AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTALISMS OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT

This last week I've been rather unsparing in my criticism of certain Republithug candidates, and lest you think I do not have equal loathing for the Dummycrooks, I bring this article to your attention:

Feds: Religious employers must cover the pill

Cardinal-designate Dolan is correct: when the government interferes with the teachings of a religion, when those teachings are not directly threatening to that government in any way, then it has crossed the line. Forcing the Roman Catholic Church to comply with laws in contradiction to its teaching is a slippery slope indeed, and opens the door to further such intrusions on the rights of Catholics, or any other group, to practice their religion in peace. By the same token, as I mentioned earlier in the week, Mr. Sick Rantorum's views represent the diametric opposite, an attempt to impose those teachings on the rest of society. Now from one standpoint it is much ado about nothing, since most American Catholics are more liberal than their official church teaching on the matter of the pill anyway. But will the government, pressing its logic, require Catholics, Jews, Protestants, or Muslims to allow the ordination of women as priests, rabbis, and imams in the name of equal rights? Or will the religious right conversely require agnostics or atheists to register with an "approved religion"? (Don't think that's possible? Google Rousas John Rushdoony, or theonomy, or dominionism, and think again!)

My point is this: for every such secularist or religion push, there has been an increasing fundamentalist reaction from the opposite side, driving their adherents into ever more harsh and just plain backward stances. And for every fundamentalist reaction on the right, an equally fundamentalist reaction on the left. Anyone taking the time to research Ms. Sibellius' stances on social issues will immediately realize she has her own agendas...I know, I used to live in the state of which she was governor (Kansas). We need only look at how well this dialectic has served only to polarize our society and make any sort of reasoned compromise impossible by looking at the education issue. Fundamentalists on the right would want us to allow freer and more local alternatives in education, so they can home school their children in their own madrasas  in the ethics of  Old Testament madness and teach them a "science" about an earth only 4,000 years old and all the "evils" of evolution, while fundamentalists on the left want to pump more and more money into "federal standards", into a utopian "no child left behind",  into a system that is broken, intellectually bankrupt, and producing ever lower and lower scores on worthless computerized standardized tests, while Russian children go to math olympiads, French children are actually literate in their own language, British children learn their own history and literature, German children learn physics and biology...well, you get the idea. Doubtless you can think of other such issues where the fundamentalisms of Republithuggism and Dummycrookery only serve to play off each other. And the more extreme the claims and positions of either side, the more extreme and kooky the "compromises" between them - and there are, for obvious reasons, fewer and fewer of them - become.

Or consider the hypothetical case of a pregnant woman brought in to an emergency room triage, her life in danger and requiring a very costly but life-saving procedure. Under the Dummycrookery fundamentalism, a faceless bureaucrat in Washington DC might have written a rule whereby the doctor is forced to terminate her life because trying to save it wouldn't be "cost effective", and laying down "guidelines"  that are as long as the IRS-US tax code. Thank you Mr. B.O., and Ms. Pelosi, for that is the logical end of your health care madness. Nevermind about that woman's four children at home, deprived of their mother's nurture and farmed out to foster homes to be raised on more federal subsidies. Consider the same woman, in that triage room, under a theocracy of Mr. Rantorum's making, where the doctor is forbidden to save her life by terminating the child's, thus depriving those same four children once again of their mother's nurture. In the one, she is the victim of a policy dogma, in the other, of a religious one, and the net effect is the same, and in both cases, the decision is made by a far-off bureaucrat, and in the name of a system, and not on the level where it belonged to begin with, with that doctor, and the woman's family, in that triage room.

For those of us in the middle, disillusioned with the implicit dogmas both of the Left and the Right,and looking askance on the fundamentalisms of Republithuggery and Dummycrookism, it is becoming an increasingly lonely place.

Ron Paul, anyone?

 

 

 

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

32 Comments

  1. Jennifer DeFusco on January 30, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Re: “Fundamentalists on the right would want us to allow freer and more local alternatives in education, so they can home school their children in their own madrasas in the ethics of Old Testament madness and teach them a “science” about an earth only 4,000 years old and all the “evils” of evolution…”

    There is quite a bit of truth to that statement. (I’ve witnessed my share of homeschool conferences whose main speaker sessions resemble political rallies more than a forum for discussing education). Many have seemed to jump out the the frying pan and into the fire.

