09-27-2010, 04:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2010, 06:08 PM by Steppingfeet.)
Dear Crimson,
I am no moral or spiritual authority, but… I am a moderator who is duty-bound to help small fires not become large fires – indeed, to do my utmost to prevent fires altogether – and for that reason I desire to offer a thought.
In your recent post to this thread, you had a reaction to Questioner that initiated a process between you and him which require your mutual energies to resolve. I am therefore not pinch-hitting for Questioner – he can and already has responded for himself in a spirit which superbly exhibits the intent of the first guideline of the Bring4th forums. http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=63.
I simply wish to ask all on these forums to, if possible, always opt to respond lovingly to a perceived slight rather than in defense and accusation. (Anyone is welcome to remind me of the same at any time.)
Also, about the particular nature of this minor disharmony, everyone on these forums should be able to play during the course of our serious discussion. We should naturally do so with consideration and respect for everyone else, but we at the same time should not have to walk on eggshells.
As Questioner has already pointed out, hyperbole can very effectively communicate a point and therefore remains a completely legitimate vehicle for the expression of ones ideas.
More so, there is humor in hyperbole. Personally, I like to goof, for the fun of it, for generating smiles, and, if nothing else, to balance the serious, often grave nature of my thinking, especially in the face of so much that is horrid and painful in this world.
Consequently, levity is not only permissible here, but encouraged. Even the super serious progenitor of our communal philosophy, Ra, attempted to crack a joke here and there knowing full well that humanity exists in a darkness in which brutality, cruelty, depravity, corruption, and the wicked often dominate the human experience.
They, too, encouraged easing up:
34.6 http://lawofone.info/results.php?session_id=34&ss=1#6
Ra: The lessons to be learned vary. Almost always these lessons include patience, tolerance, and the ability for the light touch.
106.20 http://lawofone.info/results.php?session_id=106&ss=1#20
Ra: All is most whole-heartedly oriented for support here. Perceive the group as here, a location in time/space. Within this true home, keep the light touch. Laugh together, and find joy in and with each other. All else is most fully accomplished or planned for accomplishment.
In my humble opinion, levity, like all things, can be employed with more or less skill. We are all certainly capable of inadvertently offending each other through something we might say. So we wish to consider the effect of our statements on others. The Bring4th Admin team asks only that we all give the offending party the benefit of the doubt and assume that they did not intend to offend before we lash out. Following that assumption, we can, with love in our heart for the entity who provided the catalyst of hurt (no matter how inadvertently), explain how and why we feel hurt.
Should a member actually be intent on causing offense and pain, then the moderators will take up the situation. Until such time, we ask that everyone assume the best in the other.
Thanks so much for hearing me out! Love to you on the continuation of your journey. : )
GLB
I am no moral or spiritual authority, but… I am a moderator who is duty-bound to help small fires not become large fires – indeed, to do my utmost to prevent fires altogether – and for that reason I desire to offer a thought.
In your recent post to this thread, you had a reaction to Questioner that initiated a process between you and him which require your mutual energies to resolve. I am therefore not pinch-hitting for Questioner – he can and already has responded for himself in a spirit which superbly exhibits the intent of the first guideline of the Bring4th forums. http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=63.
I simply wish to ask all on these forums to, if possible, always opt to respond lovingly to a perceived slight rather than in defense and accusation. (Anyone is welcome to remind me of the same at any time.)
Also, about the particular nature of this minor disharmony, everyone on these forums should be able to play during the course of our serious discussion. We should naturally do so with consideration and respect for everyone else, but we at the same time should not have to walk on eggshells.
As Questioner has already pointed out, hyperbole can very effectively communicate a point and therefore remains a completely legitimate vehicle for the expression of ones ideas.
More so, there is humor in hyperbole. Personally, I like to goof, for the fun of it, for generating smiles, and, if nothing else, to balance the serious, often grave nature of my thinking, especially in the face of so much that is horrid and painful in this world.
Consequently, levity is not only permissible here, but encouraged. Even the super serious progenitor of our communal philosophy, Ra, attempted to crack a joke here and there knowing full well that humanity exists in a darkness in which brutality, cruelty, depravity, corruption, and the wicked often dominate the human experience.
They, too, encouraged easing up:
34.6 http://lawofone.info/results.php?session_id=34&ss=1#6
Ra: The lessons to be learned vary. Almost always these lessons include patience, tolerance, and the ability for the light touch.
106.20 http://lawofone.info/results.php?session_id=106&ss=1#20
Ra: All is most whole-heartedly oriented for support here. Perceive the group as here, a location in time/space. Within this true home, keep the light touch. Laugh together, and find joy in and with each other. All else is most fully accomplished or planned for accomplishment.
In my humble opinion, levity, like all things, can be employed with more or less skill. We are all certainly capable of inadvertently offending each other through something we might say. So we wish to consider the effect of our statements on others. The Bring4th Admin team asks only that we all give the offending party the benefit of the doubt and assume that they did not intend to offend before we lash out. Following that assumption, we can, with love in our heart for the entity who provided the catalyst of hurt (no matter how inadvertently), explain how and why we feel hurt.
Should a member actually be intent on causing offense and pain, then the moderators will take up the situation. Until such time, we ask that everyone assume the best in the other.
Thanks so much for hearing me out! Love to you on the continuation of your journey. : )
GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi