Comments on: Bleeped Again http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/ Skafish speaks... in his own words - raw and uncensored... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Skafish http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-29 Skafish Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:18:27 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-29 <p>Daksha! I think so many people get wrapped up in the idea of situational ethics; meaning that the end justifies the means. I refuse to live that way. By just doing what is right, it is unimportant what may or may not happen. It's a very simple and clean way to live. Your insights are greatly appreciated!</p> <p>Jim Skafish</p> Daksha! I think so many people get wrapped up in the idea of situational ethics; meaning that the end justifies the means. I refuse to live that way. By just doing what is right, it is unimportant what may or may not happen. It’s a very simple and clean way to live. Your insights are greatly appreciated!

Jim Skafish

]]> By: Daksha http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-28 Daksha Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:56:44 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-28 “Process focus” is a compelling concept – I think it is interestingly freeing. Most people I know (& certainly one would think rock stars) are results oriented & goal-driven. However, people working to high pressures toward a specific end-result are more susceptible to buckle under, and at times resort to unethical ways, compromising integrity, damaging important personal relationships and forgetting basic human compassion to achieve them. You are not even walking on this path!!! You’re in a process, unique to yourself!! Wow!! You are truly a FREE spirit!! “Process focus” is a compelling concept – I think it is interestingly freeing.
Most people I know (& certainly one would think rock stars) are results oriented & goal-driven.
However, people working to high pressures toward a specific end-result are more susceptible to buckle under, and at times resort to unethical ways, compromising integrity, damaging important personal relationships and forgetting basic human compassion to achieve them. You are not even walking on this path!!! You’re in a process, unique to yourself!! Wow!!

You are truly a FREE spirit!!

]]> By: Skafish http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-27 Skafish Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:24:07 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-27 Daksha! If you keep your integrity, you can keep yourself! I'm not about results -- I'm about process, doing what's right and letting the chips fall where they may. Jim Skafish Daksha!

If you keep your integrity, you can keep yourself! I’m not about results — I’m about process, doing what’s right and letting the chips fall where they may.

Jim Skafish

]]> By: Daksha http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-26 Daksha Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:45:41 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2008/02/17/bleeped-again/#comment-26 Your courage, forthrightness, integrity & social concerns are invaluable & admired!!! Almost any student of sociology will recognise several pts. & experiences here as classic textbook. The voice of the masses rests with a loud powerful few etc…issues where corresponding socio-political support is presently lacking will try to be silenced through tactics ranging from blatant denial down to attacking credibility of the presenter (an attempt to distract from the social issue on hand). I wish I could’ve seen “Christie” – Volunteering on the city’s rape crisis line, I am painfully aware of the appalling abuse experienced by exotic dancers & related (legal) “body workers”. In spite of Human Rights legislations & Labour laws, the system fails this social stratum almost completely – There is painful distress here, yet their voices remain weak & inaudible…. On the religious context, below is a parallel thought by Bertrand Russell: “Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. […] A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.” – Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects TY for staying with this even though it’s been thankless & rough! Your courage, forthrightness, integrity & social concerns are invaluable & admired!!!

Almost any student of sociology will recognise several pts. & experiences here as classic textbook. The voice of the masses rests with a loud powerful few etc…issues where corresponding socio-political support is presently lacking will try to be silenced through tactics ranging from blatant denial down to attacking credibility of the presenter (an attempt to distract from the social issue on hand).

I wish I could’ve seen “Christie” – Volunteering on the city’s rape crisis line, I am painfully aware of the appalling abuse experienced by exotic dancers & related (legal) “body workers”. In spite of Human Rights legislations & Labour laws, the system fails this social stratum almost completely – There is painful distress here, yet their voices remain weak & inaudible….

On the religious context, below is a parallel thought by Bertrand Russell:
“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. […] A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.”
– Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

TY for staying with this even though it’s been thankless & rough!

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