For those of you who feel you cannot get validation from TBM friends and family after you abandoned your childhood religion:
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson; ”Self-Reliance” (via seabois)
Mostly, I like how Pythagoras was used.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
sock puppet wrote: Okay, but on the issue of being understood, I prefer the Animals:
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
What a nice song!
I'm listening to it right now.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
sock puppet wrote:Okay, but on the issue of being understood, I prefer the Animals:
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
That song was one of my father's favorites.
I like it as well, but I have always enjoyed not being understood.
I don't know how to explain that, and I suppose it wouldn't make any sense if I could....
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. - O'Sensei
TBM friends aren't your friends if they require you to live Mormonism before they give you validation.
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)