Pye wrote:
I once read some of your Cow Teh Ching, you know, and far from intelligence, I saw there a waste of intelligence expended in sophomoric humour re: women, about as enlightening and intelligent as a collegiate edition of Mad magazine.
It's humour for young people, as opposed to crinkly old-fuddy-duddies. I personally find The Cow Te Ching extremely funny, and very deep too. It's for people who are young, wild and free, who love plunging deeply into things and don't give a toss whose toes they step on.
It is the same with every scenario I have seen put here by a man that assumes to speak what is going on in a woman's mind. The hubris, the absurdity, the illogic of assuming to know, the scenarios of emptiness, flightiness, the "she's-only-thinking-of's" etc. is utterly astounding - and obsessive. Instead of dismantling this obsession, you keep feeding it, from the ground up. Perhaps you look at women's actions and extrapolate from there, but this would be just as dense as me seeing you on a golf course and leaping to the conclusion that the last thing some golf-playing dude has on his mind is raising it.
The bottom line is, though, that women need to put the runs on the board and actually start displaying rationality in their lives and successfuly achieve things in the realm of genius. Simply pretending that women can do these things, despite the evidence to the contrary, doesn't do anyone any good. It doesn't do women a service. It doesn't do the truth a service.
To follow-up another comment of Leyla's elsewhere: look around you, Kevin. Has this little rhetorical device produced all the helpful understanding with which you credit it? Instead it is the stink in the room everyone must deal with or work around or has put to them;
From my perspective, this forum challenges all attachments without fear or favour, including the extremely large attachment that people have to women/femininity. But at the moment, most people don't want know about it. For them, the realm of women/femininity is equivalent to life itself. And so this, in my opinion, is the "stink" you are perceiving - the stink of upset egos.
If Faizi is to be believed (and I certainly believe her), it has been this way here for 9 years. I've dealt with it for all the frustrated potential I see possible at this forum, just as I deal with anything I see frustrating the potential of consciousness. I certainly don't have nine more years for this, so I say, do A=A.
Well, I, for one, hope that the discourse in this place never gets watered down into the evasive mish-mash which passes for spiritual discussion in the world today. I like the way this place focuses on women/femininity. It really tests people love of truth. It so effectively separates the men from the boys, the genuine lovers of truth from the flakes. Who cares if the old fuddy-duddies hate it?
I will know this place has lost its soul if it ever backs down from this.
If you want to speak of consciousness, say consciousness. If you want to speak of reason or unconsciousness or flightiness or strength, then use these words, define these words. I am completely convinced that all english-speaking humans will be able, or at least will endeavor to, understand you. I have a decade of field work of my own that attests to this.
The trouble is, the word "unconsciousness" is too easily absorbed and neutered by the great Feminine Tide which currently rules the world. This Tide will absorb everything into its evasive hodge-podge of mish-mash unless you actively fight against it.
The only way to stop being absorbed and overwhelemed up by the great Feminine Tide is by tackling it head on, and that means using the kind of language which those who happily swim along in the Feminine Tide hate.
It's a very stark choice. You either directly challenge the Feminine Tide head on and preserve your individuality and soul, or else you get swept up by it and become obliterated.
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