You are not allowed! How do those words make you feel? They make me immediately sit up and say "says who?" We are constantly being told those words in our society. We have so many rules that have been placed to "protect" us from each other. I spend my days putting out messages of how we are shifting into a new world. Let's talk about being allowing.
Yesterday on this network the question of nudity came up and is being voted on. My vision for us is that we are limitless. We are allowing of all flavors of the truth. That nothing is bad or good it just is. That we will treat each other with respect and live with the only "rule" that is prevalent in all texts of every religion ever thought up by man and that is "Do unto others... "
They all have this rule in one form or another.
My new world has people who are open and truthful and not afraid to say something if they feel it. As Debra says "Be real - say what you feel." No more secrets. No more hiding. No more separation. No more judgment of other people or events. Loving one another and all things. Knowing the oneness of all things and showing that with our actions that by what we do to another is what we are doing to our self.
Nudity. The human body. The temple for the soul. It is beautiful no matter what shape it takes. It is a piece of God. Is it something to be ashamed of or is it just certain parts of it that are beautiful and the rest is not? How is it that we can be so selective on what is good and what is not?
What is offensive? Nothing, in my view, but I understand that not all look at things the way I do. It is only "offensive" if we choose to react that way. Offensive is a subjective concept that is different for everyone. That's too confusing for me. I want simple. The way to achieve that is to understand that nothing is offensive. Nothing is bad or good. It just is.
Tasteful. Also subjective. Who decides that? Is there a societal rule book and if there is why? Sure you can say well you can't do this and you can't do that but I can bet there will be 900 different answers if Jason members are asked that. Too confusing. Too complicated.
In 1500 BC Egypt was a country that was separated into the Upper and Lower Nile. Each area had 80 + gods that they worshipped. There was great fiction between these areas because each one thought they held the truth. Akhenaten, the first Pharaoh of Egypt came along and united Egypt under one god, one religion, one truth. He used the symbol of the sun as the depiction of God. He also brought in the reign of truth. There was to be no lying, nothing hidden, no secrets. Artists were to paint and sculpt subjects just as their eyes saw them. They were like photographs.
Another facet was that the population was to be unclothed. Akhenaten said that wearing clothes was hiding which was a form of lying. His partner Nefertiti was seen in many sculptures without clothes.
Throughout our history the societal "rules" regarding the wearing of clothes has bounced back and forth. Puritan England is where we derive most of our ingrained notions of nudity being "offensive." That has changed a lot in the last 50 years but obviously it is still a heated debate as proven here by Jason's attempt on being allowing of everyone's 'truth.'
Do children wear clothes? Not if they can get away with it they don't. If is freedom. It doesn't have to be about sex. It's our society that seems to have the need to equate the unclothed body as reserved for sex and nothing else. To me it represents truth. It represents allowing of each other's choices. If I don't want to see it I have the choice not to. We all do.
If we teach our children that our bodies are bad and need to be hidden then what is that saying to them. The answer about this site having a 'family' theme so no nudity seems to an opposing statement. In our families do we care if one member is seen unclothed? Does it offend us? Does it make us want to have sex?
Being open. Being real. Allowing. That's my vision for us all. We can't pick and choose when it's ok and when it's not. Freedom to be whoever we choose should be just that not living in fear of offending someone. If anyone is offended then they may have to examine their feelings as to why. What gives me that feeling. Is it because I was taught that my body is bad and cannot be exposed? Or that sex is a bad thing.
It reminds me of the law they just passed here about stores not being able to display cigarettes because if young people see them they will want to smoke. Typical example of rule making taken to the ridiculous.
Anyway enough said. Stepping back from this can we really see the awesome people that are members of this site putting up porn movies on the blog or whatever. I can't see it. What for. That is not the intention of people on this site from what I have seen. Nudity is just part of who we are. It's part of human life just like sex is. Why do we have to stow it away as if it didn't exist because of fear of offending someone. If we all live our lives in fear of things, what will we do? Nothing. I trust that we all can live by the only rule we will ever need.
The Golden Rule "Do unto others... "
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