tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post8771853535794745245..comments2023-06-08T07:32:39.725-05:00Comments on Aristotle's Feminist Subject: The Subtle Power of Spiritual AbuseJ. K. Gaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-26741933991640969682011-07-22T01:37:19.384-05:002011-07-22T01:37:19.384-05:00I thought I had posted a reply to this; but appare...I thought I had posted a reply to this; but apparently I didn't. I don't know any more about the blog owner than what she says about herself, which is very little. I was directed to the site by someone else who thought it was very well written.Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-7432143354853759202011-07-19T12:55:18.233-05:002011-07-19T12:55:18.233-05:00Thanks for the illustrative post, Kristen. Just h...Thanks for the illustrative post, Kristen. Just had a chance to skim it. Who wrote it?J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-47887824975632337932011-07-19T00:01:25.689-05:002011-07-19T00:01:25.689-05:00Good post, Kurk. The attitudes do run so deep tha...Good post, Kurk. The attitudes do run so deep that many times we are all oblivious to our own. This blog post is very useful by way of illustration. (The blogger does sometimes use strong language):<br /><br />https://sindeloke.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/37/Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-82964204071190252742011-07-18T20:52:07.845-05:002011-07-18T20:52:07.845-05:00J. K. Gayle,
Talking about you behind your back. ...J. K. Gayle,<br /><br />Talking about you behind your back. <br /><br />I don’t know whether (good etiquette?) or where to place this link on your blog. I’m taking a shot: placing one here and also at our conversations on canon/text.<br /><br />Please – please - if this linking is offensive in content or good form – please delete these two links. <br /><br />I do not expect to do this often, if ever again. <br /><br />See,<br /><br />“What Thomas Aquinas, Saint of Evolutionary Psychologists, Did Not Know ~ The Biblical Basis For Darwinian Psycho/Sociobiology”<br /><br />... with references to you. In thanks. Hopefully not counterproductive. Corrections welcome. <br /><br />http://randomarrow.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br /><br />JimJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07674489078935633842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-57477473767369817092011-07-18T06:34:11.042-05:002011-07-18T06:34:11.042-05:00Tim -
Your observation about unrecognized imbalanc...Tim -<br />Your observation about unrecognized imbalance seems exactly right. Even in our English language, the default and unmarked forms (linguists say) are the unrecognized ones. In contrast, there's an imbalance with phrases such as <i>fe-</i>male and <i>wo-</i>man and even <i>colored</i> person. This happens in Greek too, and in biblical Hebrew some, but gets really dicey when it goes unnoticed. The hierarchical map of knowledge that Aristotle's science attempted to construct, boxes binary pairs - and there's always the default / vs. the marked. The one is always, by the method of this "knowing," over and above the Other.<br /><br />Jim -<br />Thanks for your thoughts about violent forms, and for bringing in Margulis' science in ironic contrast to Aristotle's, and for somehow connecting this all to illegal drug making and abuse and suicide. You play on Aristotle's Greek-word (for) happiness in ways that I only recall Mary Daly doing so well. On texts, of course, they don't change us; persons are above logic, and we construct texts. But look what you're writing. You're writing. And thanks for listening too. I know you're listening. So am I. How do adults change, as my own parents who birthed me are still changing, in good-news ways?J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-17677683390658442852011-07-17T13:55:53.410-05:002011-07-17T13:55:53.410-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.JRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07674489078935633842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-17280674502973869982011-07-17T13:50:45.995-05:002011-07-17T13:50:45.995-05:00Pain on pain. By the time I work collaboratively ...Pain on pain. By the time I work collaboratively with clergy who refer in-house (in-church) domestic abuse cases (I get the restraining orders – and pray and cry alongside) in poverty cases – the manifestation of physical abuse is usually only the late expressed violence of ambient and long standing spiritual and verbal abuse. Verbal – in all its so-called less violent forms. <br /><br />I’m on a withered and bent track today. Sorry for this. Biopholia (love for bios and biology) is my first love. And foremost. If I had it to do all over again, I’d devote it all to biometrics. And use the biometrics against the closed-hard-taxa of Aristotle in order to bless Lynn Margulis – "Gaia Is a Tough Bitch." <br /><br />Tough bitches aside – because tough bitches are tender too. <br /><br />And the very toughest – “because tough, girly, ain’t enough” – get hurt. <br /><br />I’m on this weird biological and biophiliac roll because the overlay of poverty and the cooking of meth labs pouring acid into maternal love-centers in the brain (men too) so fries and so ruins maternal love in acid wash – especially love of the mother by the mother for the mother – that when all of this hell of verbal abuse is cooked with chemicals – and then gets expressed in the lexicon of spiritual language – it seems to me the sum total of abuse is totalized. Suicide rates are climbing. <br /><br /><i> Eu</i> is gone. <br /><br />Only <i> Daemonia</i> remains. <br /><br />That texts – and your love for canon too – could help heal these neural centers? Inside. And between us. <br /><br />Sorry I’m not in a good listening mood. Speaking out of pain. Had another of these cases. <br /><br />Save listening to such very good news – about your mom and pop. So very good. And tender along the way -- "And yet, and yet. I still believe in good news and in good change."<br /><br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br /><br />JimJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07674489078935633842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-10968862919979356362011-07-17T13:29:26.424-05:002011-07-17T13:29:26.424-05:00I don't think tghe problem is so much the stor...I don't think tghe problem is so much the store clerks, who are low on the "food chain" and tend to follow the crowd. I don't think either it is often the deliberately abuse of power. But often it is power that is not recognised by the holder, who acts as if there was no imbalance of power between themselves and another. Because there is in fact a difference an unrecognised abuse occurs. <br /><br />Teachier are quite susceptable to this form of abuse, often not recognising (or not wanting to recognise, beacuse it does not fit their ideology) the imbalance. In blogging, only the hugely "successful" (or megalomaniac) feel they have power, so again an unrecognised abuse can occur...tim bulkeleyhttp://bigbible.org/sansblogue/noreply@blogger.com