I watched Trainspotting last night, it's on Netflix. Theme was nothing about the subject but it had me thinking about what role, place, and rights we have withinin the lives of others. It is not healthy or possible to live on your own, and it is not possible to make decisions on your own, that won't impact everything around you. With respect (and understanding) to ref, this is partly the confrontation that made me sick to my stomach over time. July 4th guy deserves the worst, so does bad date guy. Their Facebook variants, just the same. However in my current case, I'm not personally being challenged, threatened, or insulted by what's on my Feed. I'm offended, confused, baffled, but to me that's just a reminder that I've got a grip on what I think is right. I balance that by reminding myself how much of my mind is constructed of opinions that I must make vulnerable to influence and perspective, but there are core ideas that define my sense of right and wrong, and bingo lil, if those are challenged directly to me then those are the battles I will choose to fight, as you said. I won't feel weak for not defending or instructing everyone what I think is right, even if it's "truly" right whatever that means, cause that's stupid and a waste of time. Let me stop ranting and replace it with this:
This is really what I want. If you ask me where I stand, it'd be whichever side or party is advocating this, francopoli's side.If you waste my time by being an idiot, yes, I am going to tell you about it. . . . . And because said person has already wasted so much of my time by publicly being an idiot, I want them to know it.
"Speak only when it improves upon the silence." - Mahatma Gandhi
. Replace silence in this case with Angry Yelling Screaming, there are few times when speaking will improve on it, I won't bother when it does not. I was raised to believe that men should have a stoic, silent character. That listening is more important that speaking. That when you talk, have something to say that adds to the conversation, moves a talk forward or opens a mind to a new way of looking at things. I'm not saying I'm good at these ideals although I try. Still, I love this outlook at life and it works well for my personality.
I did this exact same thing with "A Clockwork Orange", but I think it may have been serendipitous in that case.Also don't make the mistake I did and not notice the Glaswegian-English dictionary in the back until you'd finished.
Woah! didn't know there was a book, only the film was suggested to me. I'll check it out!