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Characterizing my vernacular as ghetto is racist.
I'm Mexican dude... I know the world you're talking about I live in that neighborhood and yes I still see it as a waste of energy... the whole "money, power, respect" are marketed by guys lusting for it... guys who don't talk about don't have to because they already naturally have it by giving others their due respect... and power is nothing really anyways...
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1.) You would have to live as a hermit to get away from bullies and untrustworthy people, but as I said if someone won't respect you cut them out of your life.
BULL SHIT.... You could just move away from the current issues your life surrounds you with... I don't have that issue and I live in a rough as fuck neighborhood... people get their respect as soon as I meet them... and because of this they give it right back... If someone is untrustworthy (which is easy to figure out) then I simply don't associate with them...
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2.) My thinking is not convoluted, illogical nor nonsensical. A man's capability to deal with respect is comparable to a house being able to stand in a storm. A some point in its construction the structure can't take a breeze and at other points it can take the worse. However, if you expose the home to the elements long enough its starts to break down. Sometimes you need respect sometimes you don't, but you should always protect yourself.
It's incredibly convoluted you said that you need respect then claim it's not outer based... how is needing respect from other people NOT outer based? It's very rational in certain environments such as a gang environment... or a poor environment where you don't have shit else but the respect of others I suppose.... YOU SHOULD ALWAYS RESPECT OTHERS UNTIL THEY EARN DISRESPECT... there is no sometimes about it...
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Furthermore, even if something has hurt you can still act like it hasn't and in the military they would refer to that as maintaining a strong bearing.
I allow people to affect me... by my conditioning to that behavior... no one effects me without me allowing it... that is basic... The only pain others who aren't my friends, family, folks I care about can give me is physical and I can protect myself so this isn't a worry of mine....
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3.) Your reputation affects your quality of life. Its not an outer obsession or an ego thing. Its an end in itself.
Your quality of life is but an opinion so no... that's simply not true... A man with nothing may feel perfectly happy while a man with everything may be unhappy... which would you rather be? Your reputation affects your ego... basic dude... don't argue about something you clearly don't understand... it simply makes you appear foolish.
The ego I've referred to is you basing your value on that of others... such as your social value relating to your own value... the ego is your need for validation from others... and yes respect is a form of validation... The ego is your need for attention from others (such as you mentioning women weeping for you)... I can go on and on about it but here is a great article I wrote that may help you:
http://truecoreselfconfidence.com/my-fa ... g-the-ego/
Here is another one:
http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm
I'd recommend not responding about the ego until you've read those articles otherwise you'll just continue to appear ignorant...
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4.) If you love yourself you shouldn't let people disrespect you without consequence.
Loving yourself is not needing the respect of others... loving yourself is unconditional and unrelated to respect or anything else... loving yourself is a portion of self-esteem... self-esteem is a constant not a variable based on respect or anything else... you should never love yourself because of how others feel about you... you should love yourself without consequence....
I never feel disrespected by other people... that's the thing... I don't give people the power to feel they can disrespect me... The greatest power of all is the ability to give up all power... and ironically it gives you more power than you have ever had.... that's a basic old school philosophy that seems to be a big part of what we are talking about...
Honestly I think you should do a lot more research before lecturing people... I feel you are a bit above your head in this argument and the fact that you don't even realize it makes it worse...
Peace and Love,
Vic
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