In 1992 there was a big group in the New Age movement led by a woman called "Solara".
Solaras mission was to produce spontaneous uniformity among the masses of human kind. Certain ritualistic movements of the hand and body had to be performed around the world at exactly the same time by as many people as possible, the date was the 11am, 11th November, 1992. If enough people did this, it would transfer earth out of third dimension into fourth dimensional reality.
I will never forget the utter uniformity of dress and action in the Solara movement. Solara being all expressive and trying to train these hundreds of people to be "spontaneous" in "uniformity". They were all robots, hanging on her every cue and word.Incapable, in the end, of doing anything without a signal from her (am I allowed to scratch my nose here? or not?)
Best example of mass uniformity, live, that Ive ever seen.
Larc, to answer your questions I actually did enjoy the door to door work - for brief periods of time. At some points the nervousness actually turned into excitement, but I'm guessing what you're getting at is that's really a very limited thing. Maybe the thing I liked most about that is just the fact that you're talking with real people, and I would listen to people even if they had a different view.
As far as my talents as a witness, I'm not sure if that question makes sense to me. But you know what, I'm really not at all sure what my talents are. I mean sure, there are some things I do fairly well, but I don't know if you'd call them talents, because I'm not an artist, an intellectual or an athlete or something like that. In terms of just the way a person behaves, though, I think differences can be interesting. After all, for a certain attribute to be considered a talent you'd have to have some kind of common agreement don't you? This no doubt sounds like a stretch but that itself requires a kind of conformity, that is to say you agree that this ability would be considered a talent. Someone can be good at something that is considered completely useless. This is what I was trying to say, that to really see individuality it seems like we have to move beyond even talents. Maybe I just don't know what talents are at all, or what I'm talking about at all. Why are you reading this message? Go do something more interesting.
You are right Larc. Among witnesses, too much talent is considered a threat to one's own and others "spirituality."
If I remember his name correctly, years ago there was a brother named Mark Craft. I will say that I never saw, on TV or anywhere else, ANYONE who played the piano better than him. He was a true master and at the time was only in his middle twenties. He was the life of any social event where there was a piano.
In my JW-imposed stupor, I recall watching him once and saying to a buddy that "I don't know if I'd want to be THAT good at *anything.*" Yeah, I know... it was a stupid thing for me to say.
Last I heard, Mark wasn't a Witness, that he'd been df'd. I could see how his awesome talent may have played a part in that.
