RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
October 28, 2016 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2016 at 12:37 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 27, 2016 at 11:40 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 27, 2016 at 7:42 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I hope I explained it this time.
Hams, you've explained it already, bud. It's understood.
Oh good, and thank you. So I was wrong to be told that I can't act all hurt when I am hurt and I'm entitled to express it then. But it's no big deal I'm just glad that that is resolved now.
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(October 28, 2016 at 12:25 am)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: CIJS,
Never allow yourself to give up something that makes you unique. When this happens, you just become more like everyone else: you blend in rather than stick out; it’s like losing a part of yourself and feeling incomplete. Thus, IMO, if you want to feel complete, then you’ve got to accept who you are by daring greatly to become more unique and beautiful with each passing day.
I agree so much!!!
And I love being myself, who I am and how I am and I hope all my friends and everyone I care about have love and compassion for themselves and who and how they are too!
(October 28, 2016 at 1:11 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Surrender is ignominious. As my signature in a musician's forum reads, in a quote from Zapata, "I'll die on my feet before I live on my knees."
Be yourself and let the Devil take the hindmost.
^^^ This ^^^ also. Very much so. Especially the bolded part I added applied to us all.
I'm enjoying this.
P.S. I searched the idiom "Devil take the hindmost", Thump, I've never heard of it before. I understand the meaning of it means "take care of yourself because utlimately no one else will" but... I can't work out what the "hindmost" part is meant to mean literally. Like... the Devil takes care of the bad people, "hindmost"= in the back. So it basically means "leave the devil to sort out the people in the back"... so I just don't understand the "in the back" part. Is the people in the back the worse people? Is "the back" similiar in metaphor to "down below" as in hell or something? I'm confused by the "hindmost" part regarding this idiom and metaphor.
I like the karmic aspect to that in a secular commonsensical sense, simply the whole "what tends to go around tends to come around" thing, I value my honor and feel like if I just do the right thing everything will work out. And, also, did you know "honor" was etymologically related to "honesty"?
etymonline.com Wrote:honesty (n.)
early 14c., "splendor, honor; elegance," later "honorable position; propriety of behavior, good manners; virginity, chastity" (late 14c.), from Old French oneste, honesté "respectability, decency, honorable action" (12c., Modern French uses the variant honnêteté, as if from Latin *honestitatem), from Latin honestatem (nominative honestas) "honor received from others; reputation, character;" figuratively "uprightness, probity, integrity, virtue," from honestus (see honest). Meaning "moral purity, uprightness, virtue, justness" is from c. 1400; in English, the word originally had more to do with honor than honest.
My bolding added