Re: Betrayel
liaM <[email protected]>
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On 8/8/2024 4:02 AM, liaM wrote: > On 8/7/2024 11:07 PM, slider wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:53:44 +0100, David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Aug 7, 2024, slider wrote >>> (in article <op.2r5imgxw7eafsp@slider>): >>> >>>> On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:18:05 +0100, liaM<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> > On 8/7/2024 4:08 AM, slider wrote: >>>> > > On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:07:55 +0100, kami<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:17:18 +0200, Venus as a Boy wrote: >>>> > > > >>>> > > > > https://slowspacetemplehealing.help/2024/08/02/betrayel/ >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > The christian church, not Christ, go hand in hand with >>>> psychiatry, >>>> > > > > they >>>> > > > > say only maybe a few hundred or thousand can be healers, >>>> have christ >>>> > > > > consciousnes if any one, or be seers etc., but according to >>>> indigenous >>>> > > > > people "mental sick" persons could be chosen to heal (see >>>> homepage) >>>> > > > > etc... >>>> > > > > According to Phil Borges information that about 20 % of the >>>> population >>>> > > > > at least in the west are diagnosed with "mentall illness" >>>> you can >>>> > > > > calculate that about 1.6 billion people probably worldwide >>>> could be >>>> > > > > considered healers or seers or anything spiritual help for >>>> > > > > humanity.... >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > that is just delusional thinking, romanticising defects as >>>> doped alloy. >>>> > > ### - not really, in india for example mentally ill/challenged >>>> people >>>> > > are >>>> > > considered to have been blessed by the spirit, and are revered... >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > As in many tribal cultures, people are not thrown to the street or to >>>> > Gaza when they happen not to belong to the dominant sects. >>>> >>>> ### - there have been enough cases of that though: the inuits used >>>> to put >>>> granny out on the ice when her teeth wore down; no longer of any >>>> practical >>>> use and a drain on precious resources they simply threw her away? >>>> (which >>>> all seems a bit callous to me lol) >>>> >>>> so no, not only in cases where society took pity on others for whatever >>>> reason and tried to look after them (although undoubtedly there was >>>> some >>>> of that too, particularly in families unlike the inuit) but because it >>>> was/became generally recognised that spiritually advanced people often >>>> behaved in unusual, sometimes seemingly totally crazy ways! the average >>>> man in the street being unable to discern genuine madness from those >>>> spiritually advanced, it became normal to consider that that might >>>> be the >>>> case and so rather than shunning them like they do today, they >>>> honoured & >>>> revered them instead... >>> >>> "Seven years your right, under a flagstone, in a quagmire, >>> Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing, >>> The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language: >>> And if you like to return You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.” >>> (Ancient Irish Poem) >>> >>> (but of course I have had 4X7 so far) >> >> ### - that's actually very nice... but there are modern equivalents >> too... >> >> e.g., "genius is often touched with madness", or "there's no such >> thing as genius that isn't touched by madness" >> >> or an even better one said by mick jagger in the film 'Performance' >> >> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_idn3bWXMl0 >> >> "i'll tell you this: the only performance that makes it, that really >> makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness, >> right? am i right? you with me?" >> >> a truly great movie ;) >> > > Anyone living in a small village or commune, where nearly everyone > is an acquaintance or friend, knows that there's not a single > person or child that is not distinctly different from everyone else. > In such a place, a person has to be accepting else become a pariah of > sorts, the sort of person who makes a case of his or her difference. > > It may take awhile, but things will soon reveal themselves in the USA. > The pariahs will take a fall, much like Eugene McCarthy in the '50s > or Trump in 2020. I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump have to > spend time in jail, genius pariah that he is.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > oops - joe not eugene :)