Failing Your Community

Apr 09, 2011 14:46

You know when you screw up big. You screw up so monumentally huge that you barely see it coming. You’re stuck in your own consensus-trance, convinced you’re doing fine and doing right be people. Reality slaps you in the face like a sledgehammer. I’m writing this because the community I belong to hold me to standards. I’m writing this because I ( Read more... )

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lupagreenwolf April 9 2011, 21:01:42 UTC
You acknowledge what you did, and you are working to change that. That's important, and I feel that perhaps you're being too hard on yourself. What's important now isn't what you did, but what you're going to do. The people who are truly problematic are the ones who do nothing in spite of their knowlege of their shortcomings.

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sarenth April 10 2011, 02:15:23 UTC
Perhaps. Discipline will be one of my catchwords moving forward. A horarium might not be a bad idea, either.

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thefourtowers April 10 2011, 15:26:42 UTC
I had left you comments on this before, but as I was thinking about this this weekend in the woods it occurred to me that you are also not totally to blame. Please take this into consideration.

Even though we may trust both the people and the spirits we work with, even possessions are filtered though the horse.

It is the responsibility of anyone getting a consultation, no matter how much is there, to follow up what is said with divination and third party confirmation/ancestor work.

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