BrotherButterball wrote:You cannot apply your single paradigm to all of magic and all magicians.
I don't, just as I don't go around trying to apply gravity to people.
A word to the wise, is all.
I find it curious that we use a system of rules that obviously works, and demonstrates itself as universal, yet much of society has become relegated to opinions and individual paradigms rather than certain knowledge.
It happens in politics as well. People used to know the law. Now they only appear to present arbitrary opinions, lacking in an objective, unifying basis and frequently in conflict. Everyone's free to have opinions of their own, but it does them very little good.
How convenient this is for the politicians.
Like it or not. You and I define our own magic and what we do with it.
We come to our own conclusions about it, certainly.
Interestingly, we're free to reinterpret universal principles and our True Natures, but not actually overwrite them.
Regarding self advertising. People love to talk about themselves.
Certainly. Some, that is.
People in general are self self centered.
I'd said as much. Naughty by nurture.
Writing that America is not being accepted because of
egotism and such is foolhardy and narrow.
Umm, thanks.
I wrote that
its baseless paper money was being rejected.
Name several countries and nations where the leaders
are not self serving, and you will win the Door Prize from me.
Thank you, no.
Politicians have always been thus.
Yes, wherever it was tolerated.
People will only tolerate from others what they have been made accustomed to tolerating from themselves.
Unless you are able to spiritualize politics
being egoistic and self serving is a reality
I would say typical. True reality isn't so up for redefinition like that. If we only accepted what seemed prevalent as valid, this board wouldn't be here.
Spiritualizing politics requires spiritualizing people again. Doing anything with politics requires doing it first with, or to, the People.
Which is how they dis-spirited politics, of course. Dissociated it from its true nature and purpose. Detached it from its essence. And we know what the opposite of in-spiration is.
I'm respiritualizing people every day. And I'm rather aghast that so many of the modern churches are not.
It would seem to be their purpose, after all.
and it is not going to disappear.
Our True Nature doesn't go away. And it's a great unifier.
Formal decrees from baseless authorities never stopped our basic nature, only denied it. They tried a
bronze tablet, but we still have our intrinsic
joi de vivre.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Charming.