    However, a handful of us home educators don’t mindlessly follow the right-wing version of the same old game, who kept our children home to prevent the govt. school social engineering from happening to them, have sought to train their students how to think clearly and rationally, something sorely lacking in American culture today. If it doesn’t happen to be that the earth is 4,000 years old, and they care about truth, they’ll figure that out. And, although in the past I’ve met Rushdoonieites, in my current home educator circles, I haven’t met a single one yet. It’s not as common as one might think.

    (I’m nit-picking here…) As for incorrect scientific truths (the 4,000 yr old earth) It’s not completely fair to blame the first generation of parents (who’ve never been properly educated themselves in the public school system) for getting some of the facts wrong. Public educators use this same logic, which falls on it’s face with examination: the govt. school officials who have educated most of us reason that parents, having been educated in public schools but who are non-credentialed (which has nothing to do with curriculum content) aren’t fit to be able to educate their own children. Huh? So, they’re admitting that their own system is a failure to produce positive results.

    As to the point referenced about about freer and more local options for education, ask yourself, “Who Is/was better educated, your grandparents or today’s crop of students? Our grandparents were taught in country schools out on prairies and in small rooms on the edge of small towns mostly with methods based upon memorization and recitation. I think that they turned out better than what we see today and they didn’t have perfect educational freedom, but they had more freedom than we do today. More educational freedom isn’t to be feared; it’s the only hope we have for a free-thinking society.

    The truth has a way of revealing itself even when we try to veil it in obscurity.



    • paul degagne on January 30, 2012 at 9:45 am

      Our grandparents and parents — better educated. I don’t know about that?

      I think some of them did the best with what they had.

      I know some less than educated parents would do without and work their fingers to the bone (their backs too) in the hopes that their children have a better future. (my parents were like that) I wouldn’t say this kind of sense of responsibility to the next generation is a sic ‘education?” It’s more like a healthy “Instinct’ which is still around but vanishing.

      The price of schooling is out-ragious! It’s as if Society doesn’t need intellectuals anymore, just slaves. So why educate slaves for it will just make them more discontented? Lets just suck in the parents that somehow can pay and the rest. “Well, they will just be our indentured servants.”

      I don’t know how in the world fundamental, elementary schooling can correct this as you mention it — this 4,000 yr old DEVELOPMENTAL problem? I am pessimistic that it never will!

      Even if we have some of the GIFTED coming out of these special home-schooling programs I don’t see them fitting in — in present day Society without too much compromise.

      For example a parent can forbid his/her child to watch TV. That is a good thing but the effects of TV will still influence their child indirectly by peers unless one wants to join some Amish Group and I am not even sure that is possible for I heard some of the kids are selling off the land little by little. (and many in the third and fourth world go crazy (mesnerized) over CD players and plasma screens!)

      No answers here Monsieur?

      But must we give up? (I think that is the plan === over ride instinct!)



  2. MattB on January 26, 2012 at 5:37 am


    • romanmel on January 26, 2012 at 4:12 pm

      Right…that great scientific mind Professor Newt. God’s gift to the feeble minded.



  3. Nidster on January 26, 2012 at 12:35 am

    OK, back to the topic: As the good doctor JPF wrote, “Ron Paul, anyone?”

    For those of us in America we are facing a decisive choice in the upcoming election. Yes, I would vote for Ron Paul, but he needs to change his position regarding the establishment of a financial system based on the “gold standard”. He could end the Federal Reserve bank and base the American currency on the value of gold. But that would simply play into the hands of the elite, who already hold most of the gold. The correct way is end the Federal Reserve Bank and have America issue its own debt free currency, which is a constitutional right for our Republic. Then America will we be able to recover from the current economic downturn. All other nations of the world will also prosper when America throws off the financial control of the world economy by the OUTLAWS. If America does not return to a currency issued as debt free money then it is my opinion the entire world will plunge into another war, and it appears that war will be with the nation of Iran.

