( – promoted by buhdydharma )
Nice people are wonderful. I like nice people. I like being nice. When I can. In my everyday life or when casually chatting on the Interwebtube, I think I am a nice guy. My cat thinks I am a nice guy, and so does my girlfriend. I have nothing specifically against being nice.
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar is a nice saying. If you are trying to catch flies.
The idea of a whole bunch of nice people getting together and all being nice to each other in support of their nice President is a nice idea. So, one might think…let’s try that!
Let’s all get together and be nice to each other and nice to our nice President and then surely, as the logic string plays out….all the mean and bad people will all see how nice it is to be nice.
And then they will all be nice too!
After all, underneath all the greed, killing, torturing, terror, starvation and hatred….ALL people are basically nice, right? Everyone of them?
How could they resist our niceness? Surely when we properly communicate the idea of niceness, all the mean and bad people will get this nice idea….
And stop being mean and bad!
All the Senators who are voting the wrong way will see how nice we are and change their votes after being overwhelmed buy our niceness.
Heck they will become so nice that they will even give the Insurance companies, and energy companies and MIC companies, all of their “campaign contributions” back.
After all that would be the nice thing to do if they are now joining the nice lobby and rejecting all those other lobbies.
That pay them millions of dollars.
So that those Senators will be nice to the insurance companies and other not nice folks.
It is what a nice person would do, isn’t it? When confronted by so much niceness, it would only be nice to do what the nice people ask them nicely to do.
Instead of doing what those people who pay them millions of dollars ask them to do instead.
You are a nice person right? And if a BUNCH OF REALLY NICE PEOPLE CAME UP TO YOU AND ASKED YOU NICELY to do what they wanted you to do…
Instead of doing what the people paying you millions of dollars wanted you to do…..
YOU would give up those millions of dollars, and join with the nice people, right? Give up all that funding that allows you to stay in power ….so you can get all that funding.
You would give all that up and do whatever the nice people ever so nicely ask you to do.
Right?
And then, once all of us nice people have shown all the Senators and Congressmembers how much nicer it is to be nice….
Then we can go to the source and convince…through the power of niceness…the polluters to stop polluting, the bankers to stop preying on the middle and lower classes, the military to stop going to war and killing people. (People who are probably very nice, when people aren’t trying to kill them.)
The insurance companies too, they will stop being mean and start being nice too!
After all what is more important to these folks? The trillions of dollars they get to rob and steal through controlling Senators and the legislation they pass by not being nice….or being nice?
Surely if we ask them nicely, they will give up all that too, and start being nice.
If we can just show them the way, I am sure they will join us in our nice coalition.
And if we are nice enough, if we do it right…..we can even save the planet from catastrophic climate change! Because all those potentially nice polluters, like the oil companies making record profits off of killing the atmosphere, will be happy to give up those profits and start working along side us nice folks to save the planet for our kids and cute little, nice, grandkids. The cute little nice grandkids who may not have a habitable planet if we aren’t nice enough to the oil companies to stop them from destroying their future.
But what if I am wrong about that?
What if they decide to keep polluting and killing and robbing and stealing even if we are like, SUPER nice to them? What if being nice doesn’t work?
Then what do we do?
Hmmmmmmm.
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nicely eliminate them?
you are being sarcastic but I am sure you are too nice for that….
to end the oh noes on.
but it hard work
I try to be nice as much as possible, but I can be a downright b**ch from hell on occasion–ask some of those closest to me…
The real trick is–when and how to be downright mean and ruthless, but in a rational and, more importantly, effective way. That’s one trick I’ve not consistently mastered, and I doubt that many folks have mastered to the degree they’d like, IMHO. Sigh… still working on it and my energy’s drained at this point–probably just need a bit of R & R at this point….
People are Tommyknockers.
“go along to get along”
Thing is, in just ordinary life, I do tend to be pretty darn nice. Really. And I will flex and lean and cajole and compromise with the best of them. Up to a point. But then there’s that… tipping point, that Point of No Return. Betrayed. Screwed over. Hoodwinked. Tossed out the window and under the bus.
Thats when I … well … go ballistic (figuratively speaking of course. heh.) Usually takes the form of extreme sarcasm. I’ve gotta work on a few things though. Got any skin-thickener?
Killer diary.
I don’t know… you know?
I will do a nice dance.
(or consistently not-nice) is a losing strategy.
She’s probably going to say, “what if it doesn’t work? Then what Grandpa, huh, huh?”
By Malvina Reynolds (1964).
It isn’t nice to block the doorway,
It isn’t nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it,
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn’t nice, it isn’t nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is Freedom’s price,
We don’t mind!
Complete lyric here.
This particular observation dates from the civil rights movement. The “it isn’t nice” argument, of course, has been advanced by the timid, the lazy, the fearful, and the bogus since the beginning of time.
…that is the question.
I have dedicated my life, for the past 10 years, to defining, understanding and finding the balance between nice and real.
Through many years of Buddhist study and training, I saw many equate being nice with the way of the bodhisattva, with kindness and compassion.
In watching my sangha friends, I also noticed that the attempt to be nice frequently denied the reality of the situation. I saw people who were hurt who did not react with an appropriate response. I saw how acting nice when one was really angry led to covert, passive-aggressive behavior.
This leads to all kinds of deviousness and self delusion.
There must be a better way. And there is…
My search is in learning to be aware of my true feelings and to react appropriately, not from some predetermined cultural value of niceness or goodness.
I live in a senior community with 160 older folks, mostly women. Most little girls, more than boys, were raised in a culture of niceness. Most mothers send their daughters off to school with words like, “Be nice. Be a good little girl. Don’t make any troubles.” Much more than little boys, girls spend a lifetime in this kind of brainwashing to be nice,
I call it The Nancy Pelosi Syndrome
“Oh my, we can’t keep impeachment on the table; it wouldn’t be nice.”
I watch my compatriots here befriend and coddle folks with very deviant, destructive behavior.
These folks, the “I’ll be nice to everybody (because everybody has buddha nature or the godseed inside) folks” are contibuting to a much bigger evil. These people think they are fostering goodness by relating only to the godhead side and denying the satanic, evil behavior. No!
I call these folks “Hitler enablers.”
In this sense, Pelosi is a Hitler enabler.
We must be able to see both the buddha nature and abhorrent behavior. And it is absolutely essential to call out the abhorrent behavior when we see it, even while relating nicely to the buddha nature.
Honesty and balance and seeing both sides is needed for reactions to be appropriate and constructive.
IMHO!
So just remove their batteries
when you suggest they should be something other than nice.
And they unleash the un-niceness at you. Rather than the people with their hands in their pockets.
Researching Mom tells me the nice vs sociopath general population ratio is 95%/5%. The vast problem is that the nice 95% project their niceness onto that 5%. In our society, most times the 5% makes up TPTB.
This accounts for the lie too big to be believed.
The 911s of the decade.
False flag terror generates false flag wars
False flag terror, America Nazi behavior,Homeboy StatSicherheit,SS
Engineered financial collapse builds world bank/world corruption
Then a rapid fire flu vaccine debacle coupled with another false flag health care debate
When nice doesn’t work there is war but this time it happens right here at home. A global tax on air to complete the Satanic world government, funded by the oil companies who wanted “security” in their supply lines.
The withheld evidence of vast ancient cities on the moon, mars, Phobos says humanoids may have had a great civilization called Atlantis complete with the cheap easy energy secrets needed to make such expansive structures.
Since the new sheriff just like the old sheriff insists of global everything the reverse speech of yes we can does turn into Thank You Satan.
Pray, did you publish this in orange?