You have more power than you know

This is for everyone to take into consideration christian and non christian alike friends or foes right wing or left wing.
How many take into consideration the power they have? Music alone is known by even scientists to have great power in it, music alone can save a life music alone can make an angry riot still and calm. Now not all of us can sing or play music but there is something we all have that holds just as much power in it as music-Words.

People say sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me, but in my experience I would say I beg to differ. I have seen how something as simple as words and how they are used and intent behind them can greatly affect another person in both good and bad ways.
You may never know or see exactly how far something you say will go or the intense damage or the vast healing it does.

our words are like a pebble falling into a pond it creates ripples and the ripples increase in both size and radius affecting things and people around us especially so online where our ripples have a much larger area of effect. Even if I wasn't a Christian I deciding long ago what my words were going to be for mine are not to prove myself right or to cut down or to inflict harm mine are to build others up to help the fallen back on the feet to encourage to strengthen to give life and rest.

In heated debates when their is controversy often times people will become hostile and will retaliate will insult often times to either harm or to try to get the other person to agree with them but such words have no power in them. It does no good to be able to cut others down if they never learn and it does no good to prove ourselves right and them wrong because the only result you get is a prideful victory is mine feeling and a person who becomes bitter and angry and this is both foolish and counter productive.

However if one discusses the matter even under fiery arrows in a calm and polite way the other person is much more likely to actually listen and to learn and even if they don't the way you spoke to them will affect them. The power words have is staggering they can save a life or end one they can heal a wounded and broken soul or can make one bleed.

I think there is wisdom in considering and asking ourselves what are my words for?

 

Much of the above negatives are a byproduct of the need to be right. I have found it to be all but impossible to change the mind of another, but when I am objective and keep an open mind I have found that there is much to learn from debate.

 

a lot of times it's not about changing the mind of another, a lot of times it's more about what can learned from it.

 

Granny got possum...

... inna power ninja class.

 

From my perspective those here to learn are the minority. I been here for a long time and for the first several years I was here to be right and make others see just how right that I am. But as I can be thick it took me an embarrassingly long time to come to the conclusion that it is all but impossible to change the mind of another. Once I accepted this simple truth the only logical course of action was to drop my bias, embrace objectivity, open my mind to foreign concepts and see what I can learn from others... and in the last few years I have learned much!

 

Objectivity is crucial!

I've found this especially true in politics, both social and actual. As a lifelong socialist, I've necessarily always voted left. Mostly I've been very happy to do so, but in the past year or two ... not so much. That is to say, I would not vote right, but I now feel less hostility to the moderate right, purely as a result of the damage being done by the regressive left. That is to say, the Social Justice Warriors and social engineers who would seek to silence all dissent, fascist style.

Check your privilege, they say. Well, I say check yours. If you can waste $100k of your parents money to 'gain' a degree in Gender Studies (which will get you exactly zero jobs), you are far more privileged than I.

 

Interesting. But all this blather about 100k on gender studies is all nonsense. Not that it doesn't happen of course but you're really whining about very little.

 

An arts/humanities degree in this country is now approximately $100,000. If only it was blather.

 

Indeed. But that's got nothing to do with you or anyone.

 

Te reason you observe this phenomenon is that,,,,, we humans come in 12 different philosophically different ways.
We are born to use certain dominant Freudian archetypes more that the others.

We each think as these Freudian forces inside us do.
Each of them has a strong view about what is the way to behave in life.

Modern Psychology tells us that this is so,... as did the Astrologers.

 

The Catholic Church is socialist.
Are you sure you want to be paid the same as everyone else is,... while you then are trusted to do your best for us... all...?

 

Yes,...
Crank needs to ask herslf, if $ 1 Trillion dollars cost of Welfare in 2011,... paid to single,... never married... girls,... is worth all the trouble their bastards cause in our cities and schools...

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... Sanders says,... don't worry about it,... the Fed will pay the bill on that...

 

I think perhaps we humans tend to take ourselves too seriously.. especially in written forums, where sometimes our deeply held beliefs & world views are under scrutiny. Sure, some people use words like a weapon.. to hurt, injure, or intimidate. But the reader has to exercise some discretion. You cannot allow the bitterness of another to undermine your own tranquility. Our words here are not really that significant.. oh, they might be, on rare occasions, but most of the time, the quote from shakespeare is more descriptive of our writings..

 

The issue of the Bible concerns whether we come back again, are born again,... as humans,... or if we become extinct as a species.
That is not "a walk in the park,"... when we remember that every Neanderthal disappeared 40 millennium ago...

 

Yes but a trillion dollars for all those kids welfare is a price worth paying that we can all agree on and can easily afford. So that problem is not a big problem at all.

 

It has much to do with me when the infants bleating 'check your privilege' on campuses around the world are demonstrating, via presence in campuses around the world, that their own privilege exceeds most. and they are simultaneously acting as a cancer within the left.

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I live in a socialist democracy, so as step up wouldn't vex me overmuch.

 

If I didn't ask myself, I wouldn't be on the left, dear. I'd be a member of the spastic right voting fraternity. You know, those who don't think, those who emote. The emoting of the SJWs is the reason I'm currently disillusioned with the left, remember.

 

So you believe that the Child Abuse suffered by the fatherless kids is just fine with you, then...?

CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census).
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. (Source: Center for Disease Control).
80% of rapist motivated by displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (Source: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, pp. 403-26).
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals A Report on the State of High Schools).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. Of Corrections, 1992).

These statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are:
5 times more likely to commit suicide
32 times more likely to run away
20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
14 times more likely to commit rape
9 times more likely to drop out of high school
20 times more likely to end up in prison

Children from "fatherless families of single mother" homes are*:
15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
4.6 times more likely to commit suicide
6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers
24.3 times more likely to run away
15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions
10.8 times more likely to commit rape
6.6 times more likely to drop out of school
15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenage
73% of adolescent murderers come from mother only homes

Daughters who live in mother only homes are 92% more likely to divorce**

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http://www.cato.org/publications/con...-state-crime-0

 

Are you saying that,... as you review the wonderful ways government has given away the money they take from us all,... you see that creating a society,.. now 50% bastards,... is bad,... for civilization n general?
You also see that child abuse,... of fatherless kids,... is a result with horrible consequences...?

 

Lool. What does that have to do with money?

 

Ridiculous.

 

Says Father Guido Sarducci.Is he a representative of the Catholic church?

 

Tell me more about how you remember that.
You were there? you witnessed it? Please elaborate.

 

Number one, I am not Guido Sarducci, Guido Sarducci is a fictional character. Number two, if I was a representative of the RCC who would know better than I?

 

Relax bro..I was making a funny Your avatar IS Father Guido Sarducci.
Mine is a nicely done pork chop.It may be Fred Rogers but I like pork chop better.
I am the Kafir.