Aphorism for the day - Power

Submitted by Jay Harms on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 11:00am.

Be careful about whom you go to for help - for by doing so you give them power over you.

Do not give power to one who does not deserve it.

If someone comes to you for help, make certain you deserve that power.

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Good heavens! With that

Submitted by Lori Perry on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 10:06pm.

Good heavens! With that system, you'd have to be judgmental about people and about yourself all the time! You'd have to judge whether or not someone else was worthy of being asked for help by you. Ånd if you were the humble sort, you could never help anyone for fear of gaining undeserved power!

This reminds me of a line that Gary Cooper said in The Fountainhead: "I neither give nor accept help."

Is this a Monadist viewpoint?

Power perspectives

Submitted by Jay Harms on Tue, 04/10/2007 - 1:02pm.

No.

This is just a reminder of how power works in the world with some people - not everyone.

I could go on at length about this but suffice it to say that we all should be more reverent about giving and recieving help (especially about giving help)

This would be more like voluntarism in dynamism (or maybe realism)

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