Monday, February 15, 2016

Get In Line or Die? Hmmm................. Well, How Long is the Line?


So a disclaimer to today's post
I Have No Idea What I'm Talking About.


     Social Norms
     We determine what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior by observing what everyone else is doing or isn't doing. For instance, it's a lot harder to get up and dance at a music show if no one else is dancing. Still possible of course, but an unspoken pressure to conform is there, and often difficult to overcome. That's not really a problem normally, and sometimes it's just a good idea to do as everyone else is doing. Stopping at a Red light is probably a smart move for example. However, if it's 4am and no one else is around and no one is coming, why wait?
     While harmless crimes and questions of safety are debatable, some social norms aren't quite laws but unspoken rules. Such as a 20 year old dating a 40 year old. Some might see nothing wrong with this, some might want to know the gender of each individual in order to judge, and some might be appalled regardless. Even if we disagree with the way society thinks, our environment restricts our behavior. One such way is through the fear of judgment from others.

     We don't want to be judged. Why not? Some people hide in their homes just to avoid it. What happens to us when we are judged? Anything? You can kind of feel it though, can't you? And what happens to us when we judge another? Does it do us any good? What about when we have to judge someone? To live one's Life without fear of judgment—how can we become that person? 
       When we meet someone and interact with them we might come to admire something about them. I personally believe that every single person in The World has at least one thing they can teach us, though Judgment and bias can get in the way. Once you both get past each others' walls and nobody puts the other beneath themselves, you really have the chance to connect and learn from each other. When that happens, you might be surprised at just how much an impact someone can have on you, and you them.


     Can The Heart Be Wrong?
     We often hear the adage, "Follow Your Heart."
     But this advice is often given with the assumption that the listener's Heart is good, pure, and true.
     Where then do dark desires come from? Are they purely a corruption of The Mind? Ideas we get from The World, with all of its brutality? Do these ideas seep their way into out Heart when we want something?
     We want something we do not have or perhaps can not havethat desire itself is not evil. Then our minds concoct plans to get that which is desired. The plan may be more or less thought out. The plan may or may not consider others. If it does, that scope is limited by our sight and by the limits of our compassion. The more sight and compassion we have, the greater good our plan will pan out. Patience and self-control are needed to do and not-do, as best to "stick to the plan."
     God knows the limits of our patience, self-control, and compassion. God can see our plans. I am told they make God laugh.

     Though I often wonder—Can God be surprised?
 I got a table at an Art Show selling the pipes!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BambooEtcetera
 I've got plans for this corner...
 Yale at Night
Music - Vibration - Energy


Yeah I need a better camera before I can really make this a photography blog.
Though at the point that the photographs are worthy I aught to just put them on facebook.
I suppose I'm hiding here on blogspot
expressing my raw unpolished ideas quietly.
Ah, I'm reflecting about myself again.
Blog End - Journal Go!

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