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May. 5th, 2006 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionTroubling, to me, is the permission slip God. Because of this one you let yourself feel, be connected, know or not have to know, remember or forget. The gaze of this being is a country, and you while in it are well and unalone.
It's a gift you're giving yourself, but could you let yourself without a) the social sanction, b) an image and a history that, carefully, make as little sense as life, c) the anthropomorphosis of cosmic extremes? To dial that down: without God, his clout, story and size?
Yes, in the broader sense of "could"--within imaginable human capacity. A and B are available to godless organizations, and hopefully B could be modified to "as MUCH sense as life" as people start to get it. C you might not need at all, given basic logical training; anyway, a toothless or not-quite-believed version should be possible, such as one of the more humanistic Gnostic cosmologies.
Do you need an organization or anyway group? I think this is the miserable part. We probably do, almost all of us. And absolutely all of us would benefit by it. The most crucial handle our evolutionary plan has on us is shame: the shame of the many to say anything, the shame of the few who do say to say anything new, the shame of the marginal newsayers to say anything true, the shame of the five-per-generation truesayers to say anything loud. Escape, not to another world but to perspective on our own, is disenabled by this inertia. And that escape is all we need at all.
It's a gift you're giving yourself, but could you let yourself without a) the social sanction, b) an image and a history that, carefully, make as little sense as life, c) the anthropomorphosis of cosmic extremes? To dial that down: without God, his clout, story and size?
Yes, in the broader sense of "could"--within imaginable human capacity. A and B are available to godless organizations, and hopefully B could be modified to "as MUCH sense as life" as people start to get it. C you might not need at all, given basic logical training; anyway, a toothless or not-quite-believed version should be possible, such as one of the more humanistic Gnostic cosmologies.
Do you need an organization or anyway group? I think this is the miserable part. We probably do, almost all of us. And absolutely all of us would benefit by it. The most crucial handle our evolutionary plan has on us is shame: the shame of the many to say anything, the shame of the few who do say to say anything new, the shame of the marginal newsayers to say anything true, the shame of the five-per-generation truesayers to say anything loud. Escape, not to another world but to perspective on our own, is disenabled by this inertia. And that escape is all we need at all.
