Trouncing Violent Opposition

Einstein said that "great souls have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". When you start encountering opposition one of two things is happening, you're being a moron, doing somethign really stupid, or your engaging your great spirit from an incredible level of certainty, and that intimidates people. Don't let yourself be intimidated by their fear. For the longest time I would really start living it up at a party, singing, speaking my mind, and having fun, and people would get pissed. That's fine and dandy but my error was to use the pissed state of other people as indication that I was doing something wrong, when it could just as easily be something extremely aligned and right. Could it be so outrageous of a belief that someone could be getting pissed at you because what you are doing is something they can't? Could it be that I am doing something that might reveal an inadequacy or fallacy of their own? Doesn't seem to far-fetched. Life can be battle to prove that you're right and are going to party if reference frames are external, meaning people define themselves with outside anchors. I am not saying I am a great soul. Great soul's are Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Mick Jagger, Emerson, and others that have legacy. Just as everyone has a great soul to access, I am definitely committed to connecting with and showing others my great soul. Even though I have not encountered as violent confrontation and am nowhere as near as incredible as the Mahatmas (Indian for "great soul", literally) of the past, I definitely have encountered opposition.

At the bar I went to on Friday night, I was called a whore, oxnoxious, and a tool for dancing, singing with everyone else, and having a great time. Let's dissect these disparagements in a positive light to actually make them laudatory comments. After all, they are indications that I am doing stuff right in some light. How would it feel if you could never be insulted; if you were invulnerable to criticism? That deflection can occur with the process I call "Dissecting the Intention". The slang for tool means a dull, slow-witted, socially inept person. Sounds quite disparaging at first. Dull can mean "slow to understand" and slow also means enduring for a long time, so dull can mean that you're understood for a long period of time, or what you say sticks and holds true. Now for tackling "slow-witted". Your wit, being "slow and enduring" perpetuates, and inept can mean stupid, which means not using commmon sense. Well, if you aren't using common sense, then you must be using non-common, or different sense -- a creative sense. So just to recap, by being called a tool, what the person really meant was that my words stuck, endured the test of time, my wit perpetuated and persisted, and that I used a unique, non-common, creative sense. Thank you! The other "disparagements" can be dissected in a similar fashion. Whore, a promiscuous woman, is a little more challenging but it could be interpretted as though I have access to my femine side and have many stimulating, not necessarily sexual, relationships with people. Obnoxious could be interpretted as ob-noxious, the opposite of noxious, or the antithesis of harmful and poisonous, being very pleasant and curative, even.

I was derisively called a tool, a whore, and obnoxious. The villifying intent of the people who said those comments was to poison me. Would you ever try to inspire someone with snide ridicule or motivate some group with opprobrium? Nope, sorry. Their intent was certainly not to encourage me by throwing jeering aspersions; they were interested in delivering the low blow of humiliation. That's not dancing! Obloquy and insults do not normally bring you up; the intention is to put you down. Their malicious aim was to make me feel degraded and whithered. But, as we just learned, you can dissect intent from delivery and spin your own interpretation. What they really did was say that I was a creative person, possessing enduring, long-lasting wit, who had access to his male and female personality characteristics, all while being innocuous -- not noxious -- pleasant and curative! Why follow through with someone elses derogatory agenda? Bring people up, not down. And what better way to deal with violent opposition than to do more than neutralize it, but to become motivated by it!