…a brand new Brad Cullen series

(1) One of the points of the previous post and the blow up of the circa 2000 photo was to call attention to the importance each of us place upon different beginnings to any number of incidents we, as individuals, believe are of significance.

When did the universe, as we understand it, come into existence? How about this planet? Does when or how each of us believes it came into being change the facts? WHAT ARE THE FACTS …and according to whom?

In that introduction to this new series, I pointed to a “fact,” according to the perceptions of several individuals in the pictured group; they discovered or had a beginning into REAL LIFE (BOTH as they perceived it AND as I’m using the term).

Now we get to a core issue, LANGUAGE, INTERPRETATION and TRANSLATION.

Here’s the thing, and it should be painfully obvious, no matter what your primary language, many different words mean many different things to many different people, including and perhaps even especially among those who believe they are speaking the same language!

One of the reasons for Brad Cullen Small Group Meetings is to help individuals learn simple ways to overcome the universal tendency among human beings to want to argue and that, at times, violently, rather than to listen proactively. An accusing finger can be pointed at me as being among those who are most guilty.

In these times it seems especially difficult to get a message of love and acceptance across, particularly to and for those who feel like they are part of an abused minority.

Many voices purporting to represent particular philosophical, political, religious and anti-religious, as well as scientific views speak with anger, arrogance, and hostility or have been so traumatized by the divisiveness that they refuse to speak or listen to anything.

For many years I’ve been able to communicate across many ethnic, racial and religious boundaries and that’s the reason for the photograph. I was a distinct minority, but we loved and trusted one another, because we were EQUALS, all with an equal voice, in spite of a rather obvious physical difference.

Even the seeming language barrier seemed to dissolve magically …and there we have one beginning.

Next up (in 2) we’ll look at an entirely different beginning.

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