@frequency__444 I guessed it was the feeling aspect of the words that motivated you to post, but the reason I mentioned it was because I thought it might have been something that he’d said that I was as yet unaware of. I like your account and how you speak from the heart x
@McClureShawn Always provocative. Always fishing for the counter argument. Give up. Nobody will ever be able to reassure you that God exists, however much you crave that. Make peace with the ills of the world and you might find your own way to something greater than your noisy, embittered ego.
@McClureShawn But all continue to exist and endure as symbols of the deeper, non-rational part of the psyche. Why? Why are they biologically essential to the human experience? Why do they never go away despite your futile, ceaseless ranting? Why are you utterly impotent in relation to them?
@autocorrect2_0@ofthemisery Most Western capitalist economies are actually what’s known as mixed economies (free market + public ownership and welfare) the only distinction is the degree of state intervention.
Chaotic suffering is unbearable. From this perspective we can understand the apparent paradox that digging up and reactivating old and even forgotten misery can have healing effects.” 2/2.
“The Symbolic Quest”, E. C. Whitmont.
“What has meaning can be better borne. When we can forge our experiences of pain into a meaningful pattern, they can be seen as functional elements of our destiny. 1/2.
…depending upon whether we acquire the capacity to relate to it adequately and turn its energy potential to our benefit”. 2/2.
“The Symbolic Quest”, E. C. Whitmont.
“Like the energy of the atomic nucleus, the energy of the psychic “nucleus” of the unconscious constititutes a dimension of so far unfathomed and terrifying elementary energy potential, equally capable of aiding or destroying us…1/2.