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Originally Posted by Justin  I'm not aware of this emotional philosophy described above. It's more referring to helping someone in need and I'm finding that in giving of oneself, a person can find themselves. Maybe it touches someone in a special way and possibly "pays it forward" the next time they come across someone in need. |
One symptom of an emotional philosphy would be to presume to know the need of another person better than they know it themselves, which happens all too often online, where in order to make any sense of it so much of what transpires does so only by virtue of that which our imaginations immediately contribute to fill the tank, so to speak.
If you happen to meet with somebody at gas station who is not in need, do you kneel and pray to him?
Seriously, I'd like to know how it works, this finding of the self, and why the self is so much in need of the search.
In my expereince the special way to be touched has rather been to the effect that there is nothing more offensive to a person's dignity than unsolicited help from a self obsessed other person.
I am rather inclined nowadays to decline to help in any case because of the pain of the bite of the hand that fed; to Hell with them.
The people who helped me most in life were those kind enough to appreciate what I had to give to them, not vise versa.
--- RH.