Simple minds focus on people, places, and things

Average minds on events, and who did what to whom at a particular when and where (which includes the subjects of the simple mind)

Exceptional minds meditate on the hows and whys, that led to the things which the simple and average minds are in the thrall of

Transcendent minds perceive, acknowledge Him who is the Author and Ordinator of all the hows and whys, and, as Socrates said, “are always, according to the measure of their abilities, clinging in recollection to those things in which God abides, and in beholding which He is what He is. And he who employs aright these memories is ever being initiated into perfect mysteries and alone becomes truly perfect. But, as he forgets earthly interests and is rapt in the divine, the vulgar deem him mad, and rebuke him; they do not see that he is inspired.”

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  • Bustin Jeeber@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Empath
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    11 months ago

    There is a scriptural example of qualified empathy in Christ’s mission statement. When his followers mentioned the people that had been crushed by the tower of Siloam, and those whose blood Herod had used to mix in his wine, Jesus responded with a notable lack of concern. His answer more or less being “if you think such things are happening to those which don’t have it coming to them then your perception, and conceptions, of good and evil are not accurate” and to check their own behaviours to see if they themselves are even worthy of escaping such a fate or worse.

    Paul as well describes “terrible times”(2 Tim 3)where many will have devolved to a level of degeneracy which even animals are unable to sink to, and not to have anything to do with such people personally even if one must encounter them on a daily basis. In another verse(1Cor 5 :10) he states that one would have to leave the world entirely to even avoid the moderately immoral people which are only greedy, cheats, or motivated by lust.

    I guess the inference is that to have empathy and care for those which suffer for being truly innocent in a guilty world is a sign of love, but even love doesn’t empathize with the vicious(slaves of vice) or evil intentioned people that are merely homo sapiens but not humans. Because it takes a lot more to graduate to human-hood than just liking to say or believe one is a human. Whereas homo sapien-hood is the default animal state we all get born into from the start, due to the unchecked monkey-lust of every one of our ancestors that resulted in our being born in the first place. Being good is not so easy as some like to claim, for “the way is steep and narrow and few are they that find it”