The classic psychiatric text was Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. Denial is the most primitive of coping mechanism and used primarily when overwhelmed or perhaps negatively surprised.
The historic and traditional, microcosmic and microcosmic, approach to death is reproduction. Children have been humans ,individually and collectively, response to fear of death and mortality. Art and empire and monuments are all other ways of attempting to reach beyond the apparent limit of life. Religion and all manner of thought systems further attempt to extend this life. Not only is this the forward thinking approach but the study of history and archeology further advance the idea that life isn’t brief and perhaps sordid but rather long and noble.
Love of life and imnortality go hand in hand.
Vanity.
Children and family and genetically related individuals and groups are the building block of society.
Yet coitus interruptis, the ‘withdrawal method’ was mentioned in Genesis. L’Chaim , to life, but not if it’s to one’s dead’s brother’s progeny which was the requirement of Hebrew Law. If your brother died without an heir, you were required to i pregnate his wife. Onan, much maligned for Onanism, or masturbation, rather failed to impregnate his dead brother’s wife and give her and him an heir. Instead he wanted to keep the land for himself and his progeny.
Land and land ownership and all that ties to that was of course part of the need for the construct of permanence and denial of death and change and fear of course of change and death.
The reformer is the enemy of anyone who benefits from the status quo but as change is frightening.
Faced with fear we ‘freeze’, ‘fight’ or ‘fight’.
“Freezing’ is very popular. However what happens to an ostrich who puts its head in the sand. “It doesn’t know who kicks it”.
Birth and death.
We only have other’s word about our birth and the Big Bang theory, and we can’t tell anyone about our death. Just one more of the great paradoxes of life.
The Book of Mormon was a sublime comedy and satire of all philosophies and religions. The play was a challenge to all ‘people of the book’. The major books are Bible, Bhagadvagita, Koran, Talmud, the Tripitaka, the Tao, Communist Manifesto, and the list goes on. Each book has a protagonist, Moses, Mohammed, Jesus, Paul, Buddha, Confuscious, Marx, etc. There are a variety of these emotionally carthaced individuals with a mythology that surrounded their venerable lives.
The notion of God is ideas coming down from God, Intelligence and ideas going up to God , competing elevator ideas.
The oldest law of the world is the Chinese Law of the Fish, there are Big Fish and Little Fish, and little fish must be fast and numerous.
Having children made people bigger. We protestants didn’t like to fight the catholics because we had a couple of brothers and sisters in general and the catholics had a lot. Throughout history empires were made on children who provided the armies and the equivalent of slave labour. Today children are pets. Then they were tools.
Feminist is a great myth. Women’s individualism was a product of contraception and the myth of overpopulation and the Industrial Age.
The Machine,
The Dark ages aren’t as dark as intellectuals would have you believe The advances in engineering are mind boggling. Just the idea of the lever and the pyramids and stone henge are more monumental than space flight.
The dark ages and Middle Ages were a time of physical advancement and not just paintings. The renaissance was a recovery and advance of science.
Science joins two with the ‘neutral term’ ‘associated with’. Marxism and it’s little sister feminism joins two ‘events’ with the value laden term ‘oppresses’. Hence the hysteria of victimship and legal equivalent of side taking, and blame and shame. Politicians advance with divide and conquer and ganging up.
Individualism was never desired. In face of threat humans congregated. Being alone was for the lunatic and the religious. Even monks were a community as Thomas Merton showed in his study of Buddhist and we knew of the Dessert father.
War is us against them. It’s all fear based and paranoia. Steal a little and they put you in jail , steal a lot and they make you king. The winner writes history. Women are equally guilty. Eva Brawn and Hitler’s Mother created Adolf.
Women have been second class only because of their unwillingness to accept accountability. No praise without blame. Today the various victim cults want license not freedom. The language is changed to validate whatever ideology suits , such as murder and abortion or Medically Assisted Suicide,
I turned 70. I am an individual. I realized 28 days alone at see with only a dog and a cat.
The only day we have is today. Carpe Diem. ODAAT. One day at a tine, We live from sleep to sleep.
Life is a manifestation of memory desire and today. Buddha did say desire is the root of all suffering. Kierkegaard said life is suffering unto death.
Freud said Eros and Thanatos. Life wish and death wish.
Politicians promote their children today and say vote for me “I”m a parent’.
The division is ‘parents and single’s, ‘families versus individuals’, With the machine we don’t need many more. A dog and a cat perhaps, a God, a friend.
Sex was first for pleasure. Later it was connected to child making. Later it was known that the largest armies one.
Gender is a product of the past.
Humans are heard animals. Raising children or even monkeys alone created insaniety, death wish dominant. Raising biologically disconnected children, adopted, kibbutz etc worked.
Science takes groups and compares them and finds general trends and directions which can guide but don’t predict the future of the individuals.
Individuals and individualism is associated by farmiles and countries. The paranoid sees the individual as oppressed by the group. Certainly the Communist Committee Gangstrism continues to oppress individuals.
Others see all relationships as mutual ,versus parasitic,
I like my dog, Dog and human have been a long history of mutuality.
I remember family and being born but my father’s generation was born into the celebration of the ‘family unit’. The Asian family unit vernerates the old. Children are a mother’s old age pensio. Mother’s collectively are cared for by children in old age while the world is full of disregarded old men. Men die 10 years younger than women because they are uncared for . The lie of feminism was that women were tougher, but when put in the same jobs they died as young. Feminists haven’t been creative but have raised children for themselves . Today women have sons on leash. Men have dogs on leash.
