I thought of giving this title, "Stop Arguing With God." Yet, it is a bit more universal as even people without spiritual beliefs can find meaning in this idea.
I will be referencing Pema Chodron's, a Buddhist Monk, book "When Everything Falls Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times" throughout this blog. This really speaks to the suffering that I see almost daily when people post their political perspectives. Everyone in this world is so busy trying to force their will upon this world into what they think it should be...they don't take the time to really see what their effort might create. This was another epiphany that I want to share because my suffering has been alleviated a lot since I had this realization. A lot of us don't want to admit that we are suffering. One of the reasons I love the Buddhist tradition is because they flat out state that most of us are suffering...that's a core principal of the Eight Noble Truths of the Buddha. The suffering, in my opinion, comes from not accepting reality. Instead of accepting the world/reality as it is we fight it...trying to shape it with our own will. This is tantamount to telling God/Source the Natural Order is imperfect and that we could do a better job. How completely disrespectful is that? When you look at our cities (which attempt to replace the Natural Order) I think you can see the will of man is nothing compared to the wisdom of the Natural Order. We don't walk through the cities of mankind to become uplifted...that is something you only find in the Natural Beauty of a National or State Park. Mankind's attempt to force their will on the planet and shape it into a 'better reality' has failed miserably. Yet, we still try to argue with reality. We keep trying to force our will upon it instead of working with it as though we know better than the Natural Order set in motion by something bigger then us. We don't want to accept how things are in this world. There are certain rules, they are not even really defined by Science they are so basic, but they are known and are generally common knowledge. Yet, most of us trying to fight against the existence of these things. We are constantly at war within our minds with the nature of reality that exists on this planet. We look at this planet, we see that people are hungry and homeless and we want to change it. We see that people are being judged and we want to change it. We see that there is unfairness and inequality and we want to change it. We see that there is death and we want to change it. We try to hold onto all of the pleasant experiences and fend off the negative experiences. We want to hold onto the pleasant emotions and de-legitimatize the negative emotions. Emotions Much as we wish that we were emotionless robots that don't experience pain...we are humans and we have a full range of emotions. When we look at how we treat children in school and employees in the work place- how they become statistics, a mere number- it is clear humanity is struggling with this idea. We live in an era where we are dehumanizing the human experience. We try to make every person a carbon copy of everyone else that never have bad days. Then when the people we interact with don't live up with this inhuman expectation someone goes and writes a bad customer review. We punish people for being human. One of the most damaging things I've seen recently is that people think others are responsible for their emotional state of being. Further, they want strangers that owe them nothing to aid them with their emotional state of being. I'm sorry to inform you that the minimum wage worker at your local bar or restaurant is not responsible for your emotional state of being. At the end of the day such behavior...going to others to be raised to a positive emotional level is called being an Energetic Vampire. If you're really bad dealing with your own emotions you're going to be very lonely because such behavior naturally repels others. Learning to work with all of our emotions is one of the most important lessons that we have during or lives. This is a grown up thing to do but sadly most of our population walks around behaving on the emotional level of toddlers. When we don't explore the depths of ALL of our emotions we are doing ourselves a disservice. Pema Chodron sums it up best: "As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity. To the degree that we've been avoiding uncertainty, we're naturally going to have withdrawal symptoms- withdrawal from always thinking that there's a problem and that someone, somewhere, needs to fix it. Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart : Heart Advice For Difficult Times Chapter 9 page 54 Most of us are taught by our parents not to deal with our emotions. We start to cry and they give us a candy. That's because our parents have never really worked with their own emotions and try to run away from the painful emotions. That's why we reach for food, alcohol, or the television. We try to escape the pain that we are feeling. We try to drown in it out. We do have the option of learning from these emotions. Fear is appropriate when it is dark and a stranger is approaching us. Anger is appropriate when a boundary is crossed by someone. By working with these feelings, naming them and taking appropriate action we can start to work with them and they no longer come on so big. Our unpleasant emotions can be our best teachers. If we listen to them, honor them but remain detached for them. When we let them control us or try to ignore them we experience a lot of pain. Meditation has been the best way for me to learn how to work with my emotions. Inequality This one gets a lot of attention. In fact, there are a lot of movements because of Inequality. Most people know