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gauld admits hyde is a fraud and quits
Anonymous:
Folks with plenty of plenty... got a lock on the door.
Afraid somebody's gonna rob 'em... While they're out (a) making more... what for?
He misses the irony of the song. Porgy losses Bess to Sportin, Life.
Anonymous:
had such a life-changing Brother's Keeper experience at age 17. While driving home late at night, I saw glass in the road. Imagining some driver getting a flat, I stopped and picked up the glass.
Reminds me of the story of Honest John, another such tale of great personal sacrifice for the good of mankind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIUW5Rslrc
Ursus:
For someone who is chastising us for "preoccupation with self, ...spiritual sickness," not to mention focusing too much on self-gratification (speaking of "inner control of ...our lesser instincts," ha!), he sure isn't someone who should be throwing stones. It certainly puts the 990's in an even uglier light. Talk about someone "trying to get even more of a plenty they cannot possibly use in their lifetime."
And if I hear one more friggin' reference to the insufferable butterfly struggling out of the cocoon story, I'm gonna add those wretched little buggers to my diet!
Ursus:
--- Quote ---I had such a life-changing Brother's Keeper experience at age 17. While driving home late at night, I saw glass in the road. Imagining some driver getting a flat, I stopped and picked up the glass.
When I returned to the wheel, I just sat there, stunned. Never in my life could I recall expressing an unselfish concern for others, at least when no one was looking. I remember saying to myself, "Joe, maybe you don't know who you really are."
The experience gave me real hope for myself. I certainly didn't change overnight, but today I gain real confidence from knowing I try to make the other's best my first concern in all my relationships.
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--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Reminds me of the story of Honest John, another such tale of great personal sacrifice for the good of mankind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIUW5Rslrc
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Just unbelievable. I almost feel embarrassed for him.
Anonymous:
IT is a false dichotomy: Character and sacrifice or hedonism and indulgence. IF you are in the right place, doing the right thing is a joy not a sacrifice.
What is wrong with relationships of mutual benefit? Assuming that you need to be in a relationship where you are BK'ing the other person is predicated on an arrogance that you know better than the other. It is like the implicit arrogance of the Covey principle "seek to understand before being understood" The implication is that you are functioning on a higher level that the person you are in the relation with i.e. this person is not your peer.
I think this is why you see the Animal Farm syndrome at Hyde. All the animals are equal to start but at the end some are more equal then others. The whole this is based on stratification, social class i.e those on trace vs those off track, where one class (the former) gets to rank on the latter. This is not a sign of character. It is the priggism that lead the puritans to pillar sinner for wearing purple buttons on their coats. When I was wittiness to this dynamic it reminded me more of Shirley Jackson's, the Lottery then any society I wanted to live in. In this respect Hyde is SSDS (same shit different shovel). It is a system that can be gamed, by Joes own admission, that creates winners and losers, where the winners own nothing to the losers except a waging finger, that is to say not true community.
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