Where have all the average people gone
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The more I started to write the more I could not present my thoughts for today's blog in a manner that would not result in either deep misunderstanding or be so grievously damaging to an unwary person that I was ok with sharing it. So since there's also a couple of other posts for today I'll instead leave you with this great piece covered by The Avett Brothers which will to some degree speaks to what I've been mulling over, but opted not to put forward today.
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This concept makes me think of the song "Stained Glass Masquerade(sp?)" by Casting Crowns, which has a somewhat similar concept. The Avett Brothers song, though, seems to be more about perception vs. reality.
I was shooting more so for the emphasis on the fact that we encounter a lot of people generally at extreme opposites from one another in viewpoint, but very few are they who can pull the key things from either to combine them into a sort of balance. And I don't necessarily mean a compromise or a blending, but taking two seemingly opposing things with their full character and nature left in tact and placing them together. A loose tie together of analogies borrowed and paraphrased from GKC is for example in the cross on the shield of St. George the passion represented by red and the purity by white. That although the two are combined they are not blended together into a sort of weaker pink, but that they retain their opposing nature and vibrancy side by side. Or again as the Lion of the tribe of Judah is not in contradiction of itself when it is also the Lamb of God. The royal ferocity of the lion and the gentleness of the lamb; that neither are lost when the two are placed side by side in the same man. They are not compromised, but are both in full representation. A balance in the heart of man that does not lend itself to extremes of one way always in triumph or in emphasis over another. But instead recognition of the need for absolute truths with their black and whites as well as at other times the grey with it's situational examination in case by case scenarios. A right judge to apply well the response be it one or the other. One moment calling to war and another emphasizing the importance of peace. A tough concept to fully bake out without it being a super long read. Best described as men who are a paradox and do not fit into one or the other category.
Oh, I think I see what you're saying now. It seems to me, though, that at least in terms of perception, most people would probably feel that they do this (pull from extremes to make a unique individual). The alternative would be stereotypes, which people rarely identify themselves with but are quick to label others as.
I think you're absolutely right that God intends for each of us to have a unique balance/combination of traits/absolute truths. Which ones, though, are difficult to say. In that sense, this concept seems connected to Mike's August 4th post.
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