that not all of us are going to be millionaires. It is hard to look at kids whose parents are millionaires and not want their lives. There have been attempts at the level of government, mostly Socialism, to try and 'fix' this part of our reality. Again, this is having an argument with reality and God. We seem to want a world of robots that have the exact same talents, exact same gifts, and exact same everything...yet, when you put it that way it is evident this would be boring and not accomplish much. As our economies change and we see more service industry jobs and less manufacturing and administrative...we are going to see more people become financially 'poor.' This is part of the effect of globalization. In the United States, at least, we have the freedom to choose to work three jobs if we want to and if we want to do a little side business for extra cash we can. Yet, we are rewarded by how much effort we have put forth. Socialism has proven to fail because people are not motivated when they are better at something but get paid the same wage as someone who is bad at the job. Who is going to put forth more effort if they are not compensated? Inequality is a wonderful and beautiful part of our reality. This is what creates diversity. Not everyone is good at the same thing an that's wonderful. For example, I'd be a terrible accountant. I would never get the job as an accountant and then insist on making as much money as the best accountant in the company because we have the same job title. Inequality will always exist. We have the choice to know ourselves and find jobs appropriate to our own strengths. In some rare cases we might even create a new job or industry that no one thought of because we can provide that service. I'm sure the family of the first professional dog walker doubted that could ever be a thing...but look what happened! If we stopped looking at what everyone else had we would find we have all we need to be successful in our own special way...without trying to inflict our will on others or argue with reality. A lot of the young people where I work hate having days off during the week. I worked a Monday - Friday job. Yeah, it was okay but after years of having days off during the week...I prefer it. I don't have to go out to shop when everyone else is shopping. I celebrate holidays on different days of everyone else and have no trouble getting a table at my favorite restaurant...to me the rest of the population is insane trying to compete for resources on a particular date. Again, it is all based on the individuals Frame of Reference and State of Mind. No one is responsible to teach another person this lesson (ok maybe psychologists and therapists...and it would be fantastic if they taught this in public education)...but as adults it's a responsibility to learn this! Stop arguing with the Natural Order of Reality that Source Created! Impermanence (Death) Some of our most brilliant scientific minds are insane. They study the Natural Order in an attempt to enforce their will upon it. Einstein was brilliant but his mathematical discoveries led to the most lethal weapon in existence. Science, in many ways, has led to more destruction of the Natural Order than enhancing the human experience. That's because they do not respect the Natural Order...they see everything as 'matter' that should be manipulated by man presumably because we are at the top of the food chain. Perhaps the most twisted idea they have had is to upload our personality into a computer and live forever. This is simply unnatural and again...is arguing with the Natural Order. Simply put this satisfies the Ego's desire for self-preservation but nothing else. I, personally, long ago decided that I do not want to live forever in this form. I'm very grateful that this form has an expiration date. The Buddhists called it Impermanence. When we look at everything around us we know all of it has an expiration date. Even the current experience that we are having in our personal life- a divorce, a crisis at work or difficulties accepting who is president...all of it has an expiration date. All of it has an ending. Nothing is permanent into our reality. We try to hold onto the moment, we take a picture or we take a note or we get a souvenir. Yet, the experience will still pass. We can go back and remember but the actual act will come to an end. The problem is when we try to hold onto things instead of letting them go fluidly. Instead of enjoying the moment we begin to worry about when (if ever) we will feel this way again...or we try to fight and make the feeling last forever. All of this is arguing with reality and the Natural Order of Source. Labeling/Naming When we are little we are taught the names for things..Ears, Eyes, Nose. Pretty soon we start sorting these into categories of good and bad. When I have a runny nose my nose is bad, for example. Yet, all of this is just a way of processing information and none of it is real. I have held the point of view that we live in a highly subjective reality. Pema Chodron captures this well: "Even if we don't talk about his particular teaching any further we can already see that many of our mood swings are related to how we interpret what happens. If we look closely at our mood swings, well notice that something always sets them off. We carry around a subjective reality that is continually triggering our emotional reactions. Someone says, "You're old.' and we enter into a particular state of mind- either happy or sad, delighted or angry. For someone else, the same experience might be completely neutral." Buddhisim has known this for centuries and Psychology just discovered this within it's brief experience. Imagine my surprise in my final Psychology class when I read that in the