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I am jealous of the living
They have everything I want. They have ideas and discussions and believe in themselves. I don't believe in myself because I have gathered an idea that I once thought was right and strong, yet was fed to me by someone who also thought the same idea was right. In modern parlance we might call a misogynist a toxic male. Describing an old mind bereft of creativity and eschewing innovation yet promulgating a trope consistent to a time, we might also, if he is male, describe him as a toxic male. Perhaps, there are, due to circumstances, (I am not going to go into the rabbit hole of imagined futures TOO deeply) some men who failed, but not as men in any particular times, but as men who use the same template of 'man-ness' (whatever that is) or success, which I suppose is some kind of dominance in a field of existence, to judge themselves as having the same kind of validity in the modern world to the one that they foolishly believed was their own 'in their day', yet fail to get the same approbation today, if they ever did.
I am jealous because the living can change, while the dead are eternally immutable. The living can always be given a second chance. The dead are judged by their past actions and achievements. I am neither one or the other, because, quite simply, I haven't quite decided which one of us, you or me, is alive and which of us is dead or dying.
I am jealous of the dead because they no longer care about life. It is in living that we are free from putrefaction; from a stasis of thinking that brings about a codification that is not consistent with pleasant co-operation. This is psychology, not religion.
Why are you kind? Is it because a monster told you to be so? Is it because a toxic person told you that you should be compliant. I think not, while not recognising myself as a humanist, I am certain you are kind because it suits you to be so.
Christians do not highlight the faults of others. 'Hate the sin, not the sinner.' and when they do not understand something or disagree with it they are advised to 'Eat the meat and spit the bones.' This is consistent with not judging others and not bearing false witness. I suggest, at no time have Christians who have received the Holy Spirit, who attack others, including other people's views, shown that they have given way to a greater knowledge that they fundamentally believe in. (In my mind, they cannot attack unless they exercise free-will, in which cases they dont sleep well)
In learning with the Open University, I am learning how to consider other people as valid in their existence and beliefs by understanding different cultures. I can categorically state that I cannot understand how a toxic promulgation of any religion is acceptable and will never subscribe to it. I am completely open to conversation on humanistic or secular ethics in opposition to any religious viewpoint. I believe that attacking thought is just plain wrong; I studied 'Ethics' with the former London Bible College, one of the last, don't you know?
I am jealous of the living
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I am not on YouTube or social media
[ 5 minute read ]
I am jealous of the living
They have everything I want. They have ideas and discussions and believe in themselves. I don't believe in myself because I have gathered an idea that I once thought was right and strong, yet was fed to me by someone who also thought the same idea was right. In modern parlance we might call a misogynist a toxic male. Describing an old mind bereft of creativity and eschewing innovation yet promulgating a trope consistent to a time, we might also, if he is male, describe him as a toxic male. Perhaps, there are, due to circumstances, (I am not going to go into the rabbit hole of imagined futures TOO deeply) some men who failed, but not as men in any particular times, but as men who use the same template of 'man-ness' (whatever that is) or success, which I suppose is some kind of dominance in a field of existence, to judge themselves as having the same kind of validity in the modern world to the one that they foolishly believed was their own 'in their day', yet fail to get the same approbation today, if they ever did.
I am jealous because the living can change, while the dead are eternally immutable. The living can always be given a second chance. The dead are judged by their past actions and achievements. I am neither one or the other, because, quite simply, I haven't quite decided which one of us, you or me, is alive and which of us is dead or dying.
I am jealous of the dead because they no longer care about life. It is in living that we are free from putrefaction; from a stasis of thinking that brings about a codification that is not consistent with pleasant co-operation. This is psychology, not religion.
Why are you kind? Is it because a monster told you to be so? Is it because a toxic person told you that you should be compliant. I think not, while not recognising myself as a humanist, I am certain you are kind because it suits you to be so.
Christians do not highlight the faults of others. 'Hate the sin, not the sinner.' and when they do not understand something or disagree with it they are advised to 'Eat the meat and spit the bones.' This is consistent with not judging others and not bearing false witness. I suggest, at no time have Christians who have received the Holy Spirit, who attack others, including other people's views, shown that they have given way to a greater knowledge that they fundamentally believe in. (In my mind, they cannot attack unless they exercise free-will, in which cases they dont sleep well)
In learning with the Open University, I am learning how to consider other people as valid in their existence and beliefs by understanding different cultures. I can categorically state that I cannot understand how a toxic promulgation of any religion is acceptable and will never subscribe to it. I am completely open to conversation on humanistic or secular ethics in opposition to any religious viewpoint. I believe that attacking thought is just plain wrong; I studied 'Ethics' with the former London Bible College, one of the last, don't you know?
I am jealous of the living.