“Rather than preaching for or against a mighty power to which all must bend the knee, Bakhtin (under the Soviet empire) is looking for a way out. Not for a challenger or some new authoritative discourse, but rather a new way to be, a new way of voicing in a manner more aligned with things that grow and adapt.” – Daymon Smith
Not everyone believes their current understanding should be preached, or taught at all, often just hoping instead that others may find value in letting them have and express beliefs, those things that they imagine.
Not everyone believes that their current understanding is The One Correct Understanding, or that what they believe is superior and all other beliefs must bend the knee.
Not everyone takes the things they currently believe and makes of them hard conclusions, conclusions turned into tools or weapons then used to challenge, berate, argue, defend, abuse, debate until they have destroyed their opponents. Some people don’t even view others as opponents at all, even if they strongly disagree with others.
An authoritative discourse ……. authority …. as far as I understand this word, and my personal experiences on this earth with things or people who wear this word in a sense like their superhero or godlike powers, authority seems to be an attempt to take the infinite and make it finite, to take God and His creative powers, and to squeeze it through our tiny minds and funnel it out onto those of who they have authority.
A new way. Some few have found this new way of being, making the way new only to the individual, or, as I’ve read in scripture, taking of these materials ….. and that in the new way is us becoming our own little creators, taking of the way that already exists but is very obscure, and creating for ourselves a new way to be. Be something that grows and adapts.
And so Aha! The first way depicted above is the way that pretty much all people view God, and then they set up their organization in the way that they see or understand God as organized. The LDS church will be my example because it has been my experience. They take god, little “g” and use his power and authority because without knowing they actually deny the real God and Creator, and they follow the control and authority of the false god who established one pattern and only way to be, stuffing all people into the one single mold.
The second way, a way that when I first thought of it I believed was a new way, but as I wrote this blog I realized that the way is not new at all. It is a way that has been found by others before, like Mother Theresa, or perhaps Ghandi, definitely Jesus Christ.
Breathings 