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   hawgowar said, 3 days ago

   What you are is a loser. Can’t hack competition? There will always be those at the top and those at the bottom. Find your place in the pecking order and deal with it.
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   Birgit Heesemann said, 3 days ago

   It is people like you who enable the 1% to exploit the rest of us! Keep us busy by competing about everything so that we don’t notice what really is happening.
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   unicornstar said, 3 days ago

   Twisted Sister said it better with the song “I Am I’m Me.”

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejihzALlriE
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   andygup said, 3 days ago

   Competition? There’s always, ALWAYS, someone better at anything.
   Knowing that, and knowing yourself, ironically leads to the most happiness. That is where the virtue of humility and the fallacy, the sin, of pride.
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   Zigman said, 3 days ago

   Accept who you are. Know your strong points and your weak points. Everyone has their own role to fill, and knowing that, you will be more at peace.
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   Veteran said, 3 days ago

   @Zigman

   I agree. That is the true meaning of Zen.
   All are equal…..we are all born and will all die.
   It is the journey that matters….
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   Dat1guy said, 3 days ago

   @Veteran

   A Pro-lifer, huh? Good for you.
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   Colonel Claus said, 2 days ago

   @hawgowar

   Having inadequacy issues there Bub?
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   morosemoose said, 2 days ago

   Or in the words of Popeye, “I yam what I yam, and that’s all that I yam”
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    Kirk said, 2 days ago

    How can you strive to improve yourself, if there is no scale to measure by, and if you have no place on the scale?
    The point should be that, at some point in the competition, you have to be proud of what you have accomplished to that point.
    Self-worth by definition implies a scale, from low to high.
    The issue I have is with the schools and organizations handing out awards in the name of self-esteem. There is no merit behind the award, no feeling of accomplishment. Just a temporary glow of possession. These awards are not teaching our children how to succeed in life. They teach them that it is acceptable to not strive. That the world owes you what you can’t, or won’t, achieve for yourself.
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    Kind&Kinder said, 2 days ago

    That’s not really Zen. Zen deals with the Ineffable that lives as us and everyone and everything. Knowing this, it is useless to put much weight on competition and competitive striving, but it becomes incumbent upon us to live to our fullest in each moment in the eternal Now. It would be counterproductive to remain uncognizant of what has already been accomplished if our drive is to continue to “grow” in this reality. What is important to remember is that Zen masters often laugh when asked about life and ultimate reality. Just remember, we’re all just writing and acting in our own play.
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    Darren Blair said, 2 days ago

    @Kirk

    Pretty much. The phrase “evolve or die” applies to one’s own personal growth as well.
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    L71Maynard said, 2 days ago

    Thanks for introducing me to Jiddu Krishnamurti. Very nice comic.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 2 days ago

    @hawgowar

    You certainly have the Corporate American way down pat. Mutual Aid is far better than just competition.
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    Ken Cowan said, 2 days ago

    One does not need a scale to improve. Observation of ones own labors, and outcomes, tells the tale…and is NOT a scale. The diversity of skills, interests, points of view, quirks, etc. between one individual and another are so varied as to make comparison ridiculous. It would be trying to conduct an experiment with NO control. Hagowar, Kirk, and similar others are just too comfortable with their own little world view, no doubt as it has been taught to them, or in a reframing, as they have been indoctrinated. See there? That’s a form of comparison I just made, and there was really no point in doing it. My opinion was made or not made without any reference to you at all…but that is the tendency, isn’t it? Let go of that, and you can still argue, or do your best to support your own view, but there’s less likely to be an actual fight, and no one is being repressed or assaulted. Compete if you must…or just do what you do, and be who you are, without worrying about what anyone else is doing.
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