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Article on Diaprax
The Cognitive, Affective, and Psycho-motor domains and the dialectical process.
Understanding the basis for domain mentality (as used by social-psychologist) and the evilness of this way of thinking, feeling, and acting in setting the course for life.
by Dean Gotcher
January, 2010
(revised 08-17-10)
Hegel said "Whatever is real is rational, and whatever is rational is real.” (George W. F. Hegel)
Descartes said "I think (rationalize) therefore I am." (René Descartes)God simply says "I AM THAT I AM" Exodus 3:14, John 8:58
"What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Romans 7:7-8:9Concupiscence means intense or hot carnal desire. Man is, by his nature, driven by the things of the world which stimulate dopamine emancipation, resulting in the "wanting of the gratifying objects of the world." Rather than being lead by God's Holy Spirit, desiring the things which are from above, man, lead by his fleshy nature, is by nature, a lover of pleasure rather than a lover of God.
I must note in the onset of this article that man can not, of himself, overcome the practice (praxis) of the dialectical process―Diaprax. That is only possible by the regenerating work of God. Without God revealing himself, through the law and the prophets (by His Holy Spirit) and through His only begotten Son, faith is not possible. Without the law (given by God the Father), sin is not revealed. Without contrition (brokenness of heart for sinning against God), repentance is not possible. Without repentance (made possible by the work of Christ), humbling yourself before God, giving him your life, salvation is not possible, Without salvation (by the righteous life of Christ, His willingness to obey his Heavenly Father's will even unto death-sent by the Father to shed his blood for our sins, and His resurrection, his righteousness imputed unto us), God's peace, love, and joy―the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and eternal life are not possible. Thus without faith in God and His Word, belief in Christ is not possible. And without belief in Christ, His obedience to the Father's will now in us (by the power of the Holy Spirit) is not possible. It is therefore impossible for man to know and obey God without faith, repentance, and belief. To attempt to do so will lead either to licentiousness (where human nature rules―the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life rule) or legalism (where through human efforts to obey God man seeks to contain human nature, yet human nature still rules in his life). Thus it is not from our human nature, that nature from which the dialectical process attains its 'purpose,' that we can know and obey God since human nature can not obey God but instead must obey its own nature. This is why the Apostle Paul wrote: " For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:22-25 Apart from the work of God, there can be no work of God. There is nothing within man that makes him capable of directing his life in doing God's will, living in righteousness. No matter how hard he may try to serve and obey God with his mind, his human nature can only lead him down the pathway of the flesh and death. It is therefore only in God's work from above that man can know the way, truth, and life, for all other ways, i.e. 'truths' and 'life's' (life styles) are simply subject to the dialectical process which, leaving man in his sin, can only lead him to death.
When I speak of obedience and the Patriarchal Paradigm in this article (a way of thinking where obedience to higher authority is expected), it should be understood that man, under the influence of his fallen human nature, will forever be frustrated and thereby fall subject to disobedience (falling short of the glory of God), falling into the use of the dialectical process (justify his disobedience―in the 'moment' and thereafter), remaining vain, following after philosophy; " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians 2:8. Without being in Christ (repenting of our sins, believing upon him, receiving him into our hearts, being baptized into His death―Romans 6:3-9 and being baptized in the Holy Spirit―Acts 11:16) we can not know the Father, being only possible through the way, the truth, and the life which is Christ Jesus ("Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6), without taking captive our every thought to the obedience of Christ, i.e. who humbled himself to obey His Heavenly Father's will in all things―even unto death, and without walking in the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Son, without daily humbling ourselves before God, dying to ourselves and the world daily (confessing before God that we can not do it, whatever it is he has called us to do, for which He will quickly agree, turning our lives, our pride, over to him), and continually setting our minds on things above, weighing the things below, our lives and the world around us, by those things which are from above, God's Word, without being guided by His Holy Spirit, we can not do our Heavenly Father's will, that is, we can not be obedient children of God. "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them." Colossians 3:5-7 (see Romans 1:18) "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them." Ephesians 5:6, 7 "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God." Romans 6:13 (Romans 6:1-23) " For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Romans 8:13
Those who seek political change, "restoring" this nation to its former years of glory (liberty), who do not fear God and love His Word, seek only the change which the world offers and will forever fall victim to the dialectical process. It is God who raises up nations and it is he who brings them down (recognized by, of all men, Benjamin Franklin), looking at the heart of man to determine his action (already knowing the outcome). He is looking at your heart right now to determine what to do with this nation. It is not political action, or guns (or lack there of), which is the issue (those are byproducts), it is righteousness (His righteousness in you, through Christ Jesus). "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34 The grievous thing is that the church has chosen the pathway of human nature and the dialectical process (sin) rather than fearing God and Loving His Word, letting him direct its path (walking in His righteousness). As a friend of mine put it "We have a new bible. It goes like this. 'Go ye therefore and take polls and surveys.'" (Tim Klem)
The key to the downfall of America is not in the politicians (they simply reflect the heart of the citizens) it is in those who call themselves Christians, who are living like the world (using the world system―human relationship building skills―to "grow" the Church). Political change begins with our repentance before God, repentance for our sins against Him. The enemy is not "out there," it is in us (it is us). Until we get rid of the enemy within us, we can not (by the divine intervention of God) stay or overcome the enemy without. Not until we have faith in God and His Word, not until we confess and repent of our sins before Him (daily), recognizing our wickedness before Him (rejecting our dialectical nature, realizing how deceitful and wicked our heart is), not until we receive Christ into our lives, can we receive the righteousness which is only of God (imputed unto us by His Son), freely give to us by our Heavenly Father, who is full of mercy and grace toward us, mercy and grace made manifest and possible only through His only begotten Son, and know the peace, joy, and love which can only come from above, by His Holy Spirit. It is only then that we can know liberty, and, willing to lose all that is in this world, including our life, take a stand to preserve liberty, so that others to can have the opportunity to hear, receive, and know the same God who gives us liberty (If we reject Christ in our lives, in our homes, in the workplace, in government, with our friends and neighbors, in our leisure times, we reject the source of liberty, God). " And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." Mark 8:34-38
Liberty does not come from man's human nature, human nature can not lead man to liberty, it can only keep him in his slavery to his sins and make him a slave to the world system―subject to the will of anti-Christ, i.e. driving him by the use of the dialectical process. Early Americans understood this (even though it took a secular direction in the form of limited government). Americans today do not understand this. "Death to America(ns)" is now here upon us because those who call themselves Christians no longer fear God and love His Word, making pleasure instead of righteousness their quest of life, they no longer understand liberty, that liberty which can only come from God, that liberty which can only come by faith in God, that liberty which can only come through the grace of God the Father (His providence), that liberty which can only come through the work done by the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ (who shed his blood on the Cross for our sins), that liberty which can only be knowable by His revealed Word, revealed to us by the Holy Spirit of God, that liberty which can only be know when we are dead to ourselves and alive in Him. Only through Him, only by His work done for us can we know of liberty and only by his work on, in, and through us (by His Holy Spirit) can we know liberty, otherwise we know nothing of liberty (thinking it means freedom from Godly restraint and freedom to pursue a life of pleasure) and can do nothing to attain it much less restore it (only deceiving ourselves in our attempt to do so). For example, democracy, which claims to be the pathway to liberty, always leads to tyranny (manifesting only that from which it comes).
With the emphasis of this article upon the dialectical process, its effects upon the individual and therefore society, it is important to understand the effect society has upon us (our desire for approval from man). The key to the 'success' of the dialectical process was not to just 'change' the individual, his way of thinking and acting, but was to change the family structure from which he is raised up in, to 'change' it―to negate ("change") the traditional home (the home where the father rules, the desire of the heart of the wife is to her husband, and the children obey their parents, in the Lord). The structure of the family is the key to either faith or sight, being the avenue from which change is made (its structure determines what 'change' means, i.e. whether it means changing sight to faith or changing faith to sight). Honoring parents, remember, is the first commandment with a promise. While the Father may be in error, regarding his thoughts and actions, the structure or system he serves in is not. The obedient son to the Father's will is after all the story of the Holy Scriptures. The annihilation of the obedient children paradigm (the Patriarchal Paradigm) is after all the story of the dialectical process being used throughout the scriptures (from Genesis 3:1-6 on) turning man's heart away from God and onto himself and the world.
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9 "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness." Hebrews 12:9, 10 This truth is not overlooked by those who seek to "annihilate" faith in God through the annihilation of the Patriarchal Paradigm. "Thus, for instance, once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must itself be annihilated [vernichtet] theoretically and practically." (Karl Marx Theses On Feuerbach #4) This is the sum 'purpose' for the use of the dialectical process.
Through the use of the dialectical process the structure of the traditional home is deliberately being annihilated, as belief in and obedience toward higher authority is brought into question for the cause of social 'change.' For society to 'change,' the individual must 'change.' For the individual to 'change,' the family must 'change.' That 'change' is from a Patriarchal Paradigm or way of thinking, where obedience to higher authority is foundational to how a person eventually thinks and acts (righteousness where doing things right and not wrong is at issue), to a Heresiarchal Paradigm, where questioning higher authority is foundational for the 'purpose' of 'change,' (where personal feelings and thoughts―approaching pleasure and avoiding pain, determine what is right or wrong at any given moment, in any given situation). This 'change' in paradigms directly affects how man comes to know and define himself and God. Either God is not of human nature, and therefore condemning of man's nature, judging it according to his standards (as a parent chastens a child for following his nature against the parents will), or God is defined by human nature and therefore is of and therefore in harmony with (and working for) human nature (as a parent seeks to find peace through finding what the child desires, and shapes his will around the child's desires). In that case 'God' is working to bring human nature into 'right alignment' with his nature (all is therefore 'becoming,' i.e. 'becoming one', this is a Gnostic concept and is heretical to the gospel).
The former paradigm (the patriarchal way of thinking) requires faith in, direction by, dependence upon, and obedience to God and His Word (His Word which must be revealed―God breathed―since it is not of human nature, therefore His Word and His will must be accepted by faith―God giving all men a measure of faith so that they are without excuse―since faith is not of human nature, His righteousness must be imputed―by the work of Christ on the Cross and his resurrection―since righteousness it is not of human nature, and all that is good, both in heaven and on earth, must come from God above and be fulfilled by His grace, since good is not of human nature). The later way of thinking, the Heresiarchal paradigm of "change" depends upon man's common human experience and his reasoning abilities to justify his circumvention (annihilate, i.e. treat as irrelevant) of any 'nature' which inhibits or blocks that nature which he perceives is common between God and man. That 'common' quest is the quest for unity and love, which without righteousness is simply the dialectical process, being Gnostic in structure. It is the later paradigm which today rules in the minds of men, now even becoming the 'purpose' of the church, 'driving' the contemporary church into becoming at-one-with the world, growing "customers" out of diversity into common-unity through the praxis of the dialectical process―creating Gnostic Christians who live, breath, and worship their dialectic unity and love, their 'God' of oneness (consensus, synergy, etc.)―Diaprax. It is this praxis for which this article seeks to expose, i.e. so that those who have faith in God would be encouraged to continue to grow in faith, and that those who have doubts might repent of their doubt and turn to (or return to) faith in God (no longer trusting in the wickedness and deceitfulness of their own hearts and the hearts of men, no longer living a life of lies but rather "trusting in the Lord with all their heart"). "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his praxis [deeds]; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." 1 Corinthians 2:16
In the midst of crisis man either turns to He who is above (a higher authority) for direction or to that which is below (his human nature and his human reasoning abilities). It is through the use of crisis (not the negation of it) whereby the dialectical process finds it 'purpose,' that 'purpose' being "discovering" and uniting upon the "We" in everybody below, thereby 'negating' the He who is above. Choose today who you will serve in the midst of the crisis of the day."Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." Romans 8:16-18
This article may be readable only to those few who are in great pain, due to social abuse, who have an intense desire to know what has really happened to them, and who are willing to endure the pain of redundancy, done to continuously keep before me the wickedness of man and the righteousness which can only come from God, who is a good, great, holy, pure, and righteous God, a God full of love, mercy, and grace towards us, His righteousness being imputed unto those who believe upon the Father and the Son (Romans 4 & 5), until the Son returns for His bride (a bride which is spotless and without wrinkle) and establish His Fathers kingdom (inherited by the righteous: 1 Corinthians 15:15), in His might, by His power and for His glory, fulfilling His Father's will in all things, that no man may boast or glory of his own works, 'his' works done "for the kingdom," 'his' works done even in the name of the Lord: Matthew 7:22, 23. For the kingdom is God's, the power is God's, and the glory is God's. "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." Matthew 6:13b Without this truth all is dialectical, all is Gnostic in theory and in practice.
We are not to be 'ignorant' of Satan's devices. When the Christian wills to be ignorant, they have chosen the bliss of the world over, and against, the righteousness which can only come from God. Therefore man has no right before God to evaluate God and His works according to his own perception, according to his "worth," "value," or "importance" in fulfilling God's work through his participation (no righteous man ever evaluates God and His works from his own perspective, by his sight, for his own glory, or for the glory of mankind, which is idolatry, for only God is worthy of praise), to do so is abomination and blasphemy―to do so is the praxis of the dialectical process―Diaprax. Theory and practice, when used by 'Christians,' make them Gnostic Christians and their church a gnostic-apostate church. We are not to evaluate God, His Word, and His works from our life experience (from the wickedness and deceitfulness of our heart; from how we "feel," or what we "think"), trusting in our own senses (our flesh nature, our sensuousness, 'driven' by our "sensuous needs"), depending upon our own perception (our fleshy eyes, making decisions or determining 'purpose' based upon our "sense perception"), and leaning to our own understanding (our fleshy pride, using our human reasoning skills, basing the way, the truth, and life from our "sense experience"), rather, we are to evaluate our life from God's Word (from his righteousness), trusting in Him and His Word with all our heart, "bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5b, in all our ways acknowledging Him, in all things letting Him direct our steps, directing us as He wills―directing us by His Word and by His Spirit (all in agreement with the Father's will). "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverb. 3: 5-6 You are either walking in the Spirit ("trusting in the Lord with all your heart," walking by faith, letting God's word direct your thoughts, desires, and actions) or you are walking in the flesh ("leaning to your own understanding," walking by sight, shaping God's word around your thoughts, your desires, and your actions―as well as the thoughts, desires, and actions of others), you can not be doing both (serving human nature and God) at the same time; Romans 8:1, 4 & Galatians 5:6. If you are taking polls and surveys in "your" church, you are serving human nature and are apostate. If you stay and participate, you are walking not by faith but by sight. If you stay and participate, you do not fear God and love His Word. If you stay and participate you are not being led by His Holy Spirit, but rather you are deceiving yourself and deceiving others, being lead by, and supporting the 'wisdom' of men who call themselves Christians. You are becoming, if you stay, a Gnostic Christian with them. This is Diaprax.
Now to the main article (or book as some have called it).
[All bracketed information and quotations placed within quotations are added by me and are not a part of the original quotation. Since I may not always note this throughout this article, apply this general rule to all quotations which have bracketed information.]
Diaprax is
the "rational" negation or removal of unnatural
barriers to human carnal action or behavior ("the 'negation of
negation'," the negation or
removal of that which is not of nature, that which is 'above'
nature, greater than nature, i.e. super-natural barriers to that
which is common to nature, the negation or removal of non-sensual belief
which inhibits or blocks sensual-mental experience as being the basis
for determining reality, the negation or removal of any condition
which makes cognition, affection, and action―awareness,
attraction, and reaction of 'normal'
human behavior―subject to,
and therefore oppressed, by
faith in objective truth, subject to truth outside of or above the sense
experience of the human 'moment.' Diaprax is the negation
or removal of any belief inhibiting or blocking sensual behavior
common to mankind. Diaprax is the negation or removal
of any condition (or "environment" or "climate") which
inhibits or prevents, through force or the threat of force (chastening
and judgment or fear of chastening and judgment), the individual (and therefore society) from
"knowing," "comprehending," "applying," "analyzing," "synthesizing" and
"evaluating," in other words "actualizing" unity
based upon human nature, creating unity based upon man's carnal nature
(synthesizing unity between men, based upon discovering and building
upon that which is common to all men, i.e. his carnal
nature, thereby negating that nature, i.e. anything super-nature, which is not common to
human experience, negating
any condition which does not unite man upon that nature which he has in common
with all of mankind, i.e. negating any "super" or above nature
condition―any condition using
arbitrary laws and commands―as
"sense perceived" within the human 'moment'). Diaprax is
the negation of anything which
divides a man from himself, i.e. alienates him from his own carnal human nature,
and divides him from mankind, i.e. alienates him from that same nature which is common to all mankind
("God is the anthropological source of alienation."
Stephen Eric Bronner Critical Theory and its Theorists),
that nature which is only observable and discoverable through
the dialectical process (the 'rational' process which helps man become conscious of and liberated to
actualize his commonality with nature, his commonality with mankind), i.e. through an environment or conditions which facilitates
'change,' through 'sensible,' reasonable, practical, rational "open-ended," "non-directed"
dialogue, thereby negating faith in that which is
not of, by, and for human nature, negating that which does not
proceed from human sensuousness, negating any condition which
inhibits or blocks man from that nature which 'drives' him toward a
sensuous oneness with the creation (cosmic consciousness, universal
reconciliation, etc.), negating any condition inhibiting or blocking him from
finding his 'purpose' in life, that 'purpose' being the 'quest' for unity with
that which is of his nature and the nature of others).
Diaprax is that nature which is worldly (cosmic)-internally (the
sensuous
nature of man seeking unity with nature―the "sense experience "of
the internal nature of man, i.e. his "sensuous needs,"
his 'felt' need" to attain a gratifying object in the environment
around him and within him)
being united, i.e.
finding commonality (joined 'rationally' as man
"scientifically discovers"―"dialectically discovers"―that his human nature proceeds
only
from nature and
that his human nature is common within
all of mankind, naturally seeking to be at one with that which is common
to nature)
with that nature which is worldly (cosmic)-externally (the
"sense experience "of the external nature of
man―"scientifically discovering" that his
"sense perception" of the world,
i.e. his consciousness of his common relationship with society around him, i.e. the
"sense experience" of that
which can only arise from nature, i.e. only that which is
material, sensual, temporal, worldly, universally perceivable and
therefore definable, and
therefore universally experiential, i.e. that which is naturally experienced by all men,
where human 'potential' lies in the "common human experience"
becoming a "collective common human praxis"). Diaprax is the dialectical,
i.e. rational, i.e. theoretical,
i.e.
practice of only that which is practical, of
only that which is
from nature, i.e. only that which is worldly (cosmic), being put into
practice (praxis). Diaprax is, as in
the days of Noah, mankind telling those who
fear God and are righteous in the eyes of God (those who are righteous in the righteousness which
can only come from God, i.e. now imputed through Christ to those
who believe), "Don't rain on our parade." i.e. "Keep your
'judgmental' attitude to yourself," i.e. "Keep your 'religion' to yourself
so that we can be at peace and in harmony with our human nature (our sins)."
"'The philosophy of praxis is
the absolute secularization of thought, an absolute humanism of
history' [making history subject only to human nature and nature
itself (sensual, only "in the sensual 'moment'") and not
subject to God and His commands and promises (spiritual, eternal,
everlasting, outside of or above the sensual 'moment,' to be memorized,
adhered to and handed down to the next generation to do the same), negating any authority greater than
nature or above nature, i.e. any authority dividing man from
nature, turning him against himself (getting him to go up against his
own "sense experiences"), i.e. any authority which divides human
thoughts (which inhibits or blocks awareness or consciousness of the
self as being and capable of becoming at-one-with the
world, i.e. cosmic consciousness correlated to the cognitive domain), where human feelings ("sensuousness,"
correlated to
the affective domain) and
human actions ("spontaneity," guided by human reasoning
developed through "re-educating" the person through the use of
"role-playing," correlated to the psycho-motor domain) are
liberated, emancipated in praxis (individual-internal thoughts
and desires and social-external thoughts and desires become one in thought and action, where both
the "self" and the "other," their thoughts and actions, are discovered,
through "open ended," "non-directed" dialogue, to be one and the
same and then are united in collective action, leading to cosmic unity, the individual united with
society and society united with the individual in the 'moment'―consensus, his thoughts and desires
becoming one in action with the thoughts and desires of society, i.e.
"self-actualization," i.e. as self is actualized of, by, and for society
and society is actualized of, by, and for the self), liberated from any condition where sensuousness
cannot be spontaneous and spontaneity cannot be
sensuous, i.e. both being 'rationally'―experientially emancipated from any condition where "sensuousness" must be
subject to non-spontaneous (non-'sense experienced') laws and commands, and "spontaneity"
must be subject to non-sensuous (non-'sense experienced') laws and commands, where human
thoughts and actions must become subject to the thoughts and actions of
another authority ( (subject to spiritual laws and commands, subject to a higher-authority than human nature, i.e. a spiritual authority) which (who) is not in
harmony with the sensuousness and spontaneity of man's human
"moment," any authority which is superior to natural, i.e. any
authority which is non-secular, non-humanistic both in thought
and in action, i.e. any authority which inhibits or blocks human feelings
(sensuousness) from being discovered and expressed in the "moment"
(spontaneous),
any higher authority being recognized as the basis for directing human thought
and action which inhibits human nature both in theory and in practice);
when a minister turns to polls, surveys and feasibility studies,
rejecting the word of God, treating it, and the one presenting it, as
irrelevant in the moment, he becomes a humanist (a wolf) in sheep
skin, a Gnostic Christian facilitator―when God's word conflicts with the growth of the church, it is
perceived as being irrelevant to the moment, therein human thought is
liberated, freed to be put into social practice]. Philosophy of praxis is both a euphemism for Marxism and an
autonomous term used by Gramsci to define what he saw to be a central
characteristic of the philosophy of Marxism, the inseparable link it
establishes between theory and practice, thought and action [the human
desire to be freed from parental and Godly authority which restrains
human nature, i.e. preventing human thought from being being put into
human action and human action from being put into human thought].”
(Antonio Gramsci Selections from the Prison Notes)
"But there is no other salvation for him [for man], he cannot
regain his humanity, his substance, other than by thoroughly overcoming
all religious ideas and returning firmly and honestly, not to 'God', but
to himself. But this consummate humanity, this overcoming of the
religious dualism [the dualism of above-below, creator-created, good-evil,
righteousness-wickedness, heaven-hell, saved-lost, which correlates to business
owner-worker, parent-child, land lord-tenant, teacher-student, etc.] can only be apprehended in its full historical
significance by … philosophy. " (Frederick Engels The Condition of
England; A review of Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle)
“Philosophy is not outside the world; it simply has a different kind
of presence in the world. The world is its ground; it is the spiritual
quintessence of its age. The world is the object of its enquiry and concern;
it is the wisdom of the world.”
“The philosopher appeals to reason not faith.... [the philosopher
questions all things, i.e. questions authority and does not submit to
things "as given," i.e. does not live by faith in higher authority
(does not live in faith and therefore live in obedience to God, the parent,
the teacher, the boss, etc.), i.e.
does not accept and obey their commands "as given," as "is,"
but inquires into what "ought" to be;
"Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived." "We
have to study the conditions which maximize ought-perceptiveness."
"Discovering one’s real nature
is simultaneously an ought quest and an is quest."
(Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature)
"Oughtiness" is the carnal nature of the "child within" wanting
freedom of expression,
"... changing human relations ... must
consider not only what 'is' and what 'can be' but also, what 'ought to
be'."
(Kenneth Benne Human Relations in
Curriculum Change)]."
“In short, philosophy
as theory finds the ‘ought’ implied within the ‘is’, and as praxis seeks
to make the two coincide.”
(Joseph O’Malley translator of Karl Marx's
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)
In this way "ought"
united with "thought,"
put into praxis (action), negates "Not," as in
"Thou shalt not," and liberates man (and the child) from Godly
(and parental) restraint, liberates man from a higher authority than his
human nature in the 'moment' (freeing him from a world outside his
world).
“…philosophy as
struggle with error and superstition is also and always enlightenment.”
“…The ideas of the Enlightenment taught man that he could trust his own
reason as a guide to establishing valid ethical norms and that he could rely
on himself, needing neither revelation nor that authority of the church
[Read: needing neither Jesus Christ―who was obedient to His Heavenly Father's will,
even to the point of death, calling all men to do the same, that is to deny
themselves (reject their lust of the flesh), pick up their cross (accept
social rejection for their rejecting of the lust of the eyes), and follow Christ Jesus
(rejecting their pride of life), i.e. to
trust, live in, and acknowledge in all their ways the Word of God.
Read: nor
needing the Holy Spirit, who
teaches and guides (leads) the redeemed man in all things which proceed from God
above, so that he is no longer driven by the things of the world below,
by his own nature in common with human nature;
these must be instead rejected]
in
order to know good and evil [read: all must experience
Genesis 3:1-6,
if they are to become enlightened].” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical
Theory and Its Theorists) “The more enlightened
[the more 'rational,' the more 'sensible'] the
religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get
[the more they trust in their own feelings, thoughts, and actions, the
more they trust in human experience, the more they seek to know right from wrong through the use
of polls, surveys, and feasibility studies, focusing upon that which
they have in common instead of contrasting between what is right and
what is wrong before God, according to His Word],
the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an
enlightened way.” “Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision
can be a brotherhood situation.” "Enlightened economics must
assume as a prerequisite synergic institutions set up in such a way that
what benefits one benefits all.” (Abraham Maslow, Maslow on
Management)
"Philosophy is a free and not self-seeking activity
[the mind wandering upon how the world 'ought' to be, imagining a world
outside of the restraints of the present, where man is liberated from
Godly and parental restraints, a world where all of mankind is freed to
be himself], … This activity contains the essential element of a
negation, [where the temporal mind leads the person] to
reflection and conception [using 'higher order thinking skills' in morals
and ethics to determine right from wrong]. The result of this is that it lays hold of and
troubles ... morality and faith, and thus the period of destruction
commences [the paradigm 'shift' begins, turning man from faith to
sight]." (Hegel’s Lectures
on the History of Philosophy Introduction B. Relation of Philosophy to
Other Departments of Knowledge)
"Philosophy comes to a close when man makes
himself free to act in conformity with reason [human reasoning
justifies human nature]: translation of the
concept into reality [putting human thoughts and human
feelings into human practice through human reasoning]." (Herbart Marcuse Relevance of
Reality, referring to Hegel's Phenomenolgy of the Spirit)
“To enjoy the present
reconciles us to the actual . . .” “Only within a social context individual man is able to realize
his own potential as a rational being [i.e. rationality does not come
from above man, it comes when man finds what he has in common with
nature (with society) and unites with it as he negates that which
inhibited or blocked his potential for social unity, i.e. unity with
nature].”
“The state arises out of the
exigencies of man’s nature.” “The justice of state constitutions is to
be decided not on the basis of Christianity, not from the nature of
Christian society but from the nature of human society.”
(Joseph O’Malley in, Karl Marx,
Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right')
“Philosophy, in terms of the problems with which
it deals, originates in the conflicts and difficulties of social
life, in the relations of theory and practice [when human
thought, which come from human desires and human urges, seeks to 'drive'
human behavior out from under its oppressor, i.e. higher authority, God
being the highest authority].” (John Dewey
Democracy and Education) Therefore John Dewey
summed of the 'driving purpose' of the dialectical process and
philosophy in this way:
"God is the source of
corruption in individuals." ibid.
"Beware lest any man spoil
you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)
"Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be
wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the
wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the
wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of
the wise, that they are vain." (1 Corinthians 3:18-20) "For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; ... For
the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened." (Romans 1:18 ... 19) "For this ye
know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is
an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things
cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye
therefore partakers with them." (Ephesians 5:5-7) "O
Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane
[and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with
thee. Amen." (1 Timothy 6:20-21) [the "oppositions of
science falsely so called" is the praxis of the dialectical
process―Diaprax-the praxis
of "vain words," i.e. "philosophy and vain deceit."]
Diaprax is
1) philosophically, dialectically, "discovering"
that nature which is common to all of mankind (the "impulse" of
man wanting a gratifying object which is of the world), 2) and the creation of a situation
(a condition or an environment guaranteeing to all men the 'right' to
pursue unity―synthesis―with
that nature
which is of the world, i.e. oneness with the object or objects which
stimulated the want; therefore if we want 'peace' and
'human relationships' then we must negate those conditions which
inhibit' peace' and 'human relationships')
whereby only that nature (that nature which is common to
all mankind, that nature which proceeds only from man and only
from a society of men, i.e. that nature which is common to all
men―"only" that nature which is
collectedly recognized as being within the individual and
individually recognized as being within the collective―conscietization) is given the 'right'
("human rights"―carnal rights,
worldly rights; freedom from
"unauthorized"―otherworldly―restraint, pain, and punishment-death
against human nature and freedom to "be oneself" as long as you
do not restrain, bring pain to, or punish others for being satyric―licentious) to be put into practice―the praxis
of human-ism/common-ism (diversity, dialoguing to consensus alone
can accomplish this since dialogue always ties us to our wants,
our id, are "child within").
“Freud saw that in the id there is no negation, only
affirmation and eternity. The instinctual reality is Dionysian
drunkenness ‘We can come nearer to the id with images, and call it a
chaos, a cauldron of seething excitement.’”
"What the child knows
consciously and the adult unconsciously, is that we are nothing but
body." "Life is of the body and only life creates value; all
values are bodily values."
“The true life of the body is also the
life of the id.”
"The 'dialectical' consciousness ...
a manifestation of Eros ... that Dionysian ego which does not negate
any more [does not insist upon 'right' behavior any more,
but believes "To err is human"]."
“Dionysus does not observe the limit, but overflows;
for him the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” “Dionysus affirms the dialectical unity of the great
instinctual opposites: reunifies male and female, Self and Others, life
and death.” "Eros is fundamentally a desire for
union with objects in the world."
“Freud, Hegel, and Nietzsche are, like
Marx, compelled to postulate external domination and its
assertion by force in order to explain repression.” “Capitulation enforced by parental
authority under the threat of loss of parental love . . .
can be accomplished only by repression.” "The repression of normal adult sexuality
is required only by cultures which are based on patriarchal
domination." “Under the conditions of repression the
essence of being lies in the unconscious.” “The foundation on which the man of the
future will be built is already there, in the repressed
unconscious; the foundation has to be recovered [the is
the one and only purpose for psychology and sociology].”
"Human consciousness can be liberated
from the parental complex only by being liberated from its cultural
derivatives, the paternalistic state and the patriarchal God."
(Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death) "Consciousness, instead of being the
watchman over a dangerous and unpredictable lot of impulses, becomes
the comfortable inhabitant of a society of impulses and feelings and
thoughts." “In
psychology, Freud and his followers have presented convincing arguments that the
id, man’s basic and unconscious nature, is primarily made up of instincts which
would, if permitted expression, result in incest, murder, and other crimes. The
whole problem of therapy, as seen by this group, is how to hold these untamed
forces in check in a wholesome and constructive manner, rather than in the
costly fashion of the neurotic [neurotic meaning self-control and
self-restraint against "incest, murder, and other crimes," as a
result of being subjected to a Patriarchal environment and thereby
taking on a Patriarchal way of thinking―Paradigm].” “‘Have you merely released the beast, the
id, in man?’ There is no beast in man. There is only man in man, and this we
have been able to release.” “The innermost core of man’s nature, the base of his ‘animal
nature,’ is positive in nature.” (Carl Rogers on becoming a person)
In other words, the child is not being beastly, he is just expressing
his "Id," i.e. expressing his true nature, being himself, being
human, being "positive." While sociology perceives the
social nature in man and psychology perceives the personal nature in man
they both see the dialectical nature of man and society as being one and
the same, and in uniting the two (sociology and psychology) seek to
unite the two (the individual and society) in praxis (in
positive social-individual 'change').
"Human learning
presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which [we] grow into the
intellectual life of those around us ["intellectual life"
meaning 'rationally' justifying carnal human nature common to all men]." (L. S. Vygotsky
Mind In Society: The Development of Higher Psychological
Processes) Abraham
Maslow in his later years, after having children of his own and seeing
the effect the dialectical process had upon them, wrote in his journals
that they had brought him into "conflict" with his theory,
“Who should teach whom?” (should adults teach children or
should children teach adults) he wrote, “I’ve been in continuous
conflict over this Esalen-type, orgiastic, Dionysian-type education.”
(Abraham Maslow, The Journals of Abraham Maslow)
Which, by the way, is a proper definition of the dialectical process and
its effect upon the children placed within the contemporary
classroom.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And
take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that
day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that
shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:33-36
The praxis of the dialectical process is common-ism
(secularized Gnosticism―the "divine spark," the individual
man emancipated
from his oppressor, i.e. liberated from the Patriarchal parent or God,
to find oneness again as "God" (a god amongst gods within
society) i.e. their 'true' human nature and human society freed of
non-human restraints, i.e. becoming a society of one, of 'God').
Common-ism is the praxis of finding, dialectically, that nature which everyone has in common, i.e. human nature
(of this world nature only, only that which is sensuous, knowable
by all men, being
known of all men), i.e.
emanating from human nature, with the 'purpose' of 'driving' human behavior
toward creating a world of oneness, a "new" world order built only upon that which is of the
world, i.e. "all that is of the world," "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes,"
and "the pride
of life" ―1 John 2:15-18 (corresponding to the cognitive,
affective, and psycho-motor domains―using Bloom's Cognitive
Domain stages, dialectically, all three domains being found in all three
domains, for example: the cognitive being awareness of the environmental
conditions, i.e. knowing and comprehending the source of
awareness of pleasure or pain, the affective being responsive to
or in favor of approaching those things which are pleasurable and
avoiding those things which are painful, i.e. application and
analyses, and the psycho-motor being the ability to
synthesis and evaluate, so as to initiate and sustain, i.e. identify
and 'change' the conditions which produce pain over and against pleasure, i.e. negating the "unnatural" conditions
which inhibit or block pleasure through the use of pain―through
chastening, negating
the patriarchal paradigm which uses physical, mental, and social pain to
teach right from wrong―all of which are 'driven' by human
nature, for the purpose of human pleasure, approval, and praise of men―respecters of men―used
by social-psychologists for
the 'purpose' of engendering/engineering social unity; see
Bloom's Cognitive Domain
below), while punishing (neutralizing,
marginalizing, or removing) anyone who judges, condemns,
inhibits, or blocks its praxis, by both neutralizing,
marginalizing, and converting or removing
(annihilating) any person and neutralizing, marginalizing, and converting or removing (annihilating) any condition
which inhibits or blocks the practice of humanism (annihilating
any anti-socialist,
anti-democratic―above or greater than this world and its nature―modus operandi, by demanding the right of all
men, i.e. society, to praxis patricide, the "human rights" of annihilating
the Patriarchal Paradigm―destroying the traditional, right-wrong,
good-evil, righteous-wicked, above-below,
dualistic, Patriarchal way of thinking and acting).
