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Inspiring thoughts about communityMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 5:43 AM: |
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On the road yesterday, I was having some deeep thoughts about community in general [being with family can do that to you!] and Gaia community as well; and planned to start a thread in this board..
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- judgment to joyMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 5:45 AM: |
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Synchronistically,Andrew has posted some inspiring thoughts about community; and has a request that I am re-posting here. To respond to his request, please click on Reply to Post.
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- judgment to joyMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 8:47 AM: |
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Nothing comes to mind; so I'll have to look this up; and am asking other community members to pitch in as well. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- judgment to joyMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 12:02 PM: |
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Andrew, feel free to post the ones you were looking for, when you find them. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- judgment to joyAndrew [no longer around] said Dec 1, 2008, 4:50 PM: |
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Thank you Meenakshi, It may take a day or so to locate the stuff but I'm really keen to get the ball rolling on this. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- social/anti-socialMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 7:10 AM: |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- social/anti-socialMeenakshi said Dec 1, 2008, 7:42 AM: |
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Thank you for these very important ideas, ~KES. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- social/anti-social~KES said Dec 1, 2008, 7:48 AM: |
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One can't just label some one social or anti social/a-social without giving the true test that, when I get done working today I will post. With writing and not actually hearing the sound of someone's voice, you have to ask them to clarify intentions if it is not clear from reading. I will get back with the tools for this. One thing I need to say here about ethics – which is a personal thing. If someone is posting things and causing upsets with more than one person and they have been informed by management and others directly, that individual has been blessed and given a chance to then be ethical. How lucky for those that have experienced this to then see that Man is basically good and can change.
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- social/anti-socialPhoenix said Dec 1, 2008, 8:14 AM: |
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I am following this thread with deep interest, and am looking forward to the insight you will bring, Kathy. As I am dealing currently with someone who shows signs of anti-social behavior in my further extended family, I am largely interested in how to deal effectively with a such a personality outside of a largely positive social network such as Gaia. The effect that her behavior has on people I care about, is upsetting, so I would love to share your tools with them. Thanks for this thread! Blessed Be Claudia |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- social/anti-social~KES said Dec 1, 2008, 6:42 PM: |
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Hi Phoenix, Once you have discovered the source of any suppression [A person who seeks to suppress, or squash, any betterment activity or group. A suppressive person suppresses other people in his vicinity. This is the person whose behavior is calculated to be disastrous. “Suppressive person” or a “suppressive” is another name for the “antisocial personality.”} it can be fixed if willing to take the time to learn about it, calm then remains after the storm as about 80% of the population do want to make it go right. Anti-Social characteristics compared to Social Characteristics:  The antisocial personality has the following attributes: 1. He or she speaks only in very broad generalities. “They say…” “Everybody thinks…” “Everyone knows…” and such expressions are in continual use, particularly when imparting rumor. When asked, “Who is everybody…” it normally turns out to be one source and from this source the antisocial person has manufactured what he or she pretends is the whole opinion of the whole society. This is natural to them since to them all society is a large hostile generality, against the antisocial in particular. 2. Such a person deals mainly in bad news, critical or hostile remarks, invalidation and general suppression. “Gossip” or “bearer of evil tidings” or “rumormonger” once described such persons. It is notable that there is no good news or complimentary remark passed on by such a person. 3. The antisocial personality alters, to worsen, communication when he or she relays a message or news. Good news is stopped and only bad news, often embellished, is passed along. Such a person also pretends to pass on “bad news” which is in actual fact invented. 4. A characteristic, and one of the sad things about an antisocial personality, is that it does not respond to treatment or reform. 5. Surrounding such a personality we find cowed or ill associates or friends who, when not driven actually insane, are yet behaving in a crippled manner in life, failing, not succeeding. Such people make trouble for others. When treated or educated, the near associate of the antisocial personality has no stability of gain but promptly relapses or loses his advantages of knowledge, being under the suppressive influence of the other. Physically treated, such associates commonly do not recover in the expected time but worsen and have poor convalescences. It is quite useless to treat or help or train such persons so long as they remain under the influence of the antisocial connection. The largest number of insane are insane because of such antisocial connections and do not recover easily for the same reason. Unjustly we seldom see the antisocial personality actually in an institution. Only his “friends” and family are there. 6. The antisocial personality habitually selects the wrong target. If a tire is flat from driving over nails, he or she curses a companion or a noncausative source of the trouble. If the radio next door is too loud, he or she kicks the cat. If A is the obvious cause, the antisocial personality inevitably blames B or C or D. 7. The antisocial cannot finish a cycle of action. Any action goes through a sequence wherein the action is begun, is continued for as long as is required and is completed as planned. In Scientology, this is called a cycle of action. The antisocial becomes surrounded with incomplete projects. 8. Many antisocial persons will freely confess to the most alarming crimes when forced to do so, but will have no faintest sense of responsibility for them. Their actions have little or nothing to do with their own volition. Things “just happened.” They have no sense of correct causation and particularly cannot feel any sense of remorse or shame therefore. 9. The antisocial personality supports only destructive groups and rages against and attacks any constructive or betterment group. 10. This type of personality approves only of destructive actions and fights against constructive or helpful actions or activities. The artist in particular is often found as a magnet for persons with antisocial personalities who see in his art something which must be destroyed and covertly, “as a friend,” proceed to try. 11. Helping others is an activity which drives the antisocial personality nearly berserk. Activities, however, which destroy in the name of help are closely supported. 12. The antisocial personality has a bad sense of property and conceives that the idea that anyone owns anything is a pretense, made up to fool people. Nothing is ever really owned. ___________________________________ Compare those 12 to the social 12 characteristics: The twelve primary characteristics of the social personality are as follows:
1. The social personality is specific in relating circumstances. “Joe Jones said…” “The Star newspaper reported…” and gives sources of data where important or possible. He may use the generality of “they” or “people” but seldom in connection with attributing statements or opinions of an alarming nature. 2. The social personality is eager to relay good news and reluctant to relay bad. He may not even bother to pass along criticism when it doesn’t matter. He is more interested in making another feel liked or wanted than disliked by others and tends to err toward reassurance rather than toward criticism. 3. A social personality passes communication without much alteration and if deleting anything tends to delete injurious matters. He does not like to hurt people’s feelings. He sometimes errs in holding back bad news or orders which seem critical or harsh. 4. Treatment and reform work very well on the social personality. Whereas antisocial people sometimes promise to reform, they do not. Only the social personality can change or improve easily. It is often enough to point out unwanted conduct to a social personality to completely alter it for the better. Criminal codes and violent punishment are not needed to regulate social personalities. 5. The friends and associates of a social personality tend to be well, happy and of good morale. A truly social personality quite often produces betterment in health or fortune by his mere presence on the scene. At the very least he does not reduce the existing levels of health or morale in his associates. When ill, the social personality heals or recovers in an expected manner, and is found open to successful treatment. 6. The social personality tends to select correct targets for correction. He fixes the tire that is flat rather than attack the windscreen. In the mechanical arts he can therefore repair things and make them work. 7. Cycles of action begun are ordinarily completed by the social personality, if possible. 8. The social personality is ashamed of his misdeeds and reluctant to confess them. He takes responsibility for his errors. 9. The social personality supports constructive groups and tends to protest or resist destructive groups. 10. Destructive actions are protested by the social personality. He assists constructive or helpful actions. 11. The social personality helps others and actively resists acts which harm others. 12. Property is property of someone to the social personality and its theft or misuse is prevented or frowned upon. _____________________________________ Here's a glossary on the terms When you compare the two, yes some can have a few of both at different times and with different experiences but when you tabulate for the majority of yes/no's you can then help the anti social person to learn to be more social and if not disconnect. You can download the free booklet on the right of that page called The Cause of Suppression. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community-chiseled by othersMeenakshi said Jan 11, 12:26 PM: |
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Interactions in any community can remind us of these thoughts:CHISELED BY OTHERS …you are like the stone that must be chiseled and fashioned before being set in the building…Some will chisel you with words, telling you what you would rather not hear; others by deed, doing against you what you would rather not endure; others by their temperament, being in their person and in their actions a bother and annoyance to you; and others by their thought, neither esteeming nor feeling love for you. You ought to suffer these mortification and annoyances with inner patience, being silent for love of God and understanding that you did not enter the religious life for any other reason than for others to work you in this way, and so you become worthy of heaven. (St. John of the Cross) The day you make up your mind to smile, you will see that everything seems to conspire to try to make you cry! That is life. The day you make up your mind to be patient and forgiving, it will seem that others suddenly become harder to get along with. That is life. We are often crucified by others, but their meanness should not affect our resolutions to be kind. Let others pursue their way; you be bigger and adhere to your way. (Paramahansa Yogananda, `Journey to Self-Realization' ) Thus the wise man, indifferent to himself, is the greatest among them, and taking no care for himself, he is nevertheless preserved. By being the most unselfish he is the most secure of all. (Lao-tse, ` The Adepts in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition') |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- expectationsMeenakshi said Jan 11, 12:56 PM: |
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This would help if we find we are upset with others in online or offline communities: |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- humankind knowsMeenakshi said Jan 13, 8:28 PM: |
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Kathy, Gaian extraordinaire, and a mod on this pod; has brought to mind the larger community of groups and organizations that are showcasing the transformation on earth. EYE OPENING DATA - humankind knows… Posted on Jan 13th, 2009 by
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- humankind knowsC.G. said Jan 14, 2:41 AM: |
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….very much worth the visit and the time to watch the video. This is a remarkable event unfolding…. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about community- humankind knows~KES said Jan 14, 12:39 PM: |
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Here’s a five minute video with some eye-opening data about a mankind, plants, animals & all earth dynamic movement happening across the planet. I bet you didn’t know it was this big… Paul Hawken’s website, book and his film can be found on google. |
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Re: Inspiring thoughts about communityMeenakshi said Jan 25, 11:42 AM: |
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I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. Contributed by: David Pearson Today’s hottest quote |
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