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It's time....the elite have started turning on Obama

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Fraxxx:

--- Quote from: Heinz on June 17, 2013, 11:51:33 PM ---A natural reaction to the horror circus when you enter it is disgust, despair and anger.
Not to get stuck inside the tent is the key.
A way of doing this is like Fraxx points out to shift your focus and go outside where the sun is shining.
Or do you want to be a hero and fight the beast? How?
Is that even your purpose...? What is your purpose? Is there a purpose at all?
Wise men have said: Know thyself.
Start with that and the rest will surely make sense.

A saint called John Climacus who I enjoyed reading many years ago was asked a question:
- What is the greatest of the virtues?
His reply was:
- Humility.

I have found his answer to be true.











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Wise words. And it's true in even more than one sense, since humility is not only humbleness but also the (in my own case only relative) lack of material needs. I experience that as very liberating again and again.

Heinz:

--- Quote from: Fraxxx on June 18, 2013, 12:13:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Heinz on June 17, 2013, 11:51:33 PM ---A natural reaction to the horror circus when you enter it is disgust, despair and anger.
Not to get stuck inside the tent is the key.
A way of doing this is like Fraxx points out to shift your focus and go outside where the sun is shining.
Or do you want to be a hero and fight the beast? How?
Is that even your purpose...? What is your purpose? Is there a purpose at all?
Wise men have said: Know thyself.
Start with that and the rest will surely make sense.

A saint called John Climacus who I enjoyed reading many years ago was asked a question:
- What is the greatest of the virtues?
His reply was:
- Humility.

I have found his answer to be true.











--- End quote ---

Wise words. And it's true in even more than one sense, since humility is not only humbleness but also the (in my own case only relative) lack of material needs. I experience that as very liberating again and again.

--- End quote ---

Guess what he considered the greatest vice and the opposite of humility?

Fraxxx:

--- Quote from: Heinz on June 18, 2013, 12:29:55 PM ---Guess what he considered the greatest vice and the opposite of humility?

--- End quote ---

Pssh, I'm way too intelligent to not know that. ;D

Heinz:

--- Quote from: Fraxxx on June 19, 2013, 06:18:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: Heinz on June 18, 2013, 12:29:55 PM ---Guess what he considered the greatest vice and the opposite of humility?

--- End quote ---

Pssh, I'm way too intelligent to not know that. ;D

--- End quote ---



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