“Laws must not fetter human life
[Parental laws must not fetter the child's natural behavior, God's law
in the Garden in Eden must not fetter the woman and Adams natural
behavior to inquire into nature to know by nature what is good and what
is evil]; but
yield to it; they must change as the needs and capacities of the people change
[the want of the things of this world, i.e. to lust after the flesh, the
eyes, and human approval as the love of wisdom
(the love of Sophia―philosophy) increases].”
“The critique of religion ends with the categorical imperative to overthrow
all conditions in which man is a debased, enslaved, neglected, contemptible
being [overthrow all conditions which classify man as being born into
sin, i.e. as being wicked, needing a savior, a savior not of natures own
making, a savior not in harmony with nor lead by human nature;
"And what concord [harmony or agreement] hath Christ with Belial?" 2
Corinthians
6:15. "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other. . .Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Matthew 6:24].” “Criticism proceeds on to praxis [it is not enough to criticize
authority, authority which restrains human nature, alienated man from
himself and the world, in thought or in word, criticism against
the Patriarchal authority must be put into social action, i.e. treating
the patriarch as irrational and therefore irrelevant until he responds
in reaction, to judge and condemn the process, and then by force, with
social approval, remove him (annihilate him).]." (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
ed. Joseph O’Malley) If,
dialectically, the lodestone of human nature is pleasure, then any
reaction, in an environment augmenting "positive social change," i.e.
and environment liberating the child's carnal wants, his "Id,"
his love for pleasure, any reaction which blocks or inhibits the child's
human potential must to be perceived and treated as abnormal and
therefore "neurotic." National health care is based upon
this ideology in regards to not only the physical health of the
individual but also the mental and social health of the person as well.
Once the condition which preaches and teaches
righteousness and condemns unrighteousness
(preaches and teaches that man is a wicked, an unregenerate, an unholy, and
a condemned being before a Holy,
righteous, pure, all powerful God and creator, preaches and teaches that
man needs to repent of his
wickedness and accept God's righteousness, imputed in Christ through
His death on the Cross (to those who have faith and believe upon Him), His blood shed to cover our sins, and believe in
his resurrection from the grave, so that he can be saved from the condemnation of
eternal death in Hell and have eternal life in Heaven) is criticized
(treated as insignificant or irrational and therefore irrelevant
concerning all things of personal and social importance) and that criticism is then put into
praxis, man is then liberated from the condition which condemns him as a
sinner (liberated from that condition or way of thinking which makes
him 'feel' bad about himself and which makes him offensive to others,
i.e. makes others 'feel' bad around him). Salvation is therefore not found outside of human nature,
inhibiting, blocking, and condemning carnal human behavior, but is found within human nature, liberating
man
from un-natural (irrational) forces so that he can be himself
(self-actualization). “Every neurosis is an example of dynamic adaptation; it is
essentially an adaptation to such external conditions as are in themselves
irrational and, generally speaking, unfavorable to the growth of the child.”
“. . . Definition of religious experience as experience of absolute
dependence is the definition of the masochistic experience in general.”
(Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom) “Religion, especially the Protestant Christian tradition,
has permeated our culture with the concept that man is basically sinful, and
only by something approaching a miracle can his sinful nature be negated.”
“I have little sympathy with the rather prevalent concept that man is
basically irrational, and that his impulses, if not controlled, will lead to
destruction of others and self.” (Carl Rogers On becoming a person)
Diaprax is
the liberation and salvation of man from sin, liberating him from a
condition which separates man from himself, liberates him from a
condition which separates him from his nature, liberates him from a
condition which separates him from society, helping him to discover and
unit with the world on that nature within him which is
common to all mankind. Diaprax is therefore the liberation and
salvation of mankind from sin by uniting him upon the pathway of sin
(where sin is no longer perceived as sin but rather as normal human
behavior). Diaprax is the dialectical pathway of death (a broad
pathway whereupon all the world can freely travel to its day of
judgment before God; "There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of
death." Proverbs 14:12).
(More on this later.)
"Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." 2 John 1:9-11
Humanism (Diaprax) is the rejection of the way of teaching
(inculcating) which instructs an individual (and therefore society) on how
they 'must' think, feel,
and act (behave), called indoctrination ("in the doctrine of
Christ"). While humanists (Transformational Marxists)
may condemn indoctrination publically, tying it to a Hitlerian-Stalinist
outcome: "An examination of the role of education in
the revolutionary processes in Hitlerian Germany and Soviet Russia demonstrates
that a new controlling group can use the educational system to advantage to
bringing about the changes it desires. This illustrates the effectiveness of
the educational system in indoctrinating the youth with a desire for the type of
society wanted by those in control. . . . To do this they must persist in the
maintenance of a new system long enough for controlling interests to be
thoroughly indoctrinated in the new social system." (Wilbur Brookover, A Sociology of
Education), they still uses it for their own
cause: “In order to effect rapid change, . . .
[one] must mount a vigorous attack on the family
lest the traditions of present generations be preserved. It is
necessary, in other words, artificially to create an experiential chasm
between parents and children—to insulate the children in order that they
can more easily be indoctrinated with new ideas.”
(Warren Bennis The Temporary Society). Diaprax
(humanism) is the creation of an environment
of 'learning' (manipulation through facilitation) whereby a person can
experience for himself, through his own thoughts, feelings, and actions,
how the world 'ought' to be, accepting his own natural thoughts, his own
natural feelings, and his own natural behavior as a 'necessity' means
to achieve a personal and social end, i.e. to praxis―self-actualization
in social practice―a "new" one world system built upon the common
nature of man, i.e. to build a new world order (which is not new) built upon the common
nature of man, a world built of
carnal peace and carnal harmony, a world built upon nature, i.e. human nature,
that nature which all men have in common, i.e. common-ism (don't focus upon the end,
i.e. the outcome, i.e. the new world order itself,
focus upon the means to the end, i.e. the conditions which will initiate
and sustain the new world order in all men―tolerance
of human nature and intolerance toward any condition which inhibits or
blocks its "open" expression, and the end will take care of itself,
i.e. will come to man―this is the difference
between traditional Marxists and transformational Marxists, one
inculcates Marx the other praxis's him, i.e. Marxism is not found
in nature itself, as the traditional Marxists believed, but it is found within the
social environment (socially
engineered, i.e. facilitated environment) which liberates man from any non-natural restraints, so
that he can experience for himself "becoming," i.e.
"coming out of the closet"). Instead of a world (a world not of man's
own making, a world not built of his own carnal human nature) being
'forced' upon man, a world can be imagined and
created, i.e. realized and actualized, a world that is of man's carnal human
nature, a world which he had a part in creating ("the pride of life,"
i.e. serving a God who could not do it with man's participation, having
a "God could not have done it without me or us"
attitude).
This world (the 'new' world order of anti-Christ; a user
friendly, non-offensive Christ, an "open-ended," "non-directive" Christ, a 'rational' Christ,
an all-is-becoming-one Christ, a dialectical Christ, an anti-patriarchal Christ,
a Gnostic Christ, a Christ 'tolerant' of and in
harmony with man's carnal nature―a Christ
tolerant of chaos, doubt,
dishonesty, perversity, and spiritual wickedness, i.e. a Christ tolerant
of sin, i.e. a Christ not committed to righteousness―using man's nature―sensuousness―"man's
heartbeat in harmony with
God's heartbeat,"
to help him build his kingdom) is the world of Diaprax, a world found
within the apostate church (no longer the "called out ones,"
εκκλησια, called out
from the world system, but rather uniting upon all that is of the world,
building unity upon the "common ground" of the "grass roots,"
the commonality of mankind, the shared aims of
humanity, no longer discriminating between righteousness and wickedness, holiness
and perversity, not longer discriminating between that which
is from above and that which is from below, no longer calling man (who
is wicked) to repentance for his sins against a Holy and Pure and
Righteous God) and the tyrannical
government (a government seeking a "more perfect union," all-is-becoming-one, no
longer protecting the citizen from that which is from without―foreign
nations, counter to his principles of what is right and what is wrong,
what is good and what is evil―but rather
uniting that which is without with that which is within―upon
human nature―therefore
negating that which is within―sovereignty, private
property and private business, and the sacredness of the home―see
Lenin's speech below, circumventing
limited government by the praxis of consensus, i.e.
negating sovereignty, negating any us-them, "in group-out group,"
above-below, parent-child, Creator-created, Patriarchal paradigm by neutralizing, marginalizing, and removing, i.e.
annihilating anyone or any system which initiates and sustains, i.e.
defends the concept of sovereignty, declaring war upon its own citizens―by
an undeclared war upon the traditional home―liberating only those
who support the common-unity of humanity, punishing any citizen
who refuses to join in the building of a "new" order of the world―which
is not new, being as old as
Genesis 3:1-6―building it upon the common-ism of the world, making that which is from
above the same as―subject to and
dependent upon―that which is from
below, "As above so below," and "As below so above", where power not longer resides within the citizenry
under God,
i.e. power residing within his inalienable rights given from above,
where rights from above (right and wrong behavior based upon and judged
by a "higher power" than man and his carnal nature―Lex-Rex,
i.e. Law above Man, making righteousness the bases
for determining right and wrong behavior) limits the power of government below,
where power now resides
within the government of human commonness (right and wrong behavior
residing within and judged by the collective 'moment' of human nature―Rex-Lex,
i.e. Man above Law, making human nature―lustful
and full of pride―seeking pleasure
and avoiding pain, or sensuousness the basis for determining
right and wrong behavior), which, by everyone's 'willful'
participation, negates limited government and
the inalienable rights of the citizens through the praxis of consensus
for "human rights," where all citizens are subject to an all
powerful government of men, justifying their all mighty power over the
citizenry―for the cause of the
citizenry, i.e. "the grass roots," i.e. those in touch with
'mother earth,' Gaia, and the cosmic forces―in their
quest for world unity and peace, basing their
thoughts and their actions upon the platform of 'human' and 'environmental rights,'
where life and liberty are subject to the pursuit of lustful pleasure,
where equality of opportunity becomes the cry for leisure and
guaranteed sustenance 'promised' by a government run by, for, and of
unrighteous men―men full of "youthful
lusts," despotic in nature) “Equality of
Opportunity becomes ever greater with the weakening of family power.”
“The family has little to offer the child in the way of training for his
place in the community.” (James Coleman, The Adolescent Society) "The major implication . . . was the
transformation of the family's role in the process of
socialization." (Martin Jay The Dialectical Imagination).
“In a democratic society a patriarchal culture should make us
depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the higher
possibilities of human nature, of self actualization.” (Abraham
Maslow, Maslow on Management)
In the land of
Diaprax both church and state unite upon an allness, oneness, gnostic
paradigm (a heresiarchal paradigm of synthesis and "change,'
following after how man feels, and what he thinks in the carnal
'moment,' i.e. no longer following
the "It is written," "Because I said so," from the God of law, mercy, and grace from above but rather following after
the lawlessness of human nature, led by the lawless one from below, i.e.
"lawfulness without law ... purposefulness without purpose" G. W. Hegel). While God
calls those who are His out from the world system (but not out of the
world), putting up a hedge of
protection around them, those of the world system, as thieves trying to
crawl over the hedge of protection or tyrants trying to tear down the
hedge of protection, unite in their effort to annihilate those
who are God's, those who are called out of the world system (done by
switching language from preaching and teaching―"It
is written" to dialogue―"I
think ..." and "I feel ...," where opinions negate
faith. “Prior to therapy the person is prone to ask himself ‘What
would my parents want me to do?’ During the process of therapy the
individual comes to ask himself ‘What does it mean to me?’” (Carl
Rogers On Becoming a Person) “Stopping the internal
dialogue ['What would my parents [or God] want me to do?']
is, however, the key to the sorcerers’ world." (Carlos Castenada
Tales of Power, 1974; Richard Bandler, Patterns of the
hypnotic techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Vol. 1)
If you use the
Word of God to stay the tide of compromise, synthesis, and 'change,' as found within the
contemporary church today (all three words the same), you will experience the all-mighty
government of human nature―men's opinion in
consensus negating fear of God and love of his Word.
The 'church' seeking unity, built upon human nature,
is a 'church' which no longer fears God and loves His word. It is an apostate church,
being no longer a
church of "the called out ones," it lusts after the opinions of men
rather than humbles itself and seeks after the will of God. "And Jesus called a little child unto him,
and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto
you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore
shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest
in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:2-4
"Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Matthew 7:21 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is
in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
Matthew 12:50
Diaprax is not of God. Those who use it to build God's kingdom
("Grow" the Church) are
not of God. "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that
called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not
another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let
him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man
preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be
accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to
please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of
Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was
preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man,
neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
Galatians 1: 6-12 Those who know the intent of Diaprax, yet still
use it within the church (with the 'purpose' of 'growing' the church), know who they oppose
(and who they serve) and the consequence of their rebellion against God.
As a famous Marxist, Jürgen Habermas, so clearly put it: "If the 'restoring of life' of the
world is to be conceived in terms of the Christian revelation, then
Marx must collapse into a bottomless abyss." (Jürgen
Habermas Theory and Practice)
When the preaching and teaching of the Word of God, believed upon
(in faith) and obeyed "as given" (revelation),
is replaced with the praxis of dialogue, when man's
opinions and theories, i.e. his human reasoning is used to come to the
knowledge of the 'truth' of God's Word, when the
wickedness of man's heart, Jeremiah 17:9, Genesis 6:5, 8:21, i.e. mans
lust for the things of this world, i.e. his lust for pleasure over and
against God's will is used in 'clarifying' God and His Word, when man attempts
to make the scriptures subject to an approach pleasure-avoid pain
spectrum, making it subject to "contemporary" thought
and action,
making righteousness contemporary (subject to the temporary, i.e. wicked), i.e. turning good
into evil and evil into good, basing good and evil upon the liberation
or restraining of the flesh,
driven by his vain philosophy (human wisdom; "higher order thinking
skills"),
placing value along an avoid pleasure-approach pain spectrum (lovers of
pleasure manifesting that love which comes from the pleasures of this
life, "I love you because you make me 'feel' good, or what I do for
you makes me 'feel' good," sensuous, gain being that which a
person gets out of their relationship with the world, driven by the love
of the pleasures which come from relationship with the world), putting their faith in their own "senses experience," i.e.
"sensuous needs," "sense
perception," and "reasoning" abilities, i.e. justifying
themselves by their own carnal "wisdom" and their works which
follow, rather than trusting in the work of God, he must overcome (negate and
annihilate) that which is of Spirit, that which is from above, i.e. God our Heavenly Father and His Word, His only begotten
Son, and His Holy Spirit (lovers of God, manifesting that love which can
only come from God above, "I love you because God first loved me," gain being
another soul saved from eternal death in Hell saved to eternal life
in
Heaven, living their life on the earth in that love which can only come
from God above, walking in the love not of this world and not understood
by the world, not of the flesh, the person now lead by God who
loved the world in this way, that he sent his only begotten son to die
for him, redeeming him through his shed blood on the cross, taking his
place for his sins, that whosoever believes upon him will have eternal
life and not perish, sending His Holy Spirit upon those who believe so
that they can manifest that love which can only come from the Father,
now being lead by that love of mercy and grace which can only come from
above, no longer being no 'driven' by that love of pleasure, the
'purpose' of life
which is from below; manifesting a "Look what I, or we, have done for
you and your kingdom, God. God has done nothing on earth without man, he
can do nothing on earth without us" carnal attitude); "Observe and hear all these words
which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and
right in the sight of the LORD thy God." Deuteronomy 12:28,
perceiving themselves as wise in their own eyes, in God's eyes they
become fools, deceiving themselves and others into thinking they are
even doing God's will, then the pathway
to the bottomless abyss is opened for business and the "buying and
selling of souls" commences ("making
customers" of those souls who 'shift' their paradigm by their
acceptance of the so called 'preaching' of another gospel, a gospel mingled with
man's sensuousness and wisdom, i.e. Sophic, Gnostic, all are becoming
one, all proceeding from the dialectical
praxis of Genesis 3:1-6―the
lie that all are one, both becoming common in nature as we find what we
have in common with one another, as all trees are one and the
same in general, man and God are common in general, i.e. both having the same knowledge of good
and evil, thereby negating the above-below, Creator-created,
Spirit-flesh, Righteous-sensuous Patriarchal Paradigm by
dialectically synthesizing a Spiritual-temporal, sacred-secular,
private-public unity through the
use of Satan's Heresiarchal Paradigm of
Genesis 3:1-6―Diaprax
of unity by being facilitated into dialoguing to consensus over
temporal issues to a predetermined outcome, i.e. the use of the
dialectical process to determine right from wrong).
This 'shift'
(in paradigm or way of thinking) is away from an either-or, i.e. righteousness vs. wickedness
(like a light switch, it is either on or it is off, you are either saved in
Christ Jesus or you are lost to the World), toward a relativistic, changeable, "He
was more right then wrong" way of thinking, the latter only a
speculative persecution along a spectrum within the realm of wickedness
(you can put a rheostat on a light switch but the switch is still only
on or off),
basing the value of life upon that which is of the world,
measuring human value based upon human experience ("sense experience"), measuring the value
of life based upon the sensuous, i.e. the flesh (the
senses of pain and pleasure), perception, (the ability to comprehend
that which is producing the pain or pleasure), and the reasoning ability to
'augment' the surrounding conditions to increase pleasure (increase "needs
satisfaction") and decrease
pain (decrease not only physical pain, but also mental and social pain),
all 'purposed' in
the annihilation of the righteousness vs. wickedness,
right-wrong, good-evil, above-below, patriarchal paradigm (the way of
thinking which places temporal, carnal, sensual, worldly values under
spiritual, other-'world' values, thereby superseding the pleasure-pain
spectrum of the world by right-wrong, good-evil way of thinking, established by a higher
authority than the nature of man and nature itself, thereby alienating man from
himself and the world, alienating him from his carnal, fallen human
nature, the same nature which is in, of, and by the world; "The
world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that
the works thereof are evil." John 7:7 ).
It is
not the flesh which is evil (it is neither good nor evil), it is man who is evil, man who makes the flesh the bases
for reality, i.e. what is right and what is wrong is based upon the avoid
pain-approach pleasure spectrum of the flesh, i.e. Genesis 3:1-5, 2 Timothy
3:4, etc. It is not that God is for pain or against pleasure
(it is not pleasure, it is the 'love' of pleasure which is the problem,
it is the 'love' of pleasure over love of God which results in sin,
i.e. when man's pursuit of pleasure goes counter to or against God's
will). God is rather for righteousness
and against wickedness (death is the result of sin, i.e. the result of
man's wickedness, i.e. his lust for, his intense desire for the things of this world, his love
for things of the world rather than love for God who created the world, James
1:14, 15). While God uses chastening, i.e. pain (Hebrews 12:5-10),
so that we might repent of and turn from our natural love of pleasure
for the things below and thereby turn to God above,
chastening us "for our
profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness,"
our earthly fathers "chastened us after their own pleasure,"
using chastening for their own "avoid pain-approach pleasure" purpose
(being subject themselves to their own earthy, love of this world,
love of their nature), yet they, through chastening, manifested a
structure in the home which steered the next generation in the direction
whereby they could comprehend God's chastening, a condition which Karl
Marx understood and set out to annihilate;
"Thus, for instance, once the earthly family is
discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the
former must itself be annihilated
[vernichtet]
theoretically and practically ["annihilated"
in the persons personal thoughts and in his social actions, i.e.
'washed' from his brain, i.e. washed from his thoughts, feelings,
actions, and washed from society itself, i.e. washed from his perception
of the world around him as the world around him is washed of the
"earthly" and thereby the "holy" family which uses chasten to
produce a peaceful fruit of "righteousness," where
pleasure or pain, i.e. "What can I get out of this situation for me,"
becomes the issue (a temporal issue) rather than what is right
before God or the parent (a spiritual issue)]." Karl Marx Theses
On Feuerbach #4) Notice the 'shift'
from the sacred and secular realms being directed by spiritual issues
(God and parent―righteousness,
spiritual) to
the sacred and secular realms being 'driven' by temporal issues (the
self and society seeking common-unity―pleasure,
sensual).
While God created man for his good
pleasure he created the earth for man's pleasure. Yet he did not
create man to worship and serve the creation, i.e. making right and
wrong, good and evil subject to mans own fleshy nature (making the worth
or value of life subject to mans carnal perception and temporal
understanding of nature, thereby even "creating" God or god's in
his own image or in the image of anything within nature, i.e. creating
god's subject to man's "avoid pain-approach pleasure" nature,
making God who is above―Spirit (righteousness)―in the image of that
which is below―temporal (pleasure-pain), and then making that which is
below subject to that which is above (the religions of the world,
Gnosticism, secularism, humanism, ...).
Secular humanists and
Christian humanists make all religions subject to that which is below
(basing the 'purpose' of life upon the respect of men and their love of
the things of this world, as long as they are perceived as being held or
had in common), they justify their 'purpose,' i.e. their
agenda of annihilating that which is above, above that which is
below, i.e. making right-wrong,
good-evil, above-below thinking appear as irrational and therefore irrelevant, i.e. annihilating that way of thinking
which inhibits or blocks human nature, annihilating that way of thinking
(the Patriarchal Paradigm) which inhibits or blocks human sensuousness, thereby making
themselves,
their way of thinking, subject to nature, i.e. justifying human
behavior by "human reasoning,"
i.e. basing good and evil upon how a person feels, thinks, and acts (how
he feels, thinks, and acts in
relation to himself and to others) rather than basing good and evil according to God's Word
and His Will, thereby refusing to themselves know the truth by
revelation from God and His Word, and preventing others from
coming to know the truth by revelation, i.e. that truth which can
only come from above, truth which is only knowable through God's written Word
(dependable and without error), His Son (who imputes righteousness), His
Grace, and His Spirit (giving the redeemed the power to know, obey, and serve God).
Simply 'shifting' a persons paradigm, i.e. his way of thinking from
righteousness vs. wickedness (that he might repent of his sin and walk
daily in God's will) to pleasure vs. pain, changes him from looking above
for help in making decisions regarding life's actions to looking below
(through human experience, human perception, and human reasoning―Diaprax) to
determine for himself, along with others, what is the right action for
the 'moment,' i.e. his 'purpose' in life is 'driven' by that which is
'contemporary,' i.e. sensual. "My sheep hear my voice,"
is annihilated in the consensus of the human 'moment.'
Diaprax is the
praxis of the dialectical process, the "negation of negation,"
i.e. the negation of that way of thinking (the Patriarchal
Paradigm) which is "perceived" as 'irrational," i.e. anti-dialectical,
anti-human carnal laws, which
exposes human nature as being wicked (that man is depraved, unrighteous,
unholy and is not able to become good in his own carnal nature―"For
I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:"
Romans 7:18―therefore preventing him from
creating a condition whereby he can be accepted as 'good'―feel, think and
act as though he is good―apart from God's work in him; the
ideology that goodness or evilness is not a "given condition" outside of
man's definition and control, but rather that goodness is a condition
which man has control over for his own 'purpose.' his purpose of increasing pleasure
and decreasing pain, requiring the negation of any evil condition which
inhibits or blocks him from initiating and sustaining the 'good life' on
the 'good earth', i.e. creating a new world order designed in his own
image).
Diaprax is the negation of any condition which restrains or blocks man
(through the use of force or threat of force) which prevents him from
creating a condition whereby human nature is treated, in thought and in
action (in theory and in practice) as being good (Marxist negate
"common sense" with the praxis of "good sense"), man's
nature, common to all mankind, becomes the measure of that which is good and
that which is evil. Diaprax is the
negation of the fear of judgment (the wrath of God and eternity in Hell)
which prevents human nature from being accepted as the bases for
initiating and sustaining a common, social practice (praxis).
This is the same praxis which
is being done by the contemporary church today. Diaprax can even be
done
"in the name of Jesus," when the wickedness of human nature is
"suspended" (in the 'moment' for the "moment") by the praxis of "discovering," through
dialogue, that which all men have in common (the quest to avoid pain-approach
pleasure) i.e. the setting aside of the preaching and teaching of
righteousness, which can only come from God above, so that wickedness,
which comes from man below can become equal with, i.e. greater than,
faith, and thereby become a
common 'drive' within the church for the 'purpose' of initiating and
sustaining social
harmony and world peace (making the world a better place, a 'good place' for "Gods
people," by "helping" God
create His Kingdom on earth, helping him through human feelings, thoughts, and
actions―discernable through polls and
surveys and justifiable through feasibility studies, putting
common feelings and common thoughts into common collective action―common-ism―the
synergistic 'purpose' of the contemporary church).
The
dialectical process is a 'scientific' process which is being used upon mankind for the
'purpose' of facilitating 'change' (making 'change' easier, change from a life of
rigidity―rigidity
as perceived through human reasoning―since temporal man can not
comprehend the Spiritual, the Spiritual is seen as rigid,
i.e. a life bound to Godly righteousness, a life guided by absolutes
which inhibit adaptability to
change, i.e. sensuousness with and of the world―by
change to a life of change, i.e. a life in flux―an
unstable life in touch with and guided by human nature
and human reasoning,
i.e. a life liberated from the restraints of Godly righteousness―easier.)
Diaprax is looking at God and His Word through human eyes and human
ears, 'helping' God in building His kingdom (that which is not really His
kingdom) through human praxis, i.e. "God has done nothing on
earth apart from man." As I heard in seminary "If the
church is lead by the Holy Spirit, it is lead by no-one." Such
thinking and acting is blasphemy. It negates the depravity of man,
and his need to be daily directed by God ("O LORD, I know that the
way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct
his steps." Jeremiah 10:23). It sets mans thoughts and actions
upon his own thoughts and actions ("the pride of life"), the very
same thoughts and actions (theory and practice) as espoused by
Karl Marx,
“The critique of religion [categorical imperatives
established by God and not from human nature] ends with the categorical imperative
[categorical imperatives established from human nature and not by
God, i.e. psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc] to overthrow
all conditions in which man is a debased, enslaved, neglected, contemptible
being.” (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right).
In this way the preaching and teaching of wickedness of man's
carnal nature and the righteousness of God is replaced (by laws
of man's making, based upon his common carnal nature) with the
praxis of dialoguing opinions and theories based upon human
experience ("sensuous needs," i.e. "the lust of the flesh" and
"sense perception" i.e. "the lust of the eyes" which results in a
world based upon "sense experience," i.e. "the pride of life"
where man rules over himself, according to his own carnal, temporal,
humanistic will), i.e. where his financial and social needs (prosperity and unity,
i.e. the "good life") defines who is living right before God the Father (which
can only be done through the work of Christ, i.e. God the Father, His only
begotten Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit, sent by the will of the
Father and the obedient Son, sent to teach and guide the redeemed,
doing the will of the Father), all according to God's will.
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the
same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50.
“What truly is always true is that all is in flux, the
truth-seeker ought properly to address himself to the study of this life
process of truth seeking itself [dialectical 'truth' is human nature
seeking, recognizing, and actualizing itself only in nature, only in
that nature which is in motion (and only in that motion which is in
nature)―that nature which is changeable, seeking change, and changing
all at the same time].” (George W. F. Hegel)
"In the eyes of the
dialectical process, nothing is established for all times, nothing is
absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
"The philosophers have interpreted the world in many different ways, the
objective however, is to change it [set it into motion and keep it in
motion, i.e. turmoil]." (Karl Marx Feuerbach
Thesis #11) Marx is saying that the philosophers, those discontent with Godly
righteousness, have their opinions of how the world "ought" to be,
but to make change they must recognize that
the 'purpose' of life is to make it the way it "ought" to be,
not just
think about how it "ought" to be, in other words
they must put theory
into practice, i.e. "just do it," i.e. put "Critical Criticism" of Godly
righteousness into praxis by every man "scientifically,"
dialectically, discovering for himself (through unrestrained―"open ended" and
"non-directed"―dialogue resolving a common
social crisis), that his carnal
human nature is common to all of mankind , i.e. dialectically discovering that
his carnal human behavior is 'normal,' while learning, in a dialectically
environment, i.e. in a socialist society (a 'team building," "group
think" environment) that to live in harmony with others
according to the ever changing impulses (lustfulness) of human nature is the quest or
'purpose' of life, i.e. continually putting
the dialectical process into practice, putting restraints, i.e.
judgments of human nature aside, i.e. putting anything which condemns
that which is common to man, condemning his natural feelings and his
natural thoughts, aside, until he purges himself, and the
world he lives in, of the judgmentalism and inflexibility, i.e. rigidity,
of Godly righteousness, to where abhorring evil is related to abhorring 'traditional ,'
'lower order thinking,' 'back to basics,' thinking and acting, abhorring is related to any
though or action tying man to the "past" (any thought or action
submitting man to that which is above
his nature, restraining his nature)
and preventing him from progressing into the "future" with the rest of
mankind (traveling down the broad dialectical pathway to eternal death,
i.e. the "good" death).
"The transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he
flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to
be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath
left off to be wise, and to do good. He deviseth mischief upon his
bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not
evil." Psalms 36:1-4.
In dialectical fashion, "religious" institutions now take on
the thoughts and practices (theory and practice) of social scientists, facilitating a world of
sensuousness (basing right and wrong upon human feelings and thoughts) and "change"
(making right and wrong subjective, i.e. subject to changing situations,
subject to earthy conditions, i.e. subject to human nature, i.e. subject
to nature, i.e. liberating right and wrong from unnatural, i.e.
supernatural, conditions and laws) as espoused by
Karl Marx. He believed that since "sin" is the product of
unnatural laws, i.e. spiritual laws which counter human nature, for man
to free himself of unnatural laws, i.e. spirit, he must praxis
"sin," i.e. he must become himself by returning to his human nature, he
"must set up a sinful world in [his] own home."
Therefore, to liberate himself from unnatural laws, i.e. spirit, he must
initiate and sustain a condition which annihilates any condition
which attempts to inhibit, restrain or block the praxis of "sin,"
i.e. any condition preventing man from being himself, i.e. preventing
right and wrong from proceeding only from Nature and therefore
becoming relative, i.e. situational, i.e. subject to the human moment). "Not feeling
at home in the sinful world, Critical Criticism must
set up a
sinful world in its own home." "However, Criticism falls into an inconsistency by thus
having its opinion of itself represented as the opinion of the world and by its
concept being converted into reality."
(Karl Marx The Holy Family
Chapter VII Critical Criticism’s Correspondence 1; The Critical
Mass) emphasis and link added
"The philosophers have only interpreted
the world in different ways [and then imposed their
interpretation upon the world thereby negating the recognition and utilization
of the "changingness" of human e-motions]; the point is to
change it
[always incorporate human e-motions and thoughts of discontentment,
discontentment
toward the way things are, discontentment toward the restraint of
change, discontentment toward the Patriarchal Paradigm, in the making of decisions and in the ensuing
actions which follow, i.e. putting the scientifically―dialectically―"discovered," common
(earthy, materialistic), collective thought into action―praxis]."
Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach #11 bracketed
information added
“Dialectics thereby reduced itself to the science of the
general laws of motion — both in the external world and in the thought of
man [e-motion; as in discontentment with the way things are 'fixed,'
i.e. wanting 'change' or action (praxis), wanting liberation of
the flesh from the restraints of a condition demanding established
righteousness (spiritual, eternal, above nature, unchanging when
nature seeks change, i.e. an individual and societies "felt" need for change,
i.e. liberation from Godly restraint upon mans carnal nature), a condition not only alienating a person from his own
nature, i.e. his internal world, i.e. alienating him from his own feelings, thoughts, and actions
(his own "sensuous needs," "sense perception," and
"sense
experience"), but also alienating him from nature itself, i.e. the
external world, i.e. society, i.e. economic security and social
relationship, i.e. sustenance and approval ('physiological' and
'self-esteem' needs) and therefore preventing him from finding his 'purpose'
in this life ('self-actualization')] — two sets of laws which are identical in substance
.” (Friedrich Engels,
Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy) information in
brackets added Thus the two laws "which are identical in
substance" must come together in action (praxis) if man is to be
freed from Godly restraint. The common substance is carnal life, i.e.
'motion' or 'change,' i.e. freedom from 'fixity,'
i.e. 'fixity being restraint and therefore death of carnal nature both
internally and
externally (in thought―internal and in action―external, in
"theory and practice"),
where
revelation (having to obey, by faith―not by sight or by
'perception'―He who is from above) must be negated in revolution, i.e. the overthrow the the condition which initiates and
sustains revelation, absolutes, spiritual, faith, belief, obedience,
etc. which can be done through the praxis of dialogue, social
relationships, "felt" needs satisfaction, sensuousness, spontaneity, etc
finding common ground among all participants and then put into action.
“Life, at its
best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed...”
where the person "... lives openly and freely in relation to others, guiding his
behavior on the basis of his immediate experiencing ["sense experience"] – he has become an
integrated process of changingness.” “The more that the client perceives the therapist
[the harlot, the seducer, the cough, the guide, the facilitator of the
'general laws of
motion'] as
empathic, as having an unconditional regard for him, the more the client
will move away from a static, fixed way of functioning [move away from righteousness,
i.e. Spirit, i.e. faith, remorse, repentance, belief, and obedience], and the more he will
move toward a fluid, changing way of functioning [move toward carnality, i.e.
flesh, i.e. 'sensuousness' and 'spontaneity'].” “Consciousness, instead
of being the watchman over a dangerous and unpredictable lot of impulses,
becomes the comfortable inhabitant of a society of impulses and feelings and
thoughts.” “Individuals move not from a fixity through change to a new
fixity, though such a process is indeed possible. But [through a
dialectical]
continuum from fixity to changingness, from rigid structure to flow, from
stasis to process.” (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person)
information in brackets added
Diaprax is the dialectical praxis of "wholeness," the praxis of "oneness" (the gnostic concept of all 'becoming' one again), the praxis of an individual 'discovering' (becoming conscious of; conscietization) his all-inclusive oneness with the cosmos or pleroma-πλήρωμα (the praxis of negating at-one-ness with anything which is outside of the cosmos, i.e. the negation of anything which is greater than, above or not of the cosmos, i.e. the negation of anything limiting or blocking a persons comprehensive experience with the cosmos, i.e. preventing him from 'discovering' his full potential within the cosmos, preventing him from actualizing himself within the cosmos, i.e. negating anything preventing him from 'discovering and fulfilling his 'purpose' in the cosmos, that of 'becoming' at-one-with the cosmos, 'becoming' at-one-with himself and the world, i.e. preventing his "divine spark" from actualizing its purpose of finding oneness with the world spirit). "The dialectic will go on until we reach the absolute whole, that which includes everything within itself, and so cannot possibly depend upon anything outside itself." (Frederick Beiser, Hegel 168, 169) “The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.” (Karl Marx Selected Reading in Sociology and Social Philosophy by T. B. Bottomore) Whether in the sacred realm or the secular realm the dialectical process unites both upon the same 'purpose,' that of creating a oneness out of many, of bringing diversity into unity. In this way a sacred-secular partnership can become actualized. Thus those things which are not relevant to the wholistic cause (those things which cause division) are perceived as being irrational and are not "officially" censored by those in the process but, being perceived as being of no value or worth, are treated as irrelevant and therefore are excluded from the partnership (since they are of no value or worth to the cause). Those who do not understand this way of thinking, i.e. those who are not willingly working for the common cause, are perceived as being confrontational, hateful, and antisocial in nature. Those who are not willing to work for the common cause are therefore perceived as the source of dissention, divisiveness, and disunity within the group or institution which is striving for unity "in love"―where agape, phileo, and Eros find unity in common cause, that is, all are working for the cause of unity (working for a moment of sensation or quality of oneness) which is only possible with the praxis of "tolerance of ambiguity" (tolerance of non-commitment to any one position). As long as no one requires absolute truths or unchanging facts (which require commitment), it will work, otherwise division ensues, division caused by those who require absolute unchanging truths, truths and facts found outside of the moment of 'change' (the coming together as one, i.e. everyone becoming as one), inhibiting or blocking the 'moment' of oneness discovering itself―self actualization―(the dialectical moment classifying them as being contentious, the instigators of conflict, preventing the whole from discovering itself from its many parts).
Diaprax is even used by 'ministers' who have planted themselves (as hirelings and wolves) within the church. "Having rejected the Bible as the infallible and inerrant Word of God [rejecting it as certain and unchangeable, i.e. rejecting it as a categorical imperative, i.e. rejecting it as universal and unquestionable, i.e. 'shifting' the source for Bible translation from the Textus Receptus to the the Gnostic (heretical) texts of Origin, Eusebius, Jerome, Alexandrian, etc, i.e. translating the bible from corrupt sources, as done by Metzger's, Nestles, Aland Greek New Testaments, which use heretical (Gnostic) sources, such as Vaticanus B, Sinaiticus אּ, done to bring the church into dialogue (uncertainty) and therefore bringing it under the influence of "vain philosophers," i.e. under the influence of enlightened 'ministers of the 'word' (world), liberating it (the word of God), the church, and themselves from absolutes and revelation, i.e. liberating man from what the fleshy mind perceives as "rigidity," through the use of human reasoning skills (higher order thinking skills, critical theory, i.e. finding and building oneness upon the affective domain ("sensuousness"), the cognitive domain (self-world consciousness), and the psycho-motor domain (oneness in praxis), for the 'purpose' of liberating man's common human experience from the absolutes (and therefore restraints) of God and His Word. See chart below] and having accepted the view that everything is in flux [that everything is 'rationally guided' by the laws of 'changingness,' were man is directed according to his 'sensuous needs' and 'sense perception,' that the internal needs of the individual (his "sensuous needs") and the external initiator and sustainer of needs and needs satisfaction, i.e. that the source of needs and source for needs satisfy, made conscious to the individual through his "sense perception" of society (the driving force of unity), are one and the same (that personal needs and social needs are one and the same; "As above so below," as proclaimed in the Satanist Bible) "two sets of laws which are identical in substance," both seeking liberation from that which is above for the sake of initiating and sustaining unity with that which is below], the liberal theologian holds that it is unsafe to formulate any fixed views about God and theological truth." (Theissen, Systematic Theology-Nature and Necessity of Theology) information in brackets added Such contempt toward God and His Word are dialectical in nature, held by men who are dialectical not only in thought (theory) but also in action (praxis)―Diaprax. “A stranger, even if his name were God, who imposes commands upon us must be resisted, he must be killed because nobody can stand him.” Paul Tillich (Leonard F. Wheat, Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism) All ministers who use the dialectical process, i.e. use human reasoning skills (higher order thinking skills), in directing their lives and the lives of others (disregarding God and His Word when He and they inhibit or block their way of thinking, feeling, and acting―cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor domains), neither fear God, nor love His Word. They are walking in sight and not faith (replacing God's head with man's head) and have become enemies of the Gospel. Even though they claim to be furthering it they are instead ashamed of it.
"For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:11-16
Diaprax can not stand before the word of God. Therefore the word of God must be 'changed,' that is, it must be made 'changeable,' made tolerant of and adaptable to (in common with and therefore subject to) the common human "sense experience" of man, tolerant of his human nature and adaptable to his carnal needs, rewritten to allow man's "sensuous needs" and "sense perception," along with his "enlightened mind," to assist him, through contemplation and dialogue, in 'discovering' its 'true' hidden meaning and purpose; "... the concept of the world as the totality of facts is connected with a correspondence notion of truth and a semantic conception of justification. The social world, as the totality of legitimately ordered interpersonal relations, is accessible only from the participant’s perspective; in the pragmatic presuppositions of rational discourse or deliberation the normative content of the implicit assumptions of communicative action is generalized, abstracted, and freed from all limits — the practice of deliberation is extended to an inclusive community that does not in principle exclude any subject capable of speech and action who can make relevant contributions. This idea points to a way out of the modern dilemma, since the participants have lost their metaphysical guarantees and must so to speak derive their normative orientations from themselves alone. As we have seen, the participants can only draw on those features of a common practice they already currently share…. The bottom line is that the participants have all already entered into the cooperative enterprise of rational discourse. The practice of argumentation [all 'becoming' as they change the world into a 'better' place for all] sets in motion a cooperative competition for the better argument, where the orientation to the goal of a communicatively reached agreement unites the participants from the outset." (Jürgen Habermas 1998 Communicative Ethics The inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory) This praxis is nothing more than, nor nothing less than, dialectically socialized Gnosticism (secularized Satanism, intellectualized witchcraft). “. . . to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc.” (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management) "All social life is essentially practical. All the mysteries which lead theory toward mysticism find their rational solution in human practice [human behavior] and in the comprehension of this practice." (Karl Marx, Thesis on Feuerbach #8) "The only valuable things in psychic life are the emotions." [This is why the socialists make the affective domain (human passion for identity and unity) equal with the cognitive domain in education, treating feelings ("sensuousness") as being equal with and essential to the knowledge and comprehension of facts and truth, i.e. recognizing only practical facts and practical truths―'changing facts'―where the knowledge of truth is subject to human sensuousness (human "sense experience" of the 'moment'), i.e. mans carnal "felt" needs, i.e. uniting the cognitive domain, the affective domain, the psycho-motor domain, making them at-one-with each other, thereby liberating the individual and society from any control from He who is from above (parent and God, i.e. that which is Spirit above spirits, i.e. that which prevents 'divine sparks' from uniting into oneness, i.e. uniting into wholeness with all 'divine sparks'), making human behavior subject only to that which is below (human nature and society, i.e. a society of feelings, thoughts, and actions seeking liberation from that―beliefs―which divides man from himself and others, liberating and thereby uniting mans spirit so that he can become at-one-with the cosmic spirit in an all inclusiveness of oneness (comprehensive oneness), i.e. where all are 'becoming' one within the dialectical (social-psychological) 'moment,' mankind uniting with the world within a synthesis/synergistic 'moment' of consensus; “Spirit, in so far as it is the Spirit of God, is not a spirit beyond the stars, beyond the world. On the contrary, God is present, omnipresent, and exists as spirit in all spirits.” G. W. Hegel).] Psychoanalysis is the heir to a mystical tradition which it must affirm (the ‘magical’ body of occidental mysticism, and the ‘diamond’ body of oriental mysticisms, and, in psychoanalysis, the polymorphously perverse body of childhood.) Psychoanalysis, mysticism, poetry, the philosophy of organism, Feuerbach, and Marx – the unseen harmony is stronger than the seen. Whitehead constantly draws attention to the dialectical patterns in mystical thought." (Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death)
As stated above, the scriptures themselves have been deliberately 'changed,' to make them appear subject to and therefore appear supportive of man's dialectical praxis―Diaprax (see chart below and listen to audios by James Borchert on the subject, Part 1 and Part 2 regarding the deliberate attempt to corrupt God's word so that man, through his "felt" needs, his social identity, and his reasoning abilities, that is, by his works, his actions, his praxis, he could 'actualize' his 'purpose' in the universe, 1) no longer dependent upon the righteousness of Christ only, i.e. no longer dependent upon righteousness which is imputed by Christ only, righteousness which can not be earned through human effort or works, 2) no longer dependent upon God's grace only, unmerited grace, grace which no man 'deserves,' 3) no longer dependent upon Faith only, faith which negates human reasoning or worldly wisdom as a means to knowing the truth, and 4) no longer dependent upon God's Word as the only source for knowing the way, the truth, and eternal life, His revealed word condemning any man or institution which comes between man and God, condemning any man or institution which rejects Christ Jesus as being the alone mediator between man and God the Father).

Diaprax is the creation and utilization of an environmental
condition (any situation, such as a classroom, a business,
legislative session, church meeting, family crisis, etc. in a meeting, setting, or environment) where human nature (the carnal nature of man) is
liberated
(through 'open ended,' 'non-directed' dialogue―"How
do you feel ...?" What do you think ...?",
inductively, i.e. 'rationally' ordered and then put into
collective action―common, community,
or social praxis―all three being the same, i.e.
common-unity, common-ism) so that man can
'emerge' out from under any non-human
restraints which divide him from himself and from others (as he is being transformed into 'becoming' his "own person"
in a social world of common, carnal feelings, thoughts, and actions―which
is god, the all-in-one and the-one-in-all becoming, i.e. society 'becoming'), putting his new
found "freedom" (the 'liberation' of his carnal nature,
his thoughts and feelings―along with others
who are experiencing the same "freedom" with him) into
individual-social practice (praxis).
Therefore the group (the social, the public-private partnership) experience is essential for praxis.
J. L.
Moreno, the Marxist father of role-playing stated: “I told Freud he put people on a couch
and isolated them, which was entirely wrong. We don’t live on a
couch; we live in groups from birth to death. Freud took people
into the past, I take them into the present and
future. Psychodrama deals with the Here-and-Now.”
(Jane Howard, quoting J. L. Moreno, in her book Please Touch: A Guided Tour
of the Human Potential Movement) "One of the most fascinating aspects of group
therapy is that everyone is born again, born together in the group."
(Irvine D. Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy)
"Human learning
presupposes a specific social nature and a process [a dialectical process]
by which [we] grow into the
intellectual [theoretical and 'practical' ("realistic")]
life of those around us." (L. S. Vygotsky
Mind In Society: The Development of Higher Psychological
Processes) Therefore whenever the dialectical ideology that
"whatever is
ration is real and whatever is real is rational" rises to the surface,
i.e. the 'truth' is revealed through polls and surveys, revelation
becomes moribund―irrelevant. As one minister of the process stated,
in regards to himself and his ability to "guide" the church
within the
dialectical (sociological, psychological) process, "Cream rises to the top." He
did not recognize that "Scum rises to the top"
as well. "For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into
an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also
be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
according to their works." 2 Corinthians 11:13-15
Diaprax is the
praxis of initiating and sustaining an
environmental condition (a socially engineered situation or condition, a facilitated group setting) whereby all participants can
experience for themselves and then 'feel' confident in putting into
practice (praxis) the negation of, i.e. the putting aside
(suspending for the 'moment') any thoughts, feelings,
and actions which restrain (inhibit or block) 'normal' (common) human nature
(set aside any thoughts, feelings, and actions which are not from them, which they can
not readily identify with, but rather are from their
parents, God, or some other higher authority of restraint over them, i.e.
perceived as ruling over―and therefore
'possibly' against―their nature and nature itself).
Diaprax is "the negation of negation"―the
negation of any environmental condition which produce "negative
social change" (the 'unchangingness' of absolutes, the use of
categorical
imperatives, i.e. rules and commands which are accepted as universal and
unquestionable i.e. having to be accept "as
given" and obeyed, i.e. commands, rules, and
laws which keep things as they are, God above and not of man and man
below and not of, i.e. part of God
above, i.e.
absolute right and wrong, good and evil, where truths are established for all
times and in all places by force or threat of force―chastening―from
anyone or anything which is not in harmony with or seeking common ground
with the human "sensuous" moment). Any
authority which limits or blocks dialogue (done for the sake of
equality of opportunity) makes themselves the higher authority. "If an individual
wishes to maintain a position of arbitrary authority, then it
behooves him to inhibit the development of any rules permitting
reciprocal process observation and commentary." (Irvin Yalom
Theory and
Practice and Group Psychotherapy) It is this higher
authority and His system or paradigm which those who use the dialectical
process seek to negate and annihilate (as Satan did in the Garden in
Eden).
Diaprax is a land
of people who 'rationally' (collectively) justify their insubordination
to higher authority, questioning and disregarding any authority which inhibits or blocks them from
the praxis of Diaprax, i.e. the praxis of their common carnal
social human nature (seeking after a 'feeling' of oneness, i.e. love,
hope, happiness, and pleasure; Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason
came to the conclusion that hope is found in happiness, happiness is
found in pleasure, and pleasure is found in the mind, and we now know
that the mind is in love with dopamine and wants the gratifying
object which is in the environment which stimulates its emancipation or
liberation within the body and the brain). Having said all this, since man is not to trust in
man ("Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD."
" Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD
is."
Jeremiah 17:5, 7 "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in man." Psalms 118:8) but he is instead to bring
every thought of man, including his own "captive to the obedience of
Christ," ("Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2
Corinthians 10:5), Christ who was obedient to His Heavenly Father even to the
point of death, we are not to set any man or society of men
(institution) in a position as God, i.e.
accepting man's words as categorical imperatives
(unquestionable
and universal) when they go against or do not line up with
God's word(s). We, as children, are to obey higher authority, i.e.
parents, government, but we are to do so, in the Lord, under God's
authority and will, knowable by his Word and his Spirit.
We are to obey higher authority as long as it does not go against God's
Word and His will. " Then Peter and the other apostles answered
and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." Acts 5:29
This does not mean that we are to rebel against government (which is
given to us by God for our own good), we are to refuse to bend
our knee to tyranny, i.e. any tyrant who seek usurps the government
(using the office of authority given by God for his own gain, as the
scribes and Pharisees did by placing themselves in Moses seat) and
use the office, given by God over man, for their own personal gain, no
longer fearing God for their despotic actions (their praxis).
“Experience is, for me, the
highest authority.” “Neither the
Bible nor the prophets, neither
the revelations of God can take
precedence over my own direct
experience.” (Carl Rogers
On becoming a person) Diaprax is the
praxis of initiating and sustaining
an environmental condition (situation, i.e. a diverse group of people,
i.e. deviancy in unity) whereby all participants can
experience for themselves (in a 'safe' environment, freed from the fears
of any Patriarchal reprimand―chastening,
Hebrews 12:4-11) and feel 'confident' in putting into practice (praxis)
any thoughts, feelings, and actions which emanate from human nature
(emanate from their own feelings, thoughts, and actions as well as the
feelings, thoughts, and actions of others) and thereby emancipate human
nature (their own carnal human nature―worldly
behavior―to approach pleasure and avoid pain), not only emancipating
their human nature (their "lust of the
flesh," "lust of the eyes," and "pride of life"), but helping others emancipate
there human nature (their 'divine spark,' their love of the things of
the creation, their love of the "sensuous," their "want of gratifying
objects" in the world around them; see graph above: The Dialectic
Cycle, which will be explained in more detail below)
as well, emancipating or liberating it from
the Patriarchal environment of right-wrong, righteousness-wickedness,
good-evil, above-below, obedient-disobedient, saved-lost, etc. (with its
use of chastening).
The value or worth of the day (or life itself) is no longer
measured by righteousness or wickedness (an either-or condition of
spirit vs. flesh, God vs. Satan) but by how much pleasure or how much pain the person
has experienced during the day or during his lifetime (a spectrum or
continuum of temporal sensuousness based upon the persons evaluation of
how much pleasure and how much pain they have experienced in the past
and are experiencing in the moment, in the "here-and-now," basing the
worth or value of their life, and the lives of others, upon how much
pleasure or pain they receive or give, upon their position
along this spectrum of pleasure vs. pain, not just physical, but mental
and social as well, i.e. this is the humanistic tool used to "justify"
abortion, euthanasia, suicide, eugenics, "right-sizing," etc). Diaprax is replacing
(re-educating or washing from the brain) a righteousness
consciousness (the preaching and teaching of that which is
spiritual-righteous, over and against that which is temporal-wicked) with an approach
pleasure-avoid pain consciousness (the dialoguing of that which
is temporal, treating that which is spiritual, that which blocks or
inhibits that which is temporal, natural, or 'normal,' as being irrational and therefore
irrelevant―and therefore
expendable). In Diaprax those who preach and teach righteousness
are perceived as (and treated as) "a pain." This is why people
"glass over" (have that deer in the headlights look) when you preach and
teach the truth to them (they have that "Make me 'feel good' and you
will be worth listening to" Diaprax attitude, the same effect cult
leaders have upon those in their cult). Diaprax is diversity, i.e. antithesis,
i.e. opposing positions (where people think and act according to
what someone else has preached and taught them as being right and wrong
is separated from their personal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors) attaining unity (synthesis
or "consensus"―finding a common
sensuous position where people are united in thought and action
according to their own feelings―their own sense experiences which only come from
their own nature―on issues) through dialoguing
social issues in a facilitated meetings to actualize a pre-determined
outcome of common-ism (where a common sensuousness to avoid pain-approach
pleasure, a "changing" heresiarchal paradigm, a common-unity way of
thinking negates the above-below, righteousness-wickedness
paradigm or duality way of thinking) being put into collective action (praxis―the
experience of oneness within the 'moment',
within the 'here-and-now' with others in one accord), with
the 'purpose' of negating the Patriarchal Paradigm (negate the way of
thinking, feeling, and acting which inhibits or blocks
carnal human nature, negating the 'authoritarian' behavior,
negating the "What my Father commands, that's what I do," "He who does
my Father's will in heaven is my brother, sister, mother," Jesus Christ
of the scriptures way of thinking and acting, negating the way of thinking and
acting which restrains
that which is common to all mankind, negating the paradigm which prevents―inhibits
or blocks―common-ism, i.e.
negating that paradigm which preaches and teaches that righteousness
can only come from God above).
Diaprax 'changes' man's understanding of himself from "We are born into
sin" (and therefore need a savior from above; making the issue of
life righteousness), to "We are just human"
(and therefore we can save ourselves here below through proper re-education,
i.e. through proper environment
development and control; making the issue of life pleasure).
The four steps to 'liberation'
from (washing the brain of)
the Patriarchal Paradigm (and its effects) are experienced in a facilitated meeting: 1) "In the first phase various members of the group
quickly attempt to establish their customary places in the leadership
hierarchy [attempt to retain or restore an above-below, right-wrong, Patriarchal
Paradigm]." 2) "Next comes a period of frustration and conflict
brought about by the leader’s steadfast rejection of the concept of peck
order [preventing a top-down, above-below, good-evil, hierarchy from
"taking over" the meeting] and the authoritarian atmosphere
[preventing the room from experiencing God, parent, or some higher authority
from being in control, directing and
judging human action, resulting in the room becoming confused,
destabilized, the natural result of being detached from an above-below
way of thinking] in which the concept of peck
order is rooted [to the humanist, it is not God who is the problem,
it is the people who maintain an environment, a system which recognizes
and supports a top down way of thinking, putting God at the top, to the
humanist, if you get rid of the system, you get rid of God, i.e. man
becomes God as he discovers that he is a god amongst gods, dialectically
negating the God above him, judging him, condemning him, as he can
becomes as-one with God; God is becoming by discovering himself as being
one with man as man is becoming by discovering himself as being one with
God]." 3) "The third phase sees the development
of cohesiveness among the members of the group [everyone is discovering
their one-ness
with others in their approach pleasure-avoid pain, tolerance of human
nature, developing a tolerance of ambiguity paradigm, and their contempt for the top-down,
righteousness-wickedness, judging and chastening paradigm], accompanied by a certain
amount of complacency and smugness." [an unstable stage which
requires skills in facilitation to keep it from falling apart into
an uncontrollable anarchy, making the meeting subject to the patriarchal
paradigm retaking control]
4) "In the fourth phase the members retain the group-centeredness and
sensitivities which characterized the third phase, but they develop also
a sense of purpose and urgency which makes the group potentially an
effective social instrument [the consensus plan is to divide the individuals from their
Patriarchal roots and unite them within the Heresiarchal paradigm of
'change' thereby taking captive (conquering) the individual, the family, the village, the
nation, and the world]." (Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change) Diaprax prevents stage 1
(a right-wrong, good-evil, righteousness-wickedness, above-below
Patriarchal paradigm) from taking over the meeting and inhibiting or blocking stages 3 and 4
from coming into praxis (stage one, if it succeeds in gaining or
retaining control, prevents common-ism from being put
into praxis). "…the therapist is the living personification of all parental images,
Group therapists [the facilitator, as Satan in the Garden came
between the
woman and God, coming between God and man, the parent and the children, the
citizen and their representative] refuse to fill the traditional authority role: they do
not lead in the ordinary manner, they do not provide answers and
solutions, they urge the group to explore and to employ its own
resources. [It is] essential … that the group feel free to confront the
therapist
[confront or question the parent, confront or question God, confront or
question authority, as the
therapist puts himself in the parent's or God's place and allows all
participants to confront and question authority through the action
of role-playing, programming them to confront God's or parental
authority], who must not only permit, but encourage, such confrontation."
(Irvin Yalom Theory and
Practice and Group Psychotherapy) Without the outside influence, i.e. the
assistance of a facilitator (a couch, a counselors, a therapist, etc.
trained in social engineering, i.e. trained in the engineering of
individuals into socialists―becoming one
with the world) whose role it is to inhibit and block the
patriarchal paradigm from gaining control of the meeting (those in the
room taking the
position of the patriarch before he has a chance to gain control over
the meeting and
then using the usurped office he has gained control over for his own outcome by refusing to behave
in a patriarchal way), whose role
it is to encourage the group to question and challenge the office of
higher authority, i.e. detoxifying them of the fear of reprimand, i.e.
judgment from higher authority ("Ye
shall not surely die;" Genesis 3:4), the group
would naturally revert to a patriarchal paradigm with its system of established leaders and followers (an above-below hierarchy, a patriarchal order of power and authority
from above, i.e. the 'old'
world order of the Patriarchal Paradigm). It is the role of
the facilitator to create and sustain an environment which inhibits and
blocks (frustrates) the Patriarchal Paradigm (those seeking to put
themselves under higher authority, i.e. parent's or God's authority) while
he initiates and
sustains the heresiarchal paradigm (the progressive paradigm) of 'change'
(only possible by questioning authority for the purpose of overthrowing
Godly authority). "The more the group
members become converted to democracy [developing their common-ism in questioning
higher authority] and learn to play the roles of democracy as
followers or leaders [facilitate the 'change process' in themselves
and others in the practice of questioning authority], the more can
the power of the democratic leader shift to other ends than converting
the group members." (Kenneth Benne, Human Relations
in Curriculum Change) bracketed information added And
you thought that the town hall meeting was all about fixing the water
main while in fact it was all about 'fixing' (destabilizing,
moving and then common-izing) you (known as conscietization, democratization,
common-ism).
The Patriarchal Paradigm (derogatively referred to as the "authoritarian personality"
by
those possessed with the heresiarchal paradigm) is the barrier
which inhibits or blocks man from finding what he has in common with all
of mankind
and with nature itself (the 'affective' domain of feelings or the "sensuous" values
domain) and thereby preventing him from using them, i.e. his carnal
feelings, his "affective" domain, in making (justifying) his life's decisions
(basing reality upon the things below, i.e. negating anything above which does not align
with―initiate from and sustain―that which
is below, thereby making him subject to finding only that nature
which he has in common below, freeing him to find common ground with
people of like carnal
human nature; i.e. following and being at-one-with the voice and the way of the 'people,' i.e. the 'grass
roots' in contact with 'mother earth').
The Patriarchal Paradigm sets itself above that which all mankind has in
common, above those things which are listed in Maslow's hierarchy of
"felt" needs (the "affective domain" needs; affections,
the deceitful and wicked heart of man, see graph below). "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
Colossians 3:2 It
is not that man does not respond to those conditions which are below (of
the earth, worldly) but
that he must first turn to parent or God above for help in determining
or knowing the right
response (basing reality upon He who is above rather than upon that which is
below). We are not accountable for what happens to us but we are
for how we respond.
"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4 Jesus in response to Satan―the master facilitator of facilitators, while he was being tempted in the wilderness to participate in Diaprax―Genesis 3:1-6.
Diaprax is the exclusion (conversion, neutralization,
marginalization, or removal) of the use of
the Patriarchal Paradigm (he who is from above) in setting personal and civic policy and in directing
personal and civic
action (making the personal, i.e. the individual under God, higher in authority than the
civic, the individual under man or mankind―resulting in limited government).
Diaprax
is the process of uniting
mankind (the group, the team, the neighborhood, the region, the world) upon
that which is common to all
participants, that is, uniting men upon their temporal, carnal
human nature (that which is of the earth, earthy,
worldly, justifying "errare
humanum est," to err is human, i.e. "Boys will be boys."
"I'm OK. Your OK." thinking and acting). Therefore, diaprax is the justification of
"human
rights" (carnal rights are the basis for humanism, socialism, common-ism,
democratization, conscietization, etc) over and against
inalienable rights (individual rights which limit social cause, rights which prevent
the collectivizing of mankind upon the common and collective wanton nature of man―consensus―unity
'rationally,' dialectically,' built upon sensuousness, i.e. unity based upon the common "sensuous needs" and "sense perception" of
carnal human "sense experience" put into praxis, i.e.
social action, that which only proceeds from nature).
For
diaprax to function, the individual must be discouraged from turning to
any other source than society to "discover" and fulfill his
'purpose' in life. Society must be based upon "only that which is of Nature"
(perceivable and experiential), i.e.
that nature which a man has in common with others and that nature which others have in common
with him, that nature which all mankind can identify with, can perceive,
can experience, i.e. approach pleasure and avoid pain; "1. All human
behavior is directed toward the satisfaction of needs, 2. the individual will
change his established ways of behaving for one of two reasons: to gain
increased need satisfaction or to avoid decreased need satisfaction, and 3.
'augmentation' in the possibilities of needs satisfaction." (Douglas
McGregor in Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change) Thus "felt" needs
("sensuous needs;" the want of gratifying
objects in, from, and with nature), i.e. needs which are common to
all of mankind ("all that is of the world," i.e. the "lust of the flesh," the "lust of the
eyes," and the "pride of life") must become the common ground from which to build not
only social
unity (common-ism) but also must become the collective ground from which
to build the social man (a socialist, i.e. holistic in mind and body,
i.e. thought and action, "self-actualized" man; "Salvation is a byproduct of
Self-Actualization Duty." Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management, where
salvation is not found outside of the common human praxis but within
social-individual work, "Seeking for personal salvation is anyway the wrong
road to salvation. The only path was the Ikiru path―salvation via hard work &
total commitment to doing well the job fate or personal task destiny called you
to―an important job that 'called for ' doing." Abraham Maslow, The
Journals of A.H. Maslow "In self-actualizing people, the work
they do might be better be called 'mission,' 'calling,' 'duty,' 'vocation,' in
the priest’s sense." Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management,
"Self-actualizing people have to a large extent transcended the values of their
culture [i.e. their faith]. They are not so much merely Americans
[nor believers, redeemed from the world and its coming judgment] as they are
world citizens, members of the human species first and foremost." Abraham
Maslow, The Further Reaches of Human Nature). Any source which
inhibits or blocks the initiating and the sustaining of a common social
relationship (common-unity, common-ism), which prevents the 'augmentation'
(increase, expansion, extension, reinforcement, etc.) of "felt" needs
satisfaction (temporal, "here-and-now" needs, i.e. avoid pain-approach pleasure―this
is not to say that God does not meets our needs but that He does it according to
His will as a loving benevolent Heavenly Father, dialectically still considered
socially "evil"), any source which places life and death on a higher
plain than "felt" needs satisfaction, i.e. places life and death, reward and
punishment upon righteousness and wickedness, where man will be held accountable
(not only in the present but also in the future) for his thoughts and actions
(his human praxis) according to a higher authority than that which
proceeds from nature, i.e. obeying parental (or God's) commands results in a
blessing and disobeying parental commands resulting in a cursing (chastening,
punishment, judgment, etc.). Thus knowing is based upon hearing and
obeying ("My sheep hear my voice," "He who doeth my Fathers
will...," etc) and is not simply based upon "sense experience," i.e.
"sensuous needs," "sense perception," i.e. that which can "only
proceed from Nature." (Karl Marx) (Thus the "need" for polls and
surveys by the world's "open" system. Open to Hell that is.) The former knowing
(Traditional, Patriarchal) is like a light switch, it is either on or off, good
or evil (redeemed or lost), the latter is like a rheostat, it is off (fixed) or
on in varying degrees (changingness), as along a spectrum (and therefore able to
be "Taxonomized"), in this case increased 'light' being increased human
praxis, i.e. increased liberation (emancipation) from the effects of
Godly (parental) restraints, increased augmentation of a life of pleasure.
Diaprax is proactive. Diaprax is the contemplation of
human emotions (reciprocal reflection) put into motion, when
common carnal (only from nature) thoughts and feelings are exposed through dialogue and
collectively put into "positive" (carnal) social action (theory
and practice; theoretically and practically).
“… ordering and relating the different kinds of
affective behavior.” “… we need to provide the range of
emotion from neutrality through mild to strong emotion, probably
of a positive, but possibly also of a negative, kind.” “… organized into value systems and philosophies of life
…”
(David Krathwohl, Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of Education Objectives Book
2 Affective Domain) emphasis added By placing a
student or adult in a crisis situation, putting him in a pressure condition (a
Laboratory situation) where his belief (life guided by a "their-and-then"
paradigm) is brought into conflict with his
behavior (life driven by a "here-and-now" paradigm), producing a tension, a
condition called cognitive dissonance, and then by evaluating his response to
things which challenge his belief, a person can be graded along a spectrum
(where along it he happens to be at the time).
Then, through proper manipulation (manipulation of the learning experience), the person can be facilitated into learning
how to 'change' his belief into an opinion, thereby making him more easily adaptable
to 'change,' i.e. less offensive to other and readily adaptable to change. His
'subconscious' desires, his carnal desires (laws of the flesh) which are in
opposition to his belief (Spiritual), his temporal desires which he finds
("discovers" within a dialectical―"scientific"―setting) are
in common (in agreement) with others, i.e. those who he
wants to relate with (since they can "augment" his carnal "needs
satisfaction") are therefore brought out and given expression within an
'open-ended,' 'non-directed' group setting, helping him to liberate himself,
along with others of like mind (of like "felt" needs), from the system of belief and faith
(the Patriarchal Paradigm) and thereby all can participate in annihilating the
Patriarchal Paradigm―praxis patricide.
Instead of
behaviors being eternally established as right or wrong, good or evil,
i.e. "as given" by an
authority greater than the individual or society, in Diaprax behaviors are simply
expressions of the amount of freedom emotions are afforded within a
persons social life. Therefore in Diaprax his personal history can
be graded (Taxonomized―see
A précis of Bloom's Taxonomy) along a spectrum (or continuum) from rigidness, i.e. lack of freedom in
expressing personal interests (a person with a controlling history, a controlling
environment of the Patriarchal home environment―limiting
or blocking―the persons natural inclinations to
'change' history, i.e. incapable of questioning any authoritative office, i.e.
not able to challenge the parent's or God's "This is the way we have always done it."
"Because I say so."), to an
ever-increasing (progressive 'growth' in the) praxis of 'changingness,' i.e.
the amount of freedom a person has (internally and externally) in
expressing, not only verbally but also physically, personal interests, i.e. human
carnal interests, which are reflected in personal opinions
(that which comes from within the person in response to their contact with, i.e.
in the context of, their immediate environment which has the potential of
increasing needs satisfaction, i.e. increasing pleasure-decreasing pain),
i.e. most disagree, disagree, not opinion, agree, most agree, etc.
By Bloom adding the affective domain to the classroom environment as being equal
in value to the cognitive domain, the psycho-motor (the liberation of mans
carnal nature) became the driving 'purpose' of education, no longer the teaching
of facts, i.e. basics. In this way (through the use of the Heresiarchal
Paradigm) disciple and obedience (sovereignty of the traditional home) was
driven out of the classroom experience as permissiveness (deviancy) and
revolution (anarchy against the traditional home) came in.
The great polemic against Hegel in The Holy Family
concentrates mainly on this point.. Hegel’s inadequacy is that he only seems
to allow the absolute spirit to make history. The resulting otherworldliness
of consciousness vis-d-vis the real events of history becomes, in the hands
of Hegel’s disciples, an arrogant-and reactionary confrontation of ‘spirit’
and ‘mass’. (György Lukács History & Class Consciousness) This
corresponds to the difference between the teaching of history (traditional
history, i.e. the differences between countries and events reflecting the clash
between human interests and the restraint of God, Kings, and parents; and the
use of
deductive reasoning, i.e. evaluating behavior from established rules and
laws or right-wrong behavior; dialectically perceived as individuality, i.e.
isolationism, and nationalism, i.e. imperial-ism) and the facilitation
of social studies (focusing upon the commonality of human nature between nations
and the progression of human consciousness regarding that commonality and the
actions taken to overcome international, national, local, and personal divisions,
i.e. overcoming anything unnatural, anything which divides mankind from―and
therefore against―his own nature and nature itself; the use of
inductive reasoning, i.e. evaluating behavior from what man has in common―what
is knowable, what is experiential by all men―thereby overcoming established rules and laws of right-wrong behavior which
counters carnal human nature―common-ism).
As Karl Marx, using inductive reasoning, explained it (using "Fruit" as an example): "If
from real apples, pears, strawberries and almonds I form the general idea 'Fruit', if I go further and imagine that my
abstract idea 'Fruit', derived from real fruit, is an entity existing
outside me, is indeed the true essence of the pear, the apple, etc., then in
the language of speculative philosophy — I am declaring that
'Fruit' is the 'Substance' of the pear, the apple, the
almond, etc. I am saying, therefore, that to be a pear is not essential to the
pear, that to be an apple is not essential to the apple; that what is
essential to these things is not their real existence, perceptible to the
senses, but the essence that I have abstracted from them and then foisted on
them, the essence of my idea — 'Fruit'. I therefore declare apples,
pears, almonds, etc., to be mere forms of existence, modi, of
'Fruit'. My finite understanding supported by my senses does of course
distinguish an apple from a pear and a pear from an almond, but my
speculative reason declares these sensuous differences inessential and
irrelevant. It sees in the apple the same as in the pear, and in the
pear the same as in the almond, namely 'Fruit'. Particular real
fruits are no more than semblances whose true essence is 'the
substance' — 'Fruit'. (Karl Marx The Holy Family).
In this way Marx was able to rescue man from his divisive divisions and
alienations which resulted from judging others base upon differences, to finding
what man has in common, i.e. his carnal human nature, and then making that,
the fruit of the flesh in all men (social pleasure and social
security), the focal point for the development of the individual, the
fruit of the flesh in every man ("One for all and all for one."
"Together we can ....").
The traditional study of history
initiates and sustains (justifies) the sovereignty of the home and the country
(focusing upon righteousness as defined by higher authority―chastening
producing a "peaceful fruit of righteousness" Hebrews 12:11) while any
participation within "transformational history" (Diaprax) annihilates sovereignty of the home and the country
(focusing upon economic and social equality, not righteousness, as the basis of
social concern and action―which equates to the lose
of limited government where the greatest power was invested in the individual
citizenry, i.e. in the traditional home, i.e. not in the perceived
'collective'). "Equality of Opportunity [to live in sin and
not perceive it as wicked but only human nature being expressed] becomes ever greater
with the weakening of family power. " (James Coleman The
Adolescent Society) "...democratic type of
relationship, the ability of the subject to appraise his parents objectively
[evaluate them according to his own perception―his
natural feelings, his natural thoughts,
and his natural actions, i.e. "only that which proceeds from Nature."
(Karl Marx)], as
contrasted with an inclination to put the parents on a very high plane.” “...
humanitarianism, ("the democratic alternative") ....[is] the ability to like and dislike,
to value and oppose, individuals on the basis of concrete specific experience
[how others make me feel or think or act].”
“What is particularly important here is that recognition of one's own
individuality [hating to be told what to do, how to feel, what to
think, and how to behave] is the basis for recognition of the individuality of everyone, and
for the democratic concept of the dignity of man [emancipation from
patriarchal parents and God].” (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality) As explained by the Marxist Jürgen Habermas
"In
the dialogic relation of recognizing oneself in the other, they
experience
the
common ground of existence.
Therefore the dialectic of the
moral life must repeat itself
[until the Patriarchal Paradigm is negated (annihilated) both in theory, i.e. in
the thoughts of the individual, and in practice (praxis), in the actions of society, i.e.
the common-unity]." (Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest). " ... the central problem of democracy is not the discovery
of some optimal solution or standard for ranking incommensurate values; ...
The central problem of democracy is instead the formation of a somewhat
vaguely defined ‘postconventional’ consensus through which everyone affected
by a decision must be able to participate in reaching it [Satan
himself, along with his followers, must be included in helping make the decision
regarding what is the best course of action to take in any given crisis or
situation, without being made to feel unwelcome].” (Stephen Eric
Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists) “We may call this new order by the name of democratic
socialism but the name does not matter; all that matters is that we
establish a rational economic system serving the purposes of the people.
Only in a planned economy in which the whole nation has rationally mastered
the economic and social forces can the individual share responsibility and
use creative intelligence in his work. All that matters is that the
opportunity for genuine activity be restored to the individual; that the
purposes of society and of his own become identical.” (Erick Fromm, Escape from Freedom)
Thus by 'shifting' the focus of life from doing right and not wrong (as defined
by higher authority), i.e. setting your affections on things above, to instead
focusing life upon economic and social wellbeing (as recognized by "sensuous
needs," "sense perception," i.e. "sense experience" as defined by
'human reasoning'), i.e. setting your affections on things below, man could be
freed from the Patriarchal restraint of righteousness, thereby negating within
himself and the world the fear of God and a love for His Word. "If ye then
be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on
the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things
on the earth." Colossians 3:1, 2
Diaprax thus produces action which 'purposes' to negate the way of thinking which
declares that man (all mankind)
is to live by (and therefore is accountable to, i.e. will be judged by) every word which proceeds
"out of the mouth of God," i.e. non-human commands, commands which
are not in accord with the human 'moment,' commands which superseding
man's own natural thoughts, feelings, and actions (limiting or blocking
carnal inclinations and their intentions). Diaprax "initiates and
sustains" the idea (it actually insists upon the idea) that instead of man turning to God
for direction in life (or parent or any higher authority figure above
his natural interests) he must turn to those things which initiate and
sustain his own sensuous and spontaneous
nature, he must reflect (philosophize) and act upon those things which
give him 'purpose' and direction in his social (natural) life, those
things which must be continually discovered within a social context.
Those things which produce dissatisfaction with the way things are must be
socially recognized and socially amalgamated and collectively utilized for the
'purpose' of 'change' or be negated (annihilated). "Philosophy is a free and not self-seeking
activity, … This activity contains the essential element of a negation, because
to produce is also to destroy [to analyze the that which is above (that
which generates dissatisfaction, i.e. that which inhibits or blocks the
necessity for 'change,' that which restrains human nature), i.e.
treating that which is from above as instead along a spectrum of the past in the 'light' of the
present, i.e. to analyze God's or parent's commands (given from above) in the 'light' of
the present situation (feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of the 'moment'), i.e.
actions 'driven' by the carnal desires or wants triggered by the current
condition, situation, or environment, instead of analyzing the present desires
(carnal desires in common with all mankind) and conditions in
the light of the 'past' (from above, i.e. God's or parent's commands given from above), is to disturb, i.e.
call into question Godly or parental dictates, and destroy the past
(the above-below) condition, i.e. to annihilate the Patriarchal Paradigm
office of higher authority]; … as Mind passes on from its natural form, it
also proceeds from its exact code of morals and the robustness of life to
reflection and conception. The result of this is that it lays hold of and
troubles this real, substantial kind of existence, this morality and faith, and
thus the period of destruction commences." (Hegel’s Lectures
on the History of Philosophy Introduction B. Relation of Philosophy to
Other Departments of Knowledge)
bracketed information added Doubt is the key to the door
called 'change.' This change of paradigms from
the above-below (right-wrong, righteousness-wickedness) patriarchal paradigm of absolutes (of certainty) to the
past-present-future (opinions and theories) heresiarchal paradigm of 'change'
(of uncertainty) applies not only
to education, but also to government, to the workplace, to the home, and
even to the church (the apostate church, the gnostic based church).
Diaprax is anathema to the belief that God's will must be the
only source for finding 'purpose' and direction in life (Diaprax is
anathema to only faith, only grace, only scriptures, and
only Christ and must exclude "For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever. Amen." which is excluded from the last part of
Matthew 6:13 by all heresy, i.e. Gnostic based, bibles). Diaprax can
not accept the paradigm which believes "that
man shall not live by bread alone [that which is common to human
nature], but by every word of God [that which is above and greater than
human nature, that which judges man's thoughts and actions, i.e. his behavior]." Luke
4:4 (Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 8:3) "And thou shalt remember all
the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine
heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he
might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live."
Deuteronomy 8:2, 3
Diaprax must evaluate God's words, in the 'light' of
human experience (with feelings―approach pleasure-avoid pain―as the
basis of worth), through the use of "higher order thinking skills"
in morals and ethics.
"Higher order thinking skills" are properly used on
resolving complex problems of science and technology―those things which
are of nature, i.e. those things which are material (observable and
repeatable), having been established by God at their creation. But when
"higher order thinking skills" are used on man's values and beliefs,
they can only result in the humanization of both man and God―synchronization,
interpreting God's or parent's words from the contemporary "sense
perception" of human nature, synchronizing God above (Spirit) with human
affections below (the human 'spirit,' i.e. the affective domain), extrapolating only those
things (parts) which support the
current conditions for 'change,' filtering out truths or 'ideas,' i.e.
perceived as "opinions"
(theories) which are not harmonizing with "sensuous needs," tolerating only
that information ("appropriate information") which does not disturb (limit or block)
the
"sense experience" of the social environment while
introducing only that information which assist in initiating and sustaining the
"sense experience" of the social 'moment'.
When we see in society only that which unites mankind with his
carnal nature, man being restrained from unity with society only by a higher
authority which stand between man and society, we perceive higher authority as being against us
and against society. Only with the annihilation of higher authority
(the negation of the "the authoritarian personality") can society and man become
one, i.e. united under the banner of 'change,' and 'good sense.'
His evil sensuousness now being perceived by all mankind as being 'good'
since it unites mankind upon a common ground of
becoming.
Diaprax is the praxis of negating
the Patriarchal Paradigm (perceiving
it as irrational―as out of touch with the
moment, and thereby justifying identifying and treating it as irrelevant―as
not worthy of consideration regarding any facts or truths which proceed from
it and
support it). If what is irrational is irrelevant, i.e.
what is irrational is
not real, then that which is rational is relevant, i.e. that which is rational is real.
Diaprax is the negation of the
conscience through the development and use
of the superego―a change which comes by way of substituting the
voice of God or the parent (the Patriarchal Paradigm of 'fixity,' who
preaches and teaches truths and commands to be obeyed or followed) with the
voice of the village, i.e. the group (the Heresiarchal Paradigm of
'change,' which dialogues opinions in quest of discovering and then
acting, 'rationally,' upon common social "felt" need for change, i.e. the
"necessity" for circumventing the barrier of 'fixity'―the
conscience, i.e. circumventing the
barrier to pleasure―pleasure being oneness
with Nature, at peace with one's own nature and the nature of others along with
nature itself―the 'healthy,' socially developed,
and adaptable to change superego). “What we call
‘conscience’ perpetuates inside of us our bondage to past objects now part of
ourselves :
the super-ego ‘unites in itself the influences of the present and of the
past.’” (Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death:
The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History) The voice of the parent or God
above―equated to or correlated with the
past―controls our lives through the
'conscience', while the 'influence' of society, i.e. the
'voice' of the village, the pressure of the group, etc. (those who are in touch with
the human "felt" needs of the moment) below―equated
to or correlated with the present―now
'drive' our 'purpose' in life through the socially, dialectically
developed 'super-ego.'
Diaprax is the praxis of moving communication from a
right-wrong, above-below paradigm (way of thinking, feeling, and acting) of
truth, where black is black and white is white, to a spectrum paradigm of opinions
of grays. Therefore, any effort to retain
a right-wrong, above-below form of communication in a Diaprax environment is
perceived as being controversial (contentious, argumentative, or divisive), i.e.
threatening to the current course of human actions, i.e. causing dissention and
thus a fear of failure to those possessed by the praxis of Diaprax (the
hope of a world of social justice and world peace). In this way when God and His
Word are brought into a humanistic format (a relativistic―situational―communication
of opinions) the issue of righteousness (an absolute right-wrong, above-below―greater
than the situation―communication based upon facts and truths) is
superseded (replaced with and opposed by) the issue of social relationship (a
spectrum of opinions or theories associated with carnal human feelings).
The message of the gospel is thereby changed into a social gospel (human feelings
based gospel) and anybody holding onto the true gospel (spiritual, i.e. not of man's
making) is perceived as being irrational ("You have just gone to far.") and therefore
irrelevant. Therefore the issue of righteousness
and wickedness is perceived as outdated (in the past) by those who communicate with a focus
upon human relationship and the "goodness" of life for all, i.e. by those who
focus upon human feelings (the affective domain) as the locus of 'drive,'
'purpose,' and 'change.' "The Christian religion has been deeply
affected by the process of Enlightenment and the conquest of the scientific
spirit." "Although these latter ideas ('the
idea of the crucifix and the sacrifice of blood') have been more
or less successfully replaced by 'Christian Humanism,' their deeper
psychological roots have still be to reckoned with." (Theodor Adorno The
Authoritarian Personality) 'The
idea of the crucifix and the sacrifice of blood' leads people
back into an above-below, good-evil, righteousness-wickedness, creator-created,
spirit-flesh, lost-save, regenerate-unregenerate ("ingroup"-"outgroup") Patriarchal Paradigm
of absolutes, whereas 'Christian Humanism' drives people forward
into an experiential "Enlightenment" (consciousness of human feelings,
thoughts, and actions which all mankind have in common), rational justifying
"the scientific spirit" of the Heresiarchal Paradigm of 'change,' the belief
that apart from the common human experience (the common human praxis,
i.e. human feelings, thoughts, and actions or responses to nature which are
common to all mankind―if left unrestrained by the
Patriarchal Paradigm―being put into collective action, i.e. through
dialoguing to consensus), there can be nothing of worth or of value
(that worth or value is based upon human feelings, thoughts, and actions, not
some truth or way of thinking―paradigm―which
placing itself above human nature and inhibits or blocks the liberation of human
feelings, thoughts, and actions which are common to all mankind).
The Father sent His Son
("only begotten son" John 3:16-21) to redeem
the lost (Jesus shed his blood on the Cross of Calvary―in
obedience to his Fathers will―for the wicked, for those who are condemned and not for the righteous,
not for those who refuse to recognize their wickedness and condemnation).
The Father gave man the Law, that those who Jesus came for (the
wicked) might know (realize) that they are wicked and seek for a savior
(repent of their wickedness, deny themselves, and follow after Him who the Father
sent, following Him in doing the Fathers will and no longer man's
will). God the Father and the once (for all) crucified,
buried, and resurrected only begotten Son of God (the one who imputes
righteousness; righteousness can not come from man nor his works―it
is not found within man, nor within nature) sent the Holy Spirit,
so that the redeemed can bear fruit of righteousness.
It is only the redeemed, those who have died to themselves
and thus to the world (having consciously, willfully, cast all their cares upon the Lord,
giving Him all that they have, including their lives―witnessed
in water baptism), who truly
understand liberty and freedom and can take a stand against all the
things of this world―and
withstand the abuse of all the things of this world―having
put on the whole armour of God, being now able to stand
for that which is right (righteous) in the midst of a wicked and
perverse people
(withstanding those who think, feel, and act as if they are
righteous, i.e. those who live as thought they don't need God's
daily direction in their lives
but only need the use of "higher order thinking skills"
and social, collective approval and support in resolving
life's problems).
Tocqueville, who wrote Democracy in America, did not
understand this truth when he tried to describe the liberty and
freedom he found in America. He saw the church as an
instrument for dialoguing social harmony, not of preaching and
teaching the truth of God's word, bringing men to repentance and
salvation. Preaching and teaching is
the instrument of the private, i.e. the person's feelings and
thoughts can be held in private (being set upon things above and not
below), independent of public (social―earthy)
pressures and even counter to his own (individual―earthy) actions, while dialogue is the instrument of
public (social―earthy) action, i.e. the person's feelings and thoughts are open for
public evaluation, making him readily subject to public (social―earthy)
influences
and manipulation. This is the difference between Jesus, who
came preaching repentance and the Kingdom of God, and contemporary
ministers who dialogue 'tolerance of ambiguity' (diversity or
rather deviancy in unity) and who work to create the Kingdom of men,
i.e. building their kingdom of God upon interpersonal-relationships for the 'purpose' of social unity,
harmony, and peace―helping man (and God) to become accepted in man's eyes, i.e.
thereby remaining wicked
and unredeemed in God's eyes. Righteousness in man's carnal human eyes
is wickedness in God's eyes. "Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." 1 Corinthians
15:50 " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."
Romans 14:17 The message of the gospel and the true church is faith,
repentance (before God the Father), belief (in the only begotten Son
of God as redeemer), and obedience in Christ (through the power of
the Holy Spirit). The democratic,
socialist, dialectical, apostate church and its gospel includes
(incorporates) the
nature of man within the "kingdom of God," i.e. based upon economics and social relationships, i.e. man's
'felt' needs, i.e. contemporary needs, and therefore must cut off
God's head (revelation by God, i.e. His Word and confirmation by His
Holy Spirit) and put man's head
(dialogue and consensus, i.e. sensuousness and
spontaneity) in its place (making the 'church' at-one-with
socialism, i.e. common-ism, and the "new" world order).
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French Revolution |
American Revolution |
Man is
basically/potentially good.
He wills to do good. |
Man is not good.
He does not will to do good. |
Kill the King—Annihilate
the Patriarch Paradigm.
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Reform the King—Protect
the Patriarch Paradigm.
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In the soviet system (the pattern of the directorate of the
French Revolution, the dialogue, facilitated, social issue,
consensus, public-private partnership group meetings, the soviet
system still being used today
to resolve and avert 'crisis―“The
institutions in socialist society which act as the facilitators between
the public and private realms are the Soviets.”
György Lukács, Process of Democratization ed. by Norman
Levine―, i.e. make decisions
through sensuous and speculative reasoning―collective
sensuous reasoning, i.e. "higher order thinking skills" in
morals and ethics i.e. as was done in
Genesis 3:1-6;
"Marx urged us to understand ‘the sensuous world,’ the object,
reality, as human sensuous activity
[as praxis]." György Lukács History & Class Consciousness: What
is Orthodox Marxism?) the person (the student) is
'freed' (liberated) to propagandize his carnal feelings and thoughts so that he is
'free' (at liberty) to discover and partnership with those who think in
common with his carnal human nature (“Human perfection consists in an
expansion of the self until it enjoys the world as it enjoys
itself.” Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History),
i.e. 'freed' (liberated) to partnership with others of like carnal mind in an 'open'
society (“Democratic
societies thrives best when its citizens are able to arrive at their
own decisions rather than when someone in authority does the
thinking for them [realize that Bloom is using this ideology within a classroom filled
with children, re-educating them as to how they are to
'discover' what is a right response in any given situation].”
Benjamin Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book 1 Cognitive Domain) he must only worship God in private
(keep his religion, i.e. rigidity, to himself),
if he worships God at all (keeping
God to himself, i.e. don't preach and teach Him as "Is,"
as "I
AM"), so as not to disturb the carnal nature of society, i.e.
so as not to divide
(alienate) the collective man from his 'true' human nature, blocking
or inhibiting him
and all others who are seeking consensus with Nature (their own nature and the nature of
others; "In the words of Thoreau: 'We need
pray for no higher heaven than the pure senses can furnish, a purely
sensuous life. Our present senses are but rudiments of what
they are destined to become.'"), preventing man from achieving the
praxis of
common-ism (uniting himself upon that which he has in common with
others, i.e. his unrighteousness and wickedness) through the
engagement of the conscience in limiting or restraining
'normal' human behavior. "The new guilt complex appears to be historically connected
with the rise of patriarchal religion (for the Western development the
Hebrews are decisive)." "The guilty conscience is formed in childhood by the
incorporation of the parents and the wish to be father of oneself.” "We must
return to Freud and say that incest guilt created the familial
organization." (Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History)
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to
any people." Proverbs 14:34 "Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe
unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for
reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!"
Isaiah 5:20-23
"As it is written,
There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is
full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they
not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans
3:10-18
The Patriarchal Paradigm (the traditional home where the
father rules, the desire of the heart of the wife is to her husband, and
children obey their parents, in the Lord) is "instrumental in the
initial formation of the conscience and in the continued reinforcement
of the values that encourage law abiding behavior." "The personal
conscience is the key element in ensuring self-control, refraining from
deviant behavior even when it can be easily perpetrated." (Dr. Robert
Trojanowicz The meaning of “Community” in Community Policing) In education the schoolroom was changed from the development of the
conscience (individual control―specific right and
wrong which are absolute in all situations and at all times), which is developed through the teaching of facts
and right behavior (with the use of chastening when necessary), to the development of the
superego (social control―generalized opinion of
right and wrong, relative to the changing situation and times, 'discovered'
through dialogue), which is developed through the use of group
(social―commonistic) projects and group
(social―commonistic)
grades. Therefore the classroom had to be changed from an
environment which reinforced the conscience, which was developed in the
traditional home (teacher in front of class imparting facts to be learned, i.e.
memorized and applied), into an environment which would initiate and sustain the
development of the superego for the purpose of annihilating the
traditional home (teacher finding common ground with the students regarding
their inclinations―their feelings, thoughts,
and actions or responses to situations of life).
Not so clearly stated in curriculum development material
was the understanding that while you developed the superego you negated the
conscience and thereby you negated sovereignty, not only the sovereignty of the
traditional home but also of the State and the Nation, paving the way for the
"One World System," the "New World Order," Globalism (temporal Gnosticism). While
the former needed the traditional family environment for development the latter
needed the social group experience (the dialectical praxis―Diaprax). This is why the
classroom went from a 'preaching and teaching' format or curriculum (teacher inculcating the basics)
to a 'dialogue' format or 'taxonomy' curriculum (student-teacher partnership in learning,
both learning to progressively be socially one).
Superego development in the students simply meant socialist development in the
student, i.e. the "incorporation of the moral standards of society." “The superego is conceived in psychoanalysis as
functioning substantially in the same way as the conscience [both
need external input]. Superego
development is conceived as the incorporation of the moral standards of
society [while the conscience incorporates the moral standards of
the parents or God]. Therefore the levels of the Taxonomy should describe successive
levels of goal setting appropriate to superego development [not
conscience development] .” (David
Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom et al. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Book 2: Affective Domain, p. 39) Replace the
conscience with the superego and you replace sovereignty, under God
above, with existentialism, socialism, globalism (all gnostic, sensual in format),
finding common ground with nature below. Moving from preaching and
teaching truth to dialoguing, to 'discover' truth, will do the trick.
Diaprax is the praxis of preventing (blocking or
inhibiting) those who use "lower order thinking skills"
(those following established laws; those
who are able to think independent of, i.e. free of environmental influences,
i.e. free of group or social pressures being put upon them in the moment because
of their belief in established principles) in setting policy in complex situations (during social
crisis or during uncertain moments when "felt" needs for 'change,'
i.e. "What is going to happen to me or us?" i.e. crisis anxieties, are
heightened).
"Democratic ideology... must develop persons who see
non-influenceability of private convictions in joint deliberations
[as for example a principled representative, a man re-presenting the platform
he was voted into office by his constituents to represent , i.e. a man guided by his
conscience, i.e. the voice of higher authority] as a
vice rather than a virtue [when a man of principle, in a meeting
driving toward consensus, prevents consensus because of his principles, he is
hated by the group, i.e. becomes of no value to them and is treated as such]." "How
to convert the perception of favored principles by those who hold them from
dogmas [belief; the mind set upon things above which produces conviction and
contrition in man for his wickedness] to 'hypotheses' [opinions;
the mind set upon things below which does not produce conviction and contrition
in men since righteousness or wickedness is not absolute but only an opinion
among opinions]
remains a central problem for democratic social engineers." (Kenneth Benne Human
Relations in Curriculum Change) By simply changing the
environment or condition of learning from preaching and teaching to an
environment of dialogue,
change in paradigms can be accomplished (the socialist child can be
"developed") and the Patriarchal Paradigm of
above-below, with its absolutes, can be negated. With the initiation
and sustentation of the
Heresiarchal Paradigm, with its quest for equality based upon relativity,
'change' can become the way of "life."
"An act of
violence is any situation in which some men prevent others from the
process of inquiry [testing, experiencing, experimenting for
oneself whether something is right or wrong before agreeing or
disagreeing with the parent's position (now perceived as an opinion
among opinions)]...any attempt to prevent human freedom
[to prevent or prejudge carnal behavior, preventing its freedom of
expression, necessary for the 'purpose' of evaluation] is an 'act
of violence.' Any system which deliberately tries to discourage
critical consciousness
[any teacher or parent discouraging "higher order thinking skills" in moral and
ethics, i.e. anyone who uses a way of thinking which prevents the questioning of established
answers in the 'light' of 'changing' situations, anyone who prevents the questioning
of the established way of doing things, anyone who prevents the questioning of
higher authority, i.e. higher authority under God; Romans 13:1] is guilty of oppressive violence. Any school
which does not foster students' capacity for critical inquiry
[the 'right' to question authority] is
guilty of violent oppression
[is guilty of oppressing violence against the Patriarchal Paradigm]."
(Freire, P.1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. p.74)
Diaprax must therefore perceive and treat anyone initiating and sustaining the
Patriarchal Paradigm as committing an "act of violence."
Diaprax is the use of "higher order
thinking skills" in morals and ethics, "skills necessary for creating common public
judgments out of the disciplined conflict of 'private' points of view."
"Democratic planning for change must elevate informed and experimental
collective judgment over unchecked private judgment
[elevate human experience, perception, and reasoning over faith in God
and His Word, i.e. accepting and acting upon God's Word "as given" rather than
evaluating―filtering―it
through "human eyes and human ears" (Karl Marx) first to make sure it
"reasonable," to determine what is applicable (rational and therefore usable in
the situation) and what is irrelevant (considered out of date or out of touch
with the moment, i.e. inhibiting the individual man from finding common ground
with all men, i.e. common ground based upon the common carnal nature of man, his
"felt" needs of the moment).]." (Kenneth Benne, Human
Relations in Curriculum Change) bracketed information
added Diaprax ("democratic") skills
"... must be anti-individualistic." (ibid.)
The dialectic
process in praxis is mankind collectively using his human reasoning
skills, i.e. "higher order thinking
skills" to unite himself with himself (unite himself to the world
and the world to himself). The dialectical
process in praxis is man depending upon his own "sense perception,"
his own thoughts and his own imagination, using them to help him 'discover'
the law of
the flesh, his "sensuous needs," as being at one with the world
and then justifying the harmonization―synthesis―of
his carnal, natural actions, his "sense experience," in uniting
himself (his carnal nature) with the world upon a common "sensuous need," i.e. uniting
with the world through Eros, Eros which stimulated the quest for unity
in the first place,
thereby uniting himself with the world in common cause (uniting the individual and society
and making them at-one with one another in the 'moment').
“... according to Freud, the drive
toward ever larger unities belongs to the biological-organic nature of Eros
itself.”
(Herbart Marcuse, Eros and Civilization:
A philosophical inquiry into Freud)
"According to Freud, the ultimate essence
of our being is erotic." “The aim of Eros is union with objects
outside the self ." "Eros is the foundation of morality."
(Norman O. Brown, Life against Death:
The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
"Eros belongs mainly to democracy.”
(Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)
In this way of thinking ("higher order thinking skills" in morals and ethics
as was used by the woman in Genesis 3:1-6)
sin is no longer man in disobedience to God's will, but rather man (in obedience
to God's will) preventing human nature from seeking and discovering itself.
"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved
brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
turning." James 1:14-17 But in Diaprax "sin is
the estrangement of man from man."
(Leonard
Wheat Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism) Sin is that
which prevents mankind from collectively discovering and collectively acting
upon his own common human nature. In Diaprax
“a stranger, even if his name were God, who
imposes commands upon us must be resisted, he must be killed because
nobody can stand him.”
"Humanism asserts that the test of human conduct
must be found in human experience [praxis]; concern for man replaces concern
about pleasing God. Humanism elevates man to the rank of God.... God is man, mankind, humanity....
salvation is a symbol, a symbol for becoming ultimately concerned
about humanity―salvation
is an 'eternal' present. The answer to man’s predicament lies in the
realization by individual man, that all men are essentially one and that the one
is God. This self-realization is a 'return' to union: potential becomes actual." (Leonard
Wheat Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism) Sin is no
longer defined by God above as going against God's will above but rather by man
below as going against the will of human nature and nature below.
Therefore the road to freedom from sin, in a world of Diaprax, is to sin against
God's will and annihilate his paradigm of faith and obedience, choosing rather
the way of the world instead, as was done in the Garden in Eden by the Woman,
with Adam following in abdication of his office of authority, to rule under God as his
highest authority. In this way of thinking it is Satan who becomes the
agent ("change agent," facilitator) of salvation, providing mankind an
opportunity to experience for himself wisdom and rebellion ("higher order
thinking skills" in morals and ethics) in his liberation from the restraint of
God, redeeming him from God to be god, a 'divine spark' of god seeking to be
reunited with god (the foundation to Gnostic thought). It is only through
the use of sin, redoing the sin of
Genesis 3:1-6, man can 'discover' himself and
liberate himself and thus become himself in the common praxis. "In
the process of history man gives birth to himself. He becomes what he
potentially is, and he attains what the serpent―the
symbol of wisdom and rebellion―promised, and
what the patriarchal, jealous God of Adam did not wish: that man would become
like God himself." (Erick Fromm
You shall
be as gods: A
radical interpretation of the old testament and its tradition 1966) “If the guilt accumulated in the civilized domination
of man by man can ever be redeemed by freedom, then the ‘original sin’ must
be committed again: ‘We must again eat from the tree of knowledge in order
to fall back into the state of innocence.” (Herbart
Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry
into Freud) “To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the
forbidden fruit; and this book cannot without sinning communicate that
experience to the reader." (Normal O. Brown,
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History) "But Brown (the author of Life Against Death) believed that the payoff was worth the price of
sin―namely, that alienation would be overcome, and the return of
the repressed completed, rendering problems of sin permanently moot."
(Mike Connor. From the March 23-30, 2005 issue of Metro
Santa Cruz) “Alienation is the experience of ‘estrangement’ (Verfremdung) from others, . .
.” “Alienation has a long history. Its most radical sense already appears in the
biblical expulsion from Eden.” “Alienation, according to Feuerbach,
derives from the externalization (Entausserung) of human powers and
possibilities upon a non-existent entity: God. . .” “God is thus the
anthropological source of alienation . . .” “Alienation will continue so long as
the subject engages in an externalization (Entausserung) of his or her
subjectivity.” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists)
All of sociology, psychology, anthropology, etc. (Diaprax) finds its 'purpose' in
the Garden in Eden, that being the negation of man's obedience to a higher
authority, i.e. God, who alienates man from this world (from being at-one-with nature).
Diaprax is the synthesis of 1) the individual's
"sensuous need" (the individual's wanting of a gratifying object in the
environment, i.e. for the 'purpose' of self-gratification) triggered or
'driven' by the present
external or internal environment or condition (the other, some call it
the "significant other," or society's wanting of a gratifying object in the
environment, that object being what it has in common with the individual, i.e. for the 'purpose' of the other's
or society's gratification)
with 2) the individuals "sense perception," (the individual
cognition of the object within the environment which stimulated the
need or want in the first place, i.e. the "felt" need;
conscietization) and then 3) the
synthesis or uniting of the "sensuous need" with "sense perception"
in common action (praxis), both the individual and society actualizing self-other gratification in the "sense
experience" of negating the condition or environment which inhibited or
blocked the synthesis 'moment,' i.e. inhibited or blocked social-individual unity.
The synthesis of man and the world is the "negation of
negation," i.e. the annihilation of the Patriarchal Paradigm,
i.e. the praxis of
Genesis 3:1-6, i.e. the removal of any
condition which prevents common-ism, the annihilation of any condition which
prevents building unity upon that which man desires and has commonality with,
within the world, by the simple, yet complex, process of building the 'new'
world order upon the praxis of common-ism.
The philosopher Hegel said that truth is not found in the
thesis nor the antithesis but in an emerging synthesis which reconciles
the two." (Martin Luther King Jr.
Strength to Love) Therefore, dialectically, truth
is not found in an either-or (antithesis) condition (the way of
thinking that there is only one right answer to a problem of life, i.e.
that all other answers are wrong, i.e. as reflected within the
Patriarchal Paradigm of God and his command not to eat of 'the forbidden
fruit," i.e. "this is good and this is not" teaching and preaching way of
thinking or paradigm; "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Mathew 6:24), but rather that 'truth' is found in the synthesis
moment of overcoming the self-other alienation and the condition which generates
it, i.e. the Patriarchal Paradigm, with the negation or
annihilation of the opposing position (dualistic) way of thinking, i.e. right-wrong, good-evil,
above-below (the annihilation of the Patriarchal
Paradigm). The Transformational
Marxist Antonio Gramsci stated it this way: "Truth is a moment in correct praxis."
(Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks)
Before the individual (the student) can participate in
Diaprax, the proper situation or "healthy" condition which stimulates
the "sensuous need," i.e. the pleasure, the
"self-actualized" fruition of the "want of a gratifying object in
nature"
which was blocked by the Patriarchal Paradigm must be created
(thus the necessity of facilitation and a spectrum based curriculum
development (progressivism), i.e. the development and utilization of the "Taxonomy"
in the classroom environment, i.e. curriculum methods used to create a social setting
in the classroom for the 'purpose' of 'changing' the student paradigm, i.e. way
of thinking, feeling, and acting, from a Patriarchal paradigm to a Heresiarchal
paradigm―to
be explained later). Creating environmental conditions
conducive to change, conditions beneficial to the student's social-ist
development, is essential for the introduction and continuation of
Diaprax. This condition allows the individual the 'human right' to self-actualize his own
"sense experience" with others (which a Patriarchal
paradigm would not allow or only allow under limiting conditions), through his own "sense perception"
(letting his own feelings, thoughts, and actions―along
with others―direct him in the formulation of 'right' behavior in the
'moment,' something which was not tolerated within the antithesis,
right-wrong, "lower order thinking," Patriarchal Paradigm environment).
