Where has chivalry, repsect, and kindness gone? Is there anyone left who has it??

Hi Amber,

There are some left but unfortunately you will have to look for them hard, because they are few and rare.

In these last days, man do not have respect for his own life, how can he respect others?

I thank God that I try to live a life that is pleasing in his sight, so that I can be counted among that few and rare.

Be Blessed

Tippy, I have to disagree with you.  I think these people are very easy to find.  I had no problem at all finding you and many others.  I could round them up by the millions if I wanted to.  Every hospital, police station, church, school, fire station, and et cetera are staffed with these kinds of people, and many of their visitors share the same values.  Of course everybody is a flawed person, and some are down right mean and spiteful, but on the whole, I think that people are worth keeping.

Amberf, turn off your television and throw it away.  These people are all around you, but they rarely show up on television.  Television and a lot of entertainment is focused on conflict and rarely ever depicts real life or reality in an unbiased way.  Many of the people I have exchanged posts with here on Yedda take those values very seriously, and most people I encounter in my daily life will at least give lip-service to these values even if they don't fully live them.

   You are right that a lot of people are focused on material possessions and shallow attributes.  They are ignorant products of their society/culture/families and are to be pitied and hopefully educated beyond this state.  Throwing out their televisions would be a good thing, too.  They are too easily swayed by fictitious messages and lack the healthy skepticism that rational people have.

    The best way to find these people you are seeking is to become one of them.  Once you do, and you can accept other people's differences and faults, then you can see the common good values they do share, in varying amounts.  No one of us is perfect, but as a whole we try to do more good than harm.

    You have an inaccessible profile so I presume that you are under eighteen.  You have had a very limited exposure to people so far in your life.  Teens in all of history have focused on looks and showing off possessions.  Maturity is when they grow beyond this.  Many people don't mature, but I think most do eventually.  At least the happy ones do.

Hello, probably you need more faith in peopl! I know that times aren't easy and MANY people are looking at the appearance and ignore what people have inside - that's today's world. But as I said - many people do that but NOT ALL. You have to look more carefully and find those who won't disapoint you.

And remember: what you give is what you get! :)

I think neighbourly, friendly or brotherly love fractured into two. The larger part went into (got submerged in) money-ism, that's, exploitative capitalism (criminal prosperity). The other part went into hiding; only flashing out occasionally...Compare the bible-Matthew 24: 12; 2 Timothe 3 : 1 - 6 A lot of things...

  The best way to find thepeople you are seeking is to become one of them. 

I agree with most here, that there are definitely kind and honorable people out there.  I also truely feel that, at this time, we are all being called to question ourselves and our motives for behaving the way we do.  I believe that we all have the opportunity to recommit to the virtues of loving, compassionate kindness for all beings and in all circumstances .  This kind of commitment takes change on all of our parts.  We still have remnants of old belief systems... ones that say, well yes, we will be kind to this person because they are like us, or are the same sex as us, or are in a certain group with us, but, anyone out of that group or sex, anyone not like us , is the other, and falls into another classification as far as behavior. 

Life is very difficult now in a different way than in past times... the stress level on a daily basis and the disconnect from human and earthy things (and by this I mean the good connection that humans need with each other and nature) is reeking havoc with all of our minds and bodies.  PBob is so right about television (and, I would add, the media in general) that it hands us beliefs that take us further and further away from our humanity and from the voice of God within us.  We are all sold a bill of goods that has nothing to do with being the GENUINE and UNIQUE beings that we are... All of us must fit into some model that the media dreamed up that is unrealistic and bears no resemblance to what REAL PEOPLE are like.

   Sooooooo, what can we do??  Look for what is real, limit your exposure to the plastic world, embrace wisdom in any way that feels right for you, be truthful and honest with yourself about your own inner workings, and, as Ghandi so very beautifully put it, Be the Change that you want to see in the world.