Capstone book. In the end, psychology can only give guidelines for classification...people cannot be categorized because there are just too many variables. The same goes with the rest of life. What I might label as a bad experience might be a wonderful experience for someone less inhibited. All of it is our frame of reference. If we do not do the personal work necessary we might end up being triggered at every moment. Pema describes this perfectly as well: "The experience of certain feelings can seem particularly pregnant with desire fo resolution: loneliness, boredom, anxiety. Unless we can relax with these feelings, it's very hard to stay in the middle when we experience them. We want victory or defeat, praise or blame. For example, if somebody abandons us, we don't want to be with that raw discomfort. Instead, we conjure up a familiar identity of ourselves as a hapless victim. Or maybe we avoid the rawness by acting out and righteously telling the person how messed up he or she is. We automatically want to cover over the pain in one way or another, identifying with victory or victim hood." Being a victim permanently is all within the eye of the beholder. Yes, you can be a victim in the moment but it's only if you hold onto your pain that you continue to identify yourself as a victim after that moment is passed. With the rising sun, with every pass moment, we can look at life as a rebirth if we choose. We can rest comfortably in the fact that nothing in this life lasts forever. There is a beauty in that constant in the Natural Order of our Reality. Life is transitory and if we keep that in mind we know that no matter how much discomfort we might be feeling it will pass. Instead of fighting that discomfort we can embrace it...minding the depths of the experience for golden nuggets of wisdom that we can keep. Conclusion I've only touched on the most painful and common ways people tend to Argue with Reality. The pain most people experience is a subconscious choice. Once you realize that you can start working with your emotions and uncomfortable painful situations more authentically your paradigm changes. Everything you experiences shifts in accordance to this new perspective. This requires emotional honesty...and what I call, "Standing Naked Before God." That's where you embrace all of your flaws and limitations. That's when you realize you are not equal to the infinite wisdom of Creation and the Natural Order. At some point you can stop being a little dictator in your own life. You can choose to try and stop trying to force your will onto the rest of the world.You can stop saying, "That isn't fair!" and trying to change the Natural Order. You can learn to rest with it..you can learn to gently console yourself when you are going through a particularly tough lesson that nothing in this world lasts forever. This is just a temporary learning process. With every stumbling block or personal trial you experience you have a choice. You can given into hopelessness and believe that you are a victim forever attracting experiences via that subconscious in a never-ending Self-Fulling Prophecy. In contrast, you can choose to open yourself to this infinite Natural Order of Creation. You can see the more humbling times as a wave in the ocean of the life that you float with effortlessly knowing that it will eventually ebb. You can rest in the knowledge that everything is this way for a reason and that trying to impose your will upon it only brings suffering. My experience with the latter has been a magical unfolding. I still have moments where I tense up. I rest in that moment, now and I embrace it. I explore the feeling...where is this coming from? I diffuse the feeling with gentle love. In all of this you must be gentle with yourself. The practice does not happen instantly. This is a multitude of generational conditioning patterns that we are sorting through and unfolding in our own lives. Yet, it becomes a magical process. Like a child you learn the small loving joy in life again. Every day becomes an opportunity and an adventure instead of a burden. I have begun to work with the Natural Order...accepting what comes to me without judgement knowing that it serves my Highest Good in some way because choose to search for those golden nuggets of wisdom instead of resisting the experience. Life becomes effortless. I can rest in the knowledge that what I need will be brought to me when I need it by the Natural Order. I don't worry or prepare for the worst tomorrow. I rest in the knowledge of what I experience full today in the moment or "the now" as some people call it. All of this reminds me of this quote Jesus/Yeshua made in Matthew 6:27-28: "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifespan? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies in the field grow. They do not labor or spin." Here is a wonderful video from The Moore Show that really captures some of what I'm talking about...
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This is probably the belief that caused me the most suffering.
