It’s not what you said but the context in which you say that makes you look less than bright. I know it is hard for you to process any counter-intutive thought, but try this: 

Had Weiner been earning “very high” salary in NYC, it would in fact be a GREATER incentive for him to hang on to his job given that he would find HARDER to find a similarily high paying job after he resigns.

Who the hell do you think gives a fuck about your opinion here? Leave it to a leftist piece of shit to bitch about how others express their thoughts. Every goddamn one of you should be wrapped in plastic and duct tape and dumped into the middle of the fucking ocean.

Now how the hell do you like the way I express MY thoughts, you skank?

Compassion follows from the realization that we are all one.

Actually, the realization is that we are all of the *same* one.  It’s a subtle yet important distinction.

Perhaps a practice of seeing oneself as the ‘other’ would be helpful? Or, as you say, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
And there’s no accounting for taste, so what some don’t want done to them is welcomed by others.

Buzzard Pickings

No one was ready to hear the truth.

Inept solitude
i just can’t do without you….

my friend is homeless in Melbourne
another is slowly killing himself
with depression and grief
my x has come home to roost for awhile
home is sanctuary
not the battle zone
we once shared
my beloved died
and still lives as close as my next breath
in my still-beating heart of desire

in Japan
a man’s wife left with his 3 children
when he no longer had work as a museum director
and went bankrupt
in the always-present state of emerging emergency,
he lives in a room the size of an American
walk-in closet,
cleans the $20 a-day *living quarters*
for a living
who knew tent cities had been going up
since the early 1990′s,
who is our brother’s keeper?
i don’t eat
much pie anymore,
humbling as it is…

large blackbirds circle
like dying swans,
falling into our just deserts
like legions of mea culpas.

~A

Anamika, there does indeed appear to be a price to be paid in being true to one’s own inclinations when they are not in harmony with those of others.

How to be true to oneself without pretending that it doesn’t matter that the price for it is condemnation and ostracization?

It’s tough, to be sure.

I can completely empathize as it is a strongly recurring theme in my own life.

What’s the best way to adjust to a hostile community?

In RL, in my conservative Midwestern community, I adjust by keeping myself separate – choosing more-often-than-not to not attempt to mingle….essentially withdrawing socially.

That’s not a very ideal solution.

It’s very restrictive!

You, on the other hand, here online, choose to continue expressing yourself in a way that feels true to yourself, and you bare the jabs and insults, even though it must hurt.

That hardly seems ideal either.

Clearly there’s no right or wrong answer, but what we both tend to have in common is a strong and rather determined sense of following our own inner course, a kind of refusal to try to fit into other people’s ‘mold’ and become more ‘agreeable’ to others.

It’s easy to say that the hostility we bare is a ‘mirroring’, but not so easy to feel that hostility—maybe even let it ‘just be’.

I’m having to admit now that for all those times I said “it doesn’t matter…” those statements weren’t exactly true. I may not have let myself FEEL that they mattered. But I’m feeling it now, and at this ‘moment’ in consciousness, it does. It hurts.

Can I just let it hurt without trying to do something about it? Without trying to ‘fix’ it or ‘fix’ the people reflecting it?

I dunno. But I’m inclined to try.

Well if Weiner burned the candle at both ends, that might actually be true Anamika.  But if he was prudent and saved a sizable portion of his income, maybe not. 

Dingbat.

Dingbat.

I hear a lot that the Weiner’s aren’t exactly rolling in the dough – make maybe $300K a year.  And their 875 sq ft condo in NYC is fairly modest – for a U.S. Congressman anyway.    I guess it fits in with Weiner’s fake populist persona.   I wonder if this place was Weiner’s bachelor pad?

But it looks like Huma’s lived quite well in DC.   In ’06 (recall that she married AW just last year) she bought a condo for $649K.   Not bad.   And of course she loves very expensive clothes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921983/posts?q=1&;page=51    (contains screen shot of tax valuation page for home)