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2007/11/19

Inside and Outside Your Trust

Category: Being Heathen :

Author: Ludwig (11:21 am)

Heathenry makes a clear line between those that are within your trust and those that are outside your trust. And in Heathenry, everyone is outside your trust until you have accepted them within. And you only accept a person within your trust, when they have proven themselves worthy of your trust.

This is something we run into a lot in our places of work. Co-workers work around us and with us, and there can be a false sense of friendship (i.e. the "work friend"), or intimacy with the people that we see everyday at work. But not all of these people are truly our friends or worthy of our trust, and this can get us into trouble.

Let's say we share or religious beliefs. Or perhaps our opinions of another religion. Or we speak freely about how we see the world or how we see other people that we work with. If you are talking in this way with someone outside your trust (which is everyone who has not earned your trust), then it is likely that you will see your words, views, and beliefs held against you...or even used against you in some fashion. That is the whole point of withholding trust until it is earned.

So, when we share inner thoughts and our intimate beliefs with those that have not earned our trust, then we should not be surprised when those "outside our trust" betray us or act badly against us with the information we have shared. Though its a free country, and we have the freedom to choose our religion, our beliefs, etc...we all have an adult's understanding of "how most people really are." We've all experienced the negative side of human interaction at some point or another.

I have friends at work that have earned my trust, and I do talk with about my religion. And the other 99% have no reason to know my inner beliefs or thoughts...and I would not trust them to know my inner beliefs or thoughts. They are outside my trust. When they have earned their way in...then we'll talk about these things. If they learned my beliefs through some other means (the internet, for instance) I still have no obligation to discuss them anyone unless they are within my circle of trust. It is my choice who I share with and who I do not.

This post represents how I see the Heathen approach to giving trust, and recognizing who is within my trust and who is outside my trust. I realize that other religions focus on "reaching out," sharing with others, and seeing no one as your enemy. This is simply a false view of the world. We do have enemies and those that are beneath our trust. A failure to recongnize that can be self-harming.

Mark Ludwig Stinson

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