    The only way the world can free itself from the control of the OUTLAWS, who are otherwise known as the Banksters, is for America to issue its own debt free currency. When that is accomplished the citizens of America can begin the process of removing the OUTLAWS from power and properly dispose of them into the prison they deserve.



    • paul degagne on January 26, 2012 at 4:17 am

      We can devise MODELS THAT WILL OR COULD WORK.

      There is much to be said for having many “models” for if one doesn’t work we exchange it for another. Or in the event of complete CHAOS having a model or PARADIGM within easy reach might indeed come in handy.

      So I am not against THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS?

      ONLY these Theoretical CONSTRUCTS look like SAND CASTLES IN THE SKY. (WHO’S collecting the RENT?)

      The ELITE go on with their AGENDA in their OWN MERRY WAY as if nothing else is happening. Some ‘bump’ comes along – they tweak it a little and PRESTO back to BUSINESS AS USUAL!

      TELL ME THIS ISN’T SO!

      The BARREL OF A GUN is what speaks! Whether the gun(FORCE) is a gun or the gun is a social engineering apparatus(FORCE) or whatever you would like to add.

      ———————————————-

      So now we’re CODE —GAGA, GAGA, GAGA!! We have to find the secret CODE of the AGES. So what do YOU think it will tell you or what do YOU think you will discover?

      Let me SAVE YOU A LOT TROUBLE.

      The CODE SAYS: WE’RE SCREWED!

      (I mean are you going to UP THE MAN OR The SYSTEM as little DAVID did to big GOLIATH? Come now we had enough of those WISHFUL tales. (if David defeated a Giant the giant was either about ready to CROAK or the stone in his SLINGSHOT wasn’t no ordinary STONE?

      AM I A FATALIST? (MAYBE?)
      __________________________________

      I am still a little be-TWIXED by the WORD = CODE.

      ONLY I AM GOING TO SUBSTITUTE THE WORD = SENSE, SENSE, SENSE!

      ( now the word sense can be anything you want it to be — PARANORMAL SENSE, COMMON SENSE, KEEN SENSE, INTELLECTUAL SENSE or anything your HEART DESIRES is FINE with me.)

      OK got that?

      Now the CODE’S SECRET is something you know deep, deep , deep within YOU —-EXISTENTIAL MORTALITY!

      (get around that will YOU? COME ON I NEED A GOOD LAUGH THIS MORNING!)

      And while YOUR trying to figure out (a response ) that one I SUGGEST reading the paragraph below?

      I THINK you might recognize it:

      HOW DOES ONE MAKE SENSE of ancient texts, modern genetics,
      legends of monsters and giants, fossils, the origins of man, and the attempts
      of some religions, to obscure all of it? How does one SYNTHESIZE it all? Is it
      even possible to speak in one breath of giants, monsters, ancient texts and
      evolution?

      _________________________

      HOW DOES ONE SYNTHESIZE IT ALL? (excellent QUESTION/ EXCELLENT word!)

      If it’s all a nice bull-shit story then it’s not a problem. WE DON’T!

      If —- IT —- ISN’T then HOW? ( don’t give me this SCIENTIFIC RELIGION JAZZ that insists on the RATIONALITY OF SOME —METHOD which gets throw in the waste paper basket tomorrow or a couple of CENTURIES LATER. I will not have no part of it! There’s SOMETHING BETTER THAN A TECHNOLOGY THAT POISONS US ALL OR THAT BLOWS UP PLANETS — yeah their so smart = as smart as a chemistry student who blows him/her self up in the school’s science lab?)

      ________________________

      One RESPONSE and at this time MY RESPONSE is;

      CONTEXTUALIZE—by this I mean —CONDENSE, CONDENSE, CONDENSE!

      Farrell does THIS when he uses four WORDS –PHYSICS, ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND RELIGION?

      Whether this works out in the end will, we

      will have to wait til the end to find out?

