I "know" my family and friends, I feel like I "know" many on here from their answers but I am wondering if we ever REALLY "know" anyone.I suspect that one way or the other we all remain strangers to everyone else all of our lives.
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-09-03 14:56:24 · 32 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think I can agree that knowing someone is a life long journey, so too is learning to know one self.
2006-09-03 14:59:59 · update #1
lola's "mirror" parable is something I have seen used in this same context very affectively...
If a meditator starts to subtract frequencies .. no TV or books they like, no music or radio .. no movement (perhaps, sixteen or more hrs a day in a halflotus asana) ... a narrow diet (perhaps a bowl of lentyls and rice) ... and all of this with the interest of creating deep selfobservation ...
If after a few weeks it becomes an accustomed routine .. a "war" of selfharnessing that the meditator has "won" the first layer of ... Then witnessing self .. he will come to some new perceptions ...
Witnessing desires competing for the "ego's" attention .. the meditator will realise that the "constancy" of the "I" of everyday life was an illusion .. and rather we are a conglomeration of frequencies "mini-i's" so to speak ... mental, emotional, instinctive and even spiritual ...
In everyday life we can observe this to a degree .. for example .. have you ever been writing a letter .. or studying, or just reading a book .. and noticed that another part of you is humming a favorite song? .. which of the two is you?.. The one singing the song?.. the reader of the book? .. in truth they are both "little you's"
I could go much further with this .. but for the purpose of your question .. I believe it is the multiplicity of frequencies that most of us have to our selves that is the true reason why remain so enigmatic to one another ...
It is like we are so many puffs of smoke above the stillness of a mirror .. misunderstood both to ourselves and to one another ... But this doesn't have to be all sad .. the occasional empathies that are "true love" .. are true deep and sound levels of "mutual understandings" .. and they do have their own little eternities to them ...
2006-09-04 18:53:43 · answer #1 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a Beatles fan, and I don't find nothing offensive about that song or them lines at all. He was only making a statement about himself, or maybe even someone else, that hit their woman be it a girlfriend or wife, which sorry to say did happen more often back then than it does to day, I should say it happened back then as much as it does to day, but was excepted as in, people did not talk about it that much. And all Lennon did was bring it to the forefront, to let people know what is going on in the world, and no one is doing anything about it. But he or the person in their song is doing something about it, as he's stopped beating the woman and things are getting better. I don't see nothing wrong with that at all. I think maybe you are going overboard a bit with the song. So I guess you don't like Hendrix shooting his old lady and running off to Mexico. I bet she was beaten many times, before she was shot. Or the Rolling Stones, singing about how Stupid Girl, a put down on all women, and that they were useless. But that is not the case. One always has to remember in the 50s it was very well known that men beat their woman, girlfriend/wife, and it also was true into the 60s, when people like The Beatles brought it to the forefront. So as a song goes, it's a great song, for it's open to what was going on at the time, and that it's also time to change things and make it better. If I was bothered by that song for that verse alone, then I would be bothered by over have the songs in my collection. I'm okay with that. Cause all it is doing is telling me things like that got to stop, and we have to start to make things better. In which case he is doing. take care dave
2016-03-26 21:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by Heather 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All people have things in common but each of us is a completely unique individual by genetics such that we will not respond exactly the same nor think exactly the same. I enjoy the differences I encounter in people who are intelligent, caring, interesting, different in opinions or thoughts or knowledge who can look at life differently. I think first we have to know ourselves and be honest with ourselves before we can truly be sure we know others. It has been shown that the human smile is recognized by all humans they tested around the world so at least we can know we all recognize a smile. That is a start.
2006-09-03 14:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by Faerieeeiren 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge seems a pretty subjective thing to me.
As a recipient of a particular form of knowledge, how do i ascertain the validity of my understanding?Maybe i can make a comparison, but much is lost in the "translation" Tough position, if we are truly seeking a genuine picture.
No, i cannot say i fully know anything or anyone, it's like a broken mirror...self reflection i mean, the projection is most probably the offsprings of our polluted desires or unfulfilled wishes.
We are not immune to deliberate perceptual disrotion on ourselves or on others.
but it is a pleasure indeed to know you
:-)
2006-09-03 22:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are born alone, we die alone. The only way to truly 'know' others is to be telepathic. That's not going to happen. You are your own rock in life. Everything else radiates out from there. Know yourself and show compassion to others. Happiness comes from within. No object or other person will ever make you completely fulfilled.
2006-09-03 15:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, it is possible to actually know someone, but extremely rare. I think this ties in with my Dad's old saying about you only get 1 or 2 TRUE Friends in life, all the rest are phonies ;)
2006-09-03 14:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I now know a little about you. To truly know anything would be the enlightenment sought by spiritual seekers. Buddhists at least will be the first to admit that all is illusion. At least there is some wisdom in that. I don't even know me all that well.
2006-09-03 15:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting to know someone is a life-long journey.
2006-09-03 14:58:22 · answer #8 · answered by Moxie Crimefighter 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't know another person 100% because almost no one is that comfortable with airing every detail.
We let people see only what we wish for them to see.
That is because we live a a very cruel world.
2006-09-03 14:58:44 · answer #9 · answered by Cookie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While it may be true that other people can hide things from us that make it hard to really "know" someone, I do think that it is possible to do so. To really "know" someone, you have to fully trust them, in which case you would have no reason to believe that they are keeping something from you.
that's just my opinion, but does it help?
2006-09-03 14:59:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