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Originally Posted by truncated
Since I'm on this kick anyhow -
I can't identify with Rastas, either. Grow some dreads, smoke some dope, pray to Jah every night you'll wake up less white, and you think you and your magic bong are going to unite the world's people in spiritual harmony.
I'm happy for you.
I have no objection to self-importance. When it comes to opinion, self-importance is integral. MY opinion affects MY behavior. I'm the most important fucking person in the world, in that respect. When such divisive issues like abortion and religion exist in society, there is no universal harmony, Scooter.
However, on the other hand, I personally think my credo is more conducive to harmony than most. While I choose to uphold and abide by my own personal standards of morality and behavior, I make a point of not imposing those upon other people. Despite being a misanthrope (or perhaps because of?), I can live in perfect harmony with others, as long as they mind their own goddamned business as well.
The construction of a prinicipled utopia begins at the core. If you don't have a solid personal foundation, if you have nothing you personally stand for, then your efforts in any other direction will be wasted. What you see as tolerance, promotion of harmony, and open-mindedness, I see as spinelessness, ignorance, and/or indifference. If you can't take a stance, you will forever tread on infirm ground.
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Living for yourself is the only reason people translate into an existence of death to begin with. We within Orthodox Christianity have our Orthodox Creed, which we chant to elevate the Higher above We, the lower and inferior. We have our convictions, our beliefs, our opinions, a 'solid personal foundation', and chief amongst them is the idea that We ourselves are inferior to God Almighty, and that all of humanity is united in this equality of inferiority. I-man don't promote tolerance, harmony, and open-mindedness. I-man promote, Truth, Equal Rights, and Justice, according to the Divine Monarchy of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I. The stance a man must take in this life, is to see himself as an inferior vessel to the superior. The problem with those pro-lifer protestors? They were making themselves self-important. They were not serving Our God, they were serving their own interest, trying to make ammends for their own misbehaviors. That is not the works of Faith. It is as I said, the more important you think you are, the less important you actually become, in all things.