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[R Williams]

Jann,
 
This may be just a word game with little practical worth.  But it is reflective and at least mildly expansive of the imagination.  John Cock and I have been having a running conversation on "power vs. energy."  I keep saying, among other differences, that power is bestowed from outside (title, position, money) and energy is invoked from within (inspired, inspiritus, of the spirit.)  Had not thought of drawing a distinction between power and force.
 
On the antithesis of compassion, I've been thinking more on what John Epps said about everyone cares.  I know that's true, but maybe it is also true that we priortize our care and from time to time we may care more about self than we care about the other, in which case the opposite could be egocentricity.  Using Merton's insight about compassion as the awareness of interdependence, maybe to not be aware of interdependence is what we meant when we talked about the contradiction of individualistic overemphasis.  So maybe the opposite of compassion is individualism.  I'm even thinking that caring for that which does not ultimate deserve care is a form of idolatry, so maybe the opposite of compassion is idolatry.
 
As you may sense, all these are more questions than statements of any kind of certainty.
 
Randy
 
   

"Whatever the problem, community is the answer.  There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about."  Margaret Wheatley
 

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I've been contemplating what it means to live in Oneness, in the  
UNI-verse, especially since reading Power vs. Force David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. He says there is no opposite of 
Love. There is Love and the absence of Love.  So 
care-less-ness, obliviousness, unconsciousness, numbness, ignorance are 
all manifestations of the absence of compassion. In a way, it's a word 
game, but I find it helpful. Hope you do.  

Blessings, 
Jann 

In a message dated 12/30/2012 9:31:18 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
geowanda at earthlink.net writes: 
On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:09 AM, R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>John, 
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>>Of course you are correct about care.  Ever since I saw  Thomas Merton's quote, "Compassion is the keen awareness of the  interdependence of all living things," I've tried to articulate for  myself what would be the opposite of compassion as arrogance is of  humility and greed is of gratitude.  I've thought of obliviousness,  unconsciousness, numbness, ignorance?  My using  care-less-ness was really a take off on what John McKnight describes in  his book The Careless Society.  None of these completely  does it for me, so give me some help here.  What would be the  opposite, or antithesis, of compassion?  Would appreciate your  insight.  Anyone else care to jump in on this? 
>>  
>>Randy
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