"Groups and organizations should be helped to define and
redefine those areas of life in which common values and standards are
necessary and where efforts to build common out of contrasting beliefs
and practices are required." (Kenneth Benne Human Relations
in Curriculum Change) "In order to effect rapid change, . . . [one]
must mount a vigorous attack on the family lest the traditions of present
generations be preserved. It is necessary, in other words, artificially to
create an experiential chasm between parents and children— One must teach them
not to respect their tradition-bound elders, who are tied to the past and know
only what is irrelevant.” "The consequences of family democratization take a
long time to make themselves felt–but it would be difficult to reverse the
process once begun.” (Warren Bennis The Temporary Society)
To use Bloom's Taxonomies in the classroom is "to develop attitudes and
values toward learning which are not shaped by the parents" [which,
according to Bloom, produces] "conflict and tension between parents and
children." (Krathwohl, Bloom, Affective Doman, p. 83)
The issue became (for social-psychologists) not simply to
'change' the way 'people' think but also to 'change' the condition or environment
by which 'people' learn to think (facilitating them into making that 'change'
not only in their thoughts and but also in their actions). Rather than thought (thoughts
questioning "the way things are") remaining contemplative, i.e. remaining
philosophical, not being put into action or practice (thereby keeping a dualistic,
i.e. a ridged right-wrong, good-evil, above-below way of thinking in place), a
condition or environment had to be created whereby the 'people' (individuals in
a social setting) could put
their feelings (their affective domain) of discontentment toward
Patriarchal restraint and their thoughts (their cognitive domain) of how
the world "ought to be," i.e. carnal "reality" ("sensuousness") into action (put their psycho-motor domain
into social action) and their
actions (the inclinations of human behavior, i.e. carnal "reality,"
"spontaneity") into thought
(put their cognitive domain into social thought, i.e. conscietization,
becoming conscious of self and the 'social' world as being at one in thought and
in action) without fear of reprimand (overcoming fear of the Patriarchal Paradigm,
i.e. the one judging insubordinate thoughts, feelings, and actions―the fear of
chastening and the defeat and "death" of the desired "liberation" of
"sensuousness" and "spontaneity," i.e. fear of one's discontentment
toward the Patriarch and the Patriarchal Paradigm being exposed without
sufficient strength―internal and external strength―to overcome the field of
force of the Patriarchal Paradigm and therefore loosing any hope of attaining
the desired goal of "liberation"―the liberation or
emancipation of the one's own feelings and thoughts
by uniting with
others of like feelings and thoughts, i.e. through consensus, in the "fight" for "liberation" from the
Patriarchal Paradigm, i.e. the praxis of
Revolution, i.e. the annihilation of the Patriarchal Paradigm both in
theory and in
practice―dialectically it is not enough to 'think' and 'feel'
annihilation, one must annihilate, i.e. unite the thought and
feelings with others and put them into practice―the perception of others of like
thoughts, feelings, capable, and willingness, i.e. people of like mind, coming
together in consensus and collectively putting their "common" perception into
practice, makes the dream, the imagination of a 'new world order,'
reality.
Reality is not the finished product itself, i.e. the object desired is
not reality, but rather reality is in the 'moment' of annihilation,
reality is actualized in
the moment of putting the dream, the imagined 'new world order,' what 'can be,'
(without the Patriarch) into action, reality is in the moment of liberation from the Patriarchal
Paradigm, reality is the negation of the Patriarchal Paradigm, i.e. reality is
"in the moment of correct praxis." Antonio Gramsci,
Prison Notebooks, i.e. therefore
once the person gets rid of their father figure (within and without, internally
through the searing of the conscience and external by the removal of
anti-socialist, i.e. nationalistic, states rights, private rights, inalienable
rights, laws) with the perceived approval of
the 'new world order,' they must look to others for help in getting rid of their
father figure, i.e. they must become a facilitator of 'change,' i.e. a "change
agent," i.e. a member of the "professional managerial class,"
looking at the world through a "neo-Marxist lens," (Sheila
Slaughter,
The Higher Learning and High Technology : Dynamics of
Higher Education Policy Formation).
"Every class lacks the breadth of soul which identifies it with the soul
of the people, that revolutionary boldness which flings at its adversary
[the parent, God] the
defiant phrase; ‘I am nothing and I should be everything.’" (Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'
) “Theory becomes a material force when
it grips the masses.” "Marx clearly defined the conditions in which a relation
between theory and practice becomes possible." “It is not enough that thought
should seek to realize itself; reality must also strive towards thought.” (Introduction to
Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right') "Marx reproached Hegel (and, in even stronger terms, Hegel’s successors who had
reverted to Kant and Fichte) with his failure to overcome the duality of thought
and being, of theory and practice, of subject and object [keeping thought
and action divided by not acting upon thought and not thinking about how to put
thought into action―a subtle and complex process]."
(György Lukács
History & Class Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism?) “The
goal of revolutionary activity was understood as the unifying of theory and
praxis.” (Martin Jay The Dialectical Imagination) Therefore man
must putting theory into practice, joining thought with action and
action with thought (putting thought into action and action into thought), i.e.
it is not enough to thinking about a world without parental restraints, one must
create it, i.e. a person must "just do it" (Herbart Marcuse, Eros and
Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud) "Only when the
immediate interests are integrated into a total view and related to the final
goal of the process do they become revolutionary," (György Lukács History &
Class Consciousness) "Revolutionary
violence reconciles the disunited parties by abolishing the alienation of class
antagonism that set in with the repression of initial morality. … the revolution
that must occur is the reaction of suppressed life, which will visit the
causality of fate upon the rulers. It is those who establish such domination and
defend positions of power of this sort who set in motion the causality of fate,
divide society into social classes, suppress justified interests, call forth the
reactions of suppressed life, and finally experience their just fate in
revolution. " (Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest, Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as
Social Theory) In this way, by changing the environment or condition
through which a person feels, thinks, and acts, all institutions could become a
revolutionary agency for "change," all used for the 'purpose' of annihilating
the Patriarchal Paradigm of above-below, right-wrong, good-evil, etc., the
annihilation of duality, the annihilation of the traditional home.
“Can the student accept the fact that the traditional family might be changed
and might possibly disappear?” (Paul Dressell et al. General Education:
Explorations in Evaluation, American Council on Education, 1954)
Freedom from the Patriarchal Paradigm must also include freedom to annihilate
(negate) the Patriarchal Paradigm (within the person and within society) in
praxis, i.e. freedom to live in the 'moment' of 'liberation.'
“Freedom, as Fromm argued in Escape from Freedom
meant ‘freedom to,’ not merely ‘freedom from.’” (Martin Jay
The Dialectical Imagination) Psychology, sociology,
etc. is therefore the praxis of liberation from, i.e. annihilation of the
Patriarchal Paradigm, action which must continually perpetuate itself within the
'moment,' i.e. the 'moment' of liberation.
According to the curriculum material used by "certified"
teachers today, i.e. those using "Bloom's Taxonomies," Common-ist
(my term) "educational procedures are intended to develop the more
desirable rather than the more customary types of behavior." [Education
is not to be used to sustain the parents' values, where the child's
thoughts, feelings, and actions (his cognitive, affective, and
psycho-motor domains) are subject to the parent's will, but rather to be
used to produce a society of students with changing values
(changingness), values subject to change in changing social conditions.]
"The public-private status of cognitive vs. affective behaviors is deeply rooted
in the Judaeo-Christian religion and
is a value highly cherished in the democratic traditions of the Western world."
["Democratic traditions of the Western world" means the old
form of democratic principles, i.e. anti-Marxist, those not in agreement
with contemporary thought of change, i.e. the contemporary Marxist praxis
of "theory and practice"; “In Escape from Freedom, Fromm offered the sado-masochistic
character as the core of the authoritarian personality.” “The antithesis of the ‘authoritarian’ type was called
‘revolutionary.’” “By The Authoritarian Personality ‘revolutionary’ had
changed to the ‘democratic.’” (Martin Jay The Dialectical Imagination)
Fromm] "Closely linked to this
private aspect of affective behavior is the distinction frequently made
between education and indoctrination in a democratic society." [The
"distinction" meaning, when a traditional thinker uses the words
education and indoctrination the two words mean the same thing, the
teaching of values where the child's affective or feelings domain is
subject to the cognitive or facts domain as established, taught, and
enforced through chastening, when necessary, by a higher authority, but when a
"transformational" thinker uses the words education and indoctrination
they mean two different things, the former means the child's values (his
affective or feelings domain) are "clarified," based upon his own
personal-social (self-environment) thoughts, feelings, and actions as
developed within a "healthy" socialist setting, while the later means the
child's values are inculcated into his life by a higher authority, thus
his thoughts, feelings, and actions are capitulated to the thoughts,
feelings, and actions of a higher authorities will resulting in
"neurosis."] "Indoctrination, on the other hand, is viewed as reducing the possibilities of
free choice and decision." "Indoctrination is regarded as an attempt to
persuade and coerce the individual to accept a particular viewpoint or
belief, to act in a particular manner, and to profess a particular value
and way of life." "Indoctrination has come to mean the teaching of
affective as well as cognitive behaviors." [The purpose of the
"Taxonomy" is to introduce into the classroom the seeds of
destruction of the traditional, Patriarchal way of thinking that man
needs a higher authority to direct his steps;
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23b] "Perhaps a reopening of the entire question would help us to see more clearly
the boundaries between education and indoctrination,
and the simple dichotomy
[belief-action dichotomy where a man who does not act in accordance
to his belief still holds his belief on a higher plane than this behavior,
making his behavior subject to belief, i.e. his behavior subject to ideals which
inhibit or block his natural behavior, ideals preached and taught by another
source other than (therefore greater than) his own nature who are making
commands to be followed without considering the person's inclinations,
intensions, or desires, i.e. his feelings and thought] expressed above between cognitive and affective
behavior would no longer seem as real
as the rather glib separation of the two suggests." "Education opens up possibilities for free choice and individual decisions
[thereby making belief an opinion subject to changing social
behavior, i.e. belief (opinion) adaptable to change, as human behavior changes,
i.e. tolerance of ambiguity, i.e. tolerant of other opinions and behaviors]."
(David Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom et al. Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives Book 2: Affective Domain, p. 18)
In other words, instead of using a teacher standing in
front of the classroom inculcating, indoctrinating, persuading through
force or threat of force right behavior, the Transformational Marxist
educator uses the social pressure of the
classroom environment to 'influence' the child into changing his
behavior to be in alignment with his carnal nature and the carnal nature of
others, 'guiding' all students into a universal harmony with nature (consensus).
“Universal Reconciliation - where reconciliation
includes the interaction of human beings with nature, with animals,
plants, and minerals.” (Jürgen Habermas The Theory of
Communicative Action)
"… the reflexive application of the universalisation test
calls for a form of deliberation in which each participant is compelled to
adopt the perspective of all others in order to examine whether a norm
could be willed by all from the perspective of each person. This is the
situation of a rational discourse oriented to reaching understanding in
which all those concerned participate. This idea of a discursively
produced understanding also imposes a greater burden of justification on
the isolated judging subject than would a monologically applied
universalisation test." (Jürgen Habermas,
Communicative Ethics: The inclusion of the Other) Karl Marx
laid his hope in a universalism education system founded upon the
"work-play-ce" and "human resources," which during his day did not
"yet" exist. "Education as yet is unable and unwilling to bring all
estates and distinctions into its circle. Only Christianity and
morality are able to found universal kingdoms on earth."
"Herr Szeliga cannot see that industry and trade
found universal kingdoms quite different from Christianity and morality,
domestic happiness and civic welfare." (Karl Marx The Holy Family)
bold added
Diaprax
is dialectical materialism, human reasoning and human nature
becoming one in 'purpose,' i.e. society only proceeding from Nature
(human, carnal nature). Diaprax demands that Human nature―to approach pleasure and to avoid pain―must become the
only basis of reality (the Hu in human now referred to as part of
the periodic chart, the elements chart). "1. All human behavior is directed toward the
satisfaction of needs, 2. the individual will change his established
ways of behaving for one of two reasons: to gain increased need
satisfaction or to avoid decreased need satisfaction, and 3.
'augmentation' in the possibilities of needs satisfaction."
(Douglas McGregor in Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in
Curriculum Change) Jesus did not follow this
humanistic pattern of thought and action while in the wilderness (crisis
situation) while being tempted of the Devil. God has not called man to
follow this humanistic pattern in the wilderness (in their crisis
situations) while you are being tempted by the Devil either.
Praxis is every man putting the dialectical process into practice,
it is the fulfilling of the dialectical cycle
(man at one with his nature and nature at one with man―at
one with his nature―in a cycle of
perpetual becoming, i.e. 'changingness,' where change is done in such a
way as to perpetuate the change process indefinitely).
Praxis is "sense experience" (a want triggered
by the world) put into practice,
where the common human experience, i.e. sensation which is common to all
mankind, is liberated from reification ("to regard (something
abstract) as a material or concrete thing" Merriam-Webster's
dictionary―to treat God and his Word as if
He and His Word as tangible as He and His Word inhibits or blocks that
which is tangible). Diaprax is
the individual, along with others, 'rationally' (through "higher order
thinking skills") identifying the obstacle or barrier to
human-interaction for the purpose of negating the
Patriarchal Paradigm―the barrier to
human-interaction. Praxis is the individual, along with others,
collectively finding common ground in recognizing the common barrier to
self-actualization, i.e. the individual, along with others, becoming
conscious of the source of the barriers (the source of alienation)
coming between his individual nature (his carnal nature which is in
common with others)
and the nature of society (the nature of the world which is in common with him).
Praxis is man uniting in consensus, where his collective
"sensuous needs" are unite in a collective "sense experience"
through a collective "sense perception," whereby,
dialectically, he can overcome the source of alienation and reification
(the Patriarchal Paradigm). Praxis is all the above
thoughts, feelings, and actions put into social action. If the
Patriarchal Paradigm is not being negated in the action, it is
not Praxis.
In Diaprax there is no hell, a time of judgment and a place
of eternal damnation, a "there-and-then" place of torment awaiting man
for his evil thoughts and actions against God. In Diaprax there is
only a hell in the "here-and-now," the hell of a void-ness of pleasure,
happiness, and a hell of the absence of a hope for carnal peace and
socialist justice. Diaprax negates the fear of God and a love for
His Word thereby keeping those who are lost in their state of lost-ness
(lust-ness) and causing those who believe to fall into doubt and thereby fall
away from the faith (the cares of this world and approval of man making the
gospel an offence in the persons heart and therefore making them, as Satan, an
offence before God; "But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me,
Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of
God, but those that be of men." Matthew 16:23). "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,
every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let
us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that
no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s
way." Romans 14:11-13 "But I say unto you, That every
idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the
day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned." Matthew 12:36, 37
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as
the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have
life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: for the hour is
coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment
is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me." John 5:24-30
Praxis is the individual (along with others) becoming conscious (conscietization) of the barrier (the paradigm) which inhibits social-individual union, which prevents public-private partnership, and then (in common-ism or consensus with others), through "higher order thinking skills," 'rationally' justifies (with others in consensus), the "necessary" action to take in circumventing the "authoritarian" environment (by superseding it with the heresiarchal paradigm of dialogue, consensus, and change) and thereby 'overcoming' the barrier (the barrier being the patriarchal paradigm). By putting collective thought (theory or opinion) and common feelings (consensus) into collaborative action (practice, i.e. praxis) the closed system of absolutes, that which is above man's nature and nature itself, is negated, not only in the affective domain but also in the cognitive and psycho-motor domains as well. “We must bring theory closer to practice.” (Statement made by Rod Paige while secretary of education under president Bush Jr.). “The goal of revolutionary activity was understood as the unifying of theory and praxis.” (Martin Jay The Dialectical Imagination) "... the need for collaboration across lines of divergent action interests in a given situation requiring change, individuals and groups must be helped to see that the task is to discover and construct a common interest out of the conflicting interests which they bring to the interpretation of the situation and to the direction of changes in it." "... collaboration required is across lines of 'theory' and 'practice'." "Neither of these modes of collaboration, between persons and groups with different interests in change and between 'theorists' and 'practitioners', comes 'naturally' to people." "Every change operation must, in this sense, be conceived as an educational enterprise. It is important that this educational requirement of democratic engineering be interpreted dynamically instead of statically." "... all who collaborate must be trained toward an experimental attitude and a 'research' approach toward social problems." "... all educational practitioners, children and laymen participating in educational change become experimental in their attitude toward relationship problems faced and 'research-minded' in their search for and evaluation of solutions ..." "... democratic change must be anti-authoritarian." "Democratic persons must become skilled in inhibiting their tendencies to defend and promote ideas which are in need of objective evaluation and reformulation. It is important that persons achieve sensitivity in assessing the sources of influence upon themselves and to differentiate between dependence upon status figures and dependence upon fact-oriented and task-oriented influences." (Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change) bold added
"By dialectical I mean an activity of consciousness,
struggling to circumvent the limitations imposed by the formal logical
law of contradiction." (Norman O. Brown,
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History)
Praxis is creating oneness
both within the person
(the internal self) and the world (the external other), fulfilling
self-actualization (self-world unity) of both the individual (the laws
of the flesh―Orpheus) and society (the drawing or attraction one has toward the
things of the world, the discovering of oneself as being at-one with
nature―Narcissus).
Praxis is Narcissus (the Greek mythological figure who
falls in love with is own nature which is reflected to him by nature―sensuousness―recognizing
himself in the other) and Orpheus (the Greek mythological
homosexual figure who expresses love found within his own nature,
throughout nature―spontaneity―expressing
himself to the other) united in the aesthetic moment (united within the
aesthetic dimension, where sensuousness and spontaneity
momentarily overcome―negate―any rules or laws of restraint, where
'purpose' in life is not found within the individual person or the
objects of nature around him but within the social moment, within the
aesthetic moment of oneness, when man's nature and nature itself are
united (generalized) within the moment of consensus―man realizing that the
'self' is of, by, and for the other, "self-actualization").
According to
George Hegel, in that moment of truth, purposiveness and
lawfulness (the quality of life―commonality
and wholeness) transcend individual objects (negating the quantity of life―discrimination
and alienation, God above and man below). The
Transformational Marxist, Herbart Marcuse explained Hegel in this way.
“In the aesthetic imagination, sensuousness generates universally valid
principles for an objective order. The two main categories defining this
order are 'purposiveness without purpose' — i.e. beauty,
'lawfulness without law' — i.e. freedom. 'Zweckmässigkeit
ohne Zweck; Gesetzmässigkeit ohne Gesetz'” “Whatever the
object may be (thing or flower, animal or man), it is
represented and judged not in terms of its usefulness,
not according to any purpose it may possible serve, and
also not in view of its ‘internal’ finality and
completeness."
(George
Hegel as quoted in Herbart Marcuse Eros and Civilization:
A philosophical inquiry into Freud)
This the semblance of which Karl Marx wrote about in The Holy Family.
"But the apples, pears, almonds and raisins that we rediscover in the
speculative world are nothing but semblances of apples, semblances
of pears, semblances of almonds and semblances of raisins, for
they are moments in the life of 'the Fruit', this abstract creation of
the mind, and therefore themselves abstract creations of the mind.
Hence what is delightful in this speculation is to rediscover all the real
fruits there, but as fruits which have a higher mystical significance, which
have grown out of the ether of your brain and not out of the material earth,
which are incarnations of 'the Fruit, of the Absolute Subject.
When you return from the abstraction, the supernatural creation of the
mind, 'the Fruit', to real natural fruits, you give on the
contrary the natural fruits a supernatural significance and transform them into
sheer abstractions. Your main interest is then to point out the unity
of 'the Fruit' in all the manifestations of its life — the apple, the
pear, the almond — that is, to show the mystical interconnection between
these fruits, how in each one of them 'the Fruit' realises itself by
degrees and necessarily progresses, for instance, from its existence
as a raisin to its existence as an almond. Hence the value of the ordinary
fruits no longer consists in their natural qualities, but
in their speculative quality, which gives each of them a definite place
in the life-process of 'the Absolute Fruit'." (Karl Marx,
The Holy Family)
emphasis in original In this way of thinking (the generalization of
life upon the quality or -ness of things or events), universal motion can be
produced by a programmed general public (through the consensus process) who
respond to the semblance of an individual speculative event.
Dialectically, the object is not you or the other person themselves, the
object is what you can get ("create") out of your relationship with the other
person (sensuousness or beauty and
spontaneity or freedom) and what
the other person can get ("create") out of their relationship with you (sensuousness
or beauty and
spontaneity or freedom).
The object of identity and purpose is found in the -ness, the
quality or momentary feeling of having 'purpose' (social cause; the
"sense perception" that the same "sensuous needs" are realized by
the individual as being in others) and
fulfilling 'law' (the common law of the flesh; the "sense perception"
that the same "sensuous need" are realized by others as being in the
individual). In that way, what
you find you have in common with the other person, they find they have in
common with you, all
in the moment (common-ism). "A meeting of two: eye to eye, face to face. And when you are
near I will tear your eyes out and place them inside of mine, and you will tear
my eyes out and will place them inside of yours, then I will look at you with
your eyes and you will look at me with mine."
(J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive) "... having eyes which are human eyes, and ears which are human ears."
(Karl Marx)
"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By
hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross,
and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed;
lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with
their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them." Matthew 13:14, 15.
Translated into the praxis of
social-psychology (global control built upon common-ism) the "New World
Order" would read
like this: ‘Now that we know how positive
reinforcement works, and why negative doesn’t’… ‘we can be more
deliberate and hence more successful in our cultural design.’ “We can
achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are
following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the
old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do,
not what they are forced to do. That’s the source of the tremendous
power of positive reinforcement—there’s no restraint and no revolt. By a
careful design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination
to behavior—the motives, the desires, the wishes. The curious thing is
that in that case the question of freedom never arises. . . .we will
inevitably find ourselves moving toward the chosen goal, and probably
thinking that we ourselves desired it.
(B. F. Skinner quoted in Carl Rogers, on becoming a person)
Therefore man's identity (image) and purpose is no longer found outside
himself, above his nature, but is instead found within himself, in his
nature.
“Spirit, in so far as it
is the Spirit of God, is not a spirit beyond the stars, beyond the
world. On the contrary, God is present, omnipresent, and exists as
spirit in all spirits.” (Georg Hegel as quoted in Carl
Friedrich, The Philosophy of Hegel)
This is a gnostic
structure of thought, where the 'divine spark' in all things is
seeking to find common-ism with all things (breaking down any wall which
divides man from himself and others), the ideology that 'God'
(the one in the many parts) is discovering himself as society is realizing itself as being God
(the many as one―the
tower of Babel syndrome where mankind, uniting on a common cause and
working together to achieve it, makes a name for himself, becoming as
God). Only in this case the
'divine spark' is dialectically secularized, bound to nature, making
itself known (gnosis) through human
impulse (the dialectical idea that revelation does not come from an
authority above and apart from nature, and therefore greater than nature―and therefore not knowable by natural means of discovery,
not knowable scientifically, i.e. "rationally"―but can only
come from nature itself in the form of revolution against
unnatural, non-dialectical, non-sensual revelation). In the
"light" (enlightenment) of this knowledge (gnosis), God's law
stands in the way of (inhibits or blocks) the divine spark from being
realized within each
person and then actualized within the collective act
(social praxis) of love (Eros―You
can call it agape all you want but when carnal sensuousness,
"What can I get out of this relationship for me?" is the driving force
behind it, it is still Eros―The tower of Babel was human relationship
building at its 'best,' collective mankind, working in consensus,
making a name for himself). " And they said, Go to, let us
build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us
make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth." Genesis 11:4 “In direct contrast to German philosophy, which
descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven.” (Karl Marx MEGA I/5, p. 16)
By putting theory (thought and feelings; cognitive and affective domains)
into social action (praxis) Marx turned Hegel "right side up," making
society (earth) the spirit of 'change' (heaven) rather than society (earth)
subject to the spirit of change (heaven).
But when this dialectical ideology is applied to Christianity it makes Christianity gnostic
(Christian humanism), whereby
God, i.e. society (the fellowship of the church) active in "human
relationship building" ("interpersonal relationship building") can do nothing
apart from man, and
man can do nothing apart from God, i.e. society (the fellowship of the
church active in "human relationship building"), whereby man (the
individual) and society (the collective) are initiating and
sustaining moments of at-oneness with one another (dialectical moments
of one-ness).
Thus, based upon
that which is common to all of mankind, human nature can not find
'purpose,'
harmony, and peace in the presence of a Patriarchal God and His law (in His law which
condemns human nature, His law which exposes concupiscence―intense carnal
desires, lusts, impulses, etc.―His law which exposes and condemns "the law of sin which is in my members"),
but can only find 'purpose,'
harmony, and peace in that which is common to all mankind (belonging―mans
human nature longing to find identity and purpose for itself, from itself),
mankind seeking to know a God of love (Eros), a God who accepts man and his
nature as it is, using it to make a 'better' world for himself, i.e. 'driven' by
common 'purpose'. This way of thinking is not God's way of thinking.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
"I see another law in my members ... the law of sin which is in my members." "Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world [Adam choosing to love the world and not God, choosing to eat the forbidden fruit and not obeying God], and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Romans 5: 12-15 bracketed information added
Diaprax is the justification of the negation of
inflexible law so that sin is no longer perceived as sin but
simply perceived as human nature being experienced in a normal,
harmless, and socially adaptable, practical, and productive, i.e.
rational way. Diaprax is a social condition which tolerates the negation of rigid laws,
laws which restrain human nature (laws which expose and condemn
unrighteous behavior). It is a social condition which tolerates the
negation of laws which are
perceived as being irrational
to 'reasonable,' sensible―cognizant―minds,
where "old" laws (traditions which interfere with 'change,' and the
change process)
must be put out of the mind, treated as irrelevant,
inappropriate, worthless, etc. in the 'light' of changing times.
It is a social condition, an environment which tolerates the negation
of anti-humanist, 'irrational,' 'irrelevant' laws, which must
be given a place in education, in the workplace, in government, and even
in the church, if a socialist-common-ist, globalist government is be
created from the diverse people ("people groups") of the world.
"The
environment consists of those conditions that promote or hinder,
stimulate or inhibit, the characteristic
activities of a living being." "The problems are such things as the
relations of mind and matter; body and soul; humanity and
physical nature; the individual and society; theory—or
knowledge, and practice—or doing." "... between
mind as the end and spirit of action and the body as its organ
and means.... the connection of mental activity with that of the
nervous system." " ... the measure of worth" is "animated
by a social spirit ... presented only when certain conditions
are met.... a common experience ... work and play in association
with others." "The absence of a social environment ...
renders ... knowledge inapplicable to life and so infertile in
character." (John Dewey Democracy and
Education)
"A democratic society repudiates the principle of
external authority." "To act on principle is to act
disinterestedly, according
to a general law, which is above personal considerations." "In fact
self and interest are the same fact; the kind and amount of
interest actively taken in a thing reveals and measures the
quality of selfhood which exits." (John Dewey Democracy and
Education) "Respect the child. But not too much his parent.
The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his natural and train
off all but that;" (Emerson quoted in (John Dewey Democracy and
Education))
Hegel wrote: "for
a real state and a real government only develop when a situation
arises where a great number of people can no longer satisfy its
needs in the accustomed way."
(George Hegel as quoted in Carl Friedrich, The Philosophy of Hegel)
The idea is, as long as nobody is 'hurt' (whatever that means), as
long as it (whatever it is), when it involves others, is done with the
consent of all parties
concerned, then
it is right. What he does in private he does in consideration of
the public and what he does in the public he does in the consideration
of the private (which is done in consideration of the public). In this way all his private thoughts,
feelings, and actions are tied to his social being. Thus "the
accustomed way" of "doing business" is always subordinate
to deviating situations ("changing times"). Deviancy ('shiftiness')
therefore becomes the norm (Paradigm 'shift' actually means a
paradigm of 'shiftiness,' i.e. evasiveness, elusiveness, deceitfulness,
etc.).
A citizen therefore, according to Bloom (the "Taxonomy"),
is socially healthy in his behavior when he has “a
consistency in behavior … among all the social roles .. between the
public and private domains of his life.” “… his philosophy [his
dissatisfaction with restraints perpetrated by the philosophy of others, i.e. parents, God, i.e.
perceived dialectically as Hitler, and therefore his justification in
re-educating or removing anyone who behaves like Hitler, who advocates
anti-human restraints in the cause of mankind] pervades
all of his behavior.” “A basic tenet of liberal education is that
it is by means of intellectual effort that a philosophy of life in large
measure is formed [formed through the subtle use of 'higher order thinking
skills' in socially 'complex' settings].” “We want the student to lead the good life and
become a good man in all his parts.” ["in all his parts"
meaning comprehensively (totality, holistic), in his cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor domains
(in his thoughts, feelings, and actions) united in the
'good society.' This attitude negates the truth that only God is good. If, dialectically,
collective mankind is 'God,' then,
only when man is in the moment of "correct praxis," i.e. at-one with himself and
with others (synthesis), is he 'good'.] “… the greatest good for the
greatest number.” “Develops for regulation of one’s personal and civic
life a code of behavior based on ethical principles consistent with
democratic ideals.” “The style of integrity developed by his culture or civilization
thus becomes the ‘patrimony of his soul,’ the seal of his moral
paternity of himself.” “Before this final solution, death loses its
sting.” (David Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives: Book II Affective Domain)
Emphasis and bracketed information added. It is therefore
socially worthy work and play (collective experience in action)
which which gives meaning and 'purpose,' not only to life, but also to
death. The rights which are given to man from the heavenly Father
above (restraining mans carnal nature) are replace with the 'rights'
(privileges) given by the philosophical sages (facilitators of change)
below (emancipating mans carnal nature).
Therefore, according to Bloom's dialectical ideology, since God's law, i.e. his wrath against sin, is no longer
relevant and therefore no longer to be feared, the
sting of death which comes by way of the law is negated, but in this
case not by Christ Jesus (" O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength
of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians
15:55-57) but rather by the negation of man's sinful nature, it no
longer perceived as being evil.
By the praxis of socially justifying
lustful human nature ("polymorphously perverse behavior"),
perceiving it as actually being normal, the avenue (whereby man
can overcome his estrangement from himself, others, and the world around
him) is freed from both the fear of God and his judgment upon sin. Thus sin is no longer
man's 'estrangement' (alienation) from God above but rather "Sin is the estrangement of man from man." (Paul
Tillich quoted in Leonard Wheat,
Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism: Unmasking the God
above God) and alienation, caused by the antithesis
of man, which is below, from God who is above (above-below thinking, feeling, and
acting), is overcome by the synthesis of man with that which is
below only (uniting him upon what he has in common with that which is below, which was alienated by above-below thinking, feeling, and
acting). “Alienation is the experience of ‘estrangement’ (Verfremdung) from others, . .
.” “Alienation has a long history. Its most radical sense already appears in the
biblical expulsion from Eden.” “Alienation, according to Feuerbach,
derives from the externalization (Entausserung) of human powers and
possibilities upon a non-existent entity: God. . .” “God is thus the
anthropological source of alienation . . .” “Alienation will continue so long as
the subject engages in an externalization (Entausserung) of his or her
subjectivity.” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists).
By a 'shift' in thought from above-below to past-future, judgment is no
longer established by he who is above (spiritual, absolute, eternal,
final) but by he who is below (carnal, relative or situational,
temporal, in this life only). " For there is nothing covered,
that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the
light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be
proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto you my friends, Be
not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that
they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him,
which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto
you, Fear him." Luke 12:2-5 "The Son of man shall
send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into
a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 14:41, 42 " And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have
mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But
Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy
good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted,
and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you
there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to
you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him
to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto
them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham
saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the
dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose
from the dead." Luke 16:24-31
"Beloved, when I gave
all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful
for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God
into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once
knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he
hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of
the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about
them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire." Jude 1:3-7 See also 2 Peter
2:1-22; "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
unto judgment;" "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." 2 Peter 2: 4, 9-10.
The dialectical logic is, if you can get rid of the rigid law paradigm
(above-below, right-wrong, absolutes, "Thus saith the Lord," etc.),
through the praxis of making "culture or civilization"
the "patrimony" of man's soul (his soul a product of
the structure of his social environment, its proper development gauged
by the degree of its 'openness'
and permissiveness in changing situations), making it "the seal of his moral paternity
of himself," (making social environmental situations the basis
for engendering "healthy" behavior) you can get rid of sin.
Therefore, since there is no eternal judgment
from an ever "changing" society after death, "death loses its sting."
In dialectical thinking, feeling, and acting death is no longer feared but is perceived as only a "learning experience" (both in theory and in practice).
Death is only a process of change with not consequence of eternal
rigidity. If rigidity in judgment is irrational in a changing
world then eternal rigidity in judgment after death is irrational as
well.
The
praxis of Genesis 3:1-6 is the dialectical "learning
experience" which leads to death. But what is missing in
the dialectical land of "seems to be" (reality based
upon human perception) is that "There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof
[are]
the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;"
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened." "And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which are not convenient;" "Who knowing the
judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Romans 1:18, 21, 28, 32
Those who use the "Taxonomy" must initiate and sustain
a re-education environment where all participants must at one point or
another refuse to "retain God in their knowledge," ("Because
that, when they knew God ["For the invisible things of him from
the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the
things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they
are without excuse:" vs. 20], they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened." ) and willingly praxis "a reprobate
mind," "worthy of death," they must initiate and sustain an
environment where all participants must take "pleasure in
them that" participate in the "ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men," where all must 'willingly' travel down the
heresiarchal pathway of change, following after those "who hold the truth in
unrighteousness," following after those "Who changed the truth of
God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."
