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Stardate: Monday, July 14, 2003

Sense and sensibility

What does it mean if you are "a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." Does this mean that I love you more than everyone else? Is this the sort of thing that I would say to a lover? Or to a son/daughter? Would I say this to one of my progeny with regards to them all? Is that the kind of parent I should be? If so, would that be right?

If I were a moral absolute, would I be right in making this claim? Don't, for one minute, think about what this child does versus what any other child had done before it. This is a newborn. An innocent. And before he/she has a chance to do anything, I say that he/she is "a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." Is that fair? Is that right?

Some people may have gotten the point to this little rant, right off the bat. Others may have already guessed the point. For those who have not, I shouldn't say, because you are probably the innocents. I have no desire to bash one person's beliefs or anothers, but I will say this. Exclusionary clubs are utterly ridiculous sounding when they are trying to preach solidarity.

As many wise people have said in the past, it's not about the stories itself. It's what you take from them. It's what you decide to do with them that counts. The lessons that you learn from life experiences. I'm not perfect. Anything but (despite what people may think I think about myself.) But I don't tell people that I am right and they are wrong. The moment you have the arrogance to say that you aren't wrong about anything, is the moment you had best be prepared to back it up.

As to being "a peculiar treasure unto me above all people," let me say that that phrase is so out of place from its source that I can't believe for one moment that anyone would believe it. That's like me deciding to build a mansion, for a family, and telling them that it's a great house, and that they should take care of it, but that this one little closet in the upper guest room is the prime real estate in the whole house. If they want to really live it up, it's in that one closet that they should live, and then leave the family to fight for that one little room which, upon any and all inspection, contains no differences from the rest of the house, other than the fact that it is small, uncomfortable and rather spartan.

Analogy much?
:: J 2:29 PM [+] ::
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