>>20512262I'm observant when it comes to other people and their expression of lifestyle choices and morality. Like when Borrello was telling me about the "super woke" wedding his daughter was having. Great - I genuinely hope it was an enjoyable experience for all. I just wanted to be able to focus on writing/researching or whatever and find the assumption that just because I myself have peculiar traditional style "positions," means that I get angry about other lifestyles.
>"449:An aged and wise Chinese once set out to visit a distant place. He sent a messenger ahead to tell the good folks of the house to prepare him no food save rice; but when he arrived, he found a many-course dinner awaiting him, for the good family felt that they must so honor his presence. The philosopher reproved them, saying, "I asked for rice, you have given me fish; I asked for rice, you have given me corn; I asked for rice, you have given me meat; I asked for rice, and you have given me sweets; and among all these things you have given me no rice." Observing that the family was hurt by the words, the philosopher added: "I have lived these many years, and, after studying carefully this body which God has given me, I have found that it doth flourish nobly upon rice. It was with wisdom that I ordered rice; it was with folly that you insulted me by offering other foods. You say that I am a great philosopher, that I am wiser than all other men; and yet you did not think me wise enough to order my own mean." In the same way, when our brother asks for rice, we have no right to give him meat because we think he ought to have it. It matters not whether the meat be physical or spiritual, whether the rice be literal or allegorical."~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics
