Simply put Erica, no one can "be changed". Based on personal experience and similar stories from others who've earned trust, it appears our "reality" requires each *personified* spirit to experience what we'll call "transformative" moments on an individual basis.
Whether it's a burning bush, a light in the sky or perhaps the searing cruci…
Simply put Erica, no one can "be changed". Based on personal experience and similar stories from others who've earned trust, it appears our "reality" requires each *personified* spirit to experience what we'll call "transformative" moments on an individual basis.
Whether it's a burning bush, a light in the sky or perhaps the searing crucible of health issues (affecting themselves or someone close) that forces an honest re-examination and those first uneasy steps into the vast realm of discovery just beyond the bastions of orthodoxy.
Or not. As the well-worn old saying goes; you can lead a horse to water...
However, history also demonstrates that when radicalization "moments" arrive at larger scales, it features *both* angry mobs of desperate regulars pushed beyond reasonable limits and a commensurate level of bleeding on their part when they eventually press their case.
Historical hindsight also demonstrates that the forces of "order" have remained a vigilant lot since the only real "global" outbreak of reformist movements in 1848. Some of which were ultimately defeated from within, a tried-and-true "state" tactic we would do well to respect in the present.
And since you closed with the "what do we do" question, I humbly suggest investing your limited energy in protecting those who you can, including yourself.
Burning off such a limited -- and valuable -- resource away in billows of green smoke and reverberating sound, all in trying to "convert" the unwilling, is unwise at best and willfully dangerous at worst in sideways times like these.
Great comment and I strongly agree. It's that constant question that plagues me, however lately I have been finding it's a waste of energy to focus mostly on. Like you said, it's more important to use energy to continue learning, enhancing one's skills, good character, etc. And definitely surround myself with good people.
Could you please point me in the right direction regarding the literature from which I could gain some knowledge relating to reformist movements from 1848.?
As a lifelong musician (on the side), it's always nice to know when a thing resonates. Thanks. As for the requested syllabus, I wouldn't have arrived *here* without developing the ability (very) early on for self-direction and self-study sans curation from on high. In my youth, that meant libraries and phone calls and lots of unanswered questions.
You know more than enough to get started : 1848, a string of Republican uprisings against king & crown around the world in the wake of the Congress of Vienna 1815, a new round of statist backlash... go.
classical guitarst (as well on the side:)) here, but ever since wife and I were blessed with a baby late last year the time for deeper dives in history became scarce and that's also true for my playing.
Simply put Erica, no one can "be changed". Based on personal experience and similar stories from others who've earned trust, it appears our "reality" requires each *personified* spirit to experience what we'll call "transformative" moments on an individual basis.
Whether it's a burning bush, a light in the sky or perhaps the searing crucible of health issues (affecting themselves or someone close) that forces an honest re-examination and those first uneasy steps into the vast realm of discovery just beyond the bastions of orthodoxy.
Or not. As the well-worn old saying goes; you can lead a horse to water...
However, history also demonstrates that when radicalization "moments" arrive at larger scales, it features *both* angry mobs of desperate regulars pushed beyond reasonable limits and a commensurate level of bleeding on their part when they eventually press their case.
Historical hindsight also demonstrates that the forces of "order" have remained a vigilant lot since the only real "global" outbreak of reformist movements in 1848. Some of which were ultimately defeated from within, a tried-and-true "state" tactic we would do well to respect in the present.
And since you closed with the "what do we do" question, I humbly suggest investing your limited energy in protecting those who you can, including yourself.
Burning off such a limited -- and valuable -- resource away in billows of green smoke and reverberating sound, all in trying to "convert" the unwilling, is unwise at best and willfully dangerous at worst in sideways times like these.
Great comment and I strongly agree. It's that constant question that plagues me, however lately I have been finding it's a waste of energy to focus mostly on. Like you said, it's more important to use energy to continue learning, enhancing one's skills, good character, etc. And definitely surround myself with good people.
I appreciate your post, it resonated!
Could you please point me in the right direction regarding the literature from which I could gain some knowledge relating to reformist movements from 1848.?
As a lifelong musician (on the side), it's always nice to know when a thing resonates. Thanks. As for the requested syllabus, I wouldn't have arrived *here* without developing the ability (very) early on for self-direction and self-study sans curation from on high. In my youth, that meant libraries and phone calls and lots of unanswered questions.
You know more than enough to get started : 1848, a string of Republican uprisings against king & crown around the world in the wake of the Congress of Vienna 1815, a new round of statist backlash... go.
classical guitarst (as well on the side:)) here, but ever since wife and I were blessed with a baby late last year the time for deeper dives in history became scarce and that's also true for my playing.