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We don't change people by fighting with them.

When I meet someone whose views are hurtful and vastly different than mine, that I wholeheartedly disagree with, I meet them with compassion.

You have to change a heart before you can change a mind.

They are bodhisattvas, too. 🩷

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

This is profoundly true.

I can get a conservative out on a picket line for my union by befriending them and caring about their workplace concerns, but not gonna convince them of a damn thing arguing about Trump online.

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@CountScrofula We need more love 💜.

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TheFlippantSide · F

@CountScrofula @ I've got some work for you. We won't change anything with buttons, t-shirts and self congrats. I'm putting together a team of strong people. I have contacts in every state and many countries. We can make a difference.
https://similarworlds.com/love/4735637-An-idea-of-love-will-you-help-me

JustGoneNow ·

I try too as well. But some of the things they can say about gay people, test me.

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TheFlippantSide · F

@JustGoneNow It's just a link to a book.

JustGoneNow ·

@TheFlippantSide but I will read it, I promise you. 🖤🤗

TheFlippantSide · F

@JustGoneNow I know you will. You'll love it. It's a link to one of Pema Chodron's books 💜

PhilDeep · 51-55, M

That's true, but there is just so much any one person can manage. I choose carefully whom I share my time with. If their inclination is more towards conflict with me, it's the wrong time in my life to approach them. I'd rather seek my own peace by leaving them to theirs.

TheFlippantSide · F

@PhilDeep You take the high road in any form it takes. You have a good heart. I can see that. 💜

bijouxbroussard · F

The older I get the less I’m inclined to believe that we change people at all. When people don’t even believe what they can see with their own eyes, they seem unlikely to hear anything contradicting their beliefs, no matter how it’s delivered. 😞

TheFlippantSide · F

@bijouxbroussard But you have the best heart. We can't change everyone. But I know that you have touched many lives. That's all our work is. 💜

bijouxbroussard · F

@TheFlippantSide Thank you for saying so. 🤗

TheFlippantSide · F

@bijouxbroussard I've got some work for you. We won't change anything with buttons, t-shirts and self congrats. I'm putting together a team of strong people. I have contacts in every state and many countries. We can make a difference.
https://similarworlds.com/love/4735637-An-idea-of-love-will-you-help-me

AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F

In theory I know this, in practice some people don't have a heart.

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TheFlippantSide · F

@TheFlippantSide You are not just bodhisattva but you're the dang Quan Yin. 🩷

AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F

@TheFlippantSide I had to google dang Quan yin, must've typoed it first time round as I got a Chinese restaurant in Glasgow!

I thank you kindly for the compliments but I don't think I'm quite hitting goddess levels of goodness currently.

If there's a goddess of booze and cigs dat's me!

TheFlippantSide · F

@AntisocialTroll You're an incarnation, and that's all that matters. 💜

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

So please, tell me what I should do about someone who keeps spouting a bunch of bullshit about Joe Biden, then starts calling me names when I ask her for even a single shred of evidence, and THEN calls me a little shit when I respond to her name-calling in kind.

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

I didn't mean that to come off as hostile. I'm serious. Please tell me how to handle it.

TheFlippantSide · F

@LordShadowfire It's ok
We take the higher road. I know you will. I have faith in you. 💜

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TheFlippantSide · F

@SnailTeeth
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TheFlippantSide · F

@SnailTeeth
@AntisocialTroll has been talking shit about you. Check her replies. She's shady. 😾

SnailTeeth · 36-40

@TheFlippantSide It's probably all deserved and true. :)
I don't check replies anymore. :)

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