#moral vision

[theinwardlight]

Our sense of the presence of God will be distorted if we fail to see God's reality in terms of our neighbor's reality. And our sense of our neighbor's reality will be disfigured unless seen in terms of God's reality.

Kosuke Koyama, Water Buffalo Theology

[omgstpo]

I was just thinking about how one of the things I love about writing and one of the things I love about art in general is that it refuses to collapse things into simplicity. It lets the world be as complex as it is.

I feel like truly great writers allow us to see complexity, nuance and empathy. And it's funny because with all the conversations on here about morality, although it's true that stories are not simplistic one to one moral Tales I think it's true as well that storytelling can help us to develop our moral capacity as well. And perhaps even to help us to claim space in the world to exist, to resist oppression, to feel all our feelings and be all the things that the world tells us we are not supposed to be.

Like sometimes just our survival is resistance it's definitely true.

But sometimes our resistance also looks like claiming.

Claiming space for ourselves to be fully moral, fully complex, fully human. And I think for a lot of us we've just had to again and again and again claim space to exist claim our bodies again claim our identities again claim our right to pursue our dreams. And to do this fully in the world to do this with all of ourselves to do this with our entire emotionality and our entire hope still online not having been compressed by the trauma and grief that we've been through. Not to say we don't grieve certainly we grieve. But just that we keep claiming it all, even claiming rest from all of the above as well.

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A Transformative Journey of Faith: Richard Hays's Change on Same-Sex Relationships

A Transformative Journey of Faith and Understanding I have dedicated my life to the realm of politics, yet it is my faith that has profoundly influenced my identity. Throughout my journey, engaging in conversations with individuals of various faiths has been some of the most enriching experiences of my life. One such person is Richard Hays, an ordained minister and an esteemed emeritus professor…

A Transformative Journey of Faith: Richard Hays's Change on Same-Sex Relationships

[skydoesx]

hey i made an art prompt here look at it

Moral Vision

Basically, you redesign a character and make them more demonic/angelic/whatever depending on what they've done and their moral compass

An example would be The Dark lord from AvA. Because of how they literally tried to commit stick genocide, you could draw them as a demonic monster

But that's just one example. It can be any character from any series.

If a character was initially bad but then went through a redemption arc, they could be a bit demonic, but also start growing some better features on them. Like if you drew demonic imp wings that started growing angel wing feathers or something

Vice-versa with characters who were good but turned bad. Maybe angel wigns that started shedding feathers or newly-sprouted horns or sumn idk

Possibilities are endless

[bookquoteshub]

Moral quote

Only men of clear moral vision should judge the problems of others.  The Appeal by John Grisham 

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[artstudentstuf]

T. McKenna on the role of the artist

”The birth of a new kind of humanity is going to take place. But there is still a lot of decisions to be made, how violent should this birth be, what toll shall it take  upon our mother, the Earth, what shape shall the baby be in when it is finally is delivered - these are the decisions, that artists can mediate and control. Most people are afraid of the unconcious. This is why you can have a psychedelic compound like DMT, which is very much like ordinary brain chemistry, appears completely physiologically harmless, only lasts 10 minutes, is extremely powerful.. And generally in this society you have no takers. This is because there has been a failure of moral courage. And the failure of moral courage is perhaps most evident in our own community. The community of the artists.   In a way, it’s the poets  who have failed us. Because they have not provided a song or  sung a vision that we could all move in concert to. So now we are in the absurd position of being able to do anything, and what we are doing is fouling our own nest and pushing ourselves toward planetary toxification and extinction. This is because the poets, the artists have not articulated a moral vision. The moral vision must come from the unconscious. It doesn't have to do with these post-meaning movements in art, deconstructionism, and this sort of thing. The arts task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other,  if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”

-Terence McKenna, a psychedelic philosopher, mystic, lecturer, author

[bobonbooks]

Other People's Stories

It just occurred to me this morning that three of the books I am currently reading consist largely in telling other people’s stories. David Brooks’ The Road to Character focuses chapter by chapter on individuals as different as Frances Perkins, Dwight Eisenhower, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, and Augustine. None are perfect by any means but Brooks teases out the growth of their characters as they…

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[erwaqarmalik]

The Day when the sun rises in west

by Tabrez Alamgir.