All who claim to be
Christians who praxis the "Taxonomy," who praxis
"higher order thinking skills" in morals and ethics, are "ashamed of
the gospel of Christ," "Professing themselves to be wise, they
became [have become] fools," Romans 1:22 "For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it
is written, The just shall live by faith." Romans 1:16, 17
By
negating the guilty conscience (by negating the sense of accountability to a higher authority
since established, Patriarchal laws are irrational and therefore irrelevant in the
moment, i.e. not worth bringing to mind―this
is why our dialectical courts, along with our other two branches of
government, with the general public conceding, removed the Ten
Commandments from the public school house walls)
there remains no 'purpose' (and therefore no accountability) in life other than
to a society of human thoughts, emotions, and actions (the educational
issue was not about tolerance of religion but rather a tolerance of
carnality, i.e. deviancy in the classroom and the making a globalist,
anti-Christ generation). The 'socially'
(democratically) approved
praxis of abortion, right-sizing, euthanasia, suicide,
homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, etc is 'rationally'
justified by this way of thinking, feeling, and acting ("As
long as I 'perceive,' I think or feel, that nobody is 'hurt,' then it must be ok.").
I realize that there are those who would say this is not
'true.' But in all cases the procedure (the praxis of the
dialectical process―the connecting
of the person to the environment and the environment to the person―his
internal nature and nature, 'rationally' synthesized),
simply brings a person further down the road of "change," along the
continuum of "adaptability to change," assisted by the facilitated
moment of "innovation."
“During the period of
innovation, an environment is invisible. The present is always invisible
because the whole field of attention is so saturated with it. It becomes
visible only when is has been superseded by a new environment."
(Federal Education Grant, Dec. 1969 Behavior Science in Teacher Education Program p. 237)
By creating an environment (a
situation) where a student is freed from patriarchal restraint (freed from the hedge of
protection provided by the patriarchal system, the system which protects
the student from the manipulation, use, and abuse of the world system),
the student is so enamored (blinded) by the moment of freedom from restraint
while resolving of a common cause or concern with others, that they are not
aware of the environmental change (that the hedge of protection is no longer
present to protect them from immoral use and abuse―it is now just a matter of
who is defining or redefining the word 'abuse'). This is the same pattern used by
a pedophile (connecting with a child's 'felt' need, by first creating an
environment which initiates it, and then, once the child is freed from
the hedge of protection, it is then a victim of the "change agents"
environment of innovation, it will never be the same again). A "change agent...
should know about the process of change, how it takes place and the
attitudes, values and behaviors that usually act as barriers.... He
should know who in his system are the 'defenders' or resisters of
innovations ["'defenders' or resisters of" 'change']." (Ronald Havelock,
A Change Agent's
Guide to Innovation in Education)
To learn and apply the dialectical process requires training
in the art craft of deceit and manipulation. It requires the
experiential learning and application (praxis) of a proper method
of communication and environment control, necessary to bring out the
carnal nature of man (emancipating the 'driving' forces common to
all mankind to create social change―"drawing" them out,
i.e. drawing their "ought" out) for the
'purpose' of experimentation, examination, and use. It requires 1)
delivering the person from the patriarchal paradigm of restraint
(patriarchal restraint is dialectically perceived as repression, alienation, reification, etc, an
act of 'violence' against the child's own nature, patriarchal behavior learned under
an 'authoritarian' person, in an 'authoritarian' environment, thus
preventing the child from becoming his own 'person') by providing a
"safe zone" where they can be freed from patriarchal domination,
i.e. out of sight of the patriarch, 2) creating a
specific environment (an open-ended, non-directed environment) where
'permissiveness' is initiated and sustained for the sake of 'changing'
the child's paradigm, i.e. "unfreezing" them from the old paradigm,
"moving" them within the new environment, an environment tolerant of
ambiguity (uncertainty and doubt; feelings of resentment and
dissatisfaction toward authority), and then, with the approval of all participants
who are 'willingly' experiencing
the same liberation (through consensus), "refreezing"
(stabilizing) them within the new paradigm, and 3) then using the child
(the child, now in harmony with his own nature and with nature itself
(society), the child now in his newly discovered, dialectically
discovered carnal 'freedom'―comfortably living within his new world
order), by sending him out to negate the patriarchal paradigm
(circumventing all 'old' ridged laws by questioning authority,
questioning laws which restrain the common carnally nature of
man―treating the 'old' laws, the laws of the 'past,' as irrational, i.e.
out of date and therefore irrelevant when they do not assist in
change―by dialectically, through dialogue and the consensus process,
negating any socially restraining laws with the introduction of
'new' laws, ambiguous and readily adaptable to change 'laws'). “Laws must not fetter human life; but yield to it;
they must change as the needs and capacities of the people change.”
(Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ed.
Joseph O’Malley) In this way, through the use of these these three
steps of the dialectical process, the new man (the 'healthy' man, the
wholistic man, the man no longer separated, i.e. alienated from his own
nature and nature itself, i.e. society, by the patriarchal paradigm and
its limiting laws, i.e. limiting the power of government, to prevent it
from delivering the children, the next generation, by force if
'necessary,' out from under parental control), is not only physically
'healthy,' but also 'mentally' and socially 'healthy,' socially
engendered for the common-ist cause of world peace and social harmony.
Dialectically, all acts
of life and death, pleasure and pain, war and peace are defensible for the purpose of creating a more 'healthy' world, "a
more perfect union." Dialectically mankind 'can' be united in social work,
working (volunteering) together in the hope of creating a
new world, where man and nature can abide in 'peaceful harmony,' a world
freed from extrinsic, non-human, "there-and-then," judgmental restraints,
i.e. class
based restraints, spiritual restraints coming from He who is above the
human moment, i.e.
parent, God, boss, etc. repressing, alienating he who is below in the
moment, child,
man, worker, etc. restraining him from his own nature and the nature of
the world. Dialectically man can overcome the restraints which prevent
the classless society from forming (preventing "equality of opportunity"
for all; "For
equality of opportunity to exist the family as a unit must be
weakened."
James Coleman The Adolescent Society).
Dialectically, restraints
preventing a "new" world order from being birthed (and taking over)
can be negated. Dialectically man can create a new world order,
created out of his own nature, cleansed of an above-below
thinking, feeling, and acting, i.e. non-human (spiritual) behavior,
purified of restraints
which prevent the individual from finding his identity "within the
whole," purged of restraints inhibiting the person from finding
his 'purpose' within the earthy, cosmic, gestalt society (overcoming
once and for all the act of God concerning the
Tower of Babel, where "the dialectical method was overthrown―the parts were prevented from
finding their definition within the whole." György Lukács
History & Class
Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism?).
The dialectical process is "science falsely so called,"
used by men who 1) believe in a lie, i.e. believing in man, that he is
basically good (when properly re-educated) and therefore believing that
he can, in his own collective image, create a 'good' world, and 2) love
not the truth, i.e. rejecting the truth which comes from above,
rejecting the truth that man is wicked (having "pleasure in
unrighteousness") and needs a savior (a savior not of his own
making, i.e. not of his nature). "Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with
you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth
that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken
out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians
2:3-12
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. " 1 Timothy 6:20, 21 (bold emphasis added)
"Kαι αντιθεσεις της ψευδωνυμου γνωσεως" which means
the antithesis of 'so called' or 'so named' knowledge or science,
that is, applying 'science' as the basis to understanding man's nature,
only recognizing that information which is appropriate to his nature, that
information which materializes him, that information which makes him subject to his own carnal
nature, thereby making his carnal nature the basis of reality, limiting his
understanding of his true nature, binding him to that which is only of
the world which is "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life," thus directly affecting his faith in God and His
Word (which is not of, nor bound to the world and therefore is
considered inappropriate information if it inhibits mans inquiry into
and his freedom to express his normal human behavior). When science is
applied to man, called "behavioral science," a science which,
when properly applied
on
rocks, plants, and animals, i.e. the physical world, is applied to human
behavior, it is no longer true science but rather
philosophy and theory (vain speculations) being put into practice―praxis.
“Sense experience must be the basis of all
science.” (Karl Marx) "... a science based on an erotic sense
of reality.” (Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History)
When man and his nature ("sensuous needs," "sense perception,"
and "sense experience") become the measure of reality then reality
becomes illusionary (bound to man's perception of himself and the world
around him). Through the justification of "honest doubt"
(John Dewey),
theories, opinions, and sensuousness (carnal feelings) supersede spiritual (super-natural)
truth and faith. "But without faith it is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father
but by me.” John 14:6 "Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen." Hebrews 11:1
"That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God." 1 Corinthians 2:5
"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by
faith." Romans 1:17 "And be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the
faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"
Philippians 3:9 "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
1 John 5:4 "... nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall
he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b
Benjamin Bloom knowingly transformed the classroom
curriculum into a humanistic (sensuous, faithless) structure
(anti-Christ―taking the place of i.e. replacing and therefore opposing
the true savior). Humanists must use "the
scientific" approach, the dialectical process, to accomplish their desired
outcome, removing mankind and society from a patriarchal paradigm (where
carnal feelings or human desires must capitulate to the will of higher
authority, through chastening when necessary, where behavior must be subject
to, i.e. have faith in objective truth, truth as determined by higher authority). The 'scientific'
approach, as it was and continues to be applied on children and teachers in the classroom, school staff
and parents, businesses, churches, etc. has 'changed' the world into a
"here-and-now" (sensual, mystic) world, for the 'purpose' of global, humanistic dominance.
The 'shift' in the paradigm has been from life and death
(spiritual), an issue of "Where you will spend eternity?"
(eternal life of joy in Heaven with God or eternal of pain, i.e.
punishment, i.e. "wailing and gnashing of teeth," in Hell with
Lucifer, his angels, and all who "offend" and "do iniquity";
"The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather
out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun
in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Matthew 13:41-43), to pleasure and pain (material), "Are you getting the
pleasures of life you deserve," i.e. along a spectrum of feelings, i.e.
the "affective domain" (from all pain-no pleasure, mostly pain-little
pleasure, equal pain-pleasure, mostly pleasure-little pain, all
pleasure-no pain) which helps in determining the value or worth of life
(physical, mental, and social capital with social capital―social value,
the pleasure which comes from the approval of men, the determining
element of worth). Righteousness is replaced with
financial gain and respect of men (social value), and therefore preaching and teaching
of the gospel has been replace with the growing of the 'church'
(community) through
the marketing techniques of the world, i.e. potential pleasures in and of
this world. Where ashes to ashes and dust to dust spoke of the
shortness of the earthly life in regards to eternity it now means the
importance of enjoying the moment because that is all you have (history
is therefore only that time between a person birth and their current
situation, i.e. their environmental, i.e. their social or anti-social
upbringing―or anywhere in between and not lessons from and of the past
regarding right living).
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art
, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 3:19
Rejecting faith in God as a basis of life, this is the sum of man
regarding a life of the cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor domains
according to Bloom. Bloom developed his Taxonomies in the 'light'
(the "enlightenment") of man's carnal nature, which is not light
but rather darkness, darkness which thinks it is light, i.e. "light"
which can not comprehend the true light; "And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." "And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil." John 1:5,
3:19. But to all who are in Christ Jesus, God has given the same
'purpose' which he gave the Apostle Paul, " To open their eyes, and
to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto
God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among
them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Acts 26:18
While Bloom builds his Taxonomy upon the respect of man, i.e. mans
carnal nature united in social harmony, God is not a respecter of men
and has not called us to be a respecter of men. "To have
respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will
transgress." Proverbs 28:21 "And if ye call on
the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every
man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: Forasmuch as
ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave
him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." 1 Peter
1:17-21 Void of fear of and faith in God, Bloom builds man upon
the foundation of rocks, plants, and animals, i.e. the material world,
i.e. the dust of the ground.
“It has been pointed out that we are attempting to classify phenomena which could not be observed or manipulated in the same concrete form as the phenomena of such fields as the physical and biological sciences.” “It was the view of the group that educational objectives stated in the behavior form have their counterparts in the behavior of individuals, observable and describable therefore classifiable.” “Only those educational programs which can be specified in terms of intended student behaviors can be classified.” “What we are classifying is the intended behavior of students—the ways in which individuals are to act, think, or feel as the result of participating in some unit of instruction.” “Educational procedures are intended to develop the more desirable [pleasurable, worldly] rather than the more customary types of behavior.” “The student must feel free to say he disliked _____ and not have to worry about being punished for his reaction.” (Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of Education Objectives Book 1 Cognitive Domain 1956) emphasis added
Notice that Bloom used the
word "manipulated." Is that what you want someone to do to
you or your children. Do you get up in the morning saying "I just
can't wait to be manipulated today." Do you want someone
"observing" you with the sole 'purpose' of "manipulating" you into
something they want you to be, observing your behavior to determine how
best to "manipulate" you and your children into doing what they think is
'best' for you and them? Welcome to the world of Bloom's
Taxonomies―a tool for curriculum development used by 'teachers' (in
public and private schools) from the 1950's on. "By a careful
design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to
behavior—the motives, the desires, the wishes. The curious thing
is that in that case the question of freedom never arises. . . .we will
inevitably find ourselves moving toward the chosen goal, and probably
thinking that we ourselves desired it.
(B. F. Skinner quoted in Carl Rogers, on becoming a person)
The bias in Bloom's Taxonomy is that if "manipulation" is
done for a "good" cause (democracy, i.e. socialism, i.e. common-ism; as
Bloom wrote: “In fact, a large part of what we call 'good
teaching' is the teacher’s ability to attain affective objectives
through challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and getting them to
discuss issues.” “We want the
student to lead the good life and become a good man in all his parts.”
“… the greatest good for the greatest number.” Bloom,
Cognitive Domain) then "manipulation" is an acceptable and even a
desirable way of doing business (even in the church).
"Frequently, educational leadership is worried about the ethics of
deliberately setting out to change people, their ideas, their values,
their skills and their relationships. Under what conditions does
leadership in change function democratically? What right has a
teacher to try to change students and parents? How can groups and
individuals be protected from undemocratic manipulation?"
"Re-education must be clever enough in
manipulating the subjects to have them think that they are running
the show." "The objective sought will not be reached so long
as the new set of values is not experienced by the individual as
something freely chosen
[therefore of their own carnal nature]." "An outright enforcement of the new
set of values and beliefs is simply the introduction of a new god
who has to fight with the old god, now regarded as a devil."
"The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to a group.” “A feeling of complete
freedom and a heightened group identification are frequently more
important at a particular stage of re-education than learning not to
break specific rules.”
"The
democratic theory is that, in the last analysis, authority resides in
the group [common-ism]." "This shift in roles cannot be
accomplished by a 'hands off' policy. To apply the principle of
'individualistic freedom' merely leads to chaos. Sometimes people must
rather forcefully be made to see what democratic responsibility toward
the group as a whole means."
(Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change) In
other words, as long as manipulation (force) is being done for a "good"
social cause it is "good." “A basic tenet of liberal education
is that it is by means of intellectual effort that a philosophy of life
in large measure is formed.” “We are not interested in whether the problem is solved
accurately or with elegance.”
(Bloom, Cognitive Domain) Therefore intelligence is no
longer tied to a right-wrong way of thinking but is now correlated to
the person's social worth, his "group think" abilities, his
tolerance (and therefore support) of man's carnal (wicked) nature. As
Kurt Lewin wrote, regarding "general principles for changing group
culture," is to "change
[the] group atmosphere, (the
system of values which governs the ideology of a group)," that
"changes of
power constellation within the group (change in methods of leadership) is
probably the quickest way to bring about a change in the cultural
atmosphere of a group." Changing a group
atmosphere from autocracy [free market] toward democracy
[socialism] through a democratic leadership [Politburo-soviet
government where the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are
synchronized (synergized) for optimal social outcome or 'purpose']
means that the autocratic followers [capitalists, patriarchal way of
thinking] must shift toward a genuine acceptance of the role
of democratic followers [socialists, heresiarchal way of thinking].”
“To change a group atmosphere toward democracy the democratic leader
has to be in power and has to use his power for active re-education.”
“The more the group members become converted to democracy the more can
the power of the democratic leader shift to other ends than
converting the group members.”
(Kurt Lewin quoted in Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in
Curriculum Change) emphasis and bracketed information added "Manipulation" is essential for the
changing ("converting") of society from a nationalist to a socialist paradigm.
Therefore according to Bloom, did the students actions do "the
greatest good for the greatest number." All 'teachers,'
using Bloom's Taxonomies, must look at the students praxis
through a neo-Marxist lens if they are to properly "manipulate" and
"convert" them into socialist comrade for the 'new' world order, i.e. a
world freed from Godly righteousness, i.e. a world freed to
revel in fallen man's carnal nature.
“Freedom, as Fromm argued in
Escape from Freedom
meant ‘freedom to,’ not merely ‘freedom from.’” (Martin Jay
The Dialectical Imagination)
Bloom sights the Marxist, Erick Fromm and his book Escape from
Freedom as his Taxonomy's Weltanschauung (German word for world view,
paradigm, or way of thinking). "I guess I could say that most people think people are evil. My way rather is to
think they are stupid. That’s more fundamental, because the evil comes from
ignorance, which comes from stupidity (which comes from not being experimental,
empirical, 'scientific' enough). My cure for the evil behavior is ultimately
more knowledge. (There really is no other cure.)"
(Abraham Maslow, The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II)
Therefore, the only way out of evil is to do as the woman in the Garden
in Eden (Genesis
3:1-6), become "experimental, empirical, '"scientific,'" i.e.
dialectical.
The media is key to the change and control (manipulation) of
the individual in a socialist society. Regarding "permanently organized
consent,"
creating a socialist (common-ist) form of government "without force predominating excessively over consent,"
the media, "the so-called organs of public opinion—newspapers and
associations—under certain situations" must "artificially manipulated
[the news] to ensure that force [would] appear to be based
upon the consent of the majority." (Antonio Gramsci,
Prison Notebooks)
“Theoretical praxis enters public life
through the newspaper and journal of social criticism.” “The philosopher becomes
a journalist without ceasing to be a philosopher.” (Karl Marx,
Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right")
The Marxist idea is "We don't study history, we make it. We write
how things are (according to our view) and how they ought to be
(according to our ideals) and when you read and discuss with others, the
'appropriate information' we feed (void God and His Word), you create
our history, i.e. you create a secular, humanistic, Godless day, you
create a 'new' world order where righteousness before God is no longer
an issue of personal and social concern."
"For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:3-7
Anybody familiar with the
field of science knows that for theories to become
facts they must be observable and repeatable (mortal, material). Without the
repeatability, the consistency, the theory can never be considered a
fact. By moving science over into the realm of human behavior,
classifying human behavior according to paradigms or ways of thinking, feeling, and
acting, Bloom becomes a deceiver and a fraud since his 'scientific'
outcome can never be consistent; recognize absolute laws of nature, 1) that
what is "is" and can not be its opposite ("is not"), and 2) everything is degenerating (nature can not evolve to a
higher state of being). The dialectical theory being: if an "is
not" and an opposing "is not" (an antithesis condition) can put aside that which divides them,
i.e. put aside their "not," i.e. according to dialectical
thinking, put aside that which does not come from nature, which "is," but
came from a
source outside of or above nature, put aside the "not" which makes
man different, which creates division and
keeps man apart, then that which is common in nature,
that which "is,"
can be united and man can momentarily become one in "is."
If man
can set aside the "not," the resulting
outcome will be the "negation of negation" or the annihilation
of the way of thinking, feeling, and acting which divides man from his
common carnal human nature, i.e. the annihilation (patricide) of the
Patriarchal Paradigm which initiated and sustains and "is-is not,"
right-wrong way of thinking in the first place. To annihilate is to overcome,
through hand to hand combat, the Patriarchal Paradigm through the
creation of the Heresiarchal Paradigm―incest;
“How can a situation be brought about which would permanently change
social interactions?” “To bring about change, [the old
constellation of] forces have to be upset.” “Hand in hand
with the destruction of the old social interactions must go the
establishment (or liberation) of new social interactions.” “Group
decision facilitates change.” “New facts and values have to be
accepted as an action-ideology ["theory and practice"],
involving that particular, frequently non-conscious system of values which
guides conduct—the way I really feel—the super-ego.”
(Kenneth Benne Human Relations in
Curriculum Change). But without the constant, i.e. the manipulation and
supervision of the dialectical process being put into action, the
'scientific' experiment always breaks down. Therefore the process
of 'change' must be perpetually (continuously) sustained by facilitators,
social-psychologists, Transformational Marxist (all three the same). “Criticism
[questioning authority] is not simply a means. Indignation is its
essential pathos, denunciation its principle task. Criticism is criticism in
hand-to-hand combat. Criticism proceeds on to praxis [the practice of
treating the Patriarchal Paradigm as irrational, irrelevant and
therefore worthless, therefore all person must be converted,
neutralized, marginalized, or removed, i.e. annihilated if they
are to be a part of the 'new' world order, a world freed from the fear
of the judgment of God regarding human praxis] .” (Karl Marx
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)
Nature itself does not
sustain the dialectical ideology of mankind 'changing' to a higher states of
'becoming.' There is no universality found in nature which
naturally drives man into being at-one with mankind in social harmony. 'Vanity,'
which is common to all, does not unite man but rather divides man. It does not unite him,
despite the false perception the social engineers propagate upon people
for their own vain glory (their pleasures, economic and social). In other words, there are always those
who refuse to bend their knee to the dialectical process on a grand
scale, those who refuse to join the socialist party of 'collective vanity.'
There are those who have been redeemed from the world of vanity and the
dialectical process, through their faith in the Son of God, Jesus
Christ. Even Abraham Maslow acknowledged the
problem with Bloom's agenda, despite his hope in achieving its goal, the
negation of God (the fear of God and love for His Word). “We will know that our knowledge of the authoritarian
character structure is truly scientific when an average
authoritarian character will be able to read the information on
the subject and then regard his own authoritarian character as
undesirable or sick or pathological and will go about trying to
get rid of it.” “We don’t know the answers to the
question: What proportion of the population is irreversibly
authoritarian?” “I have found whenever I ran across
authoritarian students that the best thing for me to do was to break
their backs immediately.” “The correct thing to do with authoritarians
is to take them realistically for the bastards they are and then behave
toward them as if they were bastards.” (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)
"I certainly enjoy nudism as at Esalen & have no trouble with it. And
I approve in principle of the advancement of knowledge & experimentation
with anything." "Nakedness is absolutely right. So
is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian & Jewish foundations. Must
move in the direction of the Reichian orgasm."
(Abraham Maslow, The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and
II) The dialectical process is a vehicle of hate and evil
masquerading as a means to an end of "love" and "good."
Hate toward anyone exposing it as evil and love for anyone believing it
is good.
According to this social-psychological (Transformational
Marxists) mindset, a particular behavior is a response to a particular
environment which stimulates a particular "behavior for
which we have not yet found a cause,”
i.e.
that behavior being "caprice," or impulse, mimesis, i.e.
chemical-electrical response in our body which responds to something within the
environment ("lust" of the flesh), i.e. avoid pain and approach
pleasure, i.e. stimulating hormones such as
oxytocin, neurotransmitters such as
dopamine,
etc.
“But science insists that action is initiated by forces impinging
upon the individual, and that caprice is only another
name for behavior for which we have not yet found a cause.” (Carl
Rogers on becoming a person)
Such an agenda, to control the world through environment control, can
only be initiated and sustained by men who only believe in a
materialistic, physical world, who disregard any belief that man is more
than a thinking, feeling, and acting material object stimulated by and
responding to the environment around him, using 'scientific' methods to
discover, understand, explain, and justify the use of environment
controls for their ends, i.e. that end being the negation of God and His Word, treating
the Spiritual work of God as a phenomenal thing to be analyzed in
a laboratory setting and explained scientifically, materialistically,
humanistically, practically (rationally), treating it as irrational and
therefore irrelevant when it serves no useful social 'purpose.' "All social life is essentially
practical. All the mysteries which lead theory toward
mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the
comprehension of this practice." (Karl Marx, Thesis on
Feuerbach #8) "The abolition of religion, as the
illusory happiness of men, is a demand for their real happiness
[carnal happiness].
The call to abandon their illusions about their condition is a call
to abandon a condition which requires illusions." (Karl
Marx, MEGA I/1/1) "The
call," according to Marx, and social-psychology, is "to abandon a
condition which requires" happiness to be found from a source
outside of or beyond the carnal, sense experience of man, beyond that which
is common to all 'social animals' (mankind), that illusionary
condition being the Patriarchal Paradigm, i.e. religion, spirit
different than and greater than the creation, Spirit which is not of,
by, and for nature.
What Bloom, Marx, and social-psychologists do not know, or refuse to
know, is that the Joy and Peace, which comes from God, can not come from nature, and
therefore is "unspeakable," i.e. "transcends understanding," i.e. is
spiritual. "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and
honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen,
ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:6-9 "Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6, 7
The dialectical, "Taxonomy," ideology is dependent
upon the exploitation and manipulation of man and the environment, to
the creation and utilization "human resources" in creating a new
world order freed from God's restraint. "Change the
environment and you change the man, change the man and you change the
environment." Since the environment 'influences' the nature
of man and any change in it (or change in man's perception of it) changes the nature of man, anyone who
controls the environment, controls man. Therefore whoever gains
control of the environment (or at least man's perception of it), gains control of man. Change or relativism thus becomes the key word to
the 'scientific,' dialectical process, not consistency or absolutes.
If man rejects change or transformation and instead turns to God (who
has "no shadow of turning"; "Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom
is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17)
and finds reality in him, then those who facilitate (actually preach and teach) the
dialectical process would fall "into a bottomless abyss" before
their time. As the Transformational Marxist Jürgen Habermas put
it, in reference to Marx's dialectical materialist agenda: "If the 'restoring of life' of the
world is to be conceived in terms of the Christian revelation, then
Marx must collapse into a bottomless abyss." (Jürgen
Habermas Theory and Practice)
Even the Marxists know it all boils down to either faith (trusting
in God―eternal life) or sight (trusting in man's perception of the
world―death). The question is: "Who are you trusting in?"
"Cursed is the man who trust in man." Jeremiah
17:5
" Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not
unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and
he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5, 6
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen." "Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made
of things which do appear." "But without faith it is
impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he
is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Hebrews 11:1, 3, 6 We either put our trust in our own
human senses, basing life's decisions upon our own feelings, our own
perceptions, and our own reasoning abilities (as fallen man does,
turning to his own senses as the bases of reality), or we put our trust
in God and his Word, basing life's decisions upon God's directing
through his Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit (as Jesus and the
redeemed do, turning to God's words as the basis of reality).
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man
that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23
Even Thomas Kuhn, the man most noted for coining the
phrase "paradigm shift," knew the problems of attempting such an
agenda of turning mankind, his thought, feelings, and actions, into
an object of scientific enquiry for the purpose of technology, i.e.
using social engineering to engender socialism engendering, and then
using the same dialectical method within the field of science itself. (The
original idea was that the dialectical process was found within nature
and once liberated would take on a life of its own, perpetuating the
process of 'change,' but the Transformational Marxists knew that the
dialectical process was not found within nature itself but that rather
a dialectical condition or environment had to be created before
nature could freely participate in the 'change' process which the
social-psychologists, i.e. Transformational Marxist, desired.)
The idea was, even if the dialectical process does not come from nature
itself, push it upon the field of
science, for the sake of socialism (it is all about "sense
perception," "seems to be," theory, etc. anyway) and eventually true
scientists will "see the light" or lose their reputation as
"scientists." "Kuhn
admitted problems with the schemata of his socio-psychological
theory yet continued to urge its application into the scientific
fields of astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology." "Kuhn states
'If a paradigm is ever to triumph it must gain some first
supporters, men who will develop it to the point where hardheaded
arguments can be produced and multiplied' (which eventuates
in) an increasing shift in the distribution of professional
allegiances (where upon ) the man who continues to resist after his
whole profession has been converted is ipso facto ceased to be a
scientist.” (Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions) Despite facts
proving the theory wrong, the theory must forever be given the freedom
to be practiced, at all cost (in that way it keeps the social 'scientists' well
supported, financially and emotionally as long as they don't lose
'faith' in the system, become expendable, or cross the path of someone
important). In other words don't let the facts get in the
way of the theory.
Long term projects reveal a breakdown of the
theory, therefore short term projects must constantly be brought up and
put into practice. Re-circle the wagons and hope that people don't
recognize the repeating of the scenery (like going somewhere without
going anywhere). If the 'scientist' doesn't break out
from under the dialectical cycle of illusion, and 'fall' back
into reality, job security, the praises of men, and the pleasures
of life are "guaranteed" (until he is no longer needed).
The pathway of vanity eventually leads to the state of hollowness.
Bloom, forty years after publishing his work for classroom curriculum (turning the classroom into a
laboratory for the 'purpose' of social
engineering students, teachers, and staff, and eventually the whole
community and then the world, into humanistic common-ism) had to admit
that the agenda was not what the public thought they had bought into, that of sustaining their children
within their values and beliefs while attaining an education
established in facts and truths. “Certainly the Taxonomy was unproven at the time it was
developed and may well be ‘unprovable.’” (Bloom's
Taxonomy: A Forty Year Retrospect)
Bloom actually wrote in his curriculum development book, used by
all certified teachers to 'help' them develop curriculum in their classrooms
(even today), that "we recognize the point of view
that truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no
hard and fast truths which exist for all time and places."
(Benjamin Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objective:
Book 1 Cognitive Domain)
So much for basics being taught in education.
The
National Education Goals Panel Community
Action Toolkit (1994) stated that “They [the parents and the
general public] may not
yet recognize that there is no ‘going back to basics’ in
education [there is no going back to a traditional facts based
(above-below, right-wrong, good-evil)
education system and a support for a patriarchal paradigm] ; we must go forward to a set of ‘new basics’
required for success in today’s increasing complex and competitive
global economy.” The "Toolkit"
also listed the ten
regional training laboratories
(Federally funded Marxist training camps).
Shirley McCune made the point very clear (concerning 'not going back to
basics') in her speech at a governors conference in Kansas, speaking
on the subject of "the transformation of society" and
the teaching of "changing facts" (the 'facts' of "oughtiness"
which are the feelings of dissatisfaction children have toward parental
restraints). Audio:
part 1, part
2.
In the second book on classroom curriculum,
Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives: Book II Affective Domain, we read
"Meyers in his study emphasizing group think, Higher
Horizons 1961, stated that 'to develop attitudes and values toward
learning which are not shaped by the parents" produces
"conflict and tension between parents and children, ... who are not
participating in the special opportunities." "… objectives can best
be attained where the individual is separated from earlier
environmental conditions and when he is in association with a group
of peers who are changing in much the same direction and who thus
tend to reinforce each other." "… Coleman (1961) demonstrates very
clearly that during the adolescent periods, under some conditions,
the peer group has a greater effect on the students than do teachers
and, perhaps, parents.” (David Krathwohl, Benjamin
Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives: Book II Affective Domain, p. 83)
This
reflects the humanistic quest to overthrow the structure of the
traditional family, as is best explained by Warren Bennis in his award
winning book The Temporary Society. "It is necessary, in other words, artificially to
create an experiential chasm between parents and children—to
insulate the children in order that they can more easily be
indoctrinated with new ideas. If one wishes to mold children in
order to achieve some future goal, one must begin to view them as
superior. One must teach them not to respect their tradition-bound
elders, who are tied to the past and know only what is irrelevant."
(Warren Bennis The Temporary Society) This is the
same environmental conditions necessary for
brainwashing.
It is this family structure
of chastening, putting restraint upon the carnal
human nature of the next generation, which had to be overcome if
globalism was to become reality. You only have the right to chasten if
there is an established right and wrong behavior, but you do not have the right
to chasten if there is no established right and wrong behavior.
Dialectically, the rejection of chastening in the school
system was justified in the
belief that there are no established right-wrong behaviors (man is
neither good nor evil, only a product of his environment, i.e. his
educational upbringing), that
only progressing ("changing") behaviors along a spectrum
of "changingness" (from pre- to post-
behavior) was an appropriate means of evaluation in the classroom environment
(the intended behavior, resulting from a unit of instruction being
used, was the purpose of the "Taxonomy," the
students reaction to the environment revealed his paradigm and his
'willful' participation within the environment changed his paradigm to
be in alignment with the environment). This is not be possible since anyone pointing out
restraining behavior (inappropriate behavior) would have to be treated as
demonstrating wrong behavior.
Dialectically this is
circumvented by treating wrong behavior (patriarchal behavior which
chastens) as irrational and therefore as irrelevant (we now
remediate rather than punish, mediate rather than find guilt). Therefore, as you find
less and less support for your way of thinking, feeling, and
acting, and you struggle to make ends meet (due to higher taxes and
higher costs used to support socialist programs which take away your
inalienable rights), it is not because you
have done anything 'wrong,' it is because you refuse to recognize,
participate in, and support that environment which is 'right' for "positive social change."
You are not being
chastened, you are simply being re-mediated, i.e. re-educated
(brainwashed, your brain washed of fear of God and love of Him and His
Word).
By initiating a permissive environment (through the use of
an 'open-ended,' 'non-directed' dialogue environment) and encouraging 'driving forces'
of "sensuous needs" for positive social
change (people wanting to work together to change the current
situation to satisfy their 'sensuous needs,' i.e. carnality, i.e.
changingness and belongingness), restraining forces will become manifest (those
being preaching and
teaching used to keep things as they are, thereby restraining 'sensuous needs'). Then the restraining forces
can more easily be identified and dealt with as the facilitator sustains
control though the use of the "open-ended, non-directed," permissive, dialogue based
environment, initiated and sustained for the purpose of "change." “Driving forces are
those forces or factors affecting a situation which are 'pushing' in a
particular direction; they tend to initiate a change and keep it going.
Restraining forces may be likened to walls or barriers. They only
prevent or retard movement toward them.... the first step may be to
determine what forces, if any, must be dealt with before a change can
occur.” (Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne Human Relations in
Curriculum Change) The dialectical environment is not only anathema to the
traditional family structure but also anathema to a representative form of government
(limited government which must recognize and respect the traditional families
right to train up their children in the patriarchal paradigm environment).
