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Is there anyone who doesn’t proselytize? I don’t believe that there is.
If you were to tell me that I am wrong, the reason that you are telling me this is because you wish for me to be more like you.
If you were to tell me to listen to anothers point of view with an open mind, you would be trying to convince me that I am wrong in having my mind made up, and henceforth you would be proselytizing.
If there is a room full of people, who all have admittedly different views, the only reason that they would know that they all had different views is because they talked about a certain subject and came to that realization. Now, when a group of folks talk about a certain subject, they all share their opinion of it, and the reason that they do that is because they all believe that other should see things the way that THEY do. I’m convinced that in a room full of diversity… there is more proselytizing in that place than in most others. Is it okay to disagree with people who think it’s wrong to disagree? And if they tell you that, aren’t they proselytizing? In the end, isn’t it just all semantics?
Can’t we all admit that all conversations are is 2 people giving each other bits of information that they hope will change the other persons mind to be a little more like their own?
At what point are you allowed to decide to end a conversation? When you see many people that you respect and admire and strive to be like get up and leave the table… do you follow? Or do you wait around and try and figure out why they left?
What do you do when you love a book, but not it’s author?
What do you do when you love the concepts put forth by a book… until you realize that the people that agree with the book are difficult to be around? What do you do when readers of books that you fundamentally disagree with treat you better than the readers of that books polar opposite? And at what point do you decide based on fruit? Based on the end result?
What do you do when a tree is beautiful, but it’s fruit is bitter or nonexistent?
What do you do when someone comes to you with something they want to change, something that they feel is destroying them from the inside… do you help them change? How about if everyone tells you that they need not change? How about if they all say that you were created to be that way?
What if you knew someone was searching for happiness in a place you knew they wouldn’t find it? Would you tell them… or would you spend all your time wondering how you “knew” that?
Can you really have a friendly discourse with someone who promotes ideas that would destroy those whom you love and want to help change?
Why is it that you are allowed to promote “change” in one community, and promote “confidence and acceptance of the way you are” in another? Who decides who needs to change?
How is it that one group can blast another group for only focusing on “A” and not “B”, and the second group simply reverses the trend?
What do you do when you realize how utterly silly a concept is, but you’ve used it to replace a concept that you had grown weary of and cannot return to?
Ever play that game at the fair where the same gophers keep popping up and you just want more people with the same mallet standing next you to beat em down?
Ever experienced disillusionment… and felt free of the bonds which once “illusioned” you?
Ever walked on the edge of a cliff so that you could feel dangerous? Ever find comradere with a group of people who loved walking the edge because they were forced to feel safe for so long? Ever meet someone who has spent half their life climbing back up, beating and bloody, because they were never taught to stay away from the edge? Ever had them ask you why anyone would walk that edge… that they had been to the bottom, and that they can tell you how miserable it is? (I have. And it was recent. And it changed my life. And I would never encourage them to walk that close again, and I will protect them from all those who would say otherwise.)

What do you do when someone keeps telling you that “A+B=C”, yet everytime you see it tried… it doesn’t?

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