What is normal?

Tommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Naughty, Naughty,Stop it at once
oldie.

Hang on a minute - which particular axe-wielding maniac are we talking about here?

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Originally posted by kevinrt:
You can't tar all axe-wielding maniacs with the same brush.

Just because someone is wielding an axe, it doesn't mean they will cause you any harm.

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Kevinrt,
Have you ever heard the old saying ," if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck
and I for one wouldn't want to take any chances
oldie

Tom,
Bet he is,

"lurking" out there ready to pounce on any wayward soul who strays from "Micks" straight and narrow, Now see what you've done I'm starting it as well
oldie.

Naughty Tom and Oldie. Where is Mick, anyway?

Here's my 2p's worth...

- What is normal? Almost everything, if we could only see it clearly.

- What is my purpose? Finding out about love, I think.

- What is love? Love is God.

- What is God? God is love ('love one another, and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that' someone said in a play).

- All religions are signposts or parables, designed to help humans understand something that's essentially too big for us. In insisting they're 'true' or 'not true' or 'the only answer' we all catastrophically miss the point.

- Following a single religious path has its merits: like learning an instrument, what you might lack in breadth of experience you might make up for in depth. And claiming 'I'm a moral/spiritual person: I don't need organised religion' is too often a handy way of avoiding the scary process of challenge and growth.

- Rituals, traditions, symbols, reverence - all too easy to throw these babies out with the bathwater when scouring the tub with logic. Sometimes they work magic - like music and poetry and stuff can do.

- Truth is the loving answer, there to be listened out for somewhere. You could call it 'nature' or 'inner wisdom' or 'God' or 'the right thing to do'. I wonder if truth changes over time, and/or from person to person?

- Truth articulated is no longer quite true. It's like describing when the present is: 'now'...'now'...'now'...


[finishes off bottle and goes to bed]

Bubblechild,

OMG.

Roolz are for foolz.

Live by your concsience.
It does work!

Regards,

Steve.

Like Bob Dylan sang:

"You can't rely on conscience to be your guide, because it's you who must keep it satisfied."

The axe wielding thing - classic jurisprudential thinking would lead to the conclusion that laws are not a display of our collective moral wealth, but a good display of moral bankruptcy. We have law not because we have morals but because we don't have ethics.

The concept of "normal" - relies on perspective. Perspective requires position. The lack of awareness of the positional nature of a moral perspective leads to bigotry and prejudice.

Deane