This
"positive social change process" is barbarism, masquerading as
'innovation and change,'
while it dismantles
civil, limited government for the cause of humanistic
totalitarianism (globalism). “Freud saw that in the id
[man's want of gratifying objects in the environment] there is no negation, only
affirmation and eternity. The instinctual reality is Dionysian drunkenness ‘We
can come nearer to the id with images, and call it a chaos, a cauldron of
seething excitement.’” (Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History)
The traditional family, chastening their children, would mess up the
Id-Ego connection and negate socialism (both in its fascist approach
and in its globalist approach, i.e. both one and the same in
structure, i.e. both dialectical).
Even the Transformational Marxist, Kurt Lewin, know the connection
between Communism (democratization) and Fascism. He wrote:
a
“hierarchy of leaders has to be trained which reach out into
all essential sub-parts of the group.” “Hitler himself has
obviously followed very carefully such a procedure.” “The
democratic procedure will have to be as thorough and as solidly
based on group organization.”
(Kurt Lewin as quoted in Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in
Curriculum Change). Without love, righteousness,
and chastening as a part of the home environment, the two socialist
brothers (Fascism/Traditional Communism/"nationalism" and
Globalism/Transformational Communism-communitarianism/Internationalism,
etc.) will persist, unrestrained, fighting over which will get the
"heart" of the people and their land. Both, as
wicked children, dispise chastening, especially that chastening which
comes from God. "For whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth , and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and
not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh
which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much
rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own
pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his
holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby." Hebrews 12:6-11 (emphasis added)
With the removal of chastening from the classroom (chastening which was carried out because of a child's wrong behavior), the classroom, and consequently society, was trained to 'scientifically' discover its own carnal nature as the basis of reality. Human behavior, which is highly esteemed among men (which is an abomination in God's eyes) would from now on be perceived as 'normal,' and tolerated as good behavior as long as it did not hinder socialism (as long as it 'benefited' all of mankind), and righteous behavior, behavior which is pleasing to God (a product of chastening), would now be considered as evil. Any behavior which restrains 'normal' human behavior is now perceived as evil. The very act of "science" applied to man would result in this outcome. This is the objective desired by those who are lovers of the creation and its pleasure―humanists, environmentalists, socialists.... Science, when applied to man becomes dialectical, i.e. 'so called science,' a 'science' which ties man to the creation ("only that which proceeds from Nature" Karl Marx). Science, tied to the fallen nature of man, makes man and his fallen nature the norm for life. Therefore humanists become the judge over all things which man does, determining a persons worth by their 'willful' participation in the "scientific," dialectical process. Whoever determines how science is to be used, defines what is real and what is illusion. True science recognizes the workmanship of God, dialectical science can only declare a Godless world where only Nature is real. "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." Romans 1:19-32
"Thus when ‘science’ maintains that the manner in which data immediately present themselves is an adequate foundation of scientific conceptualisation and that the actual form of these data is the appropriate starting-point for the formation of scientific concepts, it thereby takes its stand simply and dogmatically on the basis of capitalist society. It uncritically accepts the nature of the object as it is given and the laws of that society as the unalterable foundation of ‘science’." "The dialectical method was overthrown and with it the methodological supremacy of the totality over the individual aspects; the parts were prevented from finding their definition within the whole and, instead, the whole was dismissed as unscientific or else it degenerated into the mere ‘idea’ or ‘sum’ of the parts. With the totality out of the way, the fetishistic relations of the isolated parts appeared as a timeless law valid for every human society." (György Lukács History & Class Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism?)
Man in his fallen condition
(having rejected hope in God, placing all his hope in himself, his
nature and nature itself) can therefore no longer evaluate reality past his own carnal nature,
justifying it (valuing it and validating it) as the standard from which to determine what
is of worth and what is not of worth, what is rational and what is
irrational and therefore what is relevant and what is irrelevant (what
is appropriate and what is inappropriate). Evaluation is therefore bound to his
feelings, his values, and his reasoning, all which are of, by, and for his carnal nature,
focusing upon that which is
common to all sinful mankind (this is the ground upon which
philosophy is initiated and sustained, taking possession of man's soul). Even when
religion is involved in this type of observation or evaluation, it
is subject to human value ("felt" needs, "sensuous needs"―the lust of the flesh),
perception ("sense perception"― the lust of the eyes), and reasoning
put into action ("sense experience"―the pride of carnal life) and
must find its 'purpose' in the creation, 'driven' by the pressure
(desire for approval and pleasure and free from alienation and pain) to only be recognized and tolerated
by and conformed to
("transformed" by) man's carnal nature.
Post-modernism means that there is no fixed
reference point outside of the 'contemporary' human experience.
Post-christianity means that there is no conviction, and therefore
no contrition (constraint) as the result of God's law and judgment upon sin,
and that fear of judgment, hell, and eternal damnation must not be utilized
in spreading the 'gospel' of God's love. The gospel has become
interpreted as a
general message of God's love―positive to man's nature, and no
longer a personal message exposing personal sins and God's judgment
upon them. The need to personally repent of sins,
turn from carnal nature, and seek God's face, that is to die to the
self-life, pick up your cross, in other words to willingly accept social
rejection (shaming), and follow after Christ, putting on the mind of Christ, replacing your mind, which is by
nature carnal, with His mind, which is spiritual―which is negative to man's
nature, is all overshadowed by the quest of finding the common
'good' of all mankind and nature and building common ground (synthesis)
upon it, 'scientifically,' as was done in the Garden in Eden (Genesis
3:1-6). "In the process of history man gives birth to
himself. He becomes what he potentially is, and he attains
what the serpent―the symbol of wisdom
and rebellion―promised, and what the patriarchal, jealous God of
Adam did not wish: that man would become like God himself."
(Erich Fromm, You
shall be as gods) “If the guilt accumulated in the civilized domination
of man by man can ever be redeemed by freedom, then the ‘original sin’ must
be committed again: ‘We must again eat from the tree of knowledge in order
to fall back into the state of innocence.” (Herbart Marcuse, Eros and
Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud) “To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the
forbidden fruit; and this book cannot without sinning communicate that
experience to the reader." (Normal O. Brown, Life Against Death:
The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
In this way, faith in a 'there-and-then' world to come
by God's will is replaced by sight in the 'here-and-now' world
which can be made by man's will (we can build the
'there-and-then' world in the
'here-and-now,' making it harmonious with our 'here-and-now' carnal
nature). "The abolition of religion, as the illusory happiness of
men, is a demand for their real happiness. The call to abandon their illusions
about their condition is a call to abandon a condition which requires
illusions ["illusions" meaning faith in God and His Word].” (Karl Marx MEGA I/1/1)
“The only practically possible emancipation is the unique theory
which holds that man is the supreme being for man.”
(Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right')
“The essence of man is
not an abstraction inherent in each particular individual ["The
essence of man is not" his soul , created by and thus accountable to
God above].” “The real
nature of man is the totality of social relations.” (Karl Marx Thesis
on Feuerbach # 6) "In the dialogic relation
of recognizing oneself in the other, they experience the common ground
of their existence." (Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human
Interest) “It is not individualism that fulfills the
individual, on the contrary it destroys him. Society is the necessary
framework through which freedom and individuality are made realities…
only in a socialist society.” (Karl Marx) “Only within a social
context individual man is able to realize his own potential as a
rational being.” (Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of
Right') “The individual is emancipated in the social group.”
(Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History) Only when the immediate interests are
integrated into a total view and
related to the final goal of the process do they become revolutionary,"
"Marx sees … consciousness as ‘practical critical activity’ with the task of
‘changing the world’." (György Lukács History & Class
Consciousness) "The individual accepts the new system of values and
beliefs by accepting belongingness to the group.” (Kurt Lewin
Human Relations in Curriculum Change ed. by
Kenneth Benne) "One of the most fascinating aspects of group
therapy is that everyone is born again, born together in the group."
(Irvine D. Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy)
"Small groups are the most effective way of closing
the back door of your church." (Rick Warren)
The contemporary Christian rejects denying himself (refuses to put his
psychological, love of self, lust of the flesh to death), picking up the
cross of social rejection (refuses to put his sociological self,
approval of men, love of this world to death), and following after
Jesus, and instead esteems himself (loves social approval), picks up the
cross of being reproved, corrected, rebuked, and chastened by
"fundamental religious extremists," "Bible thumpers," for his
carnal human nature, and follows after the contemporary "church,"
helping it build social unity (the kingdom of gods) in the name of
Jesus.
“Science is only genuine science when it proceeds from sense experience, in the two forms of sense perception and sensuous need, that is, only when it proceeds from Nature.” (Karl Marx MEGA I/3, p. 123) bolded emphasis added
“It is clear that no expositions can be regarded as scientific which do not follow the course of this method [the dialectical process], and which are not conformable to its simple rhythm, for that is the course of the thing itself.” “I could not of course imagine that the method which in the system of logic I have followed is not capable of much elaboration in detail, but at the same time I know that it is the only true method.” (George Hegel as quoted in Carl Friedrich, The Philosophy of Hegel)
" ... Dr. Skinner ... Walden Two ... the behavioral sciences are fully utilized in all aspects of life, -- marriage, child rearing, ethical conduct, work, play, and artistic endeavor." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)
"The ideas of the Enlightenment taught man that he could trust his own reason as a guide to establishing valid ethical norms and that he could rely on himself, needing neither revelation nor that authority of the church in order to know good and evil.” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists)
“The Christian religion has been deeply affected by the process of Enlightenment and the conquest of the scientific spirit.” (Theodor W. Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality)
Pleasure is a natural product of the body.
Pleasure is stimulated internally by
objects in the external environment (the world) through the nerve
system. Pleasure can also be stimulated by our thoughts upon objects
in the environment (imagination). Nature finds its 'purpose,' for
natural man, by its ability to stimulate pleasure within man ("only
when it proceeds from Nature"). It is thus our contact
with nature which initiates and sustains, i.e. triggers and prolongs
internal "felt" needs of pleasure ("sensuous needs"). It is our
carnal nature
to look into the environment for the object which stimulates pleasure ("sense
perception"). It is our carnal nature to initiate or sustain
experiential relationship with objects which stimulate pleasure ("sense
experience").
Science, when applied to man's behavior, his carnal nature, can only
analyze mans earthy nature and his lust for the things of this world.
Man's kingdom of heaven is grounded upon the happiness and
pleasures of this life, his kingdom of heaven being established upon
sensuousness and spontaneity, dependent upon his relationship with the
world (the creation). God's kingdom of heaven is filled with the
joy and peace which only God can provide through the work of his Holy
Spirit, his kingdom of heaven being filled with only those who have
repented before God the Father for their sins (their deeds of
unrighteousness), his kingdom of heaven filled with those who believe
upon the Son of God for the forgiveness of their sin (his righteousness
being imputed unto them by his death―and
eternal life promised through his resurrection from the grave), and his
kingdom filled with those who are now not only desires to be obedient
but now able to be obedient to God the Father's will through the work of
His Holy Spirit, his kingdom of heaven filled with those who live by
faith in God and his Word, his kingdom of heaven filled with those
living in relationship with God the creator of the creation, filled with
those who put their hope and trust in Him. "Not every one that
saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but
he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess
also before my Father which is in heaven." "For whosoever shall do
the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and
sister, and mother." "And call no man your father upon the earth:
for one is your Father, which is in heaven." "After this manner
therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
for ever. Amen." "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and
steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Matthew 7:21, 10:32, 12:50, 23:9, 6:9-13, 19-21
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16
It is our earthy nature to attempt to
restore relationship with any object
which stimulates pleasure that has been removed or is being removed (by
cunning or force if necessary). "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they
not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust,
and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight
and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive
not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."
James 4:1-3 Though it is God who created us from the earth, he
also formed us in his own image, making us living souls by breathing the
breath of life into Adam. "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul." Genesis 2:7 This act alone
separates us from all the rest of the creation in that we have a soul
which will live on for eternity, either in heaven or in hell.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for
his soul?" Mark 8:36, 37 " And fear not them which kill
the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which
is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28
Yet, when apart from God, we turn to our earthy nature and worship the
creation, loving the world until we (our fleshly bodies) return to the
dust of the ground from which we were made. " Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7 Rejecting God we lust after
the pleasures of the flesh and the world, yielding our lives to the
accumulation and control of its temporal (temporary) pleasures.
While the law is perfect, in agreement with the Spirit, it
only serves to expose our earthy nature, that we are not living our
lives subject to God, that we are living as though we were god's ourselves, not
obeying His will but doing our earthly will instead. The law
brings us to the realization that we must repent
of our sins which we have committed against our Heavenly Father,
repenting meaning Godly sorrow, for even Judas repented, but not to
salvation but rather to death. " For godly sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh
death." 2 Corinthians 7:10. The Law brings us to the
realization that we need salvation, that we must believe upon His Son, who the
Father sent to redeem us from His judgment upon our sin of breaking the
Law (belief without
repentance is of no avail for even Satan believes and fears but he shows
no work or behavior which manifests repentance, "Thou believest that
there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and
tremble." James 2:18 ). The Law brings us to the
realization that we can not obey God in our own strength, but must be led by his Holy Spirit,
who He has sent to guide us in obedience to His will for our life, making
it possible for God's work to be manifest through our lives. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."
John 16:13 If we do not have the Spirit of God, the love of the
Father, in us, we, by our carnal nature, love the world and the pleasure
it offers us. All of this, repentance which produced belief which
results in obedience, which can only come from the work of God, must proceed from faith, for it is impossible to
please God without faith. " But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that
he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6
The scriptures are very clear about this battle between the
flesh of man and the Spirit of God. Flesh in and of itself is not
evil or good, it is simply a product of the earth, it is man's lust of
it which is evil. Yet our soul, which is eternal, shall give an
account for our thoughts and actions while we lived in these temples of
clay, whether we live by faith in God and manifest his works which
proceed from the Spirit or rely upon sight and manifest our works which
proceed from our flesh. If our hearts are upon the things of this
world, then the words of our mouth reveal our lust for earthly
treasures, but if our heart is upon the Lord, then the words of our
mouth reveals his righteousness and love within us. " A good man out
of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and
an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that
which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh."
Luke 6:45 " But I say unto you, That every idle word that men
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be
condemned." Matthew 12:36, 37
Thus our obedience―through
the work of the Holy Spirit, fulfills the work of God in us,
which manifests our belief―in the
work of Christ, for the remission of our sins, manifests our repentance―recognizing
and confessing our sins, as revealed in the light of the will of the
Father, by his Word, manifests our faith in God, all which, working
together for good, by God's grace and mercy, grant us "everlasting
life," all proceeding from Him, so that no man can boast.
" For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
Ephesians 2:8, 9 " That whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into
the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in
God." John 3:15-21
Without faith, repentance, belief, and obedience in God, we
can not love the Father and do his will, but can only love this present
world, our flesh being master over us, our mind being subject to the
pleasures of this life, and therefore our soul being subject to God's judgment and
wrath. "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee
shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then
every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Romans
14:11, 12 " Mortify therefore your members which are upon the
earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’
sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the
which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them."
Colossians 3:5-7 In all of this, our faith in God and His Word must lead
us to repentance if we are to escape judgment and have hope in eternal
life. " Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy
upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
Isaiah 55:7
"If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15
"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Galatians 5:17-21
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Hebrews 2:14, 15
"Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." 1 Peter 4:1, 2
"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:1-9"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." 2 Corinthians 10:3-6
"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 2 Corinthians 4:8-11
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." 1 Corinthians 15:45-50
It is also our nature, if the object of desire is not present or is unattainable in the "here and now" environment, to create the relationship internally (through the use of imagination). By the use of imagination man is able to work out, through mental role-playing (see Moreno below), a situation in which the pleasure which can not be "naturally" acquired, can be internally stimulated, through fantasy, so that the person can artificially experience the pleasure wanted. Science, when used upon man's behavior, can only recognize those thoughts and actions which correlate with man's imagination seeking pleasure (and therefore identity them and purpose their manifestation as being) from the world. Therefore "science" can only recognize and support that which ties man to the creation (society, i.e. socialism). Science, when applied to man, can only justify these carnal impulses ("mimesis") which drive man (internally and externally; imagined and real) into union with the creation (finding and holding onto that which he has in common with it and that which it has in common with him―common-ism; "... he lives openly and freely in relation to others, guiding his behavior on the basis of his immediate experiencing – he has become an integrated process of changingness.” (Carl Rogers on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy). This is the pathway that the wisdom of man always takes, in man's endeavor to discover, scientifically, his purpose in life. "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness." 1 Corinthians 3:19 "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." 1 Corinthians 3:17 "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise." 2 Corinthians 10:12 "But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." James 3:14-17
Although social-psychologists, "behavior scientists" (using wisdom that is from below, "higher order thinking skills" which is sense based) may try to produce a world of peace, gentleness, goodness, justice, honesty, etc., without the regeneration of man's heart by God it is impossible. The "wisdom" of the world can only produce that which Carl Rogers aimed for, an anti-Patriarchal civilization. “‘Have you merely released the beast, the id, in man?’ There is no beast in man. There is only man in man, and this we have been able to release.” “In psychology, Freud and his followers have presented convincing arguments that the id, man’s basic and unconscious nature, is primarily made up of instincts which would, if permitted expression, result in incest, murder, and other crimes.” “The whole problem of therapy, as seen by this group, is how to hold these untamed forces in check in a wholesome and constructive manner, rather than in the costly fashion of the neurotic.” (Carl Rogers on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy) By the phrase "the costly fashion of the Neurotic" Rogers means what Brown stated: “parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, . . . have all left man overly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic.” “The bondage of all cultures to their cultural heritage is a neurotic construction.” “Neurotic symptoms, with their fixations on perversions and obscenities, demonstrate the refusal of the unconscious essence of our being to acquiesce in the dualism of flesh and spirit, higher and lower.” (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History) As King David warned: "For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." Psalms 10:3, 4
" And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." " ... for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;..." Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21 (excerpt)
"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matthew 24:37-39
True religion does not come by private interpretation, through human
experience. True religion does not come through sight―imagination and theory, but is revealed
to man beyond his natural capacities or reasoning. True religion
must be accepted
by faith. Science must begin with private interpretation which is
justified through human experience, i.e. observable and repeatable.
Science
makes all things material and thus of a
temporal nature. Imagination upon things of this world can only
leave us with things of this world to think upon. "Religion
and science can be kept apart, indeed, one is able to do
conscientious screening and not let one activity impede the
other―in
short, it is an exercise in 'role
playing.'"
(J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive?) Role playing is
imagination put into practice, manifesting the material nature of man,
and therefore can be evaluated scientifically.
The very act of role-playing "emancipates" us from those things which come from above,
separates us from those
things which can only come by preaching and teaching, i.e. separates
us from those things which can
only be spiritually discernable, since they appear as "formal-logical laws of contradiction" to our carnal nature ("By
dialectic, I mean an activity of conscious, struggling to
circumvent, the limitations imposed by the formal-logical law of
contradiction." Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History).
Role-playing circumvents that which is only spiritually discernable,
leaving the room full of people uniting upon cosmic oneness, founded
upon the "mimesis" or temporal "impulses"
of the moment.
“[Human] emancipation lies in fantasy and the language of experience irreducible to linguistic rules: mimesis. . . . Marcuse thus could write that ‘the realm of freedom lies beyond mimesis.’” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists) “Universal Reconciliation relies on a reason that is before reason-mimesis or ‘impulse.’” (Jürgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action) “Impulse, the primary fact, back of which, psychically we cannot go.” (John Dewey, “Social Psychology,” Psychological Review, I, July, 1894)
"Eros is fundamentally a desire for union with objects in the world." "Sexual instincts seeks union with objects in the world." "Infants have a richer sexual life than adults." "What the child knows consciously and the adult unconsciously, is that we are nothing but body." "Infantile sexuality is the pursuit of pleasure obtained through the activity of any and all organs of the human body [touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, seeing, muscular activity, pain, etc.]. "Our repressed desires are the desires we had unrepressed, in childhood; and they are sexual desires." “Children are polymorphously perverse. . . . by the standards of normal adult sexuality.” Fore-pleasure is the preliminary play with all parts of the body, and represent a perpetuation of the pure polymorphous perverse play of infantile sexuality.”
"Normal adult sexuality, judged by the standard of infantile sexuality, is an unnatural restriction of the erotic potentialities of the human body." "Capitulation enforced by parental authority under the threat of loss of parental love . . . can be accomplished only by repression." "In man, infantile sexuality is repressed and never outgrown;" "The repression of normal adult sexuality is required only by cultures which are based on patriarchal domination." "Adult sexuality, restricted by rules, to maintain family and society, . . . leads to neurosis." "Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, . . . have all left man overly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic."
"Freud takes with absolute seriousness the proposition of Jesus: 'Except ye become as little children, ye can in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." "In the words of Thoreau: 'We need pray for no higher heaven than the pure senses can furnish, a purely sensuous life. Our present senses are but rudiments of what they are destined to become.'" "Therefore the question confronting mankind is the abolition of repression - in traditional Christian language, the resurrection of the body." "Eros is the foundation of morality." "Self-perfection of the human individual is fulfilled in union with the world in pleasure."
"Psychoanalysis declares the fundamental bisexual character of human nature; .... The ‘magical’ body of occidental mysticism, and the ‘diamond’ body of oriental mysticisms, and, in psychoanalysis, the polymorphously perverse body of childhood." “Dionysus affirms the dialectical unity of the great instinctual opposites: reunifies male and female, Self and Others, life and death.” (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)“‘... The conflict between civilization and sexuality is caused by the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two people,... whereas civilization is founded on relations between large groups of persons.... In no other case does Eros so plainly betray the core of his being, his aim of making one out of many; but when he has achieved it in the proverbial way through the love of two human beings, he is not willing to go further.’” (Freud Civilization and Its Discontents)
“... according to Freud, the drive toward ever larger unities belongs to the biological-organic nature of Eros itself.” “... the modifications and deflections of instinctual energy necessitated by the perpetuation of the monogamic-patriarchal family, or by a hierarchical division of labor, or by public control of the individuals private existence are instances of surplus- repression ..." (Herbart Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud)
"A patriarchal culture is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of social actualization" (Abraham H. Maslow on Management)
"Feelings, joy, and pleasure [Empfindung, Lust und Genuss] are sanctioned and justified so that nature and freedom, sensuousness and reason, find their unity their right and their gratification." (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Vorlesungen über die Aesthetik Volume 1)
Our body naturally produces chemicals, such as
dopamine,
which are associated with physical sensations. There are some 50 or more of
these chemicals our body naturally produces, called neurotransmitters,
which reveal to us the world around us and within us, i.e. pain,
pleasure, heat, cold, touch, taste, sight, smell, sound, etc.
Neurotransmitters are manufactured and stored at the posterior end of
nerve cells and are released (emancipated, liberated) into
a small gap, called a
synaptic gap, when our nerve receptors are
stimulated by specific conditions which only they 'recognize' in the
environment. When a nerve is stimulated by something within the
environment, designed by God to make us aware of the external conditions
around us, it
prompts an electrical impulse which is sent down the nerve toward the
brain. When the impulse reaches the other end (the posterior end) of the nerve, it
triggers the release of a chemical or several chemicals which then convey the
information across the synaptic gap. When the
neurotransmitter has traveled across the
synaptic gap, it reaches the next nerve (its receptors), which then is activated,
sending information, by electrical impulse, on toward the brain,
where the same event takes place between the nerve endings (the synaptic
gap of the dendrites) within the brain and its many neurons.
A
neuron within the brain can connect with thousands of other
neurons with what are called dendrites. Information is
stored within the synaptic gaps or dendrites within the brain. Thus,
through our nervous system we
become aware of, retain, think upon, and respond to information we are
experiencing or have experienced from the world around us.
In the case of dopamine (a neurotransmitter
associated with pleasure; the neurotransmitter associated with the wanting of a gratifying
object we have encountered in the environment), any event within the environment around us,
which is pleasurable or appears to be pleasurable, is relayed toward the
brain as something to be approached, i.e. "This experience is worth
paying attention to." It is therefore our nature to approach
pleasure. It is our temporal, carnal nature (animal nature
according to behavioral "scientists") which seeks to unity
with the world around us in pleasure ("positive social nature"). “The innermost core of
man’s nature, the base of his ‘animal nature,’ is positive in nature.”
(Carl Rogers on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)
For the humanist, the s
ocial-psychologists, it is the
'purpose' of education to train the next generation how to initiate
and sustain "positive social change." Without the
ability to creation and sustain a
"positive social" environment, whereby mankind can be drawn
together for the common cause of individual-social peace and harmony
(wholeness or wellness). Without learning how to create and
sustain proper environmental conditions man will not be able to live a
life of pleasure but will instead remain alienated from his own nature,
divided against himself and others. Mankind can only
realize and attain 'purpose' in life, by learning how to identify the
environment which limits or blocks "positive social
change," and
negate its 'influence' upon the next generation and society. A
world, unity in pleasure (Eros-dopamine), can only come to fruition as
man learns to identify with his own sensual nature and the sensual nature of the world.
“I can be
whatever I deeply am.” “I don’t know exactly who I am, but I can feel my
reactions at any given moment, and they seem to work out pretty well as
a basis for my behavior from moment to moment.” (Carl Rogers
on
becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)
Therefore, with the help of facilitation, the
"dialectical cycle" can be put into praxis and the self nature of
man (the carnal nature of man) be "actualized" ("self-actualization").
"Self-actualizing people have to a large extent
transcended the values of their culture. They are not so
much merely Americans as they are world citizens, members of
the human species first and foremost." (Abraham. H. Maslow,
The Further Reaches of Human Nature) "Third-Force psychology is also epi-Marxian in these senses,
i.e., including the most basic scheme as true-good social
conditions are necessary for personal growth, bad social
conditions stunt human nature, material conditions are prepotent
over spiritual ones, & SA [Self-Actualized] potentials,
religious laws, philosophy, ideology, are in fact all
by-products of basic social & economic conditions, while cutting
out the dogmatic Marxian a priori crap. This is to say,
one could reinterpret Marx into a self-actualization-fostering
Third- and Fourth-Force psychology-philosophy. And my
impression is anyway that this is the direction in which they
are going now." "Only a world government with world-shared values could be trusted or permitted
to take such powers. If only for such a reason a world government is necessary.
It too would have to evolve. I suppose it would be weak or lousy or even corrupt
at first--it certainly doesn’t amount to much now & won’t until sovereignty is
given up little by little by 'nations.'" (Abraham Maslow, The
Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II) With the
"self-actualization" of man comes the uniting of man upon his carnal
human nature into a "new" world order void of the Patriarchal Paradigm.
The dialectical belief is that once all of mankind thinks,
feels, and acts dialectically (his cognitively, affectively, and
psycho-motor domains are united upon a common social praxis) then
the world will be freed of "negative valences," i.e. freed of the
Patriarchal Paradigm and its affect upon society, freed of the fear of
chastening by those who are not in harmony with nature, and therefore
freed of any respect for (and tolerance of) those who use force or
threat of force upon those seeking harmony (seeking "universal
reconciliation") with nature.
“Universal Reconciliation - where reconciliation
includes the interaction of human beings with nature, with animals,
plants, and minerals.” (Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of
Communicative Action., 1981 see F. Grenz, Adornos Philosophie,
pp. 57-58) Dopamine emancipation, as a result of objects
of pleasure
found within the environment, is the driving force behind universal
reconciliation.
“Universal Reconciliation relies on a reason that is before
reason-mimesis or ‘impulse.’” (Jürgen Habermas The Theory of
Communicative Action)
“Impulse, the primary fact,
back of which, psychically we cannot go.” (John Dewey, “Social
Psychology,” Psychological Review, I, July, 1894, p. 404)
Human
"emancipation lies in fantasy and the language of experience
irreducible to linguistic rules: mimesis. Marcuse thus could
write that ‘the realm of freedom lies beyond mimesis [it lies
within nature itself, that is, nature freed of unnatural restraints].’”
(Stephen
Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists)
It is the environment of unnatural restraint, restraining or
blocking human nature from its intended goal of actualizing itself, i.e.
finding oneness with (and within) nature. It is the Patriarchal
Paradigm, with its top down, right-wrong, good-evil, above below way of
thinking and acting (preaching and teaching righteousness and chastening
wrong behavior to produce a "peaceful fruit of righteousness"),
which inhibits or blocks the dialectical cycle, thereby inhibiting or
blocking universal harmony. “The negative valence of a
forbidden object which in itself attracts the child thus usually derives
from an induced field of force of an adult. If this field of force loses its
psychological existence for the child (e.g., if the adult goes away or loses
his authority) the negative valence also disappears.” (Kurt Lewin, A
Dynamic Theory of Personality) In this way (through the
use of a dialectically engendered environment), when the child is freed
of the fear of chastening, freed to relate with the "forbidden objects"
which naturally attract him, both alienation (divisions between
mankind caused by differences of beliefs) and reification (the
sustaining of the patriarchal condition and beliefs because of the fear
of reprimand for disobedience) can be "rationally" and "actually"
negated (negated in theory-internally in the mind, and negated in
practice-in social action or praxis). The dialectical
process allows the person to experience an environment where he can "be
himself." Within its heresiarchal domain a person can discover a
'life' outside the realm of commands and obedience (be liberated from
Patriarchal authority both in theory and in action) and learn how to
circumvent, i.e. negate, the Patriarchal Paradigm within (sear
the conscience). Thereby, having no conscience (the conscience
"replace" with the super-ego) the person can be freed to annihilate
the Patriarchal Paradigm without. Through the praxis of
diversity dialoging to consensus over social issues in a facilitated
meeting and putting the outcome (the process just experienced) into
action, a "new" world order can be creating where the Patriarchal home
and Patriarchal business is perceived as being irrational and therefore
irrelevant. Putting theory into practice the Patriarchal home and
business will thereafter be treated with contempt in all facets of
society, in the media, in the workplace, in the government, in
education, in the community (common-unity), and even in the church.
The very praxis of "positive social change" negates
the Patriarchal Paradigm, i.e. negates, absolutes, negates
the conscience, negates private property, negates private
business, and negates parental and Godly authority, not only in
the mind but also the actions of all those who are deceived into
participating within its wicked domain.
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. {reprobate: or, of no judgment." 2 Timothy 3:1-8 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3, 4 emphasis added
"Thinking through the process it is dialectically faulty to start with the negative, with anxiety [starting with parental or Godly commands shuts down spontaneity]. The problem is to name the dynamic factor provoking anxiety to emerge [the "intrusive" command of the parent or God and the fear of punishment for disobeying must be replaced with an environment of permissiveness, an "open-ended" (you can say whatever you want to say without reprimand), "non-directed" (I am not going to tell you what to say or do), environment where spontaneity is given liberation. In this way the parents command is perceived by the child as being irrelevant, and therefore their anxiety is perceived as being irrational]. Anxiety is a function of spontaneity [without anxiety, spontaneity would not expose the parent (the patriarchal paradigm) as being 'irrational']. Spontaneity can be defined as the adequate response to a new situation, or the novel response to an old situation [spontaneity is the true nature (changing nature) of man seeking expression, i.e. actualization, in an unnatural (unchanging) condition]. With decrease of spontaneity anxiety increases [increasing restrain against spontaneity increases anxiety]. With entire lose of spontaneity anxiety reaches its maximum, the point of panic [If man is not allowed to change (be spontaneous) in changing times (in times which cry out for spontaneity) he will "feel" like he is going to die, 'I will just die if I can't go out with my new friends.']." (J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive)
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter which produces the feeling of "wanting" a gratifying object which we have encounter (or wish to encounter) within the environment. Whether it is from the smell of freshly baked bread, the taste of something sweet, the touch of something or someone, the sound of music or a voice, the view of a sunset or a person, or a complement from somebody, if a neuron associated with pleasure is activated, we are drawn to the object which stimulated it. We long for approval (belonging) from the world around us. Actually we long for the pleasure we receive from the "sense experience" of dopamine emancipation which our contact with the world stimulates. We also experience dopamine emancipation as the result of the approval we receive from the world around us. It is not only the toy from which the child gets pleasure (dopamine emancipation), it is also the approval he receives from the parent as he plays with it. Without that approval, fear of disapproval takes over (anxiety). Anxiety then reappears if the child continues to look at or play with the now 'forbidden' toy even when the parent is not around. Neurosis is produced when the child receives pleasure from a higher authority, who limits his seeking pleasure from the natural world around him. This condition (Patriarchal Paradigm) produces a religious or spiritual mindset which is not in harmony with nature, resulting in what Sigmund Freud called a 'substitute-gratification' and Karl Marx called an 'opiate of the people." Thus, when the neurotransmitter dopamine is emancipated into the synaptic gap, to convey information toward the brain (information of a gratifying object present within the environment), which is then blocked by a higher authority, the child's natural response, to turn in the direction of nature is redirected to obedience to higher authority (out of fear of punishment for disobedience), redirected in the hope of satisfying the want of the moment, now found in the approval of higher authority, given to the child for his behavior of obedience to higher authority. Truth and reality are therefore, according to socio-psychology, bound within an unnatural condition (religion, the spiritual, the Patriarchal Paradigm, capitalism) which results in "neurosis," a 'belief-action dichotomy,' where man's natural behavior conflicts with his belief and his belief conflicts with his natural behavior. The error in thinking, by social-psychologists and those who think like them, is that they refuse to recognize (because of their dialectical reasoning, blindness) that man is created in the image of God, an image of righteousness, purity, obedience, and unselfish love, non of which can come from mans own nature. If they can not see this it is because the are using the wrong instrument for evaluation (perception and human reasoning) and are not using the right instrument for evaluation (the word of God and faith). "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." John 9:39-41
“Freud speaks of religion as a ‘substitute-gratification’ – the Freudian analogue to the Marxian formula, ‘opiate of the people.’” “If there is a universal neurosis, it is reasonable to suppose that its core is religion.... Psychoanalysis must treat religion as a neurosis.” (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History) “. . . Definition of religious experience as experience of absolute dependence is the definition of the masochistic experience in general.” (Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom) “Freud ... stressed the role of religion in the historical deflection of energy from the real improvement of the human condition to an imaginary world of eternal salvation...." (Herbart Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud) “The life which he has given to the object sets itself against him as an alien and hostile force.” (Karl Marx MEGA I/3, pp. 83-84) "Every form of objectification ... results in alienation. Transcending alienation involves transcending objectification.;” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists) “In direct contrast to German philosophy, which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven.” (Karl Marx MEGA I/5, p. 16)
Dopamine is likewise emancipated in the synaptic gaps within the brain. It is in the brain where the emancipation of dopamine aids in heightening our awareness of the object in the environment, stimulating muscular responses to relate with, attain, or retain the object of gratification, and storing information about the pleasurable experience with the object, producing recorded events for future mental use of the moment―imagination, phantasy, etc, to be used when the "here-and-now" environment is no longer filled with objects which stimulate dopamine emancipation or when the environment is boring or restraining against pleasure, like doing homework, chores, having nothing to do, doing something you don't want to do, not being able to do what you want to do, etc.
