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Finding an atheistic sort of spirituality?

Unusually bad things happen to people who hate me. :|


Relationships are formed like rings around us, getting ever wider - family, friends, town, county... at least as a metaphor.

To focus on making things right to those who hate me is not bad... but seems like cultivating the inner ring that we see and know about, while keeping the wider rings at a distance. After all, maybe there are people out there who would hate me if they only knew me better.

Maybe we can only really keep people liking us by isolating ourselves from the world - taking care of those closest to us and isolating the rest.

We should be engaged with the world though, life is a creative adventure or why bother?
 
quarky said:
As I get older, and lose my physical self-esteem and confidence, as well as certain hormonal imperatives, I have come to the need of a simple guiding light type of philosophy:

I asked myself, the other day:

How many people would you say "hate your guts"?

I came up with one; possibly two.

My new goal in life, is to somehow make it right with them. Before its too late.

I'm curious:

If you ask yourself the same question, what is your answer?
And how do you feel about it?
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For me, I'd say zero. OK, there are probably a couple of homeopaths out there, but that's not 'ME' they dislike, just the image I give them, which is really one of themselves, so I don't plan to do much about that (except always trying to give them reason to respect me).

Someone (I hope to find out who) once said:

Humans want to be loved.
When they can't be loved, they want to be respected.
When they cant be respected, they want to be feared.
When they cant be feared, they want to be despised.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
For me, I'd say zero. OK, there are probably a couple of homeopaths out there, but that's not 'ME' they dislike, just the image I give them, which is really one of themselves, so I don't plan to do much about that (except always trying to give them reason to respect me).

Someone (I hope to find out who) once said:

Humans want to be loved.
When they can't be loved, they want to be respected.
When they cant be respected, they want to be feared.
When they cant be feared, they want to be despised.

Hans
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Hjalmar Söderberg, Swedish author. Well worth reading!
 
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