Per the offended thread, I thought I'd try to expand the point, taking a smaller issue, making it into a bigger one. A little bigger. By doing so, maybe some will understand my thought process.
None of it is an issue of right or wrong in what I'm trying to get across. What I'm trying to get across is questioning. Questioning what we're taught. Questioning what we're told. So DJ says a warrior is offended, he's in the wrong. Do we just accept this? Or do we question? Some say yes, others like myself say, no. Because at least with my thought process, scenarios are born which don't necessarily groove with the statement. Others have put up their reasons for why it fits. But I just can't wrap my mind around this and accept this as an absolute. I can't accept it as a principle which is correct in all cases. I couldn't do it if I tried. I can't make myself believe it for all cases.
Maybe it's the word "wrong." Shit, I could go into the right/wrong argument, supporting either side if there's a right and wrong. How do we know what is right and wrong, or if it exists? In truth, rules are what we create. To survive in society, we founded "rules" and "laws" and codes, and for Toltec, the Right Way To Live. Funny that. In TNF sometimes seen is folks saying there's no right and wrong. If this is so, how can you follow a man who said a warrior follows the princile of the Right Way To Live then? Scattered, dangerous minds. Ahhh, conflict of the mind, turning up and down, topsy turvy.
How about the expression "Make up your mind?" This is a funny saying. Make up your mind -- means to decide on something. I can't decide whether to order sushi or a salad. "Make up your mind and order!" My mind is having conflict, can't decide which I want right then. Is it a right or wrong issue if I choose sushi over a salad? Make up your mind. Make it make it make it.
The media knows how vunerable the mind is. This is why advertising dollars are used to get you to "make up your mind." Oh look at that big juicy hamburger on tv! Flame broiled, three patties of meat. Oh look at how Tide makes those dingy clothes look so shiny and white! Oh look at Dreyers ice cream! Oh look, here comes the President of the United States! So convincing he is there's weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! We don't have to be controlled with force -- just appeal to that "mind" and when you think you're making up your mind, you find out in the end, you had nothing to do with it. That mind of yours has been programmed for a long, long time. Something else has been in the drivers seat, chattering away, good old internal dialogue, and your eyes have been shut, duping yourself to believing you've been in control all along!
If we weren't such vunerable saps, there would be no need for advertising "gimmicks." There would be no need for vision quests, spiritual experiences, seeking, solving mysteries.
So I'm saying this: question what we're being told, by any source, anything. Question and know that the mind is vunerable. We still have to work with the mind, but question even what we've been believing for decades if necessary! We can't put aside experience because of words. We got to be sure, or else we'd be adopting principles which may not be good for us.
That's what I'm saying.