tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1237716033745629397..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Getting Together or Falling ApartStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84321919389709985502015-07-06T04:37:01.726-07:002015-07-06T04:37:01.726-07:00We do what the Glowing Box commands us to do.We do what the Glowing Box commands us to do.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24700897750547488742015-07-06T04:06:36.690-07:002015-07-06T04:06:36.690-07:00Here's a relevant quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsk...Here's a relevant quote from Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his 1880 novel "The Brothers Karamazov". He calls on us to find ways to express brotherly love, as a way to avoid the failings of a fragmented culture. The quote doesn't directly express a need to be accountable to others, but a call toward wholeness after keeping a murder secret by fragmenting himself, and finally willing to confess to be free.<br />--------<br />"That life is heaven," he said to me suddenly, "that I have long been thinking about." And all at once he added, "In fact, I think of nothing else." He looked at me and smiled. "I am more convinced of it that you are, I will tell you why later on." <br />...<br />"Heaven," he went on, "lies hidden within all of us - it lies hidden in me now, and if I will it, it will be revealed to me tomorrow and for all time." <br /><br />"And we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins. You were quite right in thinking that. And it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality." <br /><br />"And when?" I cried out to him bitterly, "When will that come to pass? Will it ever come to pass? It is not simply a dream?" <br /><br />"...Believe me, this dream, as you call it, will come to pass without doubt. It will come, but not now, for every process has its law. It's a spiritual, psychological process. To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind of common interest, will ever teach men to share property and privileges with equal consideration for all. Everyone will think his share too small and they will be always envying, complaining and attacking one another. You ask when it will come to pass; it will come to pass, but first we have to go through a period of isolation." <br /><br />"What do you mean by isolation?" I asked him. <br /><br />"Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age - it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For everyone strives to keep his individuality, everyone wants to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself. But meanwhile all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realization he ends by arriving at complete solitude. All mankind in our age is split up into units. Man keeps apart, each in his own groove; each one hold aloof, hides himself and hides what he has, from the rest. He ends by being repelled by others and repelling them. He heaps up riches by himself and thinks, 'How strong I am now and how secure.' <br /><br />And in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence. For he is accustomed to rely upon himself alone and to cut himself off from the whole; he has trained himself not to believe in the help of others, in men and in humanity, and only trembles for fear he should lose his money and the privileges that he has won for himself. Everywhere in these days men have ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. <br /><br />But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time and people will marvel that they sat so long in the darkness without seeing the light. And the sign of the Son of Man will be seen in the heavens. ... But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die." <br />-------Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29565435351889965252015-07-06T00:19:31.907-07:002015-07-06T00:19:31.907-07:00http://buzzpo.com/you-wont-believe-what-caitlyn-je...http://buzzpo.com/you-wont-believe-what-caitlyn-jenner-was-caught-wearing/<br /><br />What passes for ‘courage’ in new America.<br /><br />No wonder people can't come together to agree on anything.priss rulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45547988595269108342015-07-05T20:15:17.321-07:002015-07-05T20:15:17.321-07:00Stuart -
Thought this quote, from a long lost age...Stuart - <br />Thought this quote, from a long lost age, harmonizes nicely with your posting:<br /><br />Heraclitus says that ...'for those who are awake there is one common Kosmos, but to those who sleep each turns aside into his own world .'<br /><br />-shoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56209736001088280902015-07-05T13:03:33.063-07:002015-07-05T13:03:33.063-07:00Anon at 9:15, The Diversity crowd abhors any diver...Anon at 9:15, The Diversity crowd abhors any diversity it does not like, and reserves the right to change their minds--but likely won't; they'll follow the Party Line.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45430950544005873162015-07-05T12:41:23.817-07:002015-07-05T12:41:23.817-07:00Studies tend to show that the "rich" are...Studies tend to show that the "rich" are no happier than those who have enough, rather than more than enough, financial security. An (empathic) Zen master once said the rich are always worried that someone will ask them for something, or take away their claim to wealth, which is subject to risk via the political and legal system.<br /><br />Hell is other people if you are abused or neglected as a very small child. Since a small child must experience pleasure in the presence of others to form adequate causal ideas it is correct to recognize that a child will form confused ideas when he or she is in pain.<br /><br />Social anxiety can be viewed as a memory of pain in the presence of others, carried forward with confusion to the present (social trauma theory) or as a disorder or neurosis somehow invented by a person that has a confused and incorrect idea about the social causes of pleasure or pain without any justification in personal experience (blaming the victim theory). Homelessness is not caused by people who are lazy, it is caused by people who fear being enmeshed long term with other people in work roles or domestic roles that do not suit them well, and who do not feel the authority to create cultures of their own at work or in homes with others. In the case of a recession or great depression those who want work cannot find it, that is a different social problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87894751061542696982015-07-05T11:29:37.542-07:002015-07-05T11:29:37.542-07:00Its curious to depict "cultural diversity&quo...Its curious to depict "cultural diversity" as the problem, limiting how we can interact without common ground, while it might as well seem mass-culture, mass-media is actually pushing us toward a single vision of normalcy, so anyone who watches TV and feels alienated by what they see, they feel excluded for feeling different. And perhaps we all in our own ways pass through this process as the world we knew in our youth has become old fashioned and out of date, and we feel on the outside, and perhaps just like all the minorities who were invisible to us for feeling different from our idyllic youth.<br /><br />I also see what "mass-culture" rewards is consumerism, that is to say the commonality among all of us is to become "independently wealthy" so no one can tell us what to do, and so all relationships can move towards monetary ones. So many wealthy women might get addicted to shopping, especially as they get older because they stop feeling "invisible" and someone has to pay attention to them, at least until the sale is complete.<br /><br />And meanwhile if a Socialist like Bernie Sanders got elected president, he might want to pull an FDR and try to raise the top marginal tax rate to 90%, and raise capital gains taxes above 15%, and the wealthy won't be happy, just like they were not happy under FDR, but that's the problem with socialism, as long as the majority are happy the unhappy rich have to conform and figure out how to run their 16 homes on only a few million dollars per year, or whatever predicaments.<br /><br />Is there a way to soften our individualism without softening our character? Maybe not.<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69656555867656220602015-07-05T09:15:08.672-07:002015-07-05T09:15:08.672-07:00http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/influence-israels-de...http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/influence-israels-democrats<br /><br />The Diversity Party turning into Divest Party. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24645988048849891202015-07-05T09:00:40.008-07:002015-07-05T09:00:40.008-07:00"Researchers have demonstrated that living al..."Researchers have demonstrated that living alone is bad for your health."<br /><br />Depends. Surely living alone is preferable to living with someone like Lena Dunham, Amanda Marcotte, Bill Maher, or Sarah Silverman. priss rulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60338176664819739022015-07-05T08:57:50.330-07:002015-07-05T08:57:50.330-07:00Internet gives people a false sense of connectedne...Internet gives people a false sense of connectedness.<br /><br />priss rulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-3471213005228787112015-07-05T08:28:45.777-07:002015-07-05T08:28:45.777-07:00Per Prof. Sherry Turkle, we/I need to be mindful o...Per Prof. Sherry Turkle, we/I need to be mindful of the seduction of our devices as well!drtceline@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068560803010332344noreply@blogger.com