i'd like to roll right, to be everybodies laugh and to be completely enjoyed. to live in the sunshine and pour the clouds down the drain. it probably wont happen, but i will try to please everybody and in return perhaps will be pleased. being nice no better than being mean, they just recieve different results.
people are mirrors reflecting the every action of our existance, perhaps absorbing the things we do as well. whether one knows it or not, the bible is a self help book that has nothing to do with others, yet it affects all at the same time. it is your guide to make life easier. people can say that it is to improve the world and make it a better place, but the world isnt getting better. their will always be the bad and the good and the exitement and heartbreak. the way you treat others and percieve life will determine how your own is lived. most of the time people want nothing more than to be liked and respected. on occasion their is one to be loved, but that is a different matter completely.
perhaps you are a dick, and you think that it is to your own personal benifit because dicks get along well with others in high school, or at least seem to. however, if you are the jerk, no matter how nice people treat you in public, behind your back you are ridiculed and talked down on. i dont mean to judge anyone, and being an asshole is understandable. in high school you are rewarded with laughs and agreements for being mean. a person begins to feel that they are doing right if they are rewarded, therefor it the peoples fault for molding the asshole into what he/she is.
lifes a tightrope, and a thin one at that. one can stand around and complain and bitch about how terrible the world is and how they wish everyone would be nicer, but what really matters is how one acts out in the world. enjoy people and their quirks and wierdness, these people will always be around and you cannot make a perfect world, if you suggest that it is possible you are suggesting the same idea as hitler and judging all who oppose you.
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"whether one knows it or not, the bible is a self help book that has nothing to do with others, yet it affects all at the same time. it is your guide to make life easier."
luke, i could not disagree more. the bible is anything but a self help book. no, the only people who will tell you that it is are the same people who say jesus will make your life better. its a completely untrue belief about the bible. luke, if the bible were a self help book, a lot of the main characters wouldnt be brutally murdered for what they believe. the bible suggests in every way that life is relational and that we are to be about others. it IS about people, luke, and its certainly not a guide for your life. it will not make your life better. your utmost problems will not go away. you will still feel lonely, afraid, self-conscious, angry... life is and will always be hard. the bible never suggests that it wont be. if any person can seriously read the bible and say its a self help book then that person is very, very mistaken. i hate to sound riled up but its completely false to subscribe to such an untrue belief about something thats very revolutionary and opposite modern culture and turn it into something FOR culture, for enriching your life. its a lie in every sense of the word.
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