Showing posts with label Relationships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Relationships. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? > Amazing Facts > Inside Report

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Please check all that apply. This year for Halloween, I'll probably:
1) Dress the little ones up in costumes and escort them around our neighborhood to collect candy.
2) Check out the local haunted house.
3) Get together with some buddies to watch a scary movie.
4) Dress up in a devil suit and scare the neighborhood kids that knock on the front door.
5) Turn off the porch light and hope nobody finds me eating the three bags of Snickers bars I bought for trick-or-treaters.

Most people see nothing wrong with the activities listed above. They consider Halloween festivities to be a harmless way for their children to have an evening of "fantasy and fun."

But does this standard hold true for Christians? Is dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches really "no big deal"? Or is it glorifying and empowering Satan?

Friday, August 6, 2010

Love At First Sight





Yes.  I believe in love at first sight.  We were created to love.  We are capable to love.

But love doesn't just happen by chance.  Love is a decision, a choice that we all make.  That decision is either auto or otherwise.  Conscious or not.  And basically influenced by our belief system.  Love at first sight is basically an auto-decision.

We have created an ideal situation based on what we have experienced in the past, we do additions and subtractions, multiplications and divisions to visualize that ideal.  As time goes by we pile up beliefs, conclusions, decisions and judgements.  These influence the choice we make every single moment, that includes Love.  To love or not to love.

We make automatic choices every moment and most of these choices we are not aware of.  And one of these is "Love At First Sight".

Yes. Love at first sight Can happen.  And when two people at an instant decides to create a relationship, and keep at it, it will flourish.

The keywords here are "create", "decides" and "keep on creating it".  A relationship cannot exist with just one person.

And any relationship for this matter will flourish for as long as they both continue to "create" it.

One person Can Love At First Sight without the other.  But for the relationship to flourish it needs two to tango.  If one person do not agree, there can be no relationship.


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Thursday, August 5, 2010

What is Love?


Love is a deep emotional feeling.  And that feeling originates from one's decision, one's choice. That choice is influence from one's past.  Whether one is conscious about it (which is ideal) or not.

We are capable of loving.  "Falling in love" is a term we use for luck of a better definition of the chemistry which resulted from the unconscious automatic decision of one based on a stimuli or trigger.  And "falling out of love" is a term we use when one is disillusioned and one then "chooses to stop creating" the love relationship anymore.

Yes, Love is a feeling, a deep emotional feeling. That feeling doesn't just fall from the sky, or just happen by chance. It is created, by ones will.  It is the result of one's decision to love, governed by the power of choice, influenced and triggered by ones beliefs.

Nobody falls out of love, but that term is very handy to use to justify that one has stopped creating it.  It is more acceptable to use because it frees one from being responsible of creating it--falling in and falling out.  But it also starts a vicious cycle of falling in and falling out, because of that simple justification.  Until one realizes that this feeling is a creation.

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Does Love Hurt?



My short answer is Love Cannot Hurt.

When one loves someone, one creates happiness for the one being loved.

When one is in a relationship and stops loving it follows also that happiness is not created anymore. So it hurts. It hurts because Love is not there anymore.

One person already stops loving.

When two people *create" a relationship, there is affinity in love there, there is understanding and love is reciprocated.

The absence of understanding makes it hurt.

It's like when you ask someone or talk to someone and you don't get an answer or a reply, a space is created.  In the relationship this space becomes bigger and bigger and separates a relationship, till one cannot occupy the same space with the same person any longer. and one just leave and go on to ask someone else so that one's question get an answer, and one don't get a big hurt by this.

In a relationship there is a couple of sticky elements:  commitment & responsibility.  This is what makes it hurt.  Because this two elements get in the way when two people cannot come into agreement.

Disagreement is basically the result of not understanding in common terms of what commitment is and what responsibility is. there must be a common understanding of what these are before two can agree.

It is simple but it is not easy.

What makes it difficult?  This word assume "ass-u-me".

