How to get offended?

[Dulma]

Originally Posted by LisaDreams

Dulma, did you write the passage in your signature? I like it very much.

It's by Maya Angelou from a poem called I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by Dulma

1. Mistake your beliefs for your identity,
OR
2. Mistake your external qualities for your identity. That can be sexuality, race, gender, nationality, religion, whateva.

As long as you attach the idea of Who You Are to something transient and ultimately inconsequential, you'll be finding offense in unnecessary situations in no time. Hope this helps!

This is excellent advice. Thank you!

You are two delightful things: 1) Genius; and 2) Gorgeous. Thanks for being both of those, too.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by taylor

Plays With Life, every thought is an affirmation. Your posts have smileys and humor in them. Is this the kind of thing a person who gets offended would be typing? Would they make posts about how they can't get offended?

**** no.

They would be making posts about how the News Media is biased and ignorant, how the government is destroying the country, how someone cut them off in traffic, how some race is invading their neighborhood, etc. Come on man, I know you're better than this. You have to act as if and believe.

Start focusing on every time you already do get offended, however subtle. Maybe you stub your toe and groan. That's great! Now blame that pain on the a**hole who lives with you. They didn't kiss your toe and make it better? Wtf kind of careless jerk would do this? Get mad.

You're entitled to a perfect life and this world sucks, start noticing where and how. Keep a complaint journal and write everything crappy that happened during the day. Did anyone not give you eye contact? What a jerk. Did anyone give you eye contact? Who do they think they are. There's always something wrong and I believe that you can find it.

Good luck. I believe in you.

!!!

You're like a life coach for grumpy old men!!

This is truly expert advice. Thank you so much.

[Plays With Life]

I wonder if anyone who has a habit of getting offended got offended by reading this thread.

[AlmostGodess]

Yes, I am offended you did not react to my favorite frying pan

[Dulma]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

This is excellent advice. Thank you!

You are two delightful things: 1) Genius; and 2) Gorgeous. Thanks for being both of those, too.

Thank you

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by taylor

Plays With Life,
every thought is an affirmation. Your posts have smileys and humor in them.
Is this the kind of thing a person who gets offended would be typing?
Would they make posts about how they can't get offended?

**** no.

You have to act as if and believe.

You're entitled to a perfect life and this world sucks, start noticing where and how.
There's always something wrong and I believe that you can find it.

Good luck. I believe in you.

The 1st. half is right-on, & I'm like: Kewl, we have
these 4 Smilies to choose from: & & &
Personally, I'd like more such choices, like 20 more Smilies...

That said, I disagree with 2nd. half of response. For a genuinely happy person,
it's not a matter of "Act as if, & believe, and look for it, & find crap".
Because in this world is EVIL , no matter how many blinders you wear.

Mr. PLAYS WITH LIFE, billions of people have suffered
from EVIL in this world, for instance: are you married?
Do you have children? - Were any aborted ? How many ?
against their mother's Choice? - Have medical doctors used your children as guinea-pigs ? -
Did any of your family, from such abominable experimentation, die ? -
How many times were you, personally, told you had terminal-disease, & you too were dying? -
How did you Respond ?
Did you know? most m.d.'s are ignorant fools, yet
faced with all such, 1000 times over, you are never Offended ??,
nor justifiably OUTRAGED!. No, you are ALL...SMILIES ??

As I said billions of people have suffered from EVIL in this world; and
I know that, having also suffered thru each of those mentioned tortures.

Sure, we can Maintain... our genuinely...happy Nature;
but this does not mean, that **** doesn't happen, to us Good people.
Because, unfortunately it DOES.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by sk8joyful

That said, I disagree with 2nd. half of response. For a genuinely happy person,
it's not a matter of "Act as if, & believe, and look for it, & find crap".
Because in this world is EVIL , no matter how many blinders you wear.
...

I can see you're an expert at finding All Kinds of Things to get offended about.

I have much to learn from you.

[supertom]

I know what would offend you. If someone absolutely buries you..... then comes back one day to ask for your help

[ZephyrusX]

How can you smile and post about abortion and divorce at the same time!?

May be if we feed PWL subliminal messages about being offended, he will eventually become so... But what medium to use? The news media!

Originally Posted by sk8joyful

The 1st. half is right-on, & I'm like: Kewl, we have
these 4 Smilies to choose from: & & &
Personally, I'd like more such choices, like 20 more Smilies...

That said, I disagree with 2nd. half of response. For a genuinely happy person,
it's not a matter of "Act as if, & believe, and look for it, & find crap".
Because in this world is EVIL , no matter how many blinders you wear.

Mr. PLAYS WITH LIFE, billions of people have suffered
from EVIL in this world, for instance: are you married?
Do you have children? - Were any aborted ? How many ?
against their mother's Choice? - Have medical doctors used your children as guinea-pigs ? -
Did any of your family, from such abominable experimentation, die ? -
How many times were you, personally, told you had terminal-disease, & you too were dying? -
How did you Respond ?
Did you know? most m.d.'s are ignorant fools, yet
faced with all such, 1000 times over, you are never Offended ??,
nor justifiably OUTRAGED!. No, you are ALL...SMILIES ??

As I said billions of people have suffered from EVIL in this world; and
I know that, having also suffered thru each of those mentioned tortures.

Sure, we can Maintain... our genuinely...happy Nature;
but this does not mean, that **** doesn't happen, to us Good people.
Because, unfortunately it DOES.

[supertom]

I could also use the describe your using the most offensive word in your dictionary... Asexual there I said it.

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by ZephyrusX

How can you smile and post
about abortion and divorce at the same time!?

You mean 'divorce' the medical-profession?

Thru those abysmal horrors, yet I can continue smiling- genuinely, because -
1. I allowed/Welcomed God to be my (soul & body) Savior & Resurrector
&
2. Therefore I can love myself, as well as receive love from another.
&
3. This enables me to continue loving also others...

Unfortunately (as I said), these do not stop **** from being dumped, &
therefore justifiable feelings of DIStrust & DISrespect
against intentional perpetrators of crimes-against-humanity.

Originally Posted by ZephyrusX

Maybe if we feed PWL subliminal messages about being offended,
he will eventually become so... But what medium to use? The news media!

PWL watches TV, does he not? - So he "watches news media" does he not?

Many of us, on that trap called 'Tell-a-vision', gave-UP, decades! ago.

Much better to do our own visions... the joyful~helpful visions we're busy creating
___________________________________
But, unfortunately, even (into an Idyllic-life) mega-****
can befall; the likes of which can make you want to die.
And that is reality none of us has 'personal-control' over.

The only control we have in those instances
are
our MIND's billions of Positive & Constructive resources...
.

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by supertom

First you have to master the art of self-aggrandizing
to build up a imaginary sense of honor and pride that you believe is real
and when people don't treat to according to that their really attacking your pride, or
you can join a religion.

Tho they don't wanna admit it, atheists started 'their own religion'.
Like m.d.'s also have their own religion, with similar tragic consequences.

And yes, in the real-world we have "honor & pride" in LOVE, & LIFE, & all others good things.
and
When amoral criminals abusively misuse (power, that
Never was theirs in the 1st. place), the suffering should be Empowered to REclaim their own life, & their own happiness...