PUTTING WOMEN IN THEIR PLACE–a mans view

A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE——WORLD

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What is wrong with the world?

Most of us know somethings wrong, if not with us, then with many others. There is something of a constant in this whole wide world of trouble that skips obvious through history like a child hopscotching on our front walk, most of the players are men.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do not believe all men are bad leaders, nor that switching certain of them with just any woman would create a better outcome. I am speaking of basic fundamentals, and what the planet can handle. We are becoming less and less able to handle testosterone addicted and emotionally demented men unhinged on the political world stage, yet there they skip. It is just common sense to see some important role changes. If we wish to live honestly by the facts that is.

Men may have had a fundamentally protective role through much of history, but now that role is becoming a hazard to the worlds health, and need be channeled into healthier directions. Men could carry out their competitive drive in the arts and sciences, and even sports, where nothing of true consequence to survival can let men “be men”, but allow them not to take out everyone else in the process of their often all or nothing alpha male domination paradigm.

It is sensibly acknowledged that women will be less likely, on the average, to decide to nuke the world. It is obvious in my life, that overall, most women are more responsible than men. Many more women hold down single parent households. They seem to be organically more inclusive of more of the environment than men seem to be. The biggest drawback to putting women in their rightful leadership place now, is the sad turf identities of many men. Some men would rather be the “king of their own castle”, than treat others with respect and dignity regardless of position. Yep. Many men are kinda emotionally unfit to guide the world safely. Yet history keeps repeating itself, why?

Yet all men and all women are in some ways different. I believe that many of the women who have heretofore risen to leadership position, have by outdoing men at their own game. This is not necessarily the right kind of woman’s approach needed to lead significant change. Acting like men should not be the main criterion. Many of these first women leaders in the modern world have outdone men, seemingly to some extent, suppressing that tendency of women to be more inclusive.

It is women who most often have to pull together and reconstitute the culture from the debris the men leave in the wake of warfare’s turf battles. Now the world itself is becoming irreversibly integrated, coming to reflect more potential onto the woman’s strengths to create, than the mans willingness to sacrifice others lives. The world needs women leaders, not necessarily pandering to the conservative leadership roles as defined by male model patterns, but by the females own creative strengths to care for and bring life together. Now that is leadership.

I know many men have outstanding integrative and healing qualities. The problem has been in men abusing their ego self confidence issue by seeking power. There likewise have been women every bit as competitive and willing to destroy others in order to come out on top. I am not proposing blind role following. I am proposing a renaissance in common sense; that men as well as women act to their strengths and combine those creative powers for the health and survival of humankind, and not an obsession with how best to dominate and destroy it, even if that is not the conscious intention.

The problem will be in men having the courage and strength to face up to histories indictment, then caring enough for the whole, to leave their delusions of separation grandeur behind. Faith is what will persevere, a persistence that this can be done to protect us all from the fear, paranoia and hubris inherent to power. Becoming aware that it is in all of our interest that power seeking contempt for others can be overcome, then creative power having, be known.

ODD THING ABOUT THE TRUTH or, how to be really dumb and not know it in one easy step

Truth is an abstraction, which makes it hover above reality, not in truth, but in our ideas of it.

You may know a truth, but not know how or why it is true. We can put a truth into our interpretation of it. Now this alchemy puts the facts which make up that truth, into an imagination rendered context. If we do not acknowledge the area that is now suspicious in its factual context (our imagination), we can “see” both truth and fact as something other than what they truly are. Being that we each are in subjective respects different, with differing viewpoints on the world around us, what is true can become something of a contention, of competition and forms of denial. With all good intention, we can believe in things that are not true, while sure that they are. We can also not acknowledge this same sort of truth in others, since their alleged truth seems to arrive at differing conclusions than our own.

This relative perception of truth becomes problematic in action in the world around us. I can be sure of things that are not true, and even disrespect the views of others I presume to be false, when they actually can be true. If being wrong is OK with me, I will be lazy (or opinionated) and just project my disbelief toward that real truth held in others hands. We each are “set up” to follow falsehoods as if they were God given truth, and blame others who are actually being true, as being deceived or even fearful threats to us with their alternate explanation’s seeming to undercut our own view. This battle over truth can lead us as far as to war.

ABSTRACTIONS CAN HARBOR CONTRADICTORY OPPOSITES BUT SEEM ABSTRACTLY CORRECT

Whole histories of contention can be made real over this ignorance induced battle. Much of politics, conflict and warfare seem enmeshed in this argument over what is really reality. After a while, the persistence of the conflict can seem to be a truth itself, where essentially misleading perception, leads us to conclusions based upon the falsehood. These go on to seem as being truth, which then gets passed on via reaction and communication/learning to become cultural truisms, yet they can be as false as calling the darkness light. We actively come to belong to our conditioning to that perception, right or wrong, but feeling it is true.  Emotions often stand in for the missing in action true evidence in truthful whole context.

Humankind seems quite oblivious to the actual nature of belief and the erroneous assumption that can travel with it. If these ways of cosmological viewpoint are not subject to reality or fact checking in fundamentally meaningful ways, they can become as “sins of the Fathers”, automatically piloted on to generations to come, even when false and damaging. All being lived with and in, as if they were guiding lights of perception and behavior.

