Maybe the problem is that the things I want to talk about don't fit into my old categories anymore.
I think a lot about technology, for example, and the way it's being hyped by the corporations, and the damage it's doing to the social fabric, and the harm it's doing to our children's ability to focus and process information and think critically.
And public education, how it's being sucked down into the quicksand of politics and social control, how compulsory, standardized schooling is a kind of prison for kids, and how I wear the face of the oppressor every day at work.
And honesty, radical honesty, the rocky spiritual path that keeps me from lying, ever, and the things that takes away from me and the things it gives to me.
And polyamory, what it means after 13 years of marriage and three grown kids, and friendships, the long and the short of them, and the longing for true intimacy that's never quite filled, and the losses of my old friends to cancer and divorce and transiency and religious bigotry.
And how the hell am I going to add Jesus to my pantheon without bringing down the wrath of my friends on either side?
I guess I just have to put it out there. Is that what you do?
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Yeah. I mean I have days where I am terrified to read the comments of people at my blog. I am just so sure I have upset someone. But the thing is, what I am finding out at least, is that everyone has a lot of doubts, because no one is fitting into some perfect catagory. It's like all of life today is an epic stressful issue of "papar or plastic" as we try to be good people, healthy people, in a not so good, unhealthy society based on the fast buck and nothing more.
You can add Jesus to your pantheon! Read some stuff about American Voudou or Santeria, they will stck Buddha on there next to Jesus, power is power. Check out the city of Alexandria with its cross roads of magical workers and religions of all stripes - When these recent scrolls got deciphered by scholars they were shocked that it was spells and rituals that mixed Christianity, Herbew, Greek and Egyptian Gods. Those people were very segregated in that city, but somehow, as in all of history, magicians found ways to trade info about their very guarded secrets.
When Christains came to Scandanavia, people happpily added a Jesus to their Thor andwent on with life.
Christianity is only a problem when it says there is ONE GOD, even though any brief foray into the Bible shows you man Gods and Jehovah yeling at us to not follow them. In fact, I often hear Christians taught about the Old Testiment God (mean) and the New Testiment God (kind). It's a form of polytheism. I am not sure really why Christians don't ask the questions I ask to my Mom, who is an Episcopalian priest about these things. I mean when on Christmas the Bible readng is all about"Don't worship Ba'al" and no one blinks, I am totally confused. My main issue with Christianity aside from monotheism is the constant contradictions. Like the Book of Job evidentally is from some other tribal people, a different God. Obviousy the God Who Won't Tell Us His Name is not the same God Jesus is talking about. Plus the Bible is very poorly written and I just want to copy edit it, I cannot stand it.
So what I am trying to say in a rambling way is that people enjoy hearing about oour deeper struggles and what we learn about ourselves and life. As a Tarot reader I am shocked at how much suffering all people experience. And how much worry there is about being good, except in LA, where morals were just an obstacle to money and fame so they didn't matter.
Oh yeah and trust me - flesh and blood people, wow what a concept! They have found that there is an automatic shut off valve most people have when they are hurting someone that makes them stop. But since we cannot see anyone on the Internet, that brain function isn't there - hence cyber bullying.
And those video game addiction rehabs in the Far East and porn addict centers - The brain gets a little a shot of dopamine, whee, each time it finds a hot girl or blows up a village, but dopamine isn't a long lasting high, it's like crack actually (for real). So then the body wants more and more, and then the brain gets REwired for nonstop dopamine rushes. Remove the web porn or XBox and people have physical withdrawal. It's another example of how we''re creating technology that we don't understand. I now have heard of an anxiety disorder in teen girls about not getting text messages responded to fast enough. And it's chemical. We arecreating chemical addictions by messing up our brans with technology. So you have my vote for Luddite living.
I miss hanging out with people, where conversations weren't 144 charcater Tweets, or random screaming facebook declarations. I miss being to see the body language and face expression, to be able to read each other on deeper levels, to get clarification on things before feeling attacked or in love, because this is all words. No pheremones, no sound of laughter, no sympathetc eyes, no soft touch, no shared food. The internet is just throwing info out to the whole world and wondering what will happen next. Nothing in our brains, designed for villages of 100 wel known people, is prepared for this.
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Yes, Heather! How I miss conversations at the kitchen table. How I long to make tea, and take our time. I see the kids at my school becoming anti-social, unable to read one another's body language, unable to sustain attention, unwilling to spend more than a minute or two at any task, unable to meet my eyes, without interest in the real world around them . . . Digital technology and virtual experience is a vast social experiment being played out on our children. What bothers me most is that no one objects, no parents seem to notice. People have swallowed the techno-hype whole.
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