MsMarginalized wrote:
This might just be another Aspie moment to me....but since when is the truth the wrong place to be in your mindset? For someone to say that they have moved beyond literalism....just seems like so many words of fluff.
I do grasp the concept of black & white thinking (but have never been able to figure out why it's such a bad thing to do). I don't think anyone's ever going to convince me that the truth is a bad thing, no matter what word games they play!
According to the way the data is processed, it's going to seem like fluff to some people, but meaningful to someone else who may be processing the data from a different angle.
This message may not be too popular, but I am speaking here from my own truth and in a style deliberately developed in order to express it.
Here are some different ways to look at the comment of moving beyond literalism.
1. The comment was possibly angled to get a response (which if obviously did succeed in doing:-).
2. (Or it could have been a guileless insensitive but not ill-intended comment).
3. If number one, then
why was it angled in such a way---passive aggressive or intended to be helpful?
4. If intended to be helpful,
how could it be helpful?
Now probably nobody is going to stop and try to figure all of this out, but rather just leap to it, and that is what just about everyone does in this world. They leap to it, whether it is an act of violence or an act of mercy, depending upon their propensity, meaning the seeds or tendencies to process data that are already ingrained in them.
To those who are Christians, when you read the Bible do you try to understand it, or do you just automatically understand it? As I recall, Jesus saw some things differently than some other people saw these same things.
Take the concept of "God." It is very obvious that this is going to mean different things to different people according to their own level of understanding.
Re the statement of the cops sitting next to the convicted felons, it meant to me that this church was a place of love and acceptance. It clearly translated that way, but to you it did not. Now which way of seeing it is more generative? there obviously are some ways of seeing something that lead to one result, whereas another way of seeing things leads to a different result, but to each person it is his truth.
Next, let's go to God and the devil. That is obviously a black and white way of looking at something. There is God and there is the devil. One is good and one is bad. To some people this God and this devil exist literally outside of themselves, but to others it means something else--more to do with interchange and understanding. Which way of seeing these gives more of an opportunity for the seed to sprout, take root and grow?
13 May 2013, 9:30 am
