(05-05-2024, 08:02 PM)Maxmars Wrote: Perhaps that is one way to look at this. But I felt that not to be a mystic allegory. I think people... some of them particularly... are intensely good. Ironically, they usually are not tolerated unless they hide who they are. These people, by their nature, are a force of goodness. Whereas I could be an inspirationally inclined person who could embrace the idea as "Anyone might be one." Generally uplifting you see.
The spiritual identity-minded might invoke an "essence unseen" or an "influence unfelt" as an entity - an angel or a demon - it matters little as a diagnosis... I can only deal with the effects. So I proceed with the human experience as my context, generally.
Once you get into the demon or angel "personality" the complications get deep. It's too easy to project, and contrive an understanding, crafting it, rather than experiencing it.
Everyone either has 'scars' or makes their own, whether that person is good or evil... there are no special cases. Pain doesn't engender personal growth, it only mimics it.
Each to their own and very welcome
My position to the issue was based on a biblical viewpoint, as vague as that viewpoint can be at times
As for Humans being some kind of spiritual creature sent by God, I think that’s the duty of all Christian’s, that’s the purpose Jesus called us who follow Him into
Tho in my opinion, many who follow Christ fail and many who do - succeed in this “angelic calling” do outside of any religious belief but by their own choice
It seems a bit disingenuous for the religious to claim those who are not (based on this unorthodox belief) religious
As for the scars, yes, we choose how we react to our pain, there does seem no special cases as you say
