2007-05-19 03:41:07 · 24 answers · asked by Shahid 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-05-19 04:04:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The subject I am most knowledgable in is the Holocaust. I am getting my Ph.D in Holocaust Studies, so this is the area that I am most comfortable with and someday hope to become a University professor in.
Also, I am a huge audiophile and love talking about the music I listen to and trying to get other people to like it and understand it's meaning.
I am also a big fan of literature, since I double majored as an undergraduate in Literature and History---so I know a lot about Victorian British literature and Shakespeare. :)
2007-05-19 03:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by embryonicreject 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know nothing the best. To imply that I knew something
the best would imply that it is impossible to make an
improvement. I have never observed a thing which
doesn't have optimal efficiency based on contingency.
Due to free will and/or human potential an infinite future
contingency is possible. Therefore, to be the best is
to constrain the subject to a specific situation and/or
time, and I choose not to be constrained.
2007-05-19 03:50:40 · answer #3 · answered by active open programming 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has to be the toughest question I have encountered on Yahoo answers.
For the first time I cannot offer a unique yet valid answer.
I can tell you of so much I know very little about.
I accept defeat. Well done!
2007-05-19 04:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by BabyCham 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
~~~ Because alot of people are thoughtless and fail to spay and/or neuter their pets countless dogs and cats become strays and/or end up in over crowded Animal Shelters. They suffer and it is OUR FAULT. It doesn't need to be this way. These poor animals have feelings too. If everybody would do their part in helping them the world would be a happier place. Think about it. They deserve better. Please feed the strays. ~~~
2007-05-19 03:51:02 · answer #5 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question.
My general answer: searching, seeking, exploring.
I guess that's why I'm drawn to science... but also why I can become bored with it... because it doesn't have all the answers.
So the search for peace, wisdom and happiness goes on forever.
Peace to you.
2007-05-19 04:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by bedros 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know nothing!! as the Manueal (the Spanish waiter) says in Faulty Towers!!
2007-05-19 05:46:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
painful question.
Very painful. And yet,
I am not ugly, not stupid, not lazy, not dumb or anything really bad,
but nothing really good either. I am a gray mouse, just like the most of 'all others' I guess.
Still very painful
2007-05-19 04:11:34 · answer #8 · answered by kobe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some days you are the pigeon other days you are the statue!
I am mostly the statue! I know a lot about that!
2007-05-21 01:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by twistedshower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what I know
what I don't know
what I fear
what I hold dear
where I smell
what is my personal hell
I'm not a poet
and I sure do know it
2007-05-20 05:04:41 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