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Title: Love, Connection, Exile and Human Possibility
Post by: Shana A on October 29, 2008, 08:15:29 PM
Post by: Shana A on October 29, 2008, 08:15:29 PM
Love, Connection, Exile and Human Possibility
Posted October 29, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility/ (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility/)
My personal take on the entire matter is much like what Nica, Shay and MgS commented about on my essay of yesterday. One's realness cannot and will not be affirmed or negated by a scientific study. To make the attempt is to enter a realm of interaction and self-deception that cries out to the person who does so to examine herself and find her validity within herself, not in demeaning and in dismissing others.
The destruction of, or disregarding of, human capacity and possibility in others makes me nothing more than I am already. In fact, it makes me, inevitably, less than I am. If I remove from the world those who disagree or differ from me in some way than I shall surely be alone when the other 6 billion are gone. My search for more validity and "realness" can only come in community, sister- and brotherhood with others so much like me that I cannot tell a difference when I examine them, speak to them, interact with them.
Ideology, the quest to be "right" or "correct" is nothing more, to my mind, than a wish for alienation, frustration, and eventually death alone without another's touch or care. It cannot make me "whole" to be "right." Rightness over all else only makes me alone and lonely, angry and believing that everyone else rejects me.
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Reprise http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility-reprise/ (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility-reprise/)
Posted October 29, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility/ (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility/)
My personal take on the entire matter is much like what Nica, Shay and MgS commented about on my essay of yesterday. One's realness cannot and will not be affirmed or negated by a scientific study. To make the attempt is to enter a realm of interaction and self-deception that cries out to the person who does so to examine herself and find her validity within herself, not in demeaning and in dismissing others.
The destruction of, or disregarding of, human capacity and possibility in others makes me nothing more than I am already. In fact, it makes me, inevitably, less than I am. If I remove from the world those who disagree or differ from me in some way than I shall surely be alone when the other 6 billion are gone. My search for more validity and "realness" can only come in community, sister- and brotherhood with others so much like me that I cannot tell a difference when I examine them, speak to them, interact with them.
Ideology, the quest to be "right" or "correct" is nothing more, to my mind, than a wish for alienation, frustration, and eventually death alone without another's touch or care. It cannot make me "whole" to be "right." Rightness over all else only makes me alone and lonely, angry and believing that everyone else rejects me.
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Reprise http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility-reprise/ (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/love-connection-exile-and-human-possibility-reprise/)