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“I have never met a “God”. But, I have met a lot of people who believe in them. I have met a lot of people who have mentally and emotionally convinced themselves that our human-imagined “God”s are real. How presumptuous it is for us Sapiens to think that we’re all that important in this immense universe as a species! We are the most self-absorbed, destructive, conflicted, and indifferent primate on the planet, and it’s all due to our propensity towards fictions. It is our greatest gift, and our planet’s greatest curse. And if we don’t learn to love more than our own, the earth will eventually send us to extinction. No matter how much we believe in our human fictions, the history of the planet tells us what is true. It’s in the ground all around us!” – Joseph T Farkasdi<\/p>\n
We #sapiens are not all created white-ly #inhisimage, nor #inhislikeness of any other human social fantasy, and this is just a self-evidence fact of life. #maga by teaching our children the truth!<\/p>\n
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“… Sed mi forprenis ilin de la vortoj de la sa\u011dulo … kiel oni devas akcepti la veron el kiu ajn fonto \u011di estas.”<\/p>\n
(translated: “… but I have gleaned them from the words of the wise… as one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.”)<\/p>\n
Mi ne havas okcidentajn atestilojn por montri. Mi ne havas rabenan ordinadon. Do, ne estas mirinde, ke mi ne estas prenita serioze en \u0109i tiu e\u016dropa mondo. Mi estas tre bone studita, sed ignorita kiel eble ne sciante. Do mi atendas pacience, ke kredinda akademiulo elparolu miajn instruojn, por ke \u0109i tiuj vortoj kredu.<\/p>\n
(translated: I do not have Western credentials to display. I do not have Rabbinical ordination to stand upon. So, it is no wonder that I am not taken seriously in this European world. I am very well studied, but written off as not possibly knowing. So, I wait patiently for a credentialed scholar to echo my teachings, so that these words may be believed.)<\/p>\n
“… but I have gleaned them from the words of the wise occurring in the Midrashim, in the Talmud, and in other of their works, as well as from the words of the philosophers, ancient and recent, and also from the works of various authors, as one should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.” – Moses Maimonides<\/p>\n
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Who am I? Is this the question of the day? Hmmm, okay.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent the first half of my life running away from society, rebelling openly against social norms, all in the need to express my authentic self.* A luxury that I never had as a child. I’ve been spending the second half of my life running away into society, hiding behind the images and roles expected of me, all in an urge to hide my authentic self. I’ve never really found a balance between living in both worlds at the same time, … but that is me. Who am I?<\/p>\n
I am a man of integrity and commitment. I am a follower of rooted ethnic-religious traditions, and I am open-minded in the expressions of tradition. I am a believer in authenticity, self-respect, respect for others, and for real demonstrable truth! I am a family man, and I am a friend. I am straight, and I am gay. I am polygynous, and I am polyandrous. I am a capitalist, and I am a socialist. I am a polyglot, and I am a silent type. I am polytheistic, and I am atheistic. I am a social nudist in appropriate places for this, and most often I am often clothed and reserved. I am a societal person, and I am a globalist without borders.<\/p>\n
Probably, the best way for me to answer this question of “Who am I?” and for others to understand me as an individual, is to ask: Who I am not?<\/p>\n
I am not a monogamist, never have been and never will.** (Though, see ** below.) I am not a monosexualist, never have been and never will. I am not a idolatrist, never have worshipped a flag, a graven image, or a race\/country and never will. I am not a monoligualist, for I have never insisted on one language and never will. I am not a monotheist, for I truly have never found peace in indoctrination and human imagined absolutes, and I never will. I am not a body shamed prudist, hiding under an adorned image to fool people into thinking that I am something that I am really not. And, lastly, I am not a nationalist, but rather an appreciator of global culture in pragmatic peaceful minimalism.<\/p>\n
Now, above, I have shared “who” I am and am not, in the nature of “what” I am. But, that in itself begs the next question (which I’ve answered in a few posts before): What am I?<\/p>\n
* expressing my authentic self – “To heal”, as I called it, from the incompatibility between my socially challenged nature and the contradictory socio-religious indoctrination of my youth.<\/p>\n
** not a monogamous – Though, I count my blessings for the experience of this in my life! Jag \u00e4lskar dig min fru! (I love you, my wife!) I am very blessed, even with this.<\/p>\n