It is the sensual liberation of dopamine which our body desires (the wanting of the object in the environment which stimulated dopamine emancipation within us). This can lead us to, as the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans, "the law of sin which is in my members." When a child reaches out for a toy, which the parent is taking away from him, he is not in love with the toy itself, although his behavior may convince us he is, he is in love with the dopamine which the toy liberates within his body. "For men shall be lovers of their own selves ... lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God" 2 Timothy 3:1, 4 Consuming things unto themselves, for their own pleasure. See above, James 4:2. Whether it is done for individual greed (capitalism) or for collective harmony (socialism) it is still lust when it defies Godly restraint (neither word exists in God's vocabulary since it is the heart of man, his affections, which is of issue here. "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2 Psychology imprisons man to a world of sensuousness. God liberates him from it.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another.
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mind; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:1-21
"Lust" (and sin) comes into existence when the
person is instructed by higher authority not to seek out and enjoy or relate with the
naturally desired object within the environment ("sensuous need"), yet he continues to
think upon it ("sense perception") or goes ahead and enjoys it, relating with it (internally
or externally) for the pleasure (dopamine) it emancipates ("sense
experience"). " But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh
on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in
his heart." Mathew 5:28 It is therefore
"with the flesh" (the emancipation of dopamine or other
neurotransmitters and hormones associated with pleasure) that man serves "the law of sin."
Lust is man following after his carnal
(corporal, temporal, sensual, bodily) dopamine craving nature, when
instructed not to by God. As Paul wrote "So then with the mind
I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
God created us with a body which senses pleasure (that we might glorify
Him who created the world for us), not with the 'purpose' that we make
pleasure ("sensuous needs," "sense perception," "sense
experience," "only that which proceeds from Nature") the
'purpose' of life. Psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. are
all built upon the "sensuousness" of human nature. There
can never be a Christian Psychologist (Freud builds psychology upon
Orpheus―sensuousness expressed, and
Narcissus―sensuousness recognized,
in the land of "oughtiness," with no Ten
Commandments on the 'counseling' walls, love of God above this world,
and his Word accepted as the foundation for judging all thoughts,
feelings, and actions).
Psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. are built upon
"Lust." "Self-perfection of the human individual is fulfilled in union with the
world in pleasure." "Eros is fundamentally a desire for union with objects
in the world." "Eros is the foundation of morality."
"The goal of the pleasure principle is happiness. The energy or
desire with which the human being pursues pleasure is the pleasurable
activity of an organ of the body. Reality imposes on human beings
the necessity of renunciation of pleasure; reality frustrates desires.
The pleasure principle is in conflict with the reality principle, and
this conflict is the cause of repression. Freud, Hegel, and
Nietzsche are, like Marx, compelled to postulate external domination and
its assertion by force in order to explain repression. Under the
conditions of repression the essence of being lies in the unconscious."
"Dreams and neurotic symptoms show that the frustration of reality
cannot destroy the desires which are the essence of our being. If
society imposes repression, and repression causes the universal neurosis
of man, . . . there is an intrinsic connection between social
organization and neurosis. The bondage of all cultures to their
cultural heritage is a neurotic construction. The doctrine of the
universal neurosis of mankind, . . . The pattern of history
exhibits a dialectic of neurosis. The core of the neurosis of
individuals lay in the ‘memory-traces of the experiences of former
generations.’" "Infants know no guide except the
pleasure-principle. Infants have a richer sexual life than adults.
Infantile sexuality is the pursuit of pleasure obtained through the
activity of any and all organs of the human body. While adult
sexuality serves the socially useful purpose of breeding children, it is
for the individual in some sense an end in itself as a source of
pleasure – according to Freud, the highest pleasure." "Infants are
absorbed in their own bodies; they are in love with themselves. What the
child knows consciously and the adult unconsciously, is that we are
nothing but body. Life is of the body and only life creates value;
all values are bodily values. The true life of the body is also
the life of the id. In the id, says Freud, there is nothing
corresponding to the act of negation. The key to the nature of
dialectical thinking may lie in psychoanalysis, more specifically in
Freud’s psychoanalysis of negation. There is first the theorem
that ‘there is nothing in the id which can be compared to negation,’ and
that the law of contradiction does not hold in the id. The dream
does not seem to recognize the word ‘no.’ There is an important
connection between being ‘dialectical’ and dreaming." (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death:
The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:16, 15
It is not "lust" or sin unless God calls it lust or sin. "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." Romans 7:7
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James 4:1-10
It is in this way that the
environment is the stimulant of a bodily produced drug called dopamine
which creates a desire, a want for more of whatever it was in the
environment which stimulated it. It is not that God wants us to
reject this drug, i.e. the environment which stimulates it, but to
control it, take dominion over it for His pleasure (fleeing from the
environment which is stimulating the dopamine if necessary; "Flee
also youthful lusts:" 2 Timothy 2: 22a), expressing our love for
him, our creator (and not for the things of this world, that which he
created for us to glorify him), and manifest an obedience toward him (not out of our will,
which is for our vain glory but out of obedience to his will for his glory),
and not for our own pleasure and pride (consuming the things in the
environment for our own lusts). If we were to avoid the
environment which stimulated dopamine we would have to be outside the
world, in some vacuum, or be dead. Jesus spoke of death, not to the body
itself but to the mind being set upon it, serving it, and its natural
servitude to the world (if and when it is left unrestrained). " And he said to them all, If any man will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and
follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but
whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose
himself, or be cast away?" Luke 9:23-25 In even stronger
language Jesus stated: " If any man come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26
" He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it unto life eternal." John 12:25
We are in the world, but we are not to be "of the world,"
that is, we are not to be controlled by it through the pleasures (lusts)
which it stimulates within us. In the fellowship of believers we control
the environment to initiate and sustain a time of spiritual growth
without fleshly temptations and temporal justifications. " Teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly, in this present world;" Titus 2:12
As the Apostle Paul wrote: " I wrote unto you in an epistle not to
company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of
this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters;
for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written
unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a
fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or
an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to
do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are
within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away
from among yourselves that wicked person."
1 Corinthians 5:9-13
When it comes to the temptation, whether it be from
"within" or "without," we can not overcome it without
the work of Christ and the
work of the Holy Spirit. It is not that we will not be tempted or
suffer times of tribulation from the world (the worlds tribulation
against believers will not compare to God's tribulation against the
world), but rather that we will have the peace which only
Christ can offer, that peace which is spiritual and eternal, which can not
come from the world (which is only carnal and temporal, i.e. bound to
the self and its momentary relationship with the world, sensual). "Peace I
leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
John 14:27 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might
have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world." John 16:33
This is
why the Apostle Paul wrote "O wretched man that I am! who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:24, 25 The only escape
from the "rudiments of the world," is to be dead to the world by
being "dead with Christ," dying daily. "Wherefore if ye be dead with
Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the
world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and
doctrines of men?" "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."
Colossians 2:20-22, & 3:1-3 "Always bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are
alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus
might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 2 Corinthians
4:10, 11
The cognitive, affective, and
psycho-motor domains
correlate to the "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life"
when our flesh, eyes, and life are not subject to God's will,
when we are not "dead with Christ."
The "lust of the flesh" correlates to the cognitive domain as it is the domain which makes us aware (knowledgeable) of and sensually excited toward the object or event in the environment which originally stimulate the pleasure within us, i.e. for example stimulated dopamine emancipation ("the want of a gratifying object"). It is, to the humanist, all that man has to know, i.e. experientially, that which is relevant to life in the "here and now," that which is the quintessence of reality (sensuousness and human experience being one and the same in the moment, the belief that truth and reality does not reside outside of human experience, as thought frozen in time, but is instead relative to the ever changing moments of human experience ,i.e. praxis). "Kant was certainly correct in claiming that we can never fully know nonhuman reality." (Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality) "Knowing" therefore is only tied to a sensuous, carnal awareness of the temporal world around us, knowable only by "sensuous need," "sense perception," and "sense experience," that is "only that by that which proceeds from Nature." (Karl Marx) Philosophical, human experience ("sense experience"), driven by "the lust of the flesh" ("sensuous need"), can be the only avenue available to man to come to the knowledge of reality. While Kant split man between faith (God's Word as the basis for knowing reality―spiritual) and sight (human reasoning as the basis for knowing reality―temporal; "sensuous need") and Hegel bound faith to sight ("sense perception"), Karl Marx, making "eyes that are human eyes and ears that are human ears" the basis for reality, put sight (human "reasoning") into action (praxis; "sense experience") with the expressed 'purpose' of annihilating knowledge, i.e. faith in God. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6 "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." Luke 11:52
"Humanism asserts that the test of human conduct must be found in human experience; concern for man replaces concern about pleasing God. Humanism elevates man to the rank of God. Tillich’s message is that God is man, mankind, humanity. Tillichian salvation is a symbol, a symbol for becoming ultimately concerned about humanity―salvation in an “eternal” present. The answer to man’s predicament lies in the realization by individual man, that all men are essentially one and that the one is God. This self-realization is a “return” to union: potential becomes actual. One reason Tillich is unwilling to openly disavow religion is that he must be accepted as a theologian in order to formulate and gain acceptance of an imaginative Grand Synthesis of theology and philosophy. Tillich is actually directing an apologetic humanistic message to a Christian audience." (Leonard Wheat Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism)
"With the devaluation of the epistemic authority of the God’s eye view, moral commands lose their religious as well as their metaphysical foundation. The fact that moral practice is no longer tied to the individual’s expectation of salvation and an exemplary conduct of life through the person of a redemptive God and the divine plan for salvation has two unwelcome consequences. On the one hand, moral knowledge becomes detached from moral motivation, and on the other, the concept of morally right action becomes differentiated from the conception of a good or godly life. … uncoupling morality from questions of the good life leads to a motivational deficit. Because there is no profane substitute for the hope of personal salvation, we lose the strongest motive for obeying moral commands. With the loss of its foundation in the religious promise of salvation, the meaning of normative obligation also changes. The differentiation between strict duties and less binding values, between what is morally right and what is ethically worth striving for, already sharpens moral validity into a normativity to which impartial judgment alone is adequate. The shift in perspective from God to human beings has a further consequence. 'Validity' now signifies that moral norms could win the agreement of all concerned, on the condition that they jointly examine in practical discourse whether a corresponding practice is in the equal interest of all." "... if moral realism can no longer be defended by appealing to a creationist metaphysics then moral statements can no longer be assimilated to the truth of assertoric statements." (Jürgen Habermas Communicative Ethics The inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory)
The problem, as seen by social-psychologists, is that when a man is liberated (emancipated) from his belief (faith) in God (when he uses dialogue, human reasoning, i.e. "leaning to his own understanding," and "higher order thinking skills," instead of preaching and teaching as a means to knowing truth), he becomes disoriented as to where reality resides, and unless he is reattached to social praxis (a "new common-ism order") he will become maladjusted (doing his "own thing" in life, just drifting along with no social purpose), or in his moment of isolation and anxiety he might either return to belief in God or else turn and follow a man he sees as God, i.e. Hitler (return to the "old top-down order"). (The dialectical idea being, since isolationist support imperialism to sustain their isolationism, the only way to prevent imperialism, i.e. capitalism is to reattach the isolated person to socialism, i.e. by helping him find 'purpose' in life through participation in social causes. Divide and conquer: divide him by detaching him from his patriarchal source―making social approval more important than parental approval, and then conquer him by reattaching him to a heresiarchal source, i.e. socialism―make parental approval the source of crises in life, i.e. "negative social status quo," which man must deliver himself from, i.e. overcome and annihilate for the sake of all.)
“Man is free from all ties binding him to spiritual authorities, but this very freedom leaves him alone and anxious, overwhelms him with a feeling of his own individual insignificance and powerlessness.” “We may call this new order by the name of democratic socialism but the name does not matter; all that matters is that we establish a rational economic system serving the purposes of the people. Only in a planned economy in which the whole nation has rationally mastered the economic and social forces can the individual share responsibility and use creative intelligence in his work. All that matters is that the opportunity for genuine activity be restored to the individual; that the purposes of society and of his own become identical.” (Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom) This new world order must not allow the isolated person
The want of gratifying objects has become the
basis for human relationship building (interpersonal relationships)
within the Church. By making all participants pushers of pleasure,
i.e. approval merchants, all can unite upon the sensual experience
of oneness, actualizing positive social change within the
'diverse community.' "When a man has finally reached the point
where he does not think he knows it better than others, that is when he
has become indifferent to what they have done badly and he is interested
only in what they have done right, then peace and affirmation have come
to him." (G. F. W. Hegel, in one of the casual notes preserved at
Widener) This dialectical ideology, which negates the teaching of
Hebrews 12:4-11 (God chastens those whom He loves), is reflected in
"Christian" material regarding not only the Church today, but the family
as well. "Our children are not strengthened when we
point out what they've done wrong, but when we commend them for what
they've done right." (Josh McDowell and Norm Wakefield Chapter
10 Nurturing Christian Values, The Dad Difference: Creating an
environment for your child's sexual wholeness, p. 124)
Thereby, today, any barrier, any restraint to the "sensuous need"
of acceptance within the "fellowship" (the socially active
environment) is "sensually perceived" as
being negative, i.e. producing feelings of 'rejection,'
prejudice, discrimination, and hate provoked by pervaders of "spiritual abuse."
The solution to "spiritual abuse" is to follow after
Christ, and not follow after any man or any institution of man's making, as
though he is God and it is the only way to know and serve Him.
"And call no
man your father upon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heaven."
Matthew 23:9 Being dead to self and alive in Christ makes it
possible for us to follow in
Christ's obedience to His Heavenly Father, making "spiritual abuse"
just another social-psychological phrase which has pushed its
way into the church, through the "wisdom" of men. "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and
my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me." John 5:30 "For I have not
spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I
should say, and what I should speak." John 12:49 "Casting
down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5 No man or
institution must stand between you and God or serve as a substitute.
Those who focus upon ideas such as "spiritual abuse"
are still tied to the sensuousness of the flesh, using the "abuse"
issue for the satisfaction of their own lust for approval and praise of
men, i.e. covering up their own heart of impurity through controlling
others by their "wisdom," getting others to depend upon their own
opinion, instead of coming alongside believers who are "calling upon
the Lord our of a pure heart," coming alongside believers who are
depending upon that righteousness and wisdom which can only come from
above, from the word and work of God, Jesus Christ. When they should be
following after "righteousness, faith, charity, peace," with
believers who are doing the same, they instead "lean upon their own
understanding," criticizing anyone who is not participating in
the "social experience." "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow
righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord
out of a pure heart. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord
must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in
meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure
will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that
they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken
captive by him at his will." (2 Timothy 2:22-26) Their
focus upon "feelings" (social life), reveals their lack of faith
in, and knowledge of the word of God (arguing with others instead of
being submissive to God, making them unfit to instruct "those that
oppose themselves," i.e. those who are not established in and
therefore uncertain about the truth of God's word).
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16, 17
Those who use God's word to counter "spiritual abuse" are not
using God's word, but rather are using their opinion, their perception
of God's word.
Rather than coming alongside believers, in their walk with
the Lord, picking up their own cross alongside them, willing to stand
alone with Christ when called upon to do so, while not "giving up" on
the hope of meeting together with fellow believers, they instead focus
upon their "social" life, i.e. "What about your child's social life?"―focusing
upon human relationship, using Hebrews 10:25, "Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together..." for the cause of a social
agenda. They are coming together, drawn by their lust for the
satisfaction of sensuous needs, instead of being drawn together,
as fish are drawn in a net, drawn together in Christ, i.e. drawn together by
their common death with Him (by the blood of the Lamb) and by their
common hope in Him (by His resurrection) encouraging one another to be a
witness, "martyr," of the Lord, to endure, to continue to "stand" unto
the end of this life, loving not this life with its compromises, but
paying attention to one another, "providing" one another, i.e.
making others irritated or angry with them until they become upset with
themselves for their lack of "love and good works," which can
only come from the Lord. Being dead to self (and the group) and alive with Christ
"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for
he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:
and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews
10:23-25.
"Put on the whole
armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of
the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye
may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand." Ephesians 6:11
Christian parents often find themselves under duress as they
must protect their children from the compromise that now pervades the
church, its socialist agenda to humanize believers. Therefore, due
to the lack of believers with whom to have fellowship, they find it
difficult if not impossible to find fellowship outside the home.
It is not that they do not want to have fellowship with believers, but,
just as the pilgrims―who came to America
not for religious freedom (they had that in Holland)―they
must remove themselves from an environment promoting "religious"
compromise ("Christian humanism"), for the sake of their children's
souls.
When the church becomes youth centered, i.e. 'driven'
by the 'purpose' of human relationships building ("making
customers"; sensuous, carnal), it is no longer Christ
centered, i.e. repentant before God our Heavenly Father (because of our
sins against Him), believing upon the Son of God (for our redemption and
righteousness), and walking in the Holy Spirit (so that we can be
obedient to the Father above), or in other words, led by the Spirit of
God, trusting in the Lord, and therefore living in obedience to the
Heavenly Father, all of which can only come from above (Spiritual
and Patriarchal in nature―Satanist
humanists know that the two are inter-connected and, in their 'purpose'
of creating a world of 'believer' who are social-psychological in
nature, are using the negation of the Patriarchal Paradigm to
negate the Spiritual, i.e. the phrase "What about your child's
social life?" manifest this spirit of anti-Christ―of another Christ,
a different Christ who takes the place of Christ and thereby opposes
Christ while pretending to be Christ; or put another way, the apostate
church which is another church, a different church which takes the place
of the true church and thereby opposes the true church while pretending
to be the true church). The mention of Christ, by the
social church, is simply to
encourage (deceive) parents into turning their children over to their
socialist agenda. The "positive socialist church of change"
is 'driven' by people wanting
others wanting them, i.e. driven by the dialectical cycle of human
relationship seeking, for the 'purpose' of interpersonal kingdom building.
The apostate ("contemporary")
church is attempting to build God's kingdom upon "an all-inclusive
acceptance of the individual 'as he is'."
"As I tried the sociometric system first on the universe and on the concept of God, its first manifesto was a revolutionary religion, a change of the idea of the universe and the idea of God. The god of Jesus was further extended, the son 'withered away' until nothing was left except the universal creativity of the Godhead and only one commandment: To each according to what he is (an all-inclusive acceptance of the individual 'as he is')." (J. L. Moreno, Who Shall Survive)
While all authority is of God, man has, since his fall, used the office of authority for his own personal gain, for his own pleasure. As stated in Hebrews 11, the home, sanctioned by God, is a place where authority, under God, is sovereign, where the parent chastens, even for their own pleasure. "For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;" vs. 10. Many scriptures site a warning regarding the cursing of parents, which includes their office of authority (Exodus 21:17; Proverbs 20:20 & 30:11, 17; Matthew 15:7-9; Mark 7:10-13. While dad and mom are not perfect, that office they serve in is. Men's doctrines, that the youth need to "think for themselves," i.e. question parental authority when their commands go against the youths "reasonable" (sensible, i.e. sensuous) desires, makes God's command for children to obey parents, in the Lord, "of none effect." " But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:9 To even be in leadership in the church the husband must rule well his own home. "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)" As the husband is to rule well, the wife is to submit herself unto the husband (as unto the Lord). The wife is under the husband's authority, who is under Christ's authority, who is under God's authority. 1 Timothy 3:2-5 "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." 1 Corinthians 11:3 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." Ephesians 5:22 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord." Colossians 3:18 "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 1 Timothy 2:11, 12 "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." Titus 2:5 "The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife." 1 Corinthians 7:4 There is to be order in the home, patriarchal order. Without it the next generation will praxis anarchy.
"Spiritual abuse" has become a popular catchall phrase leveled against that office of the father of the patriarchal home. While it can be descriptive of cult like manipulation within institutions, both secular and sacred, it confuses spirits. While God persuades, chastening included, man manipulates, via the sensual praxis of approval and fear of rejection, done in group settings (group dynamics with the use of cognitive dissonance to change the persons beliefs or values to make them more harmonious with their behavior), where its use is most powerful, it is the same as brainwashing. Group consensus, based upon finding common ground upon human nature, i.e. through "sensuous needs" and "sense perception," changes an individuals way of thinking, feeling, and acting from looking above, looking to higher authority for direction in life, to looking below, looking to the changing social environment for direction in life. "It changes his cognitive structure, the way he sees the physical and social worlds, including all his facts, concepts, beliefs, and expectations." "It modifies his valences and values, ... his attractions and aversions to groups and group standards, his feelings in regard to status differences, and his reactions to sources of approval or disapproval." "A change in action-ideology, a real acceptance of a changed set of facts and values, a change in the perceived social world----all three are but different expressions of the same process." "Social action no less than physical action is steered by perception." "Kurt Lewin emphasized that the child takes on the characteristic behavior of the group in which he is placed. . . . he reflects the behavior patterns which are set by the adult leader of the group." (Wilbur Brookover A Sociology of Education) "If the individual complies merely from fear of punishment rather than through the dictates of his free will and conscience, the new set of values he is expected to accept does not assume in him the position of super-ego, and his re-education therefore remains unrealized." "How can free acceptance of a new system of values be brought about? The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by accepting belongingness to a group." From then on "... the new system of values and beliefs dominates the individual's perception." "Social action no less than physical action is steered by perception." (Kurt Lewin quoted in Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change) In other words without control of the classroom environment, shaped by a socialist curriculum, the student can not become a socialist in paradigm, i.e. his brain remains unwashed of the patriarchal paradigm and he remains under the control of his conscience and thereby under control of a higher authority rather than under the control of his super-ego and thereby under control of social-psychologists (facilitators) and their socialist engendered environment. "We know how to disintegrate a man’s personality structure, dissolving his self-confidence, destroying the concept he has of himself, and making him dependent on another. … brainwashing." "We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood." "How shall we use the power of this new science? Who will hold the power to use this new knowledge? Toward what end or purpose or value will this new type of knowledge be used?" (Carl Rogers on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy) “If the goal is a group goal [public-private] rather than individual goals [private] of the members, then the introduction of content into the group makes the group almost certain to be a brainwashing group.” (Dr. Shofstall Dr. William Coulson, “Encounter Groups and Brainwashing” Notre Dame Journal of Education, 1971)
When those in a position of authority turn the heart of men toward men and institutions (even institutions in 'service' to God, misusing His Word for personal gain), instead of turning the heart of men to God himself (through faith in God and His Word, resulting in repentance, belief, and obedience), deceit of the heart (which comes when men trust in men, i.e. trust in themselves and not in the Lord) and wickedness of the heart (out of the heart proceeds what I call the shopping list of iniquity) go unchecked, and manipulation raises its ugly head, with the great manipulator taking control over the souls of men. "Cursed is the man who trust in man and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." Jeremiah 17:5, 7 Ministers and ministries are not to come between man and God, putting themselves in Moses seat, but to come along side of men to encourage them to know Christ and to live their life in Him. While the parents can not and must not stand between the child and God, they are to train up the child in the admonition of the Lord, to inculcate the truth, to serve in the office of authority God has placed them in, so that they might teach their children that they are accountable to higher authority, the highest authority being God. But while the child may know and serve the Lord they must honour the office of authority God has given to the parent. This is the structure of thought (paradigm) which Satan, the father of lies, seeks to find and destroy. It is the same agenda for those under the influence of social-psychology.
“Acceptance of religion mainly as an expression of submission to a clear pattern of parental authority is a condition favorable to ethnocentrism.” “Confronted with the rigidity of the adult ethnocentrist, one turns naturally to the question of whether the prospects for healthy personality structure would not be greater if the proper influences were brought to bear earlier in the individuals life, . . .”“For ethnocentric parents, acting by themselves, the prescribed measures would probably be impossible.” (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)
There is no such thing as
"spiritual abuse" or
the law of God (which is spiritual) would be considered abusive, i.e. it's making us "feel"
bad about our natural behavior ("For I was alive without the law
once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died."
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under
sin." Romans 7:9, 14; "Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."
1 John 3:4; "Now we know that what things soever the law
saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God."
Romans 3:19). Yet the law brings us to the knowledge of our need
for salvation through Jesus Christ ("For what the law could not
do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:"
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:3, 2; "He that
committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil." 1 John 3:8). Yet, in
Christ, no longer under "the law of sin and death," we are not to
live our lives in sin but by "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus" ("For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend
in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10; "But
if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." Galatians
5:18; "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not
under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are
not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." Romans 6:14,
15).
Before repentance, God's law was hated by my flesh, but after
coming to life in Christ (being dead with Christ), the law forever
reminds me of God's grace and mercy, his Son's death redeeming me from
the wrath of God, wrath leveled against me while I lived my life
following after my carnal flesh ("Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can
be." Romans 8:7 "Forasmuch then as Christ hath
suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same
mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;"
1 Peter 4:1 "And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies
in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled"
Colossians 1:21 "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of
their mind," Ephesians 4:17 "I thank God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of
God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:25
"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life." 1 John 5:11, 12;
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee." Isaiah 26:3)
There are different spirits, the spirit of man and the spirit of "beasts," the spirit of Satan with his "unclean spirits," and the Spirit of God ("Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Ecclesiastes 3:21; "There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it." Ecclesiastes 8:8; "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out." Luke 11:24; "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." Genesis 6:3; "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." 1 Corinthians 15:45; "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" 1 Peter 3:18; "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." 1 Corinthians 2:11; "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14; "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" John 15:26; "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." John 16:13).
The spirit which is unclean (in accord with the carnal nature of man) is not "abusive," according to the carnal minded man, while the spirit of God, who brings us under conviction, is perceived as "abusive," according to the carnal minded man. Rightly dividing the Word of God, and sharing it in love (as the Lord leads), can be perceived as "spiritual abuse" by Christians living in sin ('Enlightened Christians'), especially those who have educated themselves in calling sin any behavior which interferes with human relationship building. When our spirit grieves it is due to the abuse (perversion or changing) of God's word, done either in ignorance of the word, or to preserve the flesh of man (making "God's word" no longer a word from God). "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Ecclesiastes 1:14 "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." Ephesians 4:30 Jesus was acquainted with grief, for our sakes, because he was obedient to His Heavenly Fathers commands. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." Isaiah 53:3, 10 But when our flesh grieves (" Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Hebrews 12:11), it is due to God's word being preached by men proclaiming the truth, i.e. chastening us, in love. For the carnal 'Christian,' obedience to "authoritarian" parents ("authoritarian" is a popular word used by the humanists to describe a traditional family structure) would naturally be called an environment laden with "spiritual abuse." The lascivious (heresiarchal) church has joined with rebellious youth under this humanistic banner in an attack upon the patriarchal structure of the traditional family.
When human experience, its desire for 'life' in this
world, i.e. its pleasure, i.e. its want of gratifying objects in
the environment, its lust for the things of this world, i.e. attained through human relationship
building skills ("What can I get out of this relationship for me?"), becomes the measuring stick by which spirituality is
determined, then "spiritual abuse" calls that which is
not
from God (men justifying themselves before men, i.e. "that which is
highly esteemed among men," that environment which initiates
and sustains human relationship building) as being from God, and that which is
from God (chastening, reproof, correction, and rebuke of sin, that
environment which exposes and condemns with human relationship building) as not
being from God. (This is why it is imperative you have the
true word of God,
that Jesus Christ knows you, and that you measure all things from
it, through Him,
"taking
every thought captive to the obedience of Christ," including the
minister's opinions.) In this way, by keeping your head, as it
were, in God's classroom (instead of sticking it in the worlds "higher
order thinking" classroom), when the flesh seeks to rule
(even seeking to rule, under its terms, it in the name of Jesus), and
you are tempted to treat sin as though it is no longer sin against God
but as an act of hurting somebody's 'feelings,' you are able to bring it
back under submission to God's will. Otherwise you will follow the
"wisdom" of the world and justify human relationship as being equal with
serving God. The
"Christian" who takes on this way of thinking thus takes on a
secularists
mandate.
Those who use such humanistic phrases as "spiritual
abuse," instead of turning
to the Word of God, reveal their lack of spiritual growth, not fearing
God and loving His Word, not studying His Word to show themselves
approved to God, turning instead to their "higher order thinking
skills" in an effort to change God's word and make it adaptable to
changing times, shaping it according to men's opinions in the false hope
of bringing man to God.
Opinions are from below, temporal and temporary, while truth
is from above, spiritual and eternal. Instead of Christians
setting their affections upon things above and therefore defining the
world below from God's Word which comes from above (and therefore is
unchangeable), they are setting their affections on things below and
therefore are re-defining God's Word to make it fit with the world below
(and therefore making it changeable, i.e. subject to mans "sensuous
needs" and "sense perception," making it subjective to
humanistic ordinances, resulting in confusion―the gnostic effort to fuse
the 'spirit' of man, i.e. the flesh nature, i.e. impulse, the 'divine
spark' of man, all seeking completeness, unity, wholeness with God, and
the spirit of God seeking completeness, unity, wholeness with the
'spirit' of man, to harmonize above and below and make them both subject
to one another for completeness, realization of purpose). This is a sign of 'Christians' who
have
not "died with Christ." " Wherefore if ye be
dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living
in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not;
handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the
commandments and doctrines of men?" Galatians 2:20-22
If you are "dead with Christ," those who 'minister' to deliver
others from "spiritual abuse" are understood as not being sent by
God but rather coming from Satan and the world. "For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing
if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works." 2 Corinthians
11:13-15
"For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly
wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the
world." (2 Corinthians 1:12)
As the Apostle Paul explains true ministry as not "handling the word
of God deceitfully," making 'truth' subject to human perception and
opinions but rather true ministry is the "manifestation of the truth"
through preaching and teaching, affecting the conscience of men. "For
the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto
us which are saved it is the power of God." "For after that in the
wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." 1
Corinthians 1:18, 21
"Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy,
we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every
man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In
whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give
the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast
down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying
of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto
death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh." 2 Corinthians 4:1-11
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat
of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body,
according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing
therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made
manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your
consciences." 2 Corinthians 5:10, 11 If the
conscience is seared then the preacher of the word more than likely will
suffer ("troubled on
every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed")
at the hand of those who's minds are blinded by "the god of this
world." Those who love this world (basing reality upon
their "sensuous needs," "sense perception," and "sense
experience"), thought they prosper in
worldly things, will not go unpunished for their wicked thoughts,
feelings, and actions. "For what shall it profit a man, if
he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
Mark 8:36
"Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God." Ecclesiastes 8:12, 13
"Every class [meaning: those who are under higher authority, those, according to Karl Marx, who "feel" oppressed (repressed and alienated), having to obey higher authority] lacks the breadth of soul which identifies it with the soul of the people, that revolutionary boldness which flings at its adversary [the parent, God who restrains human nature] the defiant phrase; ‘I am nothing and I should be everything.’" (Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' ) [Compare this heresiarchal attitude and God's patriarchal response in Isaiah 14:12-15 . " How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." Isaiah 14:12-15]
"Through the repression of needs and wishes, it translates this constraint into a compulsion of internal nature, in other words into the constraint of social norms.... It is those who establish such domination and defend positions of power of this sort who set in motion the causality of fate, divide society into social classes [parents-children, teacher-students, boss-workers, Creator-created, etc.], suppress justified interests, call forth the reactions of suppressed life, and finally experience their just fate in revolution." (Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest, Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social)
When the parents 'repress' the child's 'needs and wishes,'
the child's 'internal nature' to overthrow the authority of
the parent is suppressed and so 'repression' of children
becomes the 'social norm,' where society encourages and
supports the traditional home environment. By "drawing out" the
children's 'needs and wishes' (their "ought") in an open-ended,
non-directed, i.e. permissive social setting, the
child's 'internal nature,' to overthrow the restraint and authority of the parent,
can be liberated and put into praxis. Marxists call it
annihilation, Freudists call it patricide, but it is
all one and the same, death to the patriarchal paradigm, i.e. death
to the traditional home and death to the fear of God.
Those who have this mind,
to fling the phrase
"spiritual abuse"
against those in higher authority (under God) over them (those who they perceive "divide
society into social classes" ), do not know the mind of Christ ("Forasmuch
then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves
likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath
ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in
the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the
time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the
Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think
it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,
speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick and the dead." 1 Peter 4:1-5), but instead
they follow after the mind of the famous humanist-Marxist, Carl Rogers. "Neither
the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take
precedence over my own direct experience.” “Experience is, for me, the
highest authority.” "The individual in such a moment, is coming to be
what he is. [Once] he has experienced himself....he has
become what he is.” “Existential living is to say that the self
and personality emerge from experience. It means that one becomes
a participant in and an observer of the ongoing process of organismic
experience.” (Carl Rogers on becoming a person: A
Therapist View of Psychotherapy)
As quoted above
Karl Marx believed that "sense experience" must be the basis
of reality, therefore reality can only proceed from Nature. Thus
reality can only be actualized when it is discovered (created) through
man's "sense experience" with the world (society). In this
way the individual man (the 'divine spark') and the society, i.e. the
collective man (god) are becoming one, i.e. dialectically becoming,
as they unite in removing barriers (God's restraints) which divide
(alienate, segregate) them from one another. “The person at the peak experience is godlike . . . complete, loving,
uncondemning, compassionate and accepting of the world and of the
person.” (Abraham Maslow Toward a Psychology of Being)
The phrase "spiritual abuse" ties man to a concept of collective oneness associated with Gnosticism and the "divine spark" mentality as reflected by Hegel, (“