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Originally Posted by orthodoxymoron
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At what point does facing reality become fear mongering? At what point does positive thinking become delusional and irresponsible? I like the concept of Positive Response Ability...wherein one faces reality with positive and negative thinking...and formulates positive responses and solutions.
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Reality is factual, even if harrowing. Once emotions get mixed with it, like insecurity, panic, anxiety it stops being facts and becomes fearmongering
Positive thinking becomes delusional when it ignores the facts of the reality we are living in. It is part of cognitive disonance. Example: People are dieing of hunger, I don't want to know = we are all fine...we aren't really. Many of us can not do anything about that but we have to accept is part of Earth reality
Positive response may not be the answer always because it can be sometimes like brushing the things under the carpet. The best response comes from engaged detachment. It implies that we are aware of the facts of our reality and we have come to terms with the worse case scenario which brings inner peace by accepting what we can do and what it is beyond our possibilities to handle. It takes a lot of courage and deep breathing to do this
What is the problem here, there is a miss conception of what free speach means, that is all
It would be useful to have a clear definition of what Bill Ryan, the owner of avalon understands as "free speach" and which kind of posts are permited. Those are the facts, then individualy we can chose whether this place suits us or not
The Owner of this place has the right to arbitrarily, if he so choses, to change the rules too, there is no contractual agreements with the members other that to obey the regulations that the country this forum is has
"Rights" are a very slipery slope that most people do not understand. We believe we have rights but actualy we don't have any rights other than those given to us by common law if we can make them hold
Now as setient beings we could chose to be free of fear and to ponder our responses rather than knee jerk into saying something that we may regret later. That makes us conscious creators. We do not react, we act. That is fearlessness
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