      BUT UNTIL THEN — HAVE A N —ACTION-PACKED day — TODAY. (the only day we got)



      • paul degagne on January 26, 2012 at 5:07 am

        Last night SOMEONE in my dreams was arranging four or five topics or SUBJECTIVITIES in an order that made SENSE? It was as if someone was GUIDING ME on how the PROCESS OF ARRANGING is DONE? (the trouble is remembering the dream —- for what is ORDER in a DREAM is very difficult TO grasp when awake for we generally follow what is linear-conventionality when our eyelids are OPEN .—- That is if your not really sleeping but just checking your eyelids for holes when you get caught sleeping on the job?)

        I am thinking of this NON-LINEAR MATHEMATICS mentioned in BABYLON’S BANKERS. this idea of a non-linear math COMPLETELY ASTONISHES THIS spectator! I am going to say it’s not really non-linear but a MASS OF DATA so U-MONGOUS THAT one might as well say NON-linear. How can one have a math formular something like this: XCZ = WHO KNOWS WHAT = ZCX. So we test ZCK and it’s repeatable or produces results?

        How is this possible?

        I have one idea about this? IT”S Descartes DEVIL playing a few-tricks TO GET US TO BELIEVE this XCZ = ZCX business because he like watching us SCRATCHING OUR HEADS! DESCARTES is good and old — and he is getting older by the minute. DESCARTES go on doubting yourself for eternity. NOTHING LIKE AVOIDING one problem by SWITCHING problems—I do it all the time)
        ______________________________

        The PROBLEM IS PROBABLY UNSOLVE-ABLE?

        One way to solve a perplexing problem that is probably NEVER MEANT TO BE SOLVED is TO

        INVENT A NEW —— MYTH!

        This is what I see JPF attempting in his own-way.

        NOW I CAN HEAR THE NOISE OF OBJECTIONS IN THIS ROOM (maybe— a little silence even?)

        It all depends on how you define or — WHAT YOU CALL MYTH!

        SOME MYTHS WORK OUT JUST FINE AND ENABLE PEOPLE TO what ?—- I’ll use a couple of words I am not fond of —

        That is MYTHS can enable us to PRODUCE WORK! ( a necessity if we want to continue to go on living?)

        ——————————————

        The reason I don’t like those two words is —I am trying to learn CHINESE without learning the LANGUAGE.

        When the Tao says the USEFULNESS of a HOUSE are the empty-spaces we call door-ways and windows or the empty space in a bowl.

        I want to understand such USELESSNESS. Their were times in my life I was accused of being a USELESS-GOOD-FOR-NOTHING!

        Now that I proved I AINT practically everyone in this SOCIETY OF OURS uses me for their own personal gain.

        I want to go back and PROVE THOSE PEOPLE WERE RIGHT

        for then NO-ONE could use me again.

        They would just THROW ME AWAY LIKE SOME –USELESS OBJECT.

        _________________________________

        Did you read what Carl Jung said about the PHILOSOPHER’S STONE.

        WE just throw it away like some USELESS-OBJECT

        UNTIL….

        LATER?

        ___________________

        I don’t know? I think there is a CONNECTION between NON-LINEAR MATHEMATICS and USELESSNESS?



        • paul degagne on January 26, 2012 at 6:41 am

          One more useless post and I promise not to bore you anymore this morning.

          I remember this story about a dwarf-like HUNCHBACK in a Chinese village.

          He looked so pathetic everyone gave him food.

          Some poor hungry woman had pity on him and said, “What the heck —YES – I’ll marry you.” ( they had 14 offspring!)

          Whenever there was HARD LABOR to be done in the village they use to look at him and say forget it — get someone else!

          When the BRIGADES came on their BIG HORSES to grab conscripts (drafties) for the next nearby BATTLE they took ONE LOOK AT HIM and PASSED him by

          It is said he lived to be one of the OLDEST or LONGEST in the village?
          ______________________________________
          HOW I WISH I WAS THAT USELESS!

          I could USE some of That uselessness!

          BUT

          I AM NOW CRYING BECAUSE —–

          “IF I CAN USE IT IT’S NOT USELESS!

          —————-
          OK –now I OUT THE DOOR THIS WINTERY MORNING —hello world!



    • Robert Barricklow on January 26, 2012 at 12:48 pm

      Agreed.

