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Re: Dana,

Thanks for your comments! Once again, a comment here becomes the next post...

 

posted by Ciel on March 17, 2015 at 10:08 AM | link to this | reply

Love the way you have worded this.  I choose to use the word spirit vs soul.  I am open to learn the difference.  I have heard the definition that we are likened to a drop of water, that when dropped into the ocean, we become in union with the greater ocean. 

Thank you for responding.  I am kinda a lone wolf when it comes to understanding God.  But now I am seeing other wolves.

More of your Idea's please.

Dana

 

posted by Inside_The_Purple_Purse on March 17, 2015 at 5:26 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Krisles,

We are such layered creatures, living in concentric circles of self, society, species, world... And soul, too.

Choices are made on all levels, on the strength--or weakness--of beliefs, assumptions, theories... On this very human/social level, every culture and every era has its notions of proper child-rearing, beliefs about what works and what doesn't.  And so we have constant flux as generations hold on to traditions, rebel against traditions, get creative in ways that are not always great. You're right, that our current society in the West encourages narcissism and lack of empathy. This is a thing which I feel safe in predicting will prove to be one of those that doesn't work in the long term.

Barbara Tuchman in her history of "the calamatious 14th Centure" THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY describes a kind of defensive lack of love and care of infants and young children: People didn't bond with offspring who were more than likely to die before reaching an age when they could be washed up and dressed like small adults, and allowed into the dining room.

You can see the problem they had to solve, and the solution was simple and effective in the short term. But in the long term, it produced  generations of angry, bloody-minded adolescents, routinely thrust into positions of adult power. The effects of those traditions haunts our society still. 

Simple solutions have a sneaky way of becoming later problems.

posted by Ciel on March 5, 2015 at 7:20 PM | link to this | reply

Ciel

Excellent post.  I wonder, however, if some of the ills of our society right now don't stem from the fact that we have created a false reality in which we seem to raise children with the expectation that the revolves around them for a time period long past what is the natural rhythm....I mean, we even have insurance coverage for them up to age 26!  But, really, I don't think they stop seeing the world as revolving around them at adolescence any longer.....I see many in college that seem to feel that way, rebelling against the reality they see, most definitely, but coming really late to the realization.  Anyway, I especially loved your observation of our being a soul having a body versus a body having a soul...that is SUCH a keeper....thank you for sharing.

posted by Krisles on March 5, 2015 at 1:20 PM | link to this | reply

You do a great job analyzing the way that most look at God and explaining the maturity of the soul.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on March 5, 2015 at 10:23 AM | link to this | reply

No debate from me on this. I probably use different words but am saying pretty m uch the same. Excellent post luv.

posted by Kabu on March 4, 2015 at 4:21 PM | link to this | reply