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Be unpassionate. Live your life like there's nothing greater to live for than yourself. Be satisfied with the status quo, and just sit there and let your eyes droop. Live your life like its too hard to smile, or too hard to see how blessed you are. Wake up in the morning and groan because you don't want to wake up today and ignore the fact that a lot of people didn't get to wake up today. Act like God isn't worth your time or energy and believe that it wouldn't make a difference if you spent time with him anyways. Be lazy, sit and let yourself rot. Be passive, make excuses. Just don't care. Compare yourself to the person who is caring even less. Whatever your doing is enough.
2.
Be proud. Mentally degrade everyone around you and judge them as lesser than you and make sure your eyes are shifted into that position that tells them that. Don't befriend people who are fatter, uglier, or weaker than you. Believe that people aren't worth your emotions or energy and that they probably deserve your ignorance. Reject others before they get the chance to reject you, because its not worth it to love someone if there is any risk of rejection. Walk into a room and think you are better than everybody and that you deserve everybody's respect just because you are _________. Brag whenever you get the opportunity, so you can try to force people to realize how great you are, and ignore the idea that they will probably see that for themselves.Walk into a room and act like you own the place, drive onto the freeway
and act like you own the road and when people cut you off/tailgait you,
muster up your angriest face, glare at them, and yell. Don't allow
people to get into your lane, cut them off before they try, they should
have known this lane was yours in the first place.
3.
Be unforgiving. If somebody argues with you, automatically feel like they are attacking you personally so you can hurt them back as quickly as possible. Automatically think they had no right to stand up to you and make sure they never dare to do it again. Remember all the bad things a person has done and make sure they realize how they are bad people.
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Be selfish. Believe your own selfishness/self-fulfilling pursuit is much more important than love. Step over people and don't think about how you may be affecting their lives. Gossip, and ignore how badly you would probably feel if you were the one being gossiped about. Never regard others for the sake of unconditional love, but always contemplate every relationship to make sure that it somehow benefits you in the end or works to your advantage. Be unappreciative and don't thank people for their efforts, you never cared enough in the first place.
Honestly, I can get pretty ugly.
I need more beauty/love/passion. I don't wanna wake up one day and realize that i let so many years go by, wasted. I need to fit as much love as I possibly can in this very short life of mine. Time is of the essence. Passion is urgency.
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Comments (167)
Beautifully written. I am glad to see your bold stand for the Lord Jesus.
frank
How do you suggest one go about making this love come into being and the stuff that is not love go away?
Wow, that's a very thoughtful blog, and it's true. We were just talking today about an acquaintance who has unfortunately chosen to be ugly in some of those ways. That's very sad.
So well written. We spend so much time working on our outward beauty when inward ugliness can spoil the prettiest face.
@Rejected_Stone - Is your question regarding a personal level, as in "how one comes about in being more loving and less unloving? or is your question concerning the whole world, as in bringing love into the world and taking whatever is unloving out?
Either way, I'll try to answer both to the best of my belief and knowledge, and I must tell you it will be long, because I can't honestly answer your question without explaining my answer.
