OrByte
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Another issue this thread highlights is the problem of people's reaction to an open exposure of personal conflict. There are those who feel such thinks shouldn't be talked about openly and those who feel it's fine.
A case for the first: Many people are assholes. The moment you open your inner life to a peak from the outside the voyeurs and snipers target you fast. Ah an opportunity to hit somebody where their weak, to put them down, to feel superior, or to wallow in this or that seamy tripe. This assumes a naiveté of the part of the teller that they haven't the inner resources and strengths to deal with such fools.
More importantly there is the notion of compact, that what happens between individuals should stay in the closet. How much abuse in the world depends on that pact. The idea is to protect the partner from exposure of their sin to others who will then ridicule them. This assumes the other person to be too weak to fend for themselves. It is really a protection of ones own feelings in the name of the partner despite the factual evidence such 'betrayal' does produce. Yes the partner will get the same sliming by fools that anybody else would. Does it really matter.
Who are we and what kind of protection do we need. If people are inherently evil, which I don't believe, there would perhaps be good reason to hide. We would have to protect our partners from justifiable prosecution, I guess. But if people are good, just screwed up, what is there to protect. What we do is protect ourselves from the lies there's something wrong with us. We are all terrified to learn the truth of how we feel about ourselves even though there's nothing really wrong. That's because we were taught to hate ourselves for nothing that was really wrong. We hate who we were and no longer allow ourselves to be. Truth about ourselves is a way back to the light. Hiding in a lie only perpetuates the lie there's something wrong. What is wrong is that we feel there's something wrong and can't allow ourselves to feel it because we think it's true. It isn't true and the support of pretext is just our attempt to avoid feeling how truly we feel there?s something wrong with us.
Humanity is sick, living upside down. We don't want to feel what it is we feel. Only by exposure to the inner secrets of others, the actual seeing that others feel the same as we can we begin to acquire the enormous courage it takes to go within. When you see one person and then another and another survive and blossom by diving into sh!t slowly but slowly we begin to mature and grow. To take a chance, to feel how bad we feel and live gives us strength to dive again and again. Blessed are those who open their hearts for they for they light our way.
No evil can befall a good person in this life or the next. A Sufi Saying
MB- I hope you don't mind me asking, what is it you do as a profession?
I'm just curious
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