BUYER BEWARE

Since we are immersed into a culture, we can easily accept its beliefs and mores as if they were God given. These might even claim to be handed down to us by God. If we do not reality check what is sold to us by our culture, we can blissfully move forward in ignorance of what we actually do not know, but assume we do. We hold the ability to fact check, but in many ways, we often are prevented from carrying out our own investigations of the truth. Why would there be instituted barriers to questioning reality?

Blocks to investigating the truth are there to stifle ones own critical thinking skill supplied by God, or if you will, nature. Likely, for a variety of rationalized perceptual programs, the individual can be mislead by the embedded ignorance of good intentions, or the manipulative strategies of opportunistic coercion. These latter motivations are quite likely instituted to corral perception to serve those using them. Humankind has a long history of opportunistic manipulation made by power and status hierarchies who seek to preserve their superior, or alpha dog like positions. For then, reality seems, or takes on the appearance, of being made the way it is for permanent truth based reason, and not the reality that they are contortions used for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

SURPRISE!

It would be no surprise that most of humankind finds itself in this deceptive predicament, when our abilities to discern truth from falsehood is so compromised. It is compromised for reasons which benefit certain societal interest. I suggest that we all lose in this situation, for how can manipulators and those who exploit others, truly be said to spiritually benefit from what they do or condone? They may exhibit the trappings of power and authority, but they are in fact frauds. Yes, we essentially have aspects of fraud based culture, with fraudulent ways of perceiving others and the rest of our interconnected and related environments.

Those who divide and conquer the world, do so at the peril of their own souls. True, most of these never accept responsibility for the situation, but try to externalize shame and blame onto others who often have much less. Yet this less, is in materialism or status, and not necessarily at all, a less of the authentic spirit that all beings are born with and into. In fact, these who are the least, tend to have the most in authenticity and spiritual knowledge.

As fooling with perception as appearances can be, truth is known in the hearts and spirits of those who chose to live in Its presence, and not the smorgasbord of fantasy that so often passes inspection as success or achievement. Whole truth can be the last thing on many an agenda, for it would require one to walk through the fire of self realization and reconstitution. While the lazy seductions of material having, can have one, just as with drugs, addicted to their own deconstruction.

The truth remains constant inside and outside and all other sides of our being. We are born as children of this Great privilege. That there are those who not only ignore our commons of Beingness, but insist it does not exist by the evidence they see, know not where to look.

May we not only know where to look, but acknowledge we are that Truth looking. When we accept reality and know the roles of fantasy and imagination, as well as how simply they can be mistaken, we will have taken that great leap toward knowing. It is in this commonality of casue and purpose, that divisions are released as diffusing smoke. The Union of the One Truth made evidence as pure and unconditional Love, was always there, just not accepted for our mistaken impressions.

Hanna’s rain rushes up East Coast, While Ike re-intensifies, Sept 6 2008

Post originating time, 2:15pm, EDT Sept 5, 2008

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Update; 6pm EDT Sept 6 2008 intensifies

Hanna’s rains rushing up the East Coast.

Ike is intensifying. Computer models now sending it over Cuba, where it is expected to emerge into the Gulf of Mexico. Cuba may diminish it, but the warm Gulf and northern trajectory could keep many glued to Ike’s movements and intensity.

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UPDATE: 8:30pm EDT

Hanna making a move inland overnight. Hanna’s tropical storm wind influence extends far from the center, over 200 miles. Hanna still showing signs of strengthening, currently winds at 70mph.

Tornado watch out for eastern sections of the Carolina’s. North of there, watch your weather sources for movement northwards of tornado watches.

Ike heading west towards Florida. If it trends south and hits Cuba, less likely to be as strong later when near the US. If it goes into Florida, that is another story. A lot often depends on the speed of systems and dominant steering currents. Also, if they have time to rejuvenate, and or, if wind shear hampers the storms efficiency in reconstitution before landfall. Much to keep track of this weekend.

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Hurricane Hanna? With landfall expected within 36 hours, Hanna is at 70 mph and becoming more well organized. Actual hurricane status may be immaterial, but it appears it could accelerate those 5 more mph before the eye-wall hits shore.

Meanwhile. Hurricane Ike remains a major hurricane headed our way.

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Tropical Depression Gustav Wind: 35 MPH — Location: 31.7N 93.4W — Movement: NW Tracking Map Public Advisory Coordinates WunderMap™ Satellite Discussion Computer Models Interactive Flash Map

Tropical Storm Hanna Wind: 70 MPH — Location: 20.6N 72.9W — Movement: Stationary Tracking Map Public Advisory Coordinates WunderMap™ Satellite Discussion Computer Models Interactive Flash Map

Tropical Storm Ike Wind: 60 MPH — Location: 18.9N 45.0W — Movement: W Tracking Map Public Advisory Coordinates WunderMap™ Satellite Discussion Computer Models Interactive Flash Map

Tropical Storm Josephine Wind: 40 MPH — Location: 13.2N 25.3W — Movement: W Tracking Map Public Advisory Coordinates WunderMap™ Satellite Discussion Computer Models Interactive Flash Map

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Tropical Storm Karina Wind: 40 MPH — Location: 19.3N 111.5W — Movement: WNW Tracking Map Public Advisory Coordinates WunderMap™ Satellite Discussion Computer Models Interactive Flash Map

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