there is some belligerence in that which ultimately and inevitably leads to ever-increasing cruelty and violence. That’s why I decided to try not to have any beliefs. Now that I think of it, it might be better to just try to free myself from all belligerence about my views.
Jim
Nets of Wonder
I had a discussion with icehorse about calling things by their right names, for example what he calls an “oligarchy,” which might correspond roughly to people I’m currently thinking of as leading players in a global monopoly game, who have a common interest in perpetuating that game, and overpowering influence on the decisions and policies of governments and national and international institutions. I think that finding better ways to describe to ourselves what we think we’re seeing can facilitate our thinking about what to do, and facilitate our communication with others who are seeing what we’re seeing. At the same time, those same descriptions can get in the way of our communication with people who aren’t seeing what we’re seeing. I think now that in spite of that risk I will say what I’m thinking in my own words sometimes, because it might help me find others who are seeing what I’m seeing, and help them find me if that would interest them.