Shadow Wolf
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I hate my dad for doing that to my mom again. I tried to set things aside, and he did that. I won't forgive the same thing twice.
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'Simple question': How are you?
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Samana Johann
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Howwho are you?
Shadow Wolf
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Me - doesn't change the fact my dad basically bragged to me that he hasn't changed once he got away from my mom (I have been able to develop a relationship with her - it's still rough but I've come to accept she has been emotionally very heavily scared by her own profound hardships).
I do feel better though having gotten to rant some. I really did want to set things in the past with my dad and try to have a relationship with him, but while he was visiting me his behaviors then are a part of the reason I remember so little of my childhood and have repressed so much of it. I can't even recall what age I was when my dad left and my parents divorced, but whatever age I was my dad made me feel like it.
It's a bit hard though, because my mom is definitely matriarch, with my dad really getting no respect as a family authority in family issues (he's stepdad to my siblings). And my brother and I tend to not like people treating our mom poorly or saying bad things about her. But it's very tricky, because I hate lying to protect others, I promised myself Im done doing it, and here my dad is forcing me into a position of keeping a secret I did not want to know or ask to know, and being honest causing a very bad situation.
Samana Johann
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That not good, Brahman SalixIncendium.
Samana Johann
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Sure, althouth it looks like that? My person mother used to say when still a child and angry: "bite into your button" Maybe householder-daughter gives it a try. And then maybe she likes to answer.
Shadow Wolf
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It's more that, as you said earlier, it's not my business. I didn't want to know. Why would I even want to? But he dropped it on me anyways and wouldn't shut up about his queen the entire time he was there. Ignorance was bliss.
Why, in your opinion, is being content not good?
Samana Johann
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Let my person ask something different: 'How are you?'
Shadow Wolf
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I am doing fine [now]. Sleepy, but fine.
Samana Johann
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Because it wasn't, isn't for sure. Why asking if so? How are you now, Brahman SalixIncendium?
What's with the odd english sentence structures. I that necessary?
Samana Johann
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Well than. It gives release to ask that steedy. May Householder-daughter have a good rest, while not go astray to observe that till asleep.
Samana Johann
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How is Brahman sayak83 today, right now?
*smiles* Good and bad, as I see it my friend, are little more than constructs of the ego. So I'll ask again, why is contentedness not good? Furthermore, how do you know my reply wasn't "for sure?"
Samana Johann
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Maybe because one whould know to answer 'how are you?'. So a new place on this there, and before leaving possible incontent: How is Brahman SalixIncendium now?
If you are asking how my Atman, my true Self, is, it simply is...satcitananda...existence/consciousness/bliss.
Also, when is "now?"
Samana Johann
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puhh... may it not get lost. May Braham let it be asked on and on, incontent to find out, 'how am I'
Spectacular. You?
Interesting question, as it's morphed from its meaning to a common greeting, meaningless, a cordial phrase. 'Have you had your rice today?' 'What's up?' In order to take it back to its original, one has to stare the person in the eyes and say it very slowly ... "How ... are ... you?
I believe the world is in a perfect state ... of evolution.
I believe the world is in a perfect state ... of evolution.