(09-08-2019, 11:22 AM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: This forum, by nature, was not designed to be a polarity free for all. This forum was designed to be a haven for people who resonated with being a Wanderer on a mission of service to others. This was Carla's intention upon the first creation of the forum. We haven't always succeeded in this mission. But, what we definitely try to put our foot down about is when people are promoting service to self philosophies. This just isn't the place. We can't be everything for everyone.
This is the bottom line, I think, for this forum, and it needs to be respected. But still, it's can be blurry proposition. Not to mention, what the moderators are aware of is generally more than what the members see.
For my part, I am definitely for freedom of speech for all the obvious reasons including some based on the Ra material.
I personally don't necessarily want a haven here. I want to be challenged so I expand as a being, so I am exposed to thought outside of my current apprehension. But on the other hand, I want to be here because I know there are others who are also outside the normal box, and who are also curious and have common ground with me in resonating with Ra and the LOO.
I definitely agree with the late George Carlin, in the meme posted above. I really don't think there is any getting around the wisdom in that quote.
The real issue here is that the human race is just not evolved enough to not need laws making them play nice. But laws and rules are generally carried out by the same unevolved people (I don't refer to this forum). It's a mess, and so thinking from the standpoint of the human drama is not going to solve the issues—humanity evolving forward in consciousness will. To that end, Ra says not to get caught up in the maelstrom. By that I don't mean not to care, or don't get involved even as an activist, but to detach from the drama, knowing that whomever is involved—victims, suffering individuals, STS authorities, etc.—have their own paths. (I speak only of humans here.) I see wanderers as a support system, and in that, detachment while still caring is the key, but not easy to do.
There is one way only that I see Political Correctness as helpful, and that is to highlight unconscious language. What I mean by that is we say many things without thought. Examples: bleeding like a stuck pig; best way to skin a cat; running around like a chicken with its head cut off (which I saw as a child and it haunted me and the memory still does). These are just thoughtless sayings or words that we haven't really considered.
And perhaps another way, still highlighting unconscious language and thought, is to expose us to a bigger picture of humanity. Being exposed to behaviors or people we have no dealings with because they were hiding away from society such as homosexuality not too long ago, is desensitizing the unconscious, tribal bias, based on limited exposure.
For my part, I simply live my life as I want to. I don't care about PC or laws for that matter. It's becoming increasingly more difficult to avoid human restrictions—it used to be the IRS was the main bully you couldn't avoid. But today…the digital world is up in everybody's business. And though that is a messy step toward transparency, it sucks until in a general sense there is a certain level of integrity in the human race and their motivations.