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 If you worry about people11 comments
27 Apr 2005 @ 07:35, by Ge Zi

Here is what I came up with in my deep meditation after becoming an eCommercer. I had mentioned that it had been a spiritual experience to see my own feelings sending out a blunt advertizing to all my friends and family.

A quote came to mind that is attributed to one Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard:
If you worry about people, you never climb a steeple.

I don't really know if that is a real quote of him as I got it only hundredth hand or so in a text file many years ago and it had made it into my quote collection together with gems like

If in doubt - communicout.

Oh, well - I could not help it ;-)

But back to that first quote. After the initial shock - because that is definitely not politically correct - it sounds very darn true. The quote is not 'if you care about people' but 'worry' about people, and we all know that worrying is the most perfectly wasted time of them all - or did you ever have a situation occur just as you worried and thought about it would be?

And worrying about people is actually not the worry about the other people but mostly the worry about how other people will react towards you.

The worry about how I will look in the eye of another. Something I have absolutely no control over. How is that for waste of time?

And I guess that is exactly what was my concern in sending emails out to people that knew me as a very different person, for whom that e-mail would be a break of the image that they had about me, one that I probably had built.

I like to preach to my peers not to do that, "it does not matter how these cloth look on you as long as you like them" for example, but here I nicely saw why I am preaching - I talk to myself - this is what I have to learn - interesting!

And a conclusion? I guess that for the ability to go full steam ahead it is a necessity not to have this flow of seeing oneself through the eyes of another - with worry how one looks. It takes away much of the energy that we have and should use to go forward.

And about my worries - did I get any negative responses?
What do you think?

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11 comments

27 Apr 2005 @ 21:14 by vaxen : But...
"fasion" is so "fasionable," Gunter. The 'rock' is the 'rock' and there in lay the crux of many a GPM. ;) Rockslam!  

27 Apr 2005 @ 22:52 by gezi : ???
Hi Vaxen - I don't get it - can you explain, pls?  

27 Apr 2005 @ 23:37 by Ed Dawson @66.245.208.170 : hey vaxen...
Vaxen: I prefer my needle set to ROCK and ROLL!!!! ;-)

Gunter: I guess basically if you allow anything to stop you, then you are stopped. The "reason why" is irrelevant....
:)))
Ed  

27 Apr 2005 @ 23:40 by Ed Dawson @66.245.208.170 : further on that darn needle
Once I woke up (above Death on the tone scale as a Being) I found I could play games with my old Mark V meter. I could produce most needle phenom at will, including rock slams, which is fun! Faking a floating needle was child's play.

The only one I didn't have the control for was a Stage 5 needle; couldn't do that one, darn it!!!! ;-))))
cheers
Ed  

28 Apr 2005 @ 18:33 by Ge Zi @24.126.199.23 : sec check
Ed, how about going into the established church and do some recreational sec checking. Like Babba and I had the idea long ago and do some recreational rpf for the executive who already had all his survival classes and is bored with them.

Just a thought ;-)  

29 Apr 2005 @ 00:03 by Ed Dawson @66.245.207.223 : Yikes!
You and your love of the dark side! I would only go on their premises at gunpoint -- and you and Max went to the CC for DINNER as a lark! ;-)))

Ick!

But a sec check could be amusing... if I was allowed to submit the items being checked! Then I could have a F/N on "eating babies" and "nuking planets", and RS on "daisies", "ice cream" and "puppies"!!! That'd find out how good the MAA's TRs are!!!!

The technique is simple. I could teach it to you just by describing it:
practice an aikido style flow of energy up and down either arm. Practice both directions. Then when you are on the cans, a flow away down one arm and toward you up the other will move the needle one direction, and reversing them moves the needle the other direction. With practice (which I would need too, I haven't done this in seven years) you could produce most needle phenom. I could never get a stage 5 needle. And a thetabop was really hard; I couldn't keep it going for more than a second or two. But an F/N was so easy.... :))

Are we invading Wendyland saturday? If so let's send flying monkeys over her house first before we arrive. they can fly in formation spelling out:

SURRENDER DOROTHY!
;-))))
cheers
Ed  

29 Apr 2005 @ 12:03 by jstarrs : I guess if you worry about people...
...that's a fine altruistic attitude.
If you're worried about how they think about you, then it's more likely to be a self-cherishing attitude.
How do I look?  

29 Apr 2005 @ 18:21 by jerryvest : Don't Worry
Gunter, I appreciate your article on "worry" as it is such a waste of energy. I once told my mom to stop worrying about me as I was a bit on the wild side according to her perceptions and perhaps others as well. Anyway, I advised her that she could be better served by putting this energy into her poetry as she loved to write. I didn't think that she understood me or what I told her at the time, but the night before she died, she smiled and told me not to "worry" about her. Mom said: "Les(my dad) came to me in a dream last night and told me that I would be joining him very soon--don't tell the others as they may think I have lost my mind." Ironicallly, she died the next evening and I celebrated her reunion with my dad during my meditation.

Thanks for bringing back some very fond memories of my past.

Jerry  

30 Apr 2005 @ 00:25 by Ed dawson @72.25.65.157 : Re Lafayette
Oh and one thing one cannot mention while a churchie is what the "L" in Ron's name really means.
Lafayette is french for:
La = the (definite article)
Fay = an elf
ette = diminutive suffix

I.e. his first name translates as "the little fairie"!
;-))))
cheers to all
Ed  

30 Apr 2005 @ 20:27 by vaxen : heh heh
Cheers Ed! How are the "shades of night falling?" Scarcity is artificial. Overpopulation is a myth. Mac Donald is decorating his bank in the r6 style. There seems to be a new game in town. Solo Omni is oh so very...

The phase of 'Making the Game' is over and with the 'Games Makers gone we are entering a new phase--that of unmaking the Game.

Is the war in Babylon indicative of that? In Mahayana Buddhism, Tien Tai sect, I learned that the casue and the effect are one. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What: Me worry? Nah. If I want more mass I'll just go to a Catholic church.

Sounds like Ed was playing around with the GE Pool quite a lot in those days. Now IFA De Oro is the quest, the goal? ;) Yatrus' game, controlling life, takes place in the 5th and 2nd dynamics. But we know his initial postulate so he is no more yet his hench-men abound.

So much for the Phi Matrix. Lambda wins. DDT/PRS

"Eliminate unreason by eradication of fixed ideas formed in the past. But wait! There is no past!  

1 May 2005 @ 05:21 by Ed Dawson @68.136.84.176 : to Vaxen
Game Makers and Game Destroyers are on the same level, just above Players. Their push/pull battles ebb and flow and are of little consequence except to Players and below. Slightly above Game Makers/Destroyers are Referees (lords of the Balance).

Do you know the whole scale?

Referees
Game Makers/Destroyers
------
Players
Assistant Players
----
Pieces
Broken Pieces

The above is the known scale.
I perceive two levels above Referees:

Architects
Engineers

These two higher levels are not playing; they are not designing games or directing their courses. These two higher levels operate the PLAYING FIELD. Architects design the playing fields; engineers design and emplace the controls of the playing fields. When masonic christians are talking about God as the "Architect of the Universe" that's what they mean.
cheers
Ed  

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