Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...
May. 23rd, 2023 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo It has seemed to me for a while now that the least important thing about a person is their opinions.
Our opinions belong to the outermost layer of the personality- like pimples on the skin.
We get them from our parents, our teachers, our social milieu, from the media we consume. They are accidentals of place and time. They don't arise from the heart.
They may corrupt the heart, but as often as not we're better than they are.
So you're a Catholic... a Baptist... a Democrat... a Conservative... a creationist... a vegan.... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get all that but who are you really?
Are you kind, are you open-hearted? Because that's the stuff that matters....
Our opinions belong to the outermost layer of the personality- like pimples on the skin.
We get them from our parents, our teachers, our social milieu, from the media we consume. They are accidentals of place and time. They don't arise from the heart.
They may corrupt the heart, but as often as not we're better than they are.
So you're a Catholic... a Baptist... a Democrat... a Conservative... a creationist... a vegan.... Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get all that but who are you really?
Are you kind, are you open-hearted? Because that's the stuff that matters....
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Date: 2023-05-23 11:23 am (UTC)I hope I'm both of those things!
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Date: 2023-05-23 12:01 pm (UTC)