The more I see of people, the more I think the ones who did everything wrong for all the right reasons will enter to Heaven before the missionaries and church fathers.
Honestly it bes not sure one can do "wrong for the right reasons" (though it feels fairly certain one can do so-called "right" for VERY WRONG reasons, and delude oneself into thinking one BES "right" and therefore HAS all "right" to do that) but it does know JC sez the prostitutes and publicans would enter the Kingdom before the Pharisees. Must be that "Blessed be the poor in spirit" clause again....those who imagine themselves spiritually/religiously the cream of the crop blessed with all the blessings go around trampling down those they perceive to be "sinners" and beneath themselves. The kinds of things they do and say to just TWO classes of people alone --
daimonizomai (those afflicted with demons) and the mentally ill (especially those who bes depressed and/or suicidal) -- bes so utterly, shockingly appalling and astonishing in their stark levels of utter insensitivity and cruelty it makes you wonder whether such persons have EVER ONCE in their lives encountered the true and living God or for that matter, their own true selves.
(Hmmm ... one of these days remind us to tell you of the metaphors it has constructed concerning the differences between the spiritual / supernatural bondage of "Legion" versus the bondage the humans sought to place upon him ..... would make an interesting insightful tidbit for posting at some point. .....)
I have always identified with those who wear masks. Everyone says they needed to wear a mask to cover up what was undernearth (presumably their "true" face). I think they wore the mask because the mask was their true face. They needed to cover the lie that hid their true individuality.
That bes interesting -- never looked at it that way before. Only looked at it the other way -- that the mask bes imposed by society's expectations and demands (outward conformity of behavioral and interactive forms, etc.) hiding true self & true feelings, etc. and thus it has never identified with ppls what wore them because it bes never able to wear one itself. It bes so ill-fitting it bes constantly slipping off even if it tries, and even if it manages for 5 minutes to get the durned thing properly placed so that it should be seamless going over the nose, with the eyeholes where they belong, etc. it NEVER seems to work, never convinces anyone, really, so why bother even to wear the darn thing.
Moriah always feels even at her BEST imitation of human behavior to be something like an alien in human skin trying to pass for human among the humans and NEVER quite making it because they can ALWAYS tell it bes "trying", they can ALWAYS tell it bes mimicking what it sees, trying to pass, and that this bes not authentic for it. And in truth Moriah hates to be inauthentic so it does not try very hard anymore. Like HD (who posted above) feeling like she has been "different" all her life only on a scale several octaves higher.
Anyway back to what you said, BlackFyre -- it can certainly see that, in a kind of "curse of the magus" fashion. In other words given that others cannot perceive the truth of one's being by having said truth displayed openly, because others bes prone always to passing judgments, then filtering perceptions through those judgments, as well as just general misperceiving / misconstruing / misinterpreting -- then the mask becomes that which hides the lie that OTHERS read from the TRUTH and becomes a kind of template upon which to attempt to convey that TRUTH ironically through a "lie" of sorts. Which does not work either, but at least that way, with the mask, one feels a layer of insulation against the pain of misjudgment because, after all, it bes the mask them humans bes mucking about misperceiving and not the actual true being of oneself! Oh if only Moriah had such a layer, but as stated, it has never worked for her, so she must bear the full weight and full impact and full scale cutting and bleeding of it entirely upon her own face.
I also identify with underdogs who never necessarily succeeded, like Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Moriah tends to identify with evil geniuses turned bitter and villianous due to lack of well-earned recognition and appreciation by others, or else tragically misunderstood and therefore mistreated or in some other way cast out from places of warmth, nurture, connectivity, etc. and thus rendered mad by having been backed into a corner what pitted their own internal integrity against whatever tru-ism had to be upheld externally to satisfy whatever powers that be. Lucifer comes to mind here.
