Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2003-01-24 04:05 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-01-24 04:05 pm
Things that offend me:
Pagans who are unwilling to believe that there is such a person as a Christian who will not give you hell about your religion if it is different from theirs.
The one fellow within my social circle who exibits this attitude... it was his smug "You just wait and see" attitude when I mentioned two specific examples of the nice variety. I resent the idea that he thinks that my best friend will someday turn from a quiet, soft-spoken, gentlemanly, polite, and gentle man into a flaming idiot with nothing better to do than to give me hell because I am too much of a control freak and too responsible to lay the weight of my fuckups upon the shoulders of another.
If Jesus the Christ did not exist then, my arcane background tells me that with the weight of faith there now upon him, He certainly does now. It's not really faith when you know something. I just think that each of us is a potential Christ, a potential bearer of the cross, a potential holder of joy in knowledge, potentially disillusioned about human nature, having seen the good and the bad...
Knowing this, how can I get pissy with someone who has the same quiet knowledge, and has done something differently with it, and is respecting my space and my faiths? That's merely one of the bits of things in my mind; all the religions I've been exposed to, all the textbooks both holy and secular, all add to my understanding of the way things are, and I attempt to not diminish that, and thereby diminish myself, by deliberately snipping my knowledge to fit any given worldview. I can't help cropping a little to fit it all in my head, but I'm willing to live with conflicting ideas until I can figure out what makes the conflicts resolve themselves, or at least know where the conflicts lie, and what to do to avoid bluescreening when they interact.
The one fellow within my social circle who exibits this attitude... it was his smug "You just wait and see" attitude when I mentioned two specific examples of the nice variety. I resent the idea that he thinks that my best friend will someday turn from a quiet, soft-spoken, gentlemanly, polite, and gentle man into a flaming idiot with nothing better to do than to give me hell because I am too much of a control freak and too responsible to lay the weight of my fuckups upon the shoulders of another.
If Jesus the Christ did not exist then, my arcane background tells me that with the weight of faith there now upon him, He certainly does now. It's not really faith when you know something. I just think that each of us is a potential Christ, a potential bearer of the cross, a potential holder of joy in knowledge, potentially disillusioned about human nature, having seen the good and the bad...
Knowing this, how can I get pissy with someone who has the same quiet knowledge, and has done something differently with it, and is respecting my space and my faiths? That's merely one of the bits of things in my mind; all the religions I've been exposed to, all the textbooks both holy and secular, all add to my understanding of the way things are, and I attempt to not diminish that, and thereby diminish myself, by deliberately snipping my knowledge to fit any given worldview. I can't help cropping a little to fit it all in my head, but I'm willing to live with conflicting ideas until I can figure out what makes the conflicts resolve themselves, or at least know where the conflicts lie, and what to do to avoid bluescreening when they interact.
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(BTW, Miss A, your use of the word "bluescreening" was bloody brilliant. I just had to mention that in addition to cheering on your post.)
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*applauds* This statement is brilliant... stopped me in my tracks, mostly because I either know someone who fits one of these descriptions, or fit the bill myself, at one point or another.
And really, who *hasn't*??? More, I'm willing to bet, than will ever, ever admit.
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That post has been brewing quite some time...
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