Duality and Thelema
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Awww... But you've misinterpreted my man-compliment.
Dar is a ferocious bird of prey in the intellectual realm, and I don't think she aspires to anything less.
And you yourself have shown more courage in dealing with me than most, and at one time in particular when I was particularly bent and really appreciated the pushback.
At times, I require gloves as well, so there's no lesser-than intended.
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@Sardonyx said
"Awww... But you've misinterpreted my man-compliment.
Dar is a ferocious bird of prey in the intellectual realm, and I don't think she aspires to anything less.
And you yourself have shown more courage in dealing with me than most, and at one time in particular when I was particularly bent and really appreciated the pushback.
At times, I require gloves as well, so there's no lesser-than intended."
Which was why I quoted Liber AL, not to make a holier than though statement, I find it helps to look at these things with a healthy dose of humour.
Apologies though for any offences caused though.
The whole us/them mentality thing, be it in regards to gender, race, or whatever is laughable to be honest, and I find that when I notice it creeping into my sensorium I tend to put it in it's place with humour PDQ.
That doesn't stop the ol' lizard brained tribalism in me sometimes getting out of hand, call it a post-patriarchal Aeon hangover. 2000+ years of hard wired (often by necessity) bigotry doesn't just disappear over night.
I consider myself quite liberated really, but I'll admit to occasionally having thoughts that are beneath me.
At least most of the guys and gals on here are actually working on it.93 93/93
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@Middleman said
"Seriously though, I've always thought that 'receptive' was a better word than 'passive' as both sides are 'active'."
Its an etymological problem then.
I'm sure Dar knows exactly what she means by passive, and I'm equally sure that others know exactly what they mean by it.
The moral is, if your going to use a potentially contentious term in a discussion and it causes friction, its worth while discussing exactly what each party means by choosing that particular word. Otherwise we'll just get more of these off-topic posts.
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When I took advanced writing courses, I learned an important fact.
Verbs, action words, are considered either active, or passive. One is not right or wrong, but in different pieces of writing one is more appropriate.
Verbs are not receptive, from what I gleened.
I ate my sausage......active
The sausage was eaten by me.....passiveI also learned how we as a culture have been taught to dehumanize others, espicially others that do not conform, that challenge and confront, that make us uncomfortable. For years, I referred to my husbands mother as, my mother in law, and it took my adept sister to point out that I was doing this, and that it was because she MIL was challenging. I have to stop an d pause a moment, but I call her Maryann now.
While we may think that it is a term of endearment, or a compliment to be compared to an animal, I know I have a strong affinity to Tiger, it is dehumanizing, and IMO in this stage of the game we as a species would do well to embrace humanity, and being human and all the blessings that gift has to give us.
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@Veronica said
"When I took advanced writing courses, I learned an important fact.
Verbs, action words, are considered either active, or passive. One is not right or wrong, but in different pieces of writing one is more appropriate.
Verbs are not receptive, from what I gleened.
I ate my sausage......active
The sausage was eaten by me.....passiveI also learned how we as a culture have been taught to dehumanize others, espicially others that do not conform, that challenge and confront, that make us uncomfortable. For years, I referred to my husbands mother as, my mother in law, and it took my adept sister to point out that I was doing this, and that it was because she MIL was challenging. I have to stop an d pause a moment, but I call her Maryann now.
While we may think that it is a term of endearment, or a compliment to be compared to an animal, I know I have a strong affinity to Tiger, it is dehumanizing, and IMO in this stage of the game we as a species would do well to embrace humanity, and being human and all the blessings that gift has to give us."
Thats actually a very interesting point, terms of endearment being used to de-humanize others.
Food for thought, thanks.
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