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Fashion vs bigotry

11/24/2015

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Folks these days in the west are showing an aversion to women covering themselves in the "islamic" way. I understand the point of women not wanting to be dominated and being forced to "hide," so isn't that what they should express? A fear that in the future they could loose their rights? In that case they need to do some soul searching and realize that they are acting on fear. Perhaps someone could fear them based on their skin colour, social grouping or religion. Can that person then act against them? Should they be enabled to do so?

Covering the hair is in many cultures including my own. British women used to love wearing headscarves, sometimes in combination with sunglasses. I often see people with a baseball cap on and a hoodie pulled over the top, hiding hair, neck and a portion of the face, plus hiding the eyes if they wish. 

So, we already accept the right to show or cover whatever part of you you like, so what is it with the fuss over the muslim dress? Are we arguing about fashion? Are we that shallow? Or is it xenophobia? Or is it racism? Is it religious intolerance? Is it fear? Because when you push past the 'veil' the questions become far more interesting.
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I had a dream...

11/18/2015

 


I dreamt last night about the concept of absolute morality vs flexibility in different cultures, to my dreaming brain it was the same as a flower. In the centre was love with all the positive values essential to a functioning society and the petals were different cultures and belief systems that bring people closer to love, to God, or to however they conceptualize goodness. I got up, made a note, went back to sleep. So today I'm super excited to make it into a blog post!

The dream wasn't just of a daisy-like flower, it was more detailed than that. Only ideas that are opposites can be sorted to go into the centre, so like love and hate, the positive emotion is assigned a number one and hate is assigned a zero. Only the number one's go into the centre of the morality vs. culture flower. Beliefs that bring one closer to Love, to God, to the Divine, to Goodness are the beautiful petals. 

So for me, I can build the centre of my own morality flower like this:

love 1                  hate 0
kindness 1         cruelty 0
forgiveness 1    grudges 0
grace 1               intolerance 0
save 1                 kill 0
self love 1          selfishness 0
truth 1                lies 0

....    you get the idea! Only the number one's go into the centre to make up the morality you personally won't compromise on. But I believe there is a set of values we can all agree on, and that would be an absolute morality for humanity. We are all born with love in our hearts and souls, all with the same moral compass, but in this crazy world of persuasion and spin we can act in ways fundamentally against the peace and mercy that should reign within us. 

For me the many cultures of the world are the beautiful petals, and who among us would want a world without flowers?

Love to all,

​Daisy

P.S. Thank you to Hester for your comment, I guess for you Jesus is at the centre of your "flower" and from there radiates the wonderful petals.

The Single Most Important Lesson For Every Writer

11/6/2015

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I can tell you why the Liberals won in Canada and it's solid evidence of the most important lesson every writer needs to know.

While our conscious minds understand negation the subconscious does not. Sounds unreal, right?

Back to the election:

Attack adds ran over and over "Justin Trudeau, he's just not ready!"

The conscious mind hears the statement as intended, the subconscious hears:

"Justin Trudeau, he's just ready!"

And here is the kicker for the writers of the attack ads - the real driver of all human action is the subconscious. It is our more primitive animal brains that drive our behaviours.

So the lesson is:

After every first draft of a piece you must read it again omitting the negation to understand what message will go into the subconscious of your reader. 

​Know the message you are really writing, be clear! 
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