One of the things that we are taught in the early years of our lives are absolutes and to discourage abstract thinking. This means that there is only one way to do things, only one path to God, only one way to go about living, only one way to achieve success, and so on through a plethora of subects. In this point of view only one religion can be correct. This also allows for only one person to be right in an argument. Yet, as I will discuss in a future post regarding Personal Rulebooks, we know for a fact that ANY situation can be viewed in multiple ways with a multitude of interpertations. This goes far deeper, but this is why eye witness testimony is questionable. Even watching a video of a crime can be interperted multiple ways depending on the angle and duration of the video. Does the video show the entire event, for example? There are always at least two sides to every event, often times the "reality" of it is somewhere in the middle. After all, as I said before, life is more or less subjective (entirely interperted by the observer) and not absolute in it's form. That is why each of us have our own individual realities and when we compare/contrast that reality with others we create a third reality that is shared. We, during this process, effectively create our reality as we interpert the data we perceive. Absolutes Don't Exist The problem is that absolutes don't really exist. We find the solution for this apparent paradox when we consider the nature of what God must be. God, in my best interpertation, is best described as All-That-Is. Now there are people who will absolutely reject this, they prefer that there is a man riding a cloud in the sky in another dimension looking down upon all of us, judging all of us and punishing all of us accordingly because guilt has automatically been assigned to us as human existence is a punishment for the misdeeds of our ancestors. I can't really help you if that's what you prefer to believe and I find that to promote a great deal of self-hatred and dischord within the minds and hearts of human beings. How can someone who hates themselves, who is at war with themselves, ever find peace? After all, your mind will be in a constant state of war, self-hatred, self-judgement and condenmnation...the opposite state of peace. All by choice. You give power to what you choose to believe and each belief must be examined...does this really reflect how I feel? Does this promote love within my heart? Does this belief bring me peace when I think it? If it does not...it is not serving you. Your mind, your consciousness was created by God to serve you. All-That-Is created you in his image. Nothing is Permanent Nothing in our life is permanent, nothing stays with us very long- not our friends, even family cross over at some point, not objects and not even the very cells within your body remain the same. The cells in our body are constantly being replaced. Nothing in this world is permanent. On a level of the atom everything is a bunch of paticles, floating loosely together (with space in between no less) and yet somehow a piece of wooden furntiure appears to have cohesion and solidity to our human eye. We can run our hand along it and if we punch it our bones may break while our skin cracks and bleeds. Yet, five years from now you might not have that piece of furniture. You might punch it every day...and yet, one day you decide you don't like it and you sell it or give it away. That piece of furniture then ceases to be in your reality. As far as you are concerned it ceases to exist. Thoughts Are Not Solid While the above reference with the piece of furniture represents a solid thing we can touch...thoughts are not solid. Thoughts are not solid within the mind of a person unless they choose it to be so...and I'm not talking about emotions. Emotions are temporary states that serve us as instinctive warning signals to help guide us to make the right decisions. Thoughts, what we believe to be true and use to interpert reality last far longer then emotional states. We hold onto thoughts, we nourish them, we return to them polishing them up and adapting them as we revisit them time and time again. We beahve a certain way in our interactions with others because of that thought. That which we hold as "truth" impacts the way that we view and interact with the world. Yet, they are not real. They are as phantom in their existence as the Northern Lights. You can see the play of the Northern Lights up in the sky but if you flew up there to touch them...you would find that they are not solid. You cannot take a bit of the Northern Lights home with you. The Northern Lights interplay of light and shadow change each time that they occur. They are never fixed...they are born and die every night giving a new display. Paradigm There is a natural human process where we create a "house" out of our thoughts. In this "house" the world is defined by very set paramaters. This little box that we make for ourselves encompasses beleifs and ideas that we have been taught by other people and interwoven with our own experiences. For those that are not exposed to diversitity, that are surrounded by people who are in agreement and think the same way...this "house" can be very one dimensional. There might not be many rooms or many doors or even yards...it is a simple structure. This type of pardigm isn't very creative and it takes the world very literally naturally placing ideas into ROOM A and ROOM B. A Paradigm is the way that people approach life, the thoughts that they project onto reality set an expectation for a set of experiences. When that paradigm is challenged it can cause a lot of pain and suffering. Here is the definition of paradigm: A typical pattern or example of something, a model. All of us start creating our little model "Thought House" when we are kids. As kids we take everything as absolutes and literally. We are only able to think in more abstract terms when we are adults and as adults it's important for us to examine this "House of Thoughts", question the buidling materials and the very nature of the way we perceive reality...or we can choose not to do so and remain in our Childhood Paradigm. Thanks to Free Will the choice is ours...remain in the childhood paradigm or examine it as an adult to create something new. Most follow the easy road of holding to their childhood "House of Thoughts" refusing to examine themselves (for fear of what they might see and fear of experiecing unpleasent