I remind people that legal and illegal are not the same as lawful and unlawful.
Likewise, legal and illegal are not the same as right and wrong.
Christian perspective:
What you render unto Caesar is not the same as what you render unto God. To one, coinage, to the other, loving devotion and moral responsibility. One common truth is to be a member of the animal kingdom, which we are, but the higher truth and higher value is to be a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.
(Phil 3:20-21)
Natural law
aka common sense, Nature's god, or else discoverable testable pre-existing moral principles...
While there are many authorities, small "a", there is one "higher power," one Authority, big "A". There is one of each ideal, the highest Good, the Truth, the Right.
Ahoy fellow
Freedom lovers &
Wisdom lovers,
mark spark
PS
Kindness, even the most beautiful loving kindness is free. But please, don't drop any wooden nickels in my tip jar, OK?
Internal conflict? (aka fragmentation?; self-destructive internal dialogue?; a proclivity of left brain hemisphere isolation from right brain hemisphere attention?) For an explanation of left brain attention, see: Iain McGilchrist "The Master And His Emissary" (2009)
Also,
"Attention is a moral act and attention changes the world"...
Shall we each "take the beam from our own eye first"?
Mt 3:5-7
Among other things...
We need to avoid outsourcing our reasoning to experts and authorities. Let's remember our soul, our inner child, our teason, our creative reason, our sovereignty, our empathy, our inclination about "being the change."
Grokking in fullness
[For "grok" context...
See Robert Heinlein "Stranger In A Strange Land"]
I'd say...
I might endeavor to give you the moon. I will seem to indicate I'm giving you the moon. I am. But from a different perspective, I'm only gesturing with my hands and making mouth sounds. Truly I speak. I speak truly.
Yet my true efforts are like the shadows of a tin can, sometimes a circle, sometimes a rectangle, but still, with the right perspective, true.
[See also:
Tao te Ching (道德經) chapter one: "the name that can be named is not the eternal name"]
I look into what is really going on. Like: Food. Law. Banking. History. Sciences. Health. Geopolitics. Philisophy. Nature. Wonderment. Poetry. Music.
Learning?
I explore explicit reality. I study, listen to audio, grapple with comprehension.
But also.
I explore implicit reality, that which might be discovered in life but not necessarily via language. I intuit, imagine, sense, and feel. I cultivate awe.
I act like a midwife, cocreating the reality of my life, discovering the seeds of gratitude, empathy, and love. Love is a big thing, important, but in some ways undefinable. Like God, goodness, beauty, or truth.
How do I show up?
In part,
I remind people that legal and illegal are not the same as lawful and unlawful.
Likewise, legal and illegal are not the same as right and wrong.
Christian perspective:
What you render unto Caesar is not the same as what you render unto God. To one, coinage, to the other, loving devotion and moral responsibility. One common truth is to be a member of the animal kingdom, which we are, but the higher truth and higher value is to be a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.
(Phil 3:20-21)
Natural law
aka common sense, Nature's god, or else discoverable testable pre-existing moral principles...
While there are many authorities, small "a", there is one "higher power," one Authority, big "A". There is one of each ideal, the highest Good, the Truth, the Right.
Ahoy fellow
Freedom lovers &
Wisdom lovers,
mark spark
PS
Kindness, even the most beautiful loving kindness is free. But please, don't drop any wooden nickels in my tip jar, OK?
[ :-)
.
Tom & Lluvias,
Internal... Let's see...
Internal conflict? (aka fragmentation?; self-destructive internal dialogue?; a proclivity of left brain hemisphere isolation from right brain hemisphere attention?) For an explanation of left brain attention, see: Iain McGilchrist "The Master And His Emissary" (2009)
Also,
"Attention is a moral act and attention changes the world"...
https://youtu.be/3V3_Y_FuMYk?si=5PBhuNdBS-PLGXrC
Christian perspective:
Shall we each "take the beam from our own eye first"?
Mt 3:5-7
Among other things...
We need to avoid outsourcing our reasoning to experts and authorities. Let's remember our soul, our inner child, our teason, our creative reason, our sovereignty, our empathy, our inclination about "being the change."
Grokking in fullness
[For "grok" context...
See Robert Heinlein "Stranger In A Strange Land"]
I'd say...
I might endeavor to give you the moon. I will seem to indicate I'm giving you the moon. I am. But from a different perspective, I'm only gesturing with my hands and making mouth sounds. Truly I speak. I speak truly.
Yet my true efforts are like the shadows of a tin can, sometimes a circle, sometimes a rectangle, but still, with the right perspective, true.
[See also:
Tao te Ching (道德經) chapter one: "the name that can be named is not the eternal name"]
Or Rene Magritte:
https://www.renemagritte.org/the-treachery-of-images.jsp
Love & Laughter,
mark spark
.
Lluvias,
What??
What's my quest?
My quest line?
Let's see... quest...
I look into what is really going on. Like: Food. Law. Banking. History. Sciences. Health. Geopolitics. Philisophy. Nature. Wonderment. Poetry. Music.
Learning?
I explore explicit reality. I study, listen to audio, grapple with comprehension.
But also.
I explore implicit reality, that which might be discovered in life but not necessarily via language. I intuit, imagine, sense, and feel. I cultivate awe.
I act like a midwife, cocreating the reality of my life, discovering the seeds of gratitude, empathy, and love. Love is a big thing, important, but in some ways undefinable. Like God, goodness, beauty, or truth.
I will be sure to look into these things.
Love & Laughter
mark spark
PS
Wait. Is this going to be on the midterm?
[ :-)
.
The war-waging wits of powers that shouldn't be
shake the sheep into shallow arguments like arguing with a tree.
Me myself of smallish brain wonder at the wonderous things we humans might attain.
Tho I may be a poet who just dint know it
I verily do hope you get your
Wordsworth.
Let's see.
I've got some paper clips,
some tree seeds, notebooks, quills and...
Tell me again. I forgot.
What are we building?
Love & Laughter
mark spark
.
What is home?
Wife's outstretched hand.
Tom & Lluvias,
Your work is meaningful and necessary. As I look around at humanity, it seems we are in danger of forgetting God, Nature, and being fully human.
Sometimes, for comic relief, I use the Bugs Bunny approach:
Rickem
Rackem
Rockem
Ruckem
Talk that talk and really
Ffffffffffffffffffff...fight!!
Always a fan,
Sometimes comic cheerleader,
mark spark
[ :-)
.
Love that poem Tom!
Great work you are doing.
Best wishes,
June
Thank you June! Glad it resonated with you!
Thanks June! Glad it resonated with you