... Since this thread seems to be an interesting one for discuss and my husband's public nudity is mainly what is being discussed we thought it maybe useful to allow everyone the right to see what we actually look like naked and be fully open to any questions, comments or reactions from the forum. We hope that no one is offended.
Really?
LOL, Quite wrong! You raised the point of nudity in public.
I'll paraphrase a favourite line which I think is from Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker". Steiger plays a Holocaust survivor threatened by a couple of street punks.
"You, threaten me? I've been threatened by professionals!"
So, offended? No. Bored, Yes.
But seriously:
If there is any question there at all, it's a point in principle. Therefore we do not need to see pictures, individual instances, etc.
Again, your focus is on the outer form, and you miss the point. The interior is where,
in all spiritual paths, the issue lies.
To refer again to the dialogue in Genesis, the woman has engaged with the serpent and has come 'under his spell', as it were. "And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold" — and there's the nub. The Primordial Couple were told that: "For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death" (Genesis 2:17). But she no longer sees the interiority of the fruit, its meaning and consequence; she's captivated by outward appearances, by the transient, the superficial, the ephemeral and the illusory.
In all spiritual traditions, the emphasis is on the Real, the True, the Eternal and the Good.
The cardinal virtue is detachment.
If you're look for praise or appreciation of you or your husband's physical appearance, I rather think you're in the wrong place.
If you're looking to shock, ditto.
As RJM said, here the dialogue is interfaith. This site 'does what it says on the tin' to quite a UK ad campaign. I echo his feelings with a repeat of my initial "Really?
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