emotions) and few seek the inner path of self-examination. This was the way even in Jesus time as he said in Matthew 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it." Experiecing Disannonce Disannonce can be your best spiritual teacher. If you choose to move through this uncomfortable feeling, to expose yourselve to what is not known or ideas that are not familar...your paradigm, your "thought house" will expand....to the point where you realize it won't even be neccesary anymore. There is absolutely no need for seperation between you, via a "thought house" or "paradigm" and all of creation but that is a more advanced teaching I don't want to get into here. But first, what is disannonce? The problem is when we try to make our thoughts solid. When we say this is the truth and the only absolute Truth....and worse yet- is when we decide that a certain bundle of Truths is all that exists then compare it to someone who believes differently. The idea of "My Way or the Highway" is extraordinarly dangerious and painful both for the person unwilling to bend their mind in a new way and for the person they are trying to force into compliance with their paradigm. Nothing has been more destructive in the human experience then this self-limiting methodologial approach to life. Since Beliefs are not solid, you cannot show them to another human being nor can they expereience the exact same set of experiences you've had in your life that cause you to believe they are solid...you can't make someone believe the same exact way you do. That is impossible and anyone who claims to think exactly as you do is a liar...to you and themselves. If someone challenges your belief, and you have built your house on the sand that there is only one truth and one way, the house you have built within your own mind experiences an earthquake leading to pain and suffering. People don't understand you! How horrible! You must make them understand, you say in youthful insistence. By words or by fist you must make them see what is so 'obvious' to you. Psychologists call this inability to listen to another person truth that is very different from your own: Dissannonce. When you hear a point of view so radically different from what you consider to be Truth or your Paradigm (thought house) you cannot place it within this house. You hae no context in which to place it and so your mind cannot process the information. You will, literally, not be able to hear or comprehend this "truth" that is outside of your paradigm. Their words literally sound like incomprehensible noise. Disannonce Example Take for example someone who grew up listening only to the oldies...just the oldies and believes all other form of music is inferior. They won't even consider listening to other music. Then you play System of a Down for them. First, they will only hear bits and pieces of the song because they are not used to following this type of music. They will hear mostly noise. Based on appearances they will judge the band is singing about people committing suicide and that it's over all a negative song. Well, this was done with a group of older people who watched Chop Suey by System of a Down (one of my favorite bands). Those unfamilar with the band latched onto certain things they thought indicated what the song was about and decided it was negative. They missed the symbolic meaning of the lyrics by reacting fearfully to the way the band looks and the few words they can follow. Beacuse they were experiecing diasannonce they didn't consider that there might be a deeper meaning which is about spiritual searching and profound...if you have the ears to hear. (If the video doesn't pop up below click here to see this example: https://youtu.be/KTX5PruTHkE. Labels Are Make-Believe Things are not always what they appear based on our first knee-jerk reaction to them. Labels, often are one of the walls people put up between themselves and the rest of the world. They define themselves by that label and assign themselves to a group that seems to think or behave like them. If you entered their paradigm, and looked into their "Thought House" the name of their label would be in big bold word across their door. Proudly, they exclaim, "I am this," without truly identifying themselves as an individual identity. This excuses them from the idea of being a mere "human." This differentiate them from other groups them but at the same time removes their need to be an individual. Do you think that Bluebird knows that it's a bluebird and thus different from all other birds it encounters? Probably not. Birds have no use for names or labels. Do you think a lily in the field knows you call it a lily? Do you think that causes that flower to perform the functions of growth and decay any differently? Probably not. The bird just goes about doing what it does to meet it's basic needs with little worry to the title that mankind has given it and the flower continues to grow into the best flower it can be regardless of what we call it. This is how I see labels. They mean absolutely nothing. They are a made up concept that we have created to divide ourselves from others and they are absolutely unnecessary. Do they provide any significant positive role in our society? Do dividing ourselves into groups with labels bring love, unity and peace on an individual level? "A house divided upon itself will fall," such is the Fate of Mankind unless we can drop the need for labels. I believe labels dehumanize people. We are one people, we are not divided into predator and prey in the Evolutionary Theory paradigm...nor are we different in any other way. We each are capable of producing the same amount of abundance and well being if we choose to do so but we pick "our battles" when we chan choose the