      A good book on that is: WEb of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown.
      Her web site has articles a bills statewide trying to incorporate Public State Banks like North Dakota.
      http://www.webofdebt.wordpress.com/



  4. MattB on January 25, 2012 at 11:30 pm

    Philosophia perennis et universalis……….anyone?



  5. legioXIV on January 24, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    A dangerous path we tread when we start interfering with the fundamental principles of any person’s religion. I thought that religious freedom was a fundamental principle of western civilization. Free to worship who and what you will. Provided it doesn’t cause trouble of course. Evidently I was mistaken on that belief. Being an atheist I would have thought that atheism registered as a religion would be a contradiction in terms but here is me forgetting that the rules are set by politicians. Politicians that would argue and have you believe that the s*** they dump upon you is actually good and smells great. Ahhh what a world we live in.



  6. Robert Barricklow on January 24, 2012 at 9:30 am

    The Rubicon is being crossed on points of the political/religious/moral compass.



    • legioXIV on January 24, 2012 at 1:26 pm

      Exactly Robert and we all know what happened when the Rubicon was crossed don’t we? The morally and politically corrupt government of the optimates and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was overthrown and replaced by the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar via bloody civil war.



      • Robert Barricklow on January 24, 2012 at 3:26 pm

        Looks like another crapshoot coming down the pipeline.



  7. Mel Hatfield on January 24, 2012 at 9:15 am

    i would agree with most of what you say on this topic. However, I would point out that the either/or example you give for home schoolers, while maybe true for most, is not true in all cases. My son is home schooling his kids (my granchildren) and he represents a more balanced nature that allows exploration without dogma either left or right. One could offer the same criticism about the public schools regarding slant and prejudice of the individual teacher.

    Generally, if a parent is willing to make the sacrifice to home school it can be better for the child than most any “public education” alternative. The idea that “public education” as it exists in the US today would be any more “balanced” is ludicrous.



  8. Jay on January 24, 2012 at 8:00 am

    I see JPF is repeating the “death panel” lies of Glenn Beck and company. Death panels are already there in the guise of insurance companies. (No need to use the it’s just a “logical extension” excuse.) And no the logical extension of the Obama/Romney medical insurance plan keeps the power with insurance companies–those darn for profit death dealers.

    That bull-dung and the slight reworking of classic anti-Semitic imagery JPF chose to post on this website a few days ago makes me lose a lot of respect for JPF as a scholar (in all fields) and as a person.



    • paul degagne on January 24, 2012 at 8:45 am

      TOUCHY, TOUCHY, TOUCHY THERE —wouldn’t you say?



      • paul degagne on January 24, 2012 at 8:55 am

        BE INDUSTRIOUS? Grind that AXE day in and day out. But watch out! — it gets so SHARP it cuts both ways!

        What’s that quaint Chinese Taoist tale of a butcher that never needed to sharpen his knife for the knife KNOWS just where to slice every time. (I take this to mean ‘IT FOLLOWS THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE. Gee, I wish I could?)

        Watch your FINGERS JAY!



        • legioXIV on January 24, 2012 at 1:39 pm

          “Grind that AXE day in and day out. But watch out! — it gets so SHARP it cuts both way!”

          Nice, Paul, I will have to remember that one.



    • Mel Hatfield on January 24, 2012 at 9:32 am

      Sorry, I missed the “classic anti-Semitic imagery” of which you speak. Please give an example in quotes.



      • Ramura on January 24, 2012 at 6:47 pm

        I missed it, too. Please clarify, Jay…



    • Vinnie on January 24, 2012 at 11:49 am

      Jay,
      Could you go into further detail to clarify all the points you were alluding to please? Maybe I’m missing something but the good doctor has always gone out of his way to be not only objective, but not to personalize any of his disagreements and deals instead with the larger issues.

      Thanks.



    • spiritsplice on January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

      We all know how credible the poeple who make charges of “anti-semitism” are.



      • paul degagne on January 25, 2012 at 7:22 am

        Interesting — I think I know what your getting at?

        but I want to UNDERSTAND THIS ISSUE a little bit better.

        The other day when in the library I looked at this book quickly called ‘The Jew In the Text’ by a Linda Nochlin but decided not to go much further.

