I read today the discussion on Rei LJ and now I feel very distressed and depressed.
I’m distressed for Rei who is a wonderful, sensible artist not deserving such accusation for an innocent picture.
I’m depressed how every time I see someone judge another following one’s personal principle and feelings without asking oneself if they have the same meaning for the other, and more the judgment is made completely out of context. Internet is supposed to be and ‘international’ environment in which different cultures converge and try to communicate and understand each other. It is, at least, small-town mentality or ignorance (that is not know) thinking that laws and feelings of a Nation are universal for the rest of the world.
I live in ‘catholic’, ‘narrow-minded’ Italy: here LotR movies are G and not PG-13; here ‘Sin City’ is G and ‘Brokeback Montain’ is PG. So, I know that when I’m in an international environment I have to increase my sensibility, and that an evaluation (or judgment) following my only feelings and culture is unsuitable.
In any case, I think this sentence is completely true (for me) and I remember it when I feel the urge to judge other people: ” For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man”.
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Date: Sunday, November 19th, 2006 02:27 pm (UTC)I’m distressed for Rei who is a wonderful, sensible artist not deserving such accusation for an innocent picture.
I’m depressed how every time I see someone judge another following one’s personal principle and feelings without asking oneself if they have the same meaning for the other, and more the judgment is made completely out of context.
Internet is supposed to be and ‘international’ environment in which different cultures converge and try to communicate and understand each other. It is, at least, small-town mentality or ignorance (that is not know) thinking that laws and feelings of a Nation are universal for the rest of the world.
I live in ‘catholic’, ‘narrow-minded’ Italy: here LotR movies are G and not PG-13; here ‘Sin City’ is G and ‘Brokeback Montain’ is PG. So, I know that when I’m in an international environment I have to increase my sensibility, and that an evaluation (or judgment) following my only feelings and culture is unsuitable.
In any case, I think this sentence is completely true (for me) and I remember it when I feel the urge to judge other people: ” For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man”.