Two people have wonderful feelings towards each other and so "assume" (in the back of there minds, unconsciously, automatically, based on past experiences) that each of there ideas of commitment & responsibility is understood except that the question of "do we really have the same understanding?" is not really answered matter-of-fact yet, so an answer is "assumed".

It does seem harmless but when two people just assume, there actions will speak louder and soon enough they will see their differences in their understanding about "commitment & responsibility" louder.  And soon find themselves making an "ass of each other" -- ass of u and me -- ass-u-me.

Love cannot hurt.  When one is in a relationship and got hurt.  Perhaps, it was not love at all.  It was something else.

But on the other hand, love has become a meaningless word.  Meaningless in a sense that not everyone know what love really is.

Language today has evolved so fast especially the english language.  It is successfully exported to a number of countries and also picks up words from these countries.  Not only that, from which it originates, the meaning, the usage, the context, also evolved and continues to evolve.  And in any language it could mean a lot of different things.

That when we ask what love is, we would get different answers, and some of these answers would conflict accross different groups, age, gender, race, creed, and the like.

I love your picture, I love ice cream, I love you--whatever that means.

Meaningless in a sense that even though we know what love means our actions doesn't show what love really is.  Because love is now camouflage.

I love you, too.

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Good Relationships Are Created

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Relationships are created by all parties involved, let's say a man and woman relationship -- is created by the man and the woman.

That relationship started by a thought which defines how the relationship is going to be. That thought is defined by our wants, desires, likes and the likes... and been tainted with bad experiences firsthand, secondhand and thirdhand. That influenced our judgments, conclusions, considerations and decisions about how our relationship is going to be.

My definition of Firsthand, Secondhand and Thirdhand:
Firsthand experiences are what we went thru in life personally, that involves us directly. Secondhand is what we learned, felt and influenced thru our friends and neighbors and relatives, that we draw our own decisions, judgments, considerations and conclusions from for lack of a better one. Thirdhand is what we come to agree on what we see from all media surrounding us--TV, Internet, Radio, Magazines, The Papers, including this article without doing much computation whether this is in fact truthful or not.

That first thought however is pure--meaning--all the perfect ideals that we want it to be. Untainted. But we come to this world by a relationship between a man and a woman, without which it would be impossible. This two people have formed an agreement (whether this is verbal, public, whatever, but the fact is, there is an agreement (consensus), otherwise they could not have been in a relationship) This agreement, however, is based on their judgments, conclusions, considerations and decisions. And this could be tainted. (I'm not saying it is right or wrong, because right or wrong is relative to what we agree.)

So we evolved because what we agree and accept evolves and become the norm of society. And the majority leads and dictates. It is not uncommon to see fragments of society today. For example, we now have four genders; people who are politically neutral; and many more.

The experience of one so expressed in any discussion may well represent a fraction of a segment in our society--meaning--there are a few people if not several who shares and agree with the same experience because they can relate to such experience. Man or woman their agreement to one's experience equates to their own reality. And so, thru this the experience is confirmed and will be recreated again, not necessarily by the same person but other people perceiving this experience and somehow triggers a desire, a want to experience the same, so the thought sparks, if it catches fire it will soon happen.

Given that, our definition of a relationship determines the outcome. Because the definition is the sum total of what we desire, want, believe, judge, conclude, consider and decide.

Therefore, if we can examine our desires, wants, beliefs, judgments, conclusions, considerations and decisions about relationships, we will become aware of what is ideal and we would always calculate to choose what is ideal. Because man and woman are basically good and will always do good for the betterment of the relationship.

By examination, we can weed out what is not ideal and we hold on to what is ideal and pure.

May our relationships be what we truly want and build conciously. Cheers!

Thank you for indulging me.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Request for your comments and thoughts about "Team Work"

No matter what your endeavor in life is,
I am sure you have heard about these
two words "team work", and you have
formulated and perhaps in some level
of degree already based your judgements,
considerations, conclusions, and
decisions around what you have
perceived and learned about it.

Please, allow me to solicit and share
your thoughts about "Team Work".

Thank you very much!



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