interpretation or just average human response?
anonymous
December 12 2007, 20:54:31 UTC
I guess I’d like to share my opinion. I have a friend who had a similar need to write and make those words public. The writing was beautiful. The writing was insightful and soul searching. Personally I loved it. Sometimes it was bone chillingly evil. I knew it wasn’t reflecting my friend’s moral standards, but others didn’t understand. It became a real problem. It even caused my friend to lose employment. In the end it really came down to a battle of will. My friend decided that you cannot change how others perceive your words. My friend had to decide between exercising personal freedom to express self and catering to the average human response. It takes a very mature and reasonable person to be able to read/watch/listen to expressions and not associate it with the source (in this instance you). The decision was not easy, but in the end the choice was to hold back in order to keep the masses from drawing negative conclusions. There are also the scriptural principles below that may reflect some other opinions that you hold dear.
Psalm 141:3 Help me to guard my words whenever I say something.
Phil 4:8 Finally my friends keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don’t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.
2 Corinthians 10:5 We are bringing every thought into captivity to make it obedient to the Christ.
Feelings are often a product of thinking. Not that thinking is wrong, but that some things we think about may be better off abandoned rather than wondered upon.
Re: interpretation or just average human response?endsofbreadDecember 13 2007, 03:27:46 UTC
I really appreciate your opinion and thanks for bringing out those scriptures.
Even though I'm very sure of who you are and I like you, I am always disappointed that you fail to leave a name. Very.
I guess I overestimated myself and people who may read my journal. I figured anyone who read and knew just a little about me could reason that I'd never be stupid enough to do drugs and that if I did I DEFINITELY wouldn't be stupid enough to write about it in here. I even thought it was a pretty basic metaphor, but I obviously know better now.
Thoughts are beautiful, but not worth stumbling anyone, including myself.
As far as writing untruths in the first place... it doesn't bother my conscience to write something untrue as long as the correct interpretation of it is right and true, if that makes any sense. I'll go back to writing disclaimers at the end of every post if I feel one is necessary so that way it shouldn't bother any one else's.
It reminds me of how many people left Jesus after they didn't understand his words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Not the same scenario and I'm certainly not Jesus, but most of my thoughts are spiritually minded, even if it deals with struggle. I think those thoughts are refreshing and interesting to read. Paul wrote about struggles too.
My resolve is just to go back to putting disclaimers at the end of any thought that could be responded to negatively. Although its personally disappointing.
Psalm 141:3 Help me to guard my words whenever I say something.
Phil 4:8 Finally my friends keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don’t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.
2 Corinthians 10:5 We are bringing every thought into captivity to make it obedient to the Christ.
Feelings are often a product of thinking. Not that thinking is wrong, but that some things we think about may be better off abandoned rather than wondered upon.
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Even though I'm very sure of who you are and I like you, I am always disappointed that you fail to leave a name. Very.
I guess I overestimated myself and people who may read my journal. I figured anyone who read and knew just a little about me could reason that I'd never be stupid enough to do drugs and that if I did I DEFINITELY wouldn't be stupid enough to write about it in here. I even thought it was a pretty basic metaphor, but I obviously know better now.
Thoughts are beautiful, but not worth stumbling anyone, including myself.
As far as writing untruths in the first place... it doesn't bother my conscience to write something untrue as long as the correct interpretation of it is right and true, if that makes any sense. I'll go back to writing disclaimers at the end of every post if I feel one is necessary so that way it shouldn't bother any one else's.
It reminds me of how many people left Jesus after they didn't understand his words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Not the same scenario and I'm certainly not Jesus, but most of my thoughts are spiritually minded, even if it deals with struggle. I think those thoughts are refreshing and interesting to read. Paul wrote about struggles too.
My resolve is just to go back to putting disclaimers at the end of any thought that could be responded to negatively. Although its personally disappointing.
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