Regarding a personal level:
- I'd say that in order to become more loving and less unloving you would have to find the passion to motivate you to do so. Personally, I've found my passion in Jesus Christ. I believe that God is love and that Jesus is the perfect example of his love and that the closer you grow to discovering God and knowing him and developing a relationship with him, you are shown how to love, you learn how to love, and you are put into experiences that teach you how to love. See, I believe the closer you get to God, the more you understand what the sacrifice of his only Son actually means and you get it into a better perspective that eventually totally amazes you and ignites a passion to be the loving person God wants you to be. While passion for love and knowledge on how to love are parts that help you become more loving, there's also another factor in this that is hard for me to explain. Its the part where God changes your heart. As much as we might force ourselves to be good people by the strength of our own will, we always fall short of being good. But with God, I've found that he's the one who gives you the strength to do so. I believe that If you put your life into the hands of God, he digs into the very cores of your heart and molds it like a carpenter molding clay. Its hard to explain, but i'd say compassion isn't self-mustered. You don't sit in a room and concentrate hard about being a loving person and then BAM your loving. If you come to God with an open heart, you've opened the doors to allow him in. And that is when your life totally flips. How do you allow God in? well, since God is perfect, he's not one to stand for immorality. And since everybody in the world has done something unloving or immoral in one way or another in their life, then you'd think that a perfect God couldn't stand to be close to us (if perfection gets closer to immorality, then its not really perfection is it?). So then you have a God who, according to the bible, wants to love and be loved by you but can't. Unless a sacrifice is made, which is where Jesus comes in. only a Perfect sacrifice could wipe away all the immorality and sin of the people. and Jesus was that sacrifice. and now, we can draw near to God. But that doesn't mean he's suddenly okay with injustice and immorality. we have to honestly acknowledge our unlovingness and immorality and ask God to forgive us for it, which he does. And at that point, you are his, he's separated your sin from you as far as the east is from the west and you are as white as snow in his eyes. Keep in step with God, and he'll change you without a doubt guarranteed. And you get more and more on fire for God, because this journey, though hard at times, is incredible. But we all mess up, we're living under the influence of a crazy messed up world, so its a process, a building relationship, and passion. And I believe THAT is how we become more loving and less unloving.
Now moving on to my second interpretation of your question:
- How do we make love come into being in the world and how do we take the unloving things out. Well, I'd say we bring love into the world as a result of growing closer to God (as tried to explain before). So I'd say to bring love into the world you have to unite people to God. The biblical morality, the more I understand it, makes sense. If everyone followed the morality of the bible, I believe we'd have a perfect world, Because I'd say morality is simply following the standards of God's judicial system, which is primarily based on love. So to bring love into the world would be tell people about Christ.
How do you take unloving things out of the world? Well, in many situations you beat evil with love. but sometimes we just have to leave it up to God. God gives us free will, we can't force people to accept love, and God won't force them to accept it either. We've done our part, the rest we leave to God. I'd say God most certainly can force a person to love him, but I don't think he's going to do it, because he wants our love to be out of our own free will. And thus, it's a relationship with us, as individuals, his people.
I hope that answered your question.
this is beautiful. I think it's beautiful when people stand firm for something and obviously you do. and that's awesome. keep it up and keep writing your pearls of wisdom, i'm inspired.
this is awesome. it actually reminds me of one of my favorite writers, Mike Williams. well it's a bit different, but still. here, i'll share:
nine steps:
1 absorb contradiction
2 soak up distraction
3 kill your boss
4 be filthy of mind
5 reinstate illogical conversation
6 embrace negativism
7 baptize by addiction
8 preach vice
9 steal fo worthlessness
Nice!
Very thoughtful and full of truth. Thank you for writing this... we all need reminders like this.
@flaviapop - Wow, I made Ms. Flaviapop give a response that's as long as a Xanga post itself. I feel cool now.
Anyway, I think was looking for the first interpretation of the question, and I wasn't really looking to learn anything. I was just testing you.
Your answer was very good, though, and I can see that you're not mixed up with law and striving to be good on your own.
Thanks for the long response.
@Rejected_Stone - haha oh! well now that wasn't the simplest of questions was it mr. Rejected Stone? The long post wasn't quite my intention, but I couldn't help myself! well, anyway, your very welcome :P
Very well written. Rec because sometimes people just need to learn how NOT to be ugly.
This is very well thought out. Makes me realize how ugly I can be sometimes. Ok, a lot of the times, especially when I'm stressed. Very eye-opening. Thanks.
You are so inspiring. It always brings joy to my heart when I hear about people who really want to bring more love into their lives and focus more on Jesus.
:D
thank you.
Well finally! I just knew there were instructions for this somewhere! Apparently I missed this part of my education.
hmmm, reverse psychology?
How Biblical, how wonderful, how amazing.
And your response
my goodness
God is doing an amazing work in you
an important reminder. i think i shall print it out as a reminder to myself.
But I love ugly people.
i do number 3 a lot.
I admit, i am guilty of doing all of those thigngs on that list from one time to time. But the worst type of people are people who do that every day, all there lives. It's something allot of people need to work on. Wonderful post though
~Jenn~
great post.
Impressive entry. Very thoughtful and insightful.