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Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll

Sex, drugs, rock n roll, money, power, science, religion, etc, ad nauseum... Most human devices or endeavors can be taken to extremes, too much or too little. Too much oxygen can harm us as much as oxygen deprivation. Restrictive beliefs will stunt our spiritual development as surely as no consideration of our beliefs at all.

It's not about what we do, it's about why we do it. One man's trash is another man's treasure. If we could all agree on this simple concept used in junk sales, why we'd all have treasure beyond counting. We'd be able to accept each other and our differences without judgement. I'd respect you enough as an individual soul/spirit/person to let you make your own mistakes and claim your own victories, although it might benefit us both to assist each other if we could. My respect comes from the recognition that you are neither above me nor below me, but equal with me in all creation.

Even if I play some part in shaping your life, it is not my doing but your choices that effect the changes. Even in the face of God or whatever terms we use for the power that drives it all, we have choices and those choices are made by the individual. We are each individually expected to make our own choices. If we bend beneath the choices of others, by their will and not our own, then we are not expressing who we are created to be.

You may feel that I am making a monumental mistake by not accepting your concept of God, or Allah, or All That Is, etc. But if that's the case, then you are misjudging the power to which you personally ascribe. Surely you agree that God or whatever you may call that power... loves us more perfectly than we can (humanly) love each other. God/etc, despite this love, will let me make choices which may not be in my best interest but to do otherwise would be to revoke my individuality and my freewill, with which I am endowed at creation. (If you have a problem with the word 'love', substitute 'value' or similar.)

So if God or whatever ultimate power, knowing and seeing all, being everywhere in everything, loving completely and unconditionally... if God/etc allows me my freedom, who are you to try to revoke it? or narrow it? or define what is and is not 'right' for me?

I will try my best not to do this to you.

02.22.2002

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