10-17-2012, 01:21 PM
(10-17-2012, 12:10 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: Rather than say... Ra says X, and I disagree and believe Y (totally fine), some will go through great lengths to argue that Ra actually said Y, and not X. I'm sure this, too, is all part of the process. But being a distortion, it is not at all necessary.
I agree with this in part. If you disagree with the material, have the balls to say so instead of trying to twist it around to match your own opinions. That just shows you don't actually know what you believe and are clinging to a security blanket.
On the other hand, I would ask who gets the privilege of making the *correct* interpretation of the Ra Material, or any other document? Another person might literally, through their own perspective, see a passage as saying something entirely different from what another sees there, and since we don't have Ra on hand to clarify any questions, no one can say with 100% certainty that any personal opinion derived from the material is true or false.
So basically, the reality of what the true motive is can only be discerned from within. In my experience, once you truly understand yourself, the need to prove the correctness of your own beliefs fades and the opinions of others become interesting instead of threatening. And should you come upon a distortion in your thoughts, it can simply be analyzed and cleared for greater truth to flow through- a painless process. Every time I see someone vehemently fighting to prove a point I can't help but think they're trying to prove it to themselves more than anyone else.