Men are becoming women and women are becoming men, God doesn’t make mistakes. The whole idea of that is fate versus choice. I chose to dress as a woman and because of that I can be deemed wrong, bad, mad. But the other who says God made a mistake. Is the latest in the victim motif. I love the advances of science and women getting big breasts and women getting little breasts is called cosmetic surgery. I’d like breasts as a man for the sake of cosmetic surgery. Not because of fate or free will.
However the great industry of law and psychology is to ‘advocate’ for the outside. Today one of the wealthier groups is the new ‘drug pusher’ who is the ‘advocate’ of the ‘drug addict’ who can’t abstain but must have safe source. The natives did the land claims game with native getting 1 million dollars while two lawyer groups got 10 million dollars each to gabfest. The safe source debate is little different,
The same debate occurred with Sangster and birth control and abortion. The pregnant girl could abstain or the rape could have been compensated as in tribal society superior and more sophisticated than today which is a lewd and obscene society. Neither better or worse. Difference.
The idea of the Christian’s refusing to take the plank out of their own eyes while attacking on mass the mote in their neighbours. The Christian who is obese slanders the Christian who murders.
Hierarchy of hate and shame and inside out sider is perpetuated in the law of the fittest. Are we reducing the gene pools but helping the wounded
I don’t have children. I like wearing dresses. But I liked wearing cammo. I liked wearing the military imitation officer suits popular with lawyers and politicians. I liked wearing yachting gear and dancing wear and clinical lab coasts and college cordoroy. Gender is not who I am.
Yahweh - I am who I am.
Namastes - the God in me salutes the god in you.
Alone I am never alone, I am a Christian. The Christian god is loving and always loving and not judgemental , Incluseive , not exclusive. But then God is loving and judgemental and inclusive or exclusive. God is all or nothing and All and nothing.
I loved the 60 tv show Prisoner. A totalitarian dystopia whereas I’ve a libertarian dystopia.
As a Christian I’m top of the class as married man with good kids today. As a politicians, the same. Historically the Christians were individuals and disciples and groups and some were alone and some some were married. We don’t hear much of the children of the disciples.
Cherry pickin Christians have rejected Paul on women and slaves but also cherry picked Jesus ‘. Thoughts on enmity and money.
I loved the 60’s books, Be Here Now (a take off from Brother Lawrence, Pracrticing the Presence of God’ and Elkhart Toole, Power of Now., I also like the couple who wrote ‘what to do till the messiah comes’. A Jewish couple who did’t believe Jesus was the messiah, I heard an Anglican Priest say he didh’t believe the Bible. Another Protestant Canadian female minister didn’t believe in God or Jesus but wanted the job and pension.
The government doctor told me “Act like a doctor’, and he had the arrogance to think he did To me he was just another ‘suit’.
My life as a community psychiatrist was always “attraction’. The world of ‘prevention’ is even more attraction. The ‘police doctor’ the ‘licensing doctors remind me of the time when I was in charge of the asylum. If you wanted out you needed to do as I say. There’s a world of coercion in medical politics,
In the healing profession the person is dying and you can delay the process and relief suffering.
All medicine is palliative care in face death,
I and my family go to heaven. You and your family go to hell. Your mother wears army boots. Amazing what we can’t learn from what children discern. You’re in or out. King Lear at the end speaking to his daughter. Shakespeare calls it ‘court things’.
90% of cross dressing men are heterosexual . The whole feminist movement of today is the woman wearing pants. Chanel to Hillary Clinton. The argument that post modernism is just a pretty name for the Super rationalism that denies the feminine and denounce the mother, the holy mother, the sacred mother. Women in communism the religion of aetheism were denied children. Abortion and hysterectomy . Vasectomy is not a communist thing, The primitive tribal woman says we count a man by the number of his children.
The number of children and number of wives
Anthropologists define the west as ‘serial monogamy’. In my childhood 50 year marriages were normal with divorce rare and families in tact to some degree mostly. Today the urban divorce rate is 50 % and 5 year marriages are the norm. Based on individualism and science perhaps the 50 % marriages that persist are the bad marriage.
My friend who left high school and became a millionaire called me a slow learner because I spent another 12 years in institutional learning and even went not to teach at a couple of universities.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Women act more like men than their mothers, Marx and Engles wanted to destroy families as a threat to the almighty god of the State. Communists call mothers ‘Breeders’.
It’s fun getting to know women more. I also see gays and other minority groups in a non child centered fear of death way.
An early female Judge found 320 consecutive family cases against the man.
The woman registrar at the College of Physicians and Surgeons said “Women don’t lie about sex”. I have to date never been compensated for all the sexual harassment I have experienced in the work place, the rape, the caning in school, being hit in the head by a teacher’s wooden mallet, the individual list of ‘wrong’s’ and manure of self pity that power the ‘pay me’. The story of the fisherman and the beggar is lost to history.
I don’t like being among strangers. I have worked in the jails and the asylums and I have been in government offices. I am good at my work. I’m like a motor parts guy, a spiritual fixit. I know the products available and have a lot of answers to all manner of questions most of which people are afraid to share with others.
Live and let live.
Jesus taught Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself. If any passage in the Bible veers from this then that’s what needs to be discussed not whether a trucker wears diapers.
To thine own self be true.
God is all and I am a part of God.
My identity is not my self’. C.S.Lewis’s said thoughts are ‘creatures’. St. John of the Cross, Nada. The spiritual path. The long dark night of the soul.
I am a lone but not alone,.
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