• Baby Boomers,  Economic Equality (A Goal),  It is What it is...

    It’s Not About Religion versus 🔬 Science

    April 23, 2017

    It’s really about a group of people who want to spin reality according to their own benefit.  Religion allows us to tell great falsehoods because there is no standard for the truth.  All one must have to be in this exclusive club is faith.  Those with no faith are found to be lacking and therefore denigrated into silence.

    The issue with science is that, it asks for evidence of a stated truth.  With science you cannot get away with opinion.  This is really the cruxt of the problem with our current presidential administration.  It is an old problem, one that has been argued for many thousands of years.

    Do we believe the ministers of faith about the way of the world, or do we ask for a more objective truth?  The objective truth stands on its own, however, it is often unkind.

    We humans have made a fine art out of self deception.  We want to believe in a good father, we want to believe that we are beautiful, we want to believe that everything is going to be alright.

    When a man preaches that he will take care of it all, it is difficult to ignore.  We are hard wired to listen to old men.  We go to old women with our problems, but listen to old men for our truths.

    As humans, our old behavior does not serve us well.  But before we even begin to ask questions, we must ask ourselves how important is the truth?  For most of the humans that I know, truth is an unwelcome reality.  Most people don’t want to know the truth, they’d rather not know how bad off they are, how much they have been tricked, or how much they have lost.

    Most don’t even want to know the small details, such as “I am overweight” or “I am angry” or “I have a drinking problem”.  Indeed, many diseases of the modern world are built upon the very fine art of denial, heart disease, obesity and some types of diabetes are diseases that are completely avoidable.  How do you justify drinking a 350 calorie coffee drink and a 1,000 calorie bowl of soup?  What untruth do you tell your body in order to have that bit of body destruction?

    This whole religion vs science isn’t really the question.  The question is, how much truth can we stand?

    Why can’t we just relax and let the nice man take care of everything?  The truth is that the nice man is a liar.

     

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  • Hmmm...,  Personal Growth

    If it isn’t “a thing”

    May 21, 2016

    Then why bring it up?  Why mention it?  Why talk about it?  To bring it up in heated denial makes it “a thing”.

    “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” is a quotation from the 1599/1600 play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It has been used as a figure of speech, in various phrasings, to describe someone’s too frequent and vehement attempts to convince others of some matter of which the opposite is true, thereby making themselves appear defensive, and insincere.   Wikipedia

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  • Baby Boomers,  Personal Growth,  Spirituality

    Experiencing Reality

    February 26, 2014

    Here I am once again and I must write.  We listened to Deepak Chopra Sunday night and it was quite good.  Reality and how you experience reality is a choice.  Last night, as we discussed this concept I told Bruce the story of a woman that I know who pretended that she had a great and wonderful family.  She would lie and contrive and even take fantastically staged photographs of her fantastic family.  The truth of her family is that her husband had sex with their daughter when she was a teen and then decades later he had sex with his granddaughter.  This woman would never admit to such atrocities and in this situation, these were the worst of the bad things.  Every single day was a challenge into the truth, this woman faithfully pretended that her drug addicted son was just going through a rough patch (of 24 years until he died) and that her sons who were fathers, were very good fathers and look at these pictures of how good they were to their children!  The unsuspecting by-stander who looked at her photo album would be lulled into a sense that this is a happy family who took care of their own.  Lies, lies, lies, and yet all her reality.  The new gurus tell us to make our own reality, and I am just not sure about this.

    I think we need to sort things out first.  I think we need to talk about denial and wishful thinking and all kinds of concepts like this.  Reality and how you experience reality must include genuineness and authenticity, and these are conversations.  When I talk about the woman I know, who denied the reality of her family, there is much deceit and secrecy abounding in those relationships.  I think this is the key to genuineness and authenticity:  they are part of the conversation that we all must have to define our common reality.  The key concept is conversation, because, the truth should not be a secret that lives in the dark.  When reality is practiced in secret and in the dark, it can become a pack of lies.

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