path of Acceptance. We stop seeing the unique individual faucets of humanity when we assign a group label to people, suddenly they are not unique but a member of a group. They are a faceless robot assigned to the Label they or society has chosen for them. Labels, much like the rest of human existence is just make believe...a rule we have agreed to that we can change at any time if the majority of us so wish. Yes, there might be people who cling to the old definitions but if the majority moves with that idea they will soon be swept along with the current of thinking. Let the "Thought House" of labels disintegrate as you realize that even within groups there are individuals, unique, beautiful prisims that reflect the divine light of All-That-Is. Instead, when you look at those cliniging to labels and group identities you see can see people who are divided in their own hearts painfully rejecting their uniquness and individuality. Thinking In Absolutes Produce Limitations When we set absolutes, when we insist on the way we will accept things, we limit the breadth an depth of our experiences. This naturally constricts the way that the Creator and the Matrix of the Creation can interact with the individual. We have a two bedroom "House of Thoughts" while the universe is infinite and unlimited. If you absolutely refuse to accept anything but one outcome...you become blind to other outcomes that might be even better. You actually limit yourself and become trapped in your own expectation. When you practice being open to all possibilities you invite a multitude of opportunities into your "thought house." Eventually, as your "thought house" continues to expand you become aware that it is not neccesary. That all "thought houses" are valid in unique individual situations and neccesary for the individual to retain their identity while they learn and until they choose to work to expand themselves. Conclusion - Plenty of Room We must release the idea of holding onto absolutes and narrow "thought houses" (paradigms). These limiting beliefs constrict our spirit which is the same infinite source from which all of Creation emanantes. Until we release these "thought houses" through a self-exploratory expansion we will be at war with ourselves and the world. If you choose to be at war within yourself and the world you are, in effect, arguing with Creation and the Creator. When you try to force your view of the world on others, to bend creation to your will, you are defying the Creator and demonstrating a lack of trust with the Creator. This has been, for me a very long process to reach the point where my paradigm has effectively dissolved. This is a far advanced point of view then what most people are capable of perceiving. That's understandable. The best way to describe all of this from my point of view, is that their is plenty of room in infinite creation in this moment for everyone to have individual unique beliefs, thoughts, and ideas. There is no reason to judge these individual unique thoughts or ideas when you reach the point where the need for a "house of thoughts" to categorize creation is dissolved. Things simply are, they arise into your perspective, and then they fade away when you have learned from them. There is no need to hold onto ideas, thoughts or even memory. Most are so trapped within their "Thought houses" they inflict pain as they travel through the world and when you're own "thought house" is dissolved you can see that, assess what beliefs are most likely causing them pain, but out of deep respect for the learning process they have chosen to go through you don't intervene or provide aid unless asked directly. Sometimes, in the desire to present relief without invitation, mistakes happen. Concepts too advanced for their level of learning are introduced and they suffer more because of the confusion and disannonce. The reason I have reached a place of non-judgement is because I understand that each step of the process is neccesary and just important as the level I have reached (in truth there are no "levels" or "steps" but that's how we tend to relate things so it is easily to visualize it this way). The amount of pain people need to reach in order to "Wake Up" to the nature of Creation is up to the indivual, the path and the routes they take is up to the individual...which is entirely beautiful and fantastic in every way. I didn't think non-judgement was possible, when I started this journey. I didn't think that was a possibility, my paradigm was very narrow, but now that we earch chart a course to be reunited with the Creator/God/All-That-Is in whatever way we wish...and that all of us that choose to be Seekers and turn to the Inner Path of self-knowledge fall off that path at some point. We are not "perfect"by design. I just want to explain, that if you are not there yet, keep going but it is possible. There is still discernment, "I do not want to be around this or around this person," but it's not judgement and no desire to change others or affect others. Post Script Here is one that I saw recently. Here is a kid who believes that he will be disowned by his friends...that he will be treated differently. He owns it by putting a seperation between him and others by wearing the Storm Trooper helmet. They, however, decide to accept him for his uniquness and then emulate him. Most of us are doing this, we use our fandoms to create a wall between us and the rest of the universe. Within our fandom we feel safe with people who think like us who are delighted by concepts that we enjoy. Yet, again, this is a way we misplace our identities by hiding it behind this fandom....because we are afraid of our unique flaws, differences, struggles and gifts. |
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