        She said upon reading some of the HATRED or ATROACIOUS STEREO-TYPES of JEWS —“Well, how could people think such things about me! (she was a little girl at the time)

        That struck me? How can someone HATE THAT MUCH? I need to study this a bit longer so I am going back to the library thursday to get and read the complete book.

        I don’t know exactly WHERE I AM GOING WITH THIS but my INTUITIONS are hinting that Farrell’s YAHWEH BOOK might give me some useful or meaningful insights or HIDDEN CLUES into this matter?

        I know the USUAL EXPLANATIONS of the permanent OUTSIDER or the STRANGER or TRIBE(ISMS) have much relevance (I am not discounting this) BUT it seems to me SUCH EXTRAORDINARY HATRED comes from some UNCONSCIOUS SOURCE? (AS IF in our COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS —something KNOWS something but keeps it REPRESSED?)

        I think I want to know a little bit about this SPECIFIC-SOMETHING? (besides — maybe they may come a day when we’ll all decide that people like YOU who WEAR BROWN SHOES instead of black are the worst enemy of mankind. LETS GET EM FOLKS!)

        I don’t want to be part of that MARCHING PARADE!



        • spiritsplice on January 25, 2012 at 8:45 am

          What would you say if a person gets fired from 50 different jobs and claims it is never their fault and they are just being persecuted? Or a man who is accused of rape and claims to be innocent, might we believe him? How about if two women accuse him? How about 5? 10? At what point does one start to lose credibility as a victim and cause us to look for other explanations?



    • Father Krespi on January 25, 2012 at 9:06 am

      As a representative of the anti-semites who visit this website, I resent you throwing in JPF in with us. He is hardly an anti-semite.

      If you are referring to the photo of that blood sucking demon George Soros, well, if he is not one of the puppet masters of our political class, I will eat his yarmulke.



  9. HAL838 on January 24, 2012 at 6:38 am

    Morning, Joseph.
    Just more insanity there.

    Not new.
    Just surfacing more often..



    • paul degagne on January 24, 2012 at 7:14 am

      It’s all a PING-PONG GAME. Carl Rove got it right . POLARIZE 49% ON EACH SIDE and then all one has to do is FIX the 2% which is not hard to do giving the new INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY!

      I am seeking a FOUNDATIONAL IDEA (archetype) for Farrell’s project.. All this talk about checking sources and no talk of a METHODOLOGY for doing so?

      Anyway, I am against METHODOLOGY —- that is where people can go COMPLETELY INSANE? RATIONALITY TAKEN TO ITS EXTREME IS VERY IRRATIONAL INDEED!

      What SANE person would invent the BOMB or for that matter SEEDS that produce plants that produce Sterile SEEDS. (think about it?)

      I think if one is to look at INSANITY one has to look ABOVE for that is where the MOST HARM COMES FROM. Not from nuts like yours truly who haven’t yet found their OWN STYLE of writing yet!

      ————————————————-

      Foundational Archetype for Farrell’s Project:

      I am guessing the word —- ORIGINS!

      Like someone recently said in here ‘All roads lead to Rome ”

      Well, my two cents worth is ——- “All roads to Farrell’s WORK lead to ORIGINS!

      Have a nice day.

      ———————————————

      JOSEPH — your COMPASSION shines through.

      ONE DAY WE MIGHT BE ON THAT TABLE OR GURNEY?

      I believe some people do serve and serve well.



      • paul degagne on January 24, 2012 at 7:33 am

        I am UP this morning so I am HOGGING THE PLATFORM. I try an be amusing?

        This image of a hospital gurney you brought up. Co-incidently I watched this video sunday night by MEL BROOKS called ‘LIFE STINKS! I swear that guy is a genius for he can make you LAUGH AND CRY AT THE SAME TIME!

        One scene where he is lying on a gurney in a crowded welfaire hospital raising his objections while in RESTRAINTS and along comes three different doctors saying, ‘THIS MAN NEEDS 500ccs OF THORIZINE IMMEDIATELY! until one COMPETENT NURSE recognizes he is in A COMATOSE STATE!

        That heavens for the few remaining NURSES!



