Sunday, May 31, 2009

The Land of Amoral

“I lost my moral compass.”
The Chemical Buddha was a wayward spirit pretty much from the get go. While other children’s parents would instill some sort of idea of ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ TCB’s parents conveyed the message that ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ were actually just ideas. And what may be right in one culture is wrong in another. And vice versa. So The Chemical Buddha had no guidance on what to do in any given situation (other than following what his dick, stomach, or addictions told him to do). This made being around The Chemical Buddha quite a challenge. Because one moment you could do something and he could be happy as a lark (a stoned lark, but a lark nonetheless). And the next he could be throwing a temper tantrum about how ‘wrong’ something was. He claimed this was to teach his students how things could change in an instant.
How has your concept of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ changed?
What things did you use to think were ‘right’ do you now think of as ‘wrong’?
Why do you think your ideas have changed?

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