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  davie : laughter

a big question

davie said Oct 12, 2007, 10:35 PM:
 

so. this question is not specific to freemasonry, but i see not other spot that it better fits. dave, if you see or create a zone, feel free to do as you wish.

how does one combat ignorance?

inwardly, first, i imagine. at least successfully. ive come into contact with many ignorant posters and bloggers- desiring to impose their two-cents on every living creature. in vain (and vanity) i sought to sweeten those tunes. to seek such is to impose. to impose seems to be the mark of villany- the mark of ignorance- and so the battle is brought to the home front. i am my own ignoramous.

but its a neat question- how does one combat ignorance in the world?

hugs
 

Re: a big question

Dave [no longer around] said Oct 13, 2007, 1:05 AM:
 
Yes!

A neat question indeed. 

I feel it has everything to do with Freemasonry and I welcome it here in this pod. 

How do we combat ignorance? 

I shall be returning to this question later on.  I must mull over that which is ignorance and that which I see as its opposite; figuring out in some fashion how one can quell the other. 

Cheers!
 

Re: a big question

The Peace Goddess [no longer around] said Oct 13, 2007, 12:17 PM:
 

Hi Everyone,
I just joined and although I know this is a predominantely male group, and as a female I am intrigued with this question as well. I am a student of the qabalah which has its roots in freemasonry. So I think to combat ignorance, at least this is what I do, is to remain true to yourself and be an example of truth. Try to stay in principal and when people are going off on their tirades of ignorance, just smile and acknowledge their issues, but try to reply (if possible) in principle. Sometimes this works, and sometimes not, but at least you have tried. I think if we just become a living example of walking the middle path, and those that have eyes to see will see and change.
Anyway, I'm glad I'm here and want to learn more about this!
Red Falcon
 

Re: a big question

Snake [no longer around] said Oct 14, 2007, 12:37 PM:
 

How to combat ignorance?  We have intellectual ignorance, emotional ignorance, behavioural ignorance, and spiritual ignorance.  

First, it must be said that each of us can only control and transform OURSELVES intellectually, emotionally, behaviourally, and spiritually.  We are missing a very rich life if we choose to remain static and in a state of suspeneded ignorance.  We are responsible for our own happiness, gratitude, and attitude.  

Our ability to change others is severely limited by the fact that .  .  .  Only THEY can change themselves.  We may, however, through our vibration, have a subtle effect upon others.  They may be intrigued and ask a question, or perhaps desire to emulate us because we have a certain “something” they want.  

So, from the whole, I deduce this .  .  .   Each of us can best combat ignorance through refusing to be among the ignorant!  That may sound like a very limited answer, but in fact if we do all we can to develop ourselves intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, we are doing something incredibly profound!

ROCK ON!!

Peace and love .  .  .


Snake
 

Re: a big question

Dave [no longer around] said Oct 15, 2007, 12:28 AM:
 
Very true Brother Snake.

Perhaps, as is the way I feel, the solution to combat ignorance could be summed up as 'awareness'?

Awareness

Consciousness; the possession of knowledge gained through perception; our searching nature in action.  Surely to be ignorant is to either have not explored or to have refused to explore when introduced to something out-with your current sphere of understanding?  To hold your truth as continually right and stable; unchanged from when it was first formed -surely this suggests that ones truth is untested by the ways of the world and the universe, rendering it useless; rendering the holder -ignorant? 

The only way in which we can introduce awareness, like a long extinct species to changing climes, is to be aware ourselves. 

It is like, for one, the moral lessons taught to us in the Lodge.  It is all very well to say you have understood them -even enjoyed them as they are highlighted throughout the ritual of the three degrees and beyond.  But have you actually learned them; of by heart and of the mind?  We need to ask ourselves this question.  For have the lessons of Freemasonry not penetrated us as deeply as possible, we can by no means take that which is the glorious foundations of our fraternity into the 'outside' world; living by example and transforming our role, relationships and life through our own awareness. 

  Darlene : Seeker of Knowledge

Re: a big question

Darlene said Feb 21, 2008, 6:47 PM:
 

One combates ignorance with education. To be ignorant on something is to not know it, but if you learn you are no longer ignorant on what you have learned.