surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 12:32 pm
Age wrote:
If you are already set on insisting / believing some thing being true then really what purpose is there to look at or for any thing else ?
You can never actually change my mind unless you truly challenge me and show me where I am wrong from your perspective
But it is not mine nor any one else's 'job' to change "another".
The Truth anyway is a person can only truly change ONLY if THEY really or truly want to.
Also, how does one show another where they are wrong when they are NOT open to the idea that could be wrong, let alone not open to the fact that they are wrong.
How could I show you that there is only one Mind and that there is NO such thing as a human mind nor human minds?
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 12:32 pmNow you love to be challenged but it would seem you do not like to challenge others so much from what you have said here
If it is seen that I have implied, inferred, or even suggested that I do not like to challenge, from what I have said, then I really do need to learn to rephrase what I say and change the way I say things. I NEED to change more if I want to be better understood. I did not mean I do not like to challenge. I have just meant I have found that there is no use in even just trying to challenge some one's strongly held beliefs. Thoughts (beliefs, et cetera) are, literally, who 'people' are, so people do not like to be made/forced to change, that is; if they do not truly want to, literally, change themselves.
I find also it is not my job to challenge, if the "other" does not want to be challenged anyway.
If some one wants to insist or believe absolutely any thing, then, to me, they are completely FREE to.
I am not here to, or even try to, persuade nor convince any one of any thing.
If, however, any one admits that they have a problem, and are seriously Wanting to change, for the better, and for the right reasons, then I will most certainly challenge them, that is; if that is what they truly want. I do this usually by just asking, what you call the right questions, and what I just call clarifying questions, and, if they provide the completely open and truly honest answers, then they will naturally also HAVE thee True, Rght, and Correct answers of, and for, Life.
I like to challenge, by mostly just by asking clarifying questions. However, if those questions like to be answered is another matter, which, by the way, how often my questions like, or do not like, to actually be answered can very easily be seen, witnessed, observed throughout this forum.
Also, how much some one wants to be challenged or not can be clearly seen in their writings, and by how often they keep insisting some thing or by how strongly theykeep believing some thing without ever asking to be challenged nor questioned.
After all of this I could have instead challenged you by asking you a clarifying question about; What was it exactly in what I said that made you assume that I do not like to challenge?
When, and if, you provide that, then we will be able to see if it was you lack of answering one of my clarifying questions and instead making an assumption about what I was actually asking/saying, and from that jumping to the conclusion that I do not like to challenge, or, if it was some thing else that led you to that conclusion.
When, and if, whatever I said that led to; 'It seems like I do not to challenge others', to you, is brought to light then thee Truth will be revealed and thus can be seen.
Until then, from my perspective, I can not see any thing that would lead to such a thing. But, this is not to say that I have not said some thing, which would in fact, from If you are already set on insisting / believing some thing being true then really what purpose is there to look at or for any thing else 'another's' perspective, would really seem like that. It just is if it is not brought out in the OPEN for all to SEE, and become known, then the Truth is It just remains unknown.