2007-10-31 10:24:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a lesson here
One would need to have the discipline of mind to not go where the heart tells them not to go.
Good being attracted to bad is not hard to understand,
it is something everyone will come up against.
Do not think you can change the other
One must accept who they are,
if this is not you, then move on.
Time will tell, if good can endure in this situation, but why put yourself through it, unless there is love.
And I am not talking about romantic love.
Love can conquer all.
Love must be what both want, more than the other.
Love is the leveller, the pacifier, the peace maker.
Look to love, not each other.
I see your other question and if the two go together, you are brave, but don't be stupid.
Know when to get out,
we are here to be the best we can be.
Don't let another pull you down into something you know is not right for you.
You are questioning now, and if you look at your question, the answer is there.
It is true that bad association ruins your good habits.
I trust this helps.
Peace in the heart.
2007-10-31 10:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by Astro 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Societal changes, like a 50 percent divorce rate, have added weight to the role of friends in our emotional well being, and even our physical health.
Friends are supposed to be good for you. Usually they are!
In recent years, scientific research has suggested that people who have strong friendships experience less stress!!
They recover more quickly from heart attacks and they are likely to live longer than the friendless.
They are even less susceptible to the common cold, studies show.
On the other hand, some friends lie, insult and betray. Some are overly needy.
Like some of us, there are annoying know it all friends who give too much advice.
Psychologists and sociologists are now calling attention to the negative health effects of bad friends.
There's this myth that friendships should last a lifetime. But sometimes it's better that they end.
2007-10-31 14:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The I chong, Disco zombie got it right. Also, I am from the land of buck rail fences, and have found that down through the years I have become contaminated by the local culture. I believe in building (edit:cooperation) peace, love, forgiveness and tolerance, but have to fight the tendency to react in the opposite because "that's the way its done around here."
edit : That's what I don't like about the local society! This is an extremely competetive society. It does not value or build cooperation. That looking out for number one attitude contaminates the entire place and me.
2007-10-31 15:05:07 · answer #3 · answered by balloon buster 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, but people tend to pick up the bad habits of bad associations.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-10-31 10:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's true that being around anyone for long enough will eventually cause people to become more like each other, but I hardly see how that lumps things into the dualistic categories of black and white.
2007-10-31 10:35:06 · answer #5 · answered by somebody 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True, proven by thousands and thousands of good boys and girls every year. Look around but stay apart of bad associations.
2007-10-31 11:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Darth Eugene Vader 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone has already mentioned 1 Corinthians 15 v 33 but did you know that the line in the Lords Prayer 'Deliver us from evil' used to say, 'Deliver me from evil-doers'? According to Tertullian (c. AD 200) and an early Syriac author (c. AD 480) it did anyway. The 'evil-doers' in the original prayer were those who prayed in the streets and who tried to impress others with their piety!
2007-10-31 10:42:15 · answer #7 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, you ARE judged by the company that you keep. It has nothing to do with whether or not you follow the bad ways of your frinds or not. If you hang with bad folks, then others assume that YOU too are bad.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-11-01 02:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that's crap.
One bad apple rots the whole barrel...but apples aren't sentient beings who can make a conscious effort to behave in certain ways in spite of how apples around them behave. I think this description applies to some humans, too...
2007-10-31 10:33:30 · answer #9 · answered by War Games AM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess there is a chance that could be possible, however if you are a leader and not a follower maybe your good habits could become theirs.
2007-10-31 10:32:16 · answer #10 · answered by sissy k 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