I was having a conversation with another parent out amongst the hordes of miniscule demons, ninjas, princesses, autobots, and zombies.<\/p>\n
He complained about having more mosquitoes in the area than he’s ever seen and he hates mosquitoes. I just laughed and laughed.\u00a0 You see, I’m from the coast of Texas.\u00a0 Where the water is warm and still and there is lots of it.\u00a0 While living there, I have killed, in one swipe of my hand, more mosquitoes than I have even seen in my entire time in central Texas.<\/p>\n
It’s all relative.\u00a0 Hurricane Sandy was a horrible disaster… in New Jersey.\u00a0 In Florida or the Gulf coast, no one would even have noticed it.\u00a0 People in Chicago start dying at 90 degree temps and 50% humidity.\u00a0 Where I’m from, that’s normal April weather.\u00a0 Three years ago, we went for 45 days with temps over 110 and no rain.\u00a0 Of course, to me, anything below 50 degree is cold.\u00a0 I had the fireplace on the other night and it almost got down to 40 degrees.\u00a0 In Chicago, they don’t even put on long pants until it gets below 40 degrees all day long.<\/p>\n
Everything is relative to you, your culture, your experiences.\u00a0 What is horrible child abuse in one family is routine punishment in another.\u00a0 What is common courtesy in one culture is weird and shocking to another culture.\u00a0 And I”m not talking about the US vs. aboriginal cultures here.\u00a0 I’m talking within the state and within the US.<\/p>\n
That is something that a lot of people don’t get.\u00a0 Of course, they’ve never had to as they have stayed within their own culture and never experienced how anyone else might act or think.\u00a0 Religions are really bad about this kind of relational experience.\u00a0 They only listen to their own culture.\u00a0 Everything is filtered by their culture until they don’t have a clue what the outside is like.\u00a0 I’m not even talking about cults and communes here, just normal religion.<\/p>\n
To almost every church (not religion, but individual churches), everyone else is wrong and going to hell.\u00a0 Very few of them say things like “there are many ways to God” and the like.\u00a0 It’s an entire system of governance based on control, fear, and threat of punishment… and so many, many people don’t even understand that there are other ways to think about things.\u00a0 They will accept from their church things that they wouldn’t accept from their own parents.<\/p>\n
Our modern planet exists in a constant state of exchanging ideas, attitudes, and concepts.\u00a0 Yet religion is still stuck in the deep past.\u00a0 They literally cannot deal with a modern society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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