@Jear77 You are the same shoe size as Immortal Pirate. To walk a mile in his shoes, you would have to get used to good combat boots. (‘Cuz, he says that you’re not going to wear his Pirate bucket boots.)
@Jear77 His combat boots. Above those combat boots are the scars made by being beaten with bamboo when he was a POW captured and tortured by the North Vietnamese. What he endured and survived has killed other men. But, they were ready to face death, rather than give up information.
To not try is isolationist; and it’s more than a little self-precious to imagine oneself so far removed from the rest of the human race, nobody can understand or relate.
But stop for a moment and consider the combination of these two things: and how effective they would be against a person, a nation, or even a whole race if someone was out to disempower and scatter them.
@Jear77
Are you still reaching for hyperbole here? The only way it could be exactly exactly the same, is if you were walking in your own shoes. ( and some people have so many internal games going they still might not understand themselves after walking a mile in their own shoes!)
But the spirit of your posts says you are asking something different. Perhaps in the gendre of ” nobody can understand me”?
Yes, by the realization that the other person’s shoes are exactly like your own. You love. I love. We’re overjoyed when we have it. Depressed when we don’t. None of our individual circumstances will ever be the same but the love we all seek hasn’t changed one bit from the beginning of time.
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My little Birkenstocks are size 5. If you could squeeze your foot in them and walk, the high point of the heel cup would hurt your instep.
@ladybarbara I’m somewhere between a 10.5-11. So that’s for sure!
@Jear77 You are the same shoe size as Immortal Pirate. To walk a mile in his shoes, you would have to get used to good combat boots. (‘Cuz, he says that you’re not going to wear his Pirate bucket boots.)
@Jear77 His combat boots. Above those combat boots are the scars made by being beaten with bamboo when he was a POW captured and tortured by the North Vietnamese. What he endured and survived has killed other men. But, they were ready to face death, rather than give up information.
To not try is isolationist; and it’s more than a little self-precious to imagine oneself so far removed from the rest of the human race, nobody can understand or relate.
But stop for a moment and consider the combination of these two things: and how effective they would be against a person, a nation, or even a whole race if someone was out to disempower and scatter them.
@griz Relation through similarity is one thing. Living the *exact same* life, having the *exact same* circumstances is a no go.
@Jear77
Are you still reaching for hyperbole here? The only way it could be exactly exactly the same, is if you were walking in your own shoes. ( and some people have so many internal games going they still might not understand themselves after walking a mile in their own shoes!)
But the spirit of your posts says you are asking something different. Perhaps in the gendre of ” nobody can understand me”?
@griz not quite. But we’ll leave that here for now. Typing on my phone is a bit annoying.
Yes, by the realization that the other person’s shoes are exactly like your own. You love. I love. We’re overjoyed when we have it. Depressed when we don’t. None of our individual circumstances will ever be the same but the love we all seek hasn’t changed one bit from the beginning of time.
@TruthDistillery
It is “connection” vs “isolation”.
Fellowship vs self-imposed exile.
Peace is based on finding commonality.
War is based on finding difference.
So look at “the fruit” of people’s words: is their driving spirit one of peace . . . or one of war?
You can if you leave the function/gathering before them on foot and they have the same size shoes or larger.