tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5534250236651392570..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33653464873626897982017-01-27T00:01:28.587-08:002017-01-27T00:01:28.587-08:00Success begins with our thoughts. Success is the c...Success begins with our thoughts. Success is the condition of our minds. If you want success, then you should start thinking that you are successful and fill your mind with success.Jenis-jenis Herpes Dan Gejalanyahttp://jenis-jenisherpesdangejalanya.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88071773625342421262017-01-26T18:18:21.262-08:002017-01-26T18:18:21.262-08:00There's no way to abandon identity politics am...There's no way to abandon identity politics among people whose very identity is wrapped and defined by the ideology defining those politics. What would they have? <br />Katielee4211https://www.blogger.com/profile/14994959732687391703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-504788570674765922017-01-26T02:37:18.134-08:002017-01-26T02:37:18.134-08:00Can we have sharia law at least for the feminists?...Can we have sharia law at least for the feminists?<br /><br />I don't see any harm in that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61623723387455467472017-01-26T02:32:18.384-08:002017-01-26T02:32:18.384-08:00Trigger Warning said... "Was the Women's ...Trigger Warning said... "Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?" No. It was performance art.<br /><br />I'm not sure why you're denigrating performance art, although maybe you're not. Certainly Donald Trump's entire candidacy has been nothing but performance art. <br /><br />Myself, I find no home in a mass-protest, preferring understanding than public emoting with like-minded people. I don't even usually know if I do agree, as much as feel concern any deep emotions that make other people wrong are likely leaving something important out.<br /><br />Anyway, your comment reminded me of a book I read a couple years ago, "The magic of ritual: Our need for Liberating Rites that Transform Our Lives & Our Communities" By Tom F. Driver, 1991<br /><br />He made a list at the end, and I had to copy it, in case I can understand it someday. The book is a worthy read. It's primarily for Christian, but it does give a certain perspective often missing from the secular world. So Driver says the purpose of ritual is to affect the participants more than the observers.<br /><br />---<br />15 Maxims for the planning of Christian Rituals: <br />1. To do something while displaying the doing equals performance. <br />2. In theater, the display is paramount; In ritual, the doing. <br />3. A ritual is a "transformance" - a performance designed to change a situation. <br />4. Church ritual often becomes mere display, either just flashy or merely symbolic, with no hint of transforming power. <br />5. In ritual active participants should outnumber the passive ones. <br />6. Art is play done workfully, but ritual is work done playfully. <br />7. All ritual invokes power. A ritual is religious when those powers receive adoration. It is Christian when the powers are God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. <br />8. A Christian ritual "works" only when its participants are willing to make demands upon God. ("Ask and you shall receive.") <br />9. To be boring is to bear false witness. <br />10. To be sensational is to bear no witness at all. <br />11. Ritual loves not paper. <br />12. The form of a Christian ritual may be very traditional or very innovative or both at once, since form in ritual is nothing but technique, and substance is spirit. <br />13. Christian ritual is liminal and authentic when the people of God receive the spirit of God in the midst. ("The kingdom of God is among you.... Where two or three are gathered together, there am I....") <br />14. The liminality of ritual can be used by God to weaken the grip of oppressive powers. In fact, God has no other use for it. <br />15. Christian ritual is the opposite of servitude: It is the performance of freedom. <br />---<br /><br />Reading this list, it actually brings me new admiration for Donald Trump, at least to the degree he inspired people to participate. I really start to imagine after his first 100 days of glory, surely he's going to spend the rest of the year in new rallies to learn what the people want next.<br /><br />Just like Gandhi said "There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader" Trump didn't choose his people - they chose him, for good or ill.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25934976253240719032017-01-25T15:39:10.534-08:002017-01-25T15:39:10.534-08:00"Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?"..."Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?"<br /><br />Yes, it was a ginormous group catharsis. Gestalt. Primal scream. Whatever you want to call it.<br /><br />But it really was a Leftist rally, which means it was a parade of malcontents. A confederacy of micro-complaints.<br /><br />And it will have no impact on anything Trump does in any way whatsoever.<br /><br />Performance art, indeed. And David Brooks... so sober.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10898078488305115662017-01-25T12:56:32.192-08:002017-01-25T12:56:32.192-08:00Part of the "art" was leaving all the po...Part of the "art" was leaving all the posters behind for others to pick up and put in the trash bins.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28074306836530297082017-01-25T07:23:08.009-08:002017-01-25T07:23:08.009-08:00TW,
True
It was not even good performance art i...TW,<br /><br />True <br /><br />It was not even good performance art if one considers that good performance art is meant to please the audience and not the performers as this was predicated on.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40182209978880920472017-01-25T06:58:57.882-08:002017-01-25T06:58:57.882-08:00"Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?"...<br />"Was the Women's March Mass Therapy?"<br /><br />No. It was performance art.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7504812513979218122017-01-25T06:48:21.406-08:002017-01-25T06:48:21.406-08:00Current composition of the Idaho legislature:
Sen...Current composition of the Idaho legislature:<br /><br />Senate: 29 R, 6 D<br />House: 59 R, 11 D<br /><br />Current Idaho congressional delegation:<br /><br />US Senator: 2 R, 0 D<br />US House: 2 R, 0 D<br /><br />I look forward to Sarah Boynton Brown bringing the same kind of success she's had in Idaho to Democratic campaigns for Congress in 2018 and to reclaim the White House in 2020. sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36083503255090490792017-01-25T05:51:25.429-08:002017-01-25T05:51:25.429-08:00http://acculturated.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01...http://acculturated.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Trump-DC-Instagram.jpg Taken from http://acculturated.com/is-ivanka-making-motherhood-great-again/<br />A strong woman to put fear in the hearts of feminists and why the women who marched will ultimately fail. In one we have a strong woman creating the future and in the other group we have the failures of the past destroying the future. An interesting juxtaposition between life and death as a philosophy. One leads to a growing prosperous culture whereas the other ultimately leads to the death of the culture.<br />In one one sees an inner and outer beauty of the soul and in the other one see an inner and outer ugliness of the soul. We are at a crossroad where we can live in the quest for beauty and a respect for others and in the other we choose the quest for the ugliness of contempt for others. A truly for choice moment. Life or death? Being an America or a fraying coat of many colors.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.com