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david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

13th Thread: I practice random acts of kindness: anonymously wherever possible.
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meiah · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:

Now and again, I do. I don't make a point of it....it wouldn't be random then, would it?
Just picking up coins that someone has dropped to hand back to them, making a cuppa for someone else...they all count. And as for anonymously....sometimes. Picking up rubbish from someone drive. Taking the bins out for next door when she has forgotten. Scraping ice off Bryns windscreen when I do my own. Little things.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

The thread is about not wanting to get something back for something given.

In this life we can give and take and there is no shame in either act.

But here is the thing.

What gives you the most pleasure and makes you feel truly you.

It has to be giving.

Taking lessens our self regard whereas giving gives us a sense of freedom.

I worked down petticoat lane as you all know by now and nothing gave me more pleasure than walking up to a drunk or a tramp and putting shit loads of money in their laps.

Not because I wanted praise but rather for two reasons.

Firstly I was better off than them but I could so easily have been them save for a few twists and turns in my life.

Secondly, giving sets you free.

Yes it really does.
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evergreen · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:52 am Post subject:

I do these things all the time too...

I've thought about it,m and its not for nothing because it makes me feels good ... so I do actually get something out of it
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david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

Funny thing this, now I think about it.

Getting rid of something in the material is liberating whereas obtaining some thing seldom is.

You cannot be tied to something you do not posses be it material, or of the mind.

Didn't Jesus say that rich people would have a hard time entering the kingdom of heaven.

Perhaps he meant heaven as being here and now otherwise what he say's makes no sense at all.

OK he may never even have existed but as an exercise just ask your self if he was right and did he REALLY mean Heaven.
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meiah · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject:

For heaven.......read bliss.......enlightenment.......
For hell, read suffering, suppression, stagnation.......
For afterlife, think instead of a different state of being.....different to how you are now...not necessarily when you have no physical body.
For God, read mind.

Is it purely a confusion of a basic truth?
Was it really intended to be what we discuss on here anyway? (she says, taking it away from the politics, dogma, tool of oppression which is what mankind has chosen to do with it)

I wonder what would happen if you look at religion with the Quickening in mind. Would it look different?

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

Good observations here.

I never really know what we should discuss on here as it is more a forum for people who are interested in the paranormal and not just a paranormal forum.

They do have other interests so I guess it means that anything goes.

So does recieving entrap and giving release?

I know that there are always variations, but my general feeling is that giving frees you more than recieving.
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meiah · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject:

Maybe like anything, it depends on the intention behind it.

My daughter saved for 3 months to buy me something she thought I would love. She got so much out of giving it. I got a tangible token of her love.
That didn't trap me. she expected nothing back. And actually, got nothing. Except a smile, and a hug, and now and again she catches me looking at it.

If you give in order to receive, that can trap you as much as receiveing and feeling indebted.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

It all depends on the intention, but lack of intention indicates a person who is secure in their own skin.

Giving without thinking.
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meiah · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

Hmmmm....yes I see the difference. I can't remember that last thing I consciously did without thinking.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

meiah · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject:

Raymond · Avatar Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 5631

Random acts of kindness are good. Believe it or not I also like to perform random acts but I rarely do them for other people.

My random acts tend to be more for the world around me. Picking up litter from a wild place, leaving food or seeds for wildlife, making somewhere habitable for wild animals - I recently bought a load of straw bird houses and whenever I go for a walk I take one with me and leave it in a tree.
Some little bird will be glad of it.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

Mind forms all

Thought is de valued because it needs us.
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meiah · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject:

That feels very good.

Kindness doesn't have to be to people....does it?

Raymond · Avatar Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 5631

I have found that kindness to other people is often wasted. I'd much prefer to be kind to the world, inasmuch as one person can be.

meiah · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

I'd rather smile at a stranger and see them smile back before they have time to think about it

Raymond · Avatar Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 5631

Ahh,... there speaks a woman who obviously doesn't live in London.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

Big cities are all the same.

De humanising and cold.

Then you meet people and realise that they are villagers really but the village is just to dammed big.
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Raymond · Avatar Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 5631

Giving is a good thing.

That doormat you gave me Mr.Hobbs. Everybody who steps into my place is told it was given to me.
I never bring any of my visitors' attention to anything I have bought just the things I have been given.

Even a simple doormat.

It always raises a smile.

How strange we are.

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex

I was thinking of producing doormats with a picture of Gordon Browns face on.

What a pleasure wiping your feet would become. Even if your shoes don't need a wipe
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meiah · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:06 am Post subject:

I don't know much about feng shui, but that MUST go against some sort of positive energy type of thing. Gordons Browns face as the first thing you see when you come in your house.....shudder

Raymond · Avatar Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 5631

Poor old Gordon. He does try his best.

This is what happens when people who aren't natural leaders are put in charge.

We only need to sit it out for about another year or so.

beantighe · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:40 am Post subject:

Like the saying goes: a week is a long time in politics! (we can but hope)

david hobbs · Avatar Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 8156 Location: Essex