tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post5698149097407373869..comments2023-04-24T09:36:27.739-05:00Comments on Off the Grid in Minneapolis: HierarchyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-64901453226110577842012-07-10T18:14:47.764-05:002012-07-10T18:14:47.764-05:00Blessings, LisaBlessings, LisaWilliam Hunter Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03659156353754825272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-74196280817147025992012-07-10T11:43:35.814-05:002012-07-10T11:43:35.814-05:00I take pride in our shared intelligence, and most ...I take pride in our shared intelligence, and most importantly, humility.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hierarchystructure.com/" rel="nofollow">Hierarchy Structure</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09680687232989598778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-46590411210715031032012-06-11T07:05:57.548-05:002012-06-11T07:05:57.548-05:00Psalm 90:5 (Translation by Charles Spurgeon)
Tho...Psalm 90:5 (Translation by Charles Spurgeon)<br />Thou carriest them away as with a flood. As when a torrent rushes down the river bed and bears all before it, so does the Lord bear away by death the succeeding generations of men. As the hurricane sweeps the clouds from the sky, so time removes the children of men.<br />They are as a sleep. Before God men must appear as unreal as the dreams of the night, the phantoms of sleep. Not only are our plans and devices like a sleep, but we ourselves are such. "We are such stuff as dreams are made of."<br />In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. As grass is green in the morning and hay at night, so men are changed from health to corruption in a few hours. We are not cedars, or oaks, but only poor grass, which is vigorous in the spring, but lasts not a summer through. What is there upon earth more frail than we!Lance M. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17404310713482611952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-34366873296996960102012-06-09T20:59:48.946-05:002012-06-09T20:59:48.946-05:00knowing that all you have will be lost is a good d...knowing that all you have will be lost is a good distinction to make. I once threw everything I owned into the garbage can. I was in the navy at the time and the only things I kept were my issued things and some civilian clothing. Luckily my roommate retrieved my 300 something cd's so that when I came to my senses I didn't have to regret throwing them away.<br /><br />Acquiring things is exhausting. Acquiring skill, knowledge, and love on the other hand is joy.Luciddreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02128676983998762432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-87612386572507393372012-06-09T15:29:57.898-05:002012-06-09T15:29:57.898-05:00luciddreams,
Funny, Bush never took much heat for...luciddreams,<br /><br />Funny, Bush never took much heat for that, in the aftermath of the housing bubble, though he said that in an early State of the Union.<br /><br />All things flow, as JMG pointed out in his most recent book, and many before him. The first Westerner, I think, was Heraclitus. Nothing then, being eternal. But letting go of acquisitiveness, and attachment, does not necessarily mean walking away from relationships, though it might. It's just knowing, all you ever have will be lost.<br /><br /><br />Inishglora,<br /><br />The tyranny and absolutism of the One Male God, infused in the psychology of men and women everywhere, believers and non-beievers alike, mostly unconsciously, making a mess of the world. I've never read the book, but I'm familiar with the idea, that even something so foundational as our alphabet is designed to exclude the possibility of a divine feminine energy or principle.William Hunter Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03659156353754825272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-90007031996994389582012-06-09T13:02:55.232-05:002012-06-09T13:02:55.232-05:00... which also happens to be why most straight guy...<i>... which also happens to be why most straight guys are more like domesticated, or feral or mangy dogs, and not more like farm dogs or wolves. </i><br /><br />Most Americans today are incapable of discerning the difference between Latin <i>homo</i> "man" and Greek <i>homo</i> "same." I've run across many a redundant reference to "lesbian women and homosexual men." *eyeroll*<br /><br />However, you draw a good analogy that pinpoints male anxiety and general masculine identity crises that are, IMO, a major root of our species' problems. Have you read "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess"? Arguable premise, but still much food for thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-10990244457515756142012-06-09T11:17:42.254-05:002012-06-09T11:17:42.254-05:00well now that I'm not high...let me try again....well now that I'm not high...let me try again. I think you nailed it with the acquisitive lifestyle...Morris Berman rails on that point a good bit in his work. <br /><br />I definitely think this is the switch. Sharing and acquiring as lifestyle choices have different priorities and codes of conducts. What was it Bush called it...the "Ownership Society"? <br /><br />I think this is central to most spiritual teachings as well. Let go of acquiring things, and not just physical things...all things. Give what you have to those in need and walk away. That's how you reach the pearly gates of Nirvana. If you want to live in hell, then acquire. I think I'm going to take this topic and run with it...I was wanting to blog but wasn't sure what to blog about after reading JMG and you back to back. What the hell am I going to say? Yet that attitude is contrary to JMG's point...we all have something to add to the ongoing conversation. <br /><br />Great blog, and thanks for the elaboration.Luciddreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02128676983998762432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-13861080720510736762012-06-09T01:19:04.334-05:002012-06-09T01:19:04.334-05:00luciddreams,
All of that, I think. Hotel Californ...luciddreams,<br /><br />All of that, I think. Hotel California; Aquinas saying, "All my words are like straw to me." Yeah, I'm a little high too. Quantum indeed.William Hunter Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03659156353754825272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-61202143160921646552012-06-08T23:30:07.398-05:002012-06-08T23:30:07.398-05:00I may be too high to understand...or maybe not?
I...I may be too high to understand...or maybe not?<br /><br />I think you just explained the looking glass? Or perhaps the quantum organization behind the looking glass? <br /><br />Our knowledge of the past, as a species, summed up intellectually? Where you can start an argument, but you can never leave.Luciddreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02128676983998762432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-82063214117670989172012-06-08T00:19:30.156-05:002012-06-08T00:19:30.156-05:00kulturcritic,
Thanks. And you are absolutely righ...kulturcritic,<br /><br />Thanks. And you are absolutely right, the majority of the story of Homo sapien, most of those first 190,000 years, would have been about sharing. Just as it remains, for many indigenous people.William Hunter Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03659156353754825272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160895395634617774.post-34466142312328152722012-06-07T21:40:55.291-05:002012-06-07T21:40:55.291-05:00A most enlightening post, William. I especially f...A most enlightening post, William. I especially found your encapsulation of the history of Western culture very illuminating. I do not know if I would agree with you and the biologists about hierarchy generally. In fact, if you look at some political anthropologists you will be surprised to find hierarchy relatively non-existent among our earliest tribal forebears. See, for example, Morton Fried, The Evolution of Policial Society, where is writes:<br /><br />"The paramount invention that led to human society was <i>sharing</i>... Of almost equal importance was the concomitant reduction in the significance of individual dominance in a hierarchical arrangement within the community. In part, the structural possibility for such a hierarchy was undermined by the demands of sharing..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com