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[sabrinamari]

I think you can only trust people deeply once they have learned to become powerful.

Till then, you work on yourself so you can trust yourself to handle whatever comes up in a respectful, honest and transparent way. I guess this way, you'll always be in the best possible position to act, no matter what happens.

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[the-smith-e.livejournal.com]

Aye, likely true.

[justusgirlz.livejournal.com]

Whoops, my bad. I wasn't signed in when I posted my comment.

[hypanebliss.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I like this statement! Deep echoes indeed.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Whoa!!! Define power.
I would have said the opposite,
or something very cruel,like
"You can trust the powerful to screw you."

[spiffnolee.livejournal.com]

Someone who screws you does so out of fear.
Someone who is powerful has no need to screw you. They know they have the power to do whatever needs doing.

Substitute the idea of "agency" or "self-actualizing" if you prefer.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

True. In the spiritual realm power is simply "potency," the ability to be, to do, to "self-actualize." Jose Hobday said: for an Indian, power means the power to give, not the power to take.

But in the economic and political realm, power has a very different meaning, and this is the meaning i, and i think most Americans, get when we hear or see the word. Power is the ability to obtain goals despite resistance. So far so good, but if the goals are material and the resistance is strong, what then? Then power becomes authority, authority becomes coercion, coercion becomes violence, and there can be little trust between attacker and attacked until the attacker stops attacking. I have a deep, and i think, well founded, distrust of people with economic and political power.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I am using this definition of power:

http://sabrinamari.livejournal.com/825813.html

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Yes, very good.
And don't i wish i could say that.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i like that.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

There are many definitions of "powerful".