@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:...no David no...not to antagonize your belief but the TRADING that you are "buying" is in YOU feeling good afterwards knowing that you helped...
No. That is not a trade because he did not give anything in exchange.
How I
feel about it is
MY personal business, unrelated to him.
I am and remain
FREE to choose
ANY emotion for myself,
regardless of what happened to him or to anyone.
Indeed,
I coud feel that chosen emotion
if I gave him nothing, or if I
stole his wallet.
The choice of emotions is
exclusively mine.
In response to
ANY event,
I can feel joy, or fear, or humor, sadness, or jealousy, or hate, or love;
the
only limits r those of the
imagination.
I can even
ALTERNATE between and among different emotions,
if I decide to do so.
During my life, there have been times when I was
exhilarated
by skillfully executed vengeance, e.g., in 1953, when we electrocuted the Rosenbergs. I was
HAPPY about that.
In some transactions, there is an exchange,
quid pro quo, but not always.
David