01-21-2011, 03:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-21-2011, 03:44 PM by rva_jeremy.)
Thanks for everybody reflecting back to me what I suspected from the get go. It has been useful to get this out of my system. I appreciate having a forum where I can float something like this and get high quality feedback. As I said before, my re-reading of the material is giving me a better appreciation for how the transient stuff fits in to this.
My path has been to be highly involved in political circles where there is a great deal of emphasis on reason, rationality, skepticism, etc. While not the only reason I contemplated such a distillation, I must admit that being able to talk about my values without having to use the word "Ra" would help me greatly. But it would also be unbalanced, I think. I am going through the lessons of honesty and openness by placing my cards on the table, so to speak, to let my words stand for themselves and allow myself to be discredited by those who won't accept my full self. So there's some falling away going on here that is tangled up in the thesis I'm sharing with you.
Unity100, you are penetrating to a real distortion with me, namely an intellectual appreciation for the material that may not be completely balanced with an emotional or spiritual appreciation. This is something that I am currently working on, but having explained your reasoning made me see your perspective and I wanted to confirm your insight.
My path has been to be highly involved in political circles where there is a great deal of emphasis on reason, rationality, skepticism, etc. While not the only reason I contemplated such a distillation, I must admit that being able to talk about my values without having to use the word "Ra" would help me greatly. But it would also be unbalanced, I think. I am going through the lessons of honesty and openness by placing my cards on the table, so to speak, to let my words stand for themselves and allow myself to be discredited by those who won't accept my full self. So there's some falling away going on here that is tangled up in the thesis I'm sharing with you.
Unity100, you are penetrating to a real distortion with me, namely an intellectual appreciation for the material that may not be completely balanced with an emotional or spiritual appreciation. This is something that I am currently working on, but having explained your reasoning made me see your perspective and I wanted to confirm your insight.