TRP unfilmable?

[Glenn Scheper]

Thanks to Robin for volleying up the Friend-Tom ballon.
> Something in the deliberately applied idiotics rang a bell.

I missed the Friend Tom experience. I think he fled out
the front door about when I re-entered at the back door.
(But I'm not him.)

"Of course" I'm glad to hear Tom's praying for us.
But who's praying for the pistics to gain gnosis?

Our pastor said not to take our testimony to biker bars,
unless you are a biker.
But I've preyed for many a soul in my favorite strip club.


I am so reminded of Dante, something about
pity before it turns into compassion...
Perhaps in Vita Nuova, but I cannot find it.

As to the son the mother seems superb,
  So she appeared to me; for somewhat bitter
  Tasteth the savour of severe compassion.
  -- Purgatorio: Canto XXX


The Web says...


"Pity stops and stares, compassion stoops and cares."
  -- http://journalofsacredwork.typepad.com/journal_of_sacred_work/2008/01/day-28---self-c.html
  Journal of Sacred Work: Day 28 - Self Compassion vs. Self Pity


In the words of Tarthang Tulku, "Compassion accepts others as they are.
  -- http://www.souledout.org/healing/healingdeities/avolokiteshvara.html
  HEALING DEITIES ~ AVALOKITESHVARA


History has taught us enough about the meaning of compassion so as to leave us 
with little excuse for confusing it with pity. Compassion, which is rooted in 
love, takes on the pain of the sufferer, but with the hope that some positive 
good will emerge from this shared suffering. Pity, on the other hand, which is 
more closely associated with an aesthetic sensibility than with love, is devoid 
of hope. This is why a sufferer welcomes compassion but despises pity. "I don't 
want your pity!" is a poignant cry that implies the futility of pity. And yet, 
pitilessness, which is insensitivity to another's suffering, is even more 
despicable.
  -- http://catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0291.html
  The Virtue of Compassion


1. Compassion is not pity. When we have pity for someone we tend to feel sorry 
for them. When we feel sorry for someone we feel that they are somehow "lesser" 
than we are. In our expression of pity we condescend to these people -- in our 
pity we patronize them. We don't enter into their suffering. We don't seek to 
end their suffering for the better of everyone. We seek to end their suffering 
so they will go away and leave us alone and not bother us with their suffering 
anymore.

Gestalt therapist Frederick Perls warns "most of what passes muster as pity is 
actually disguised gloating." When we have pity on someone we're basically 
underscoring that we are better off than they are because we can afford the 
luxury of taking pity on them.

2. Compassion has no rules. Conservative Christians have a ton of rules about 
what to believe, who to love and when to love them. If you believe as they do 
you will be loved, accepted and shown compassion. If your doctrines smell a bit 
off, however, look out! You'll get no such compassion. You'll get the pity we've 
described above. You'll get condescension -- a not too well disguised gloating.
  -- http://www.whosoever.org/v7i2/commute.html
  Whosoever: Learning Compassion in the Fast Lane


Other ripening pre-posts:


NP: Notable quote: Sile hujus!

Sile hujus - Keep silence concerning this.
  -- http://www.inrebus.com/medicallatin.php
  Latin Phrases and Terms Used in Medicine



	CF Traverse name:

Hebrews (or Hebertes, Eberites, Hebreians "Habiu" or "Habiri"; Hebrew: ????? or 
??????, Standard ?Ivrim, ?Ivriyyim Tiberian ?I?rîm, ?I?riyyîm; meaning 
"descendants of biblical Patriarch Eber" or Hebrew ???? (?I?rî) "traverse or 
pass over" (referring to the Ibri people, known in the Middle East for their 
place of origin relative to the major culture of the time. They were called Ibri 
meaning the people from over on the other side of the Jordan river)[1], were 
people who lived in Canaan, an area encompassing Israel, both banks of the 
Jordan River (The West Bank and Jordan), Sinai, Lebanon, and the coastal 
portions of Syria. Traditionally they are also known as the ancestors of the 
Israelites, who in turn were the spiritual and historical forerunners of the 
Jewish People.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews
  Hebrews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Re: absolute black material (http://tinyurl.com/5lqrz3)

Just leave it out in the Palmdale sun, it'll bleach it.


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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