      • HAL838 on January 24, 2012 at 2:29 pm

        Yes, of course it’s insane.
        You are just seeing that?
        Well, better late than never;
        so it is said.
        🙂



        • paul degagne on January 25, 2012 at 5:20 am

          I know I shouldn’t but I’ll ‘BITE” anyway, ha, ha!

          I knew this around the time Erich Fromm came out with ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM and THE SANE SOCIETY. (I kind of “slightly-felt” it anyway but when one reads something IN PRINT it sort of jumps out at the reader as like in the LAW OF MOSES!)

          What I am trying to say is I knew it only as a INTELLECTUAL IDEA for my inner feelings didn’t really believe this?

          Now my HEART does. (maybe I shouldn’t be writing this down for when one FEELS insane or INSANITY is that an indication one is or is going…YOU KNOW WHERE -HELP!?!?!?)

          MAYBE?

          Could also be an OCEAN WAVE and I am a SURFER who is riding a WAVE that might be a LITTLE TOO BIG FOR US TO HANDLE?

          Today, I don’t pay much too much attention to FROMM for I heard a few things about the FRANKFURT SCHOOL I DIDN’T LIKE but aside that he has one work that CHALLENGES ME IN SUCH A WAY I would like to CHUCK THE BOOK in some sewer drain-pipe where it would disappear forever!

          It’s his book that talks about INTELLECTUAL LOVE or as some CATHOLICS say AGAPE.” He writes “LOVE as an INTELLECTUAL —“ACT OF VOLATION?”

          purely a WILLING! Rather than a FORCE OF EROS that sweeps the mere EGO AWAY with it?
          ________________________

          Anyway I get WORRIED for I still have something remaining of a LANG residue hanging around that I cant get rid of. (kind of like that TV commercial where COLD-GERMS move into the house?)

          His saying “In an INSANE society only the WELL go insane?” ( makes sense to me because if your SICK and insane in an iNSANE then your SIC-get this = SICK ADJUSTED!!!!!! YOU HAVE an ABBE NORMAL BRAIN just like in that FRANKENSTIEN MOVIE, HA, HA!)

          I am getting WAY OUT HERE!

          Someone said it is not such a good idea to put all you CARDS out on the table EVEN IF you have only 48 IN A DECK, HA, HA!

          I agree but I come to this conclusion —- When the DECK IS MARKED DOES IT MATTER MUCH BECAUSE the ENEMY KNOWS YOUR HAND ANYWAY? So a little bit of HONESTY goes a long way because PSYCHOPATHS CANT UNDERSTAND IT? (they cant really read that Honesty-CARD!)

          Anyway —Hal and the BUNCH OF YOU here have a

          quiet, soothing day with not too much BUMPS and stay clear of CARD SHARKS!



          • paul degagne on January 25, 2012 at 5:52 am

            I just heard they found a 12th body underwater in that Cruise Ship that floundered.

            I am a bit pre-morbid but it goes with this APOCA-EL-GA-LIP-IC mentality THAT IS PEDDLED TO US. ( i cant wait to order that YAHWEH BOOK to see what kind of slant Farrell puts on it!)

            IMAGINE THIS -Your on a dream cruise of a LIFETIME (it was) and you end up with some underwater diver rescuing your DEAD BODY?

            The FICKLED FINGER OF FATE STUCK IT TO EM!

            Here’s one more reference if your the kind that likes to go to horror movies (as if there isn’t enough horror in this world — as you can tell I AINT one of these NEW AGERS, ha, ha!)

            I was watching the sic NEWS the other day and saw this announcement: Alabama has been experiencing some TORNADO(s) recently. One struck the region of PARADISE VALLEY with strong devasting WINDS.

            I guess they will have to change the NAME OF THAT VALLEY!

            ( I laugh not at the MISFORTUNE — I really shouldn’t for someone will probably take offense for it’s not PC BUT AT the IRONY of the NAME. I know it’s AWFUL!)

            THOSE POOR FOLKS SURE GOT THE NAME OF THEIR TOWN WRONG!

            Maybe WE SURE GOT THE NAME OF GOD WRONG/ ( MONOTHEISM///////YAHWEH?????????)



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