kwakwa's random thought and quotations

Although boredom and hatred can fit within those seven causes as Aristotle defines them, I respect your thoughtfulness.

You are a wise person, well beyond your years.

 

holy crap...a compliment!

that was completely unexpected. thank you.

 

Don't be surprised.

I'm not an asshole 24/7/365.

I'm actually a kind, good and fair person.

I just recognize I have a finite amount of goodness for every day -- kinda like a gas tank in a car -- so I am careful not to squander my daily ration of goodness by being phony and I save it for people and circumstances where it is genuinely deserved.

I may be fucked up, but at least I'm honest and self-aware.

 

fake kindness is better than none.

but i dont think anyone has limited goodness, unless they intentionally impose those limits themselves.

 

I respectfully disagree.

I distinguish between common civility/politeness and kindness/goodness.

I believe everyone is presumptively entitled to civility and politeness unless and until that person is uncivil or impolite first.

I define kindness/goodness (which I'll call kindness for short) as affirmative friendliness, warm-heartedness and generosity. I do not believe that everyone is entitled to be treated with kindness as I define it. I usually have to know a person to treat that person with kindness. I treat a stranger with kindness only when I decide the stranger deserves kindness or is in dire need. I consider "fake kindness" dishonest.

I treat people the way I would want and expect to be treated in the same circumstances.

If someone does not like me, I much prefer if that person is honest about their dislike rather than phony. I can see through phoniness and find it an insult to my intelligence. This doesn't mean the person should be nasty to me -- as I said above, civility and politeness are presumed unless shown to be undeserved -- just not falsely friendly.

If I do not like someone, I tell that person bluntly unless the person has leverage over my professional life (e.g., client) or personal life (e.g., girlfriend's parents). If the person does have leverage, I do not express my dislike (that would be self-destructive, i.e., honest to a fault), but I do not act as if I affirmatively like the person. I merely act civil and polite toward that person, just as I do toward a person who I told that I dislike.

As you may be able to tell, I have given this subject serious thought and have put my thoughts into action in many instances throughout my life.

 

i see what you mean and for the most part agree.

 

Two pearls of wisdom from Albert Einstein:

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."


"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

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I don't care for fake kindness... I find it rather insulting... I would rather someone not say a word to me then to be fake nice, I like it when people treat me according to their feelings and not faking it...

 

what i meant was, if you're having a shitty day don't take it out on someone else. basiclly, act nice even if you don't feel nice.

 

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Albert Einstein


"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon


"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."

Voltaire