tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post245862961909446847..comments2022-03-26T17:12:42.162-07:00Comments on Three Shouts on a Hilltop: You are your wordsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post-49049147725986098612013-08-08T20:06:47.440-07:002013-08-08T20:06:47.440-07:00Thank you for this, Gorm. It needed to be said and...Thank you for this, Gorm. It needed to be said and you said it well. Kathryn Price NicDhànahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10293181815707001620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post-83503722024309860482013-08-06T02:19:26.527-07:002013-08-06T02:19:26.527-07:00It was an unfortunate situation and hopefully the ...It was an unfortunate situation and hopefully the person will take some time to really think about their bigotry and change {one can hope, eh?}. <br /><br />"Forgiveness has its place, but it is a tertiary value and it is certainly not the moral underpinning of our world view. Given the centrality of it within Christianity, and so within the general cultural milieu, I get that it can be difficult to divorce oneself from it, but it has to be done if there is any chance of developing a different perspective."<br /><br />The idea of unearned forgiveness never sat well with me, even while growing up in a Christian household. It is something I always kind of felt bad about, but seeing it in this perspective a wee light bulb went off in my head. *ding*.Laurelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post-15894150541076645562013-08-05T07:17:11.807-07:002013-08-05T07:17:11.807-07:00You would think, what with the internet being tant...You would think, what with the internet being tantamount to a public, and permanent, record people would be a little more cautious with the things they post. Posting something in some obscure web forum, under an alias, would require a certain degree of effort to track (researching the isp and so forth). But posting something through your facebook account, amongst a small community you are trying to develop closer ties with? A little judgement and selection of your words is merited and a good idea.<br /><br />I remember, long ago as it now may be, that when I joined a few CR type mailing lists, and some of the other places CR types would join up, carefully selecting what I posted about, because this was "it" so far as any sort of community went. It was hard enough going it alone irl, but to be shunned by the only sort of fellowship one was going to find; a little forethought goes a long way.<br /><br />Of course if your views are already bigoted, you clearly lack reasonable faculties of judgement to begin with. So own your words, and accept what comes from it.<br /><br />That is an excellent fable.Sionnach Gormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03090586993140769946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post-3531491384128020432013-08-04T23:26:23.346-07:002013-08-04T23:26:23.346-07:00*synagogue ... ugh typos*synagogue ... ugh typosMarsailihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12642850838645697698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7836664455022539794.post-6524591986132063632013-08-04T23:25:18.186-07:002013-08-04T23:25:18.186-07:00Well said! (no pun intended, ha)
I particularly l...Well said! (no pun intended, ha)<br /><br />I particularly like this bit: "It is not a self proclaimed, individualistic, value judgement. You can make the claim that you are honourable, but it is determined by others." <br /><br />and this:"Honour can not flourish if the moral underpinning is 'we are all equally terrible, and so have no basis to make judgements upon others.'"<br /><br />This actually reminds me of a story I heard once while at Synogougue with my husband- it was really relating to gossip but the basic value is similar. A woman is sent to see the Rabbi due to her spreading malicious gossip. The Rabbi gives her a pillow and instructs her to go to the roof of her house and empty the feather pillow into the wind. The woman does so and returns, and the Rabbi then tells her to go into the town and collect all the feathers. When she says she cannot, the Rabbi reminds her that the feathers are like her words, and once gone can not be taken back. Marsailihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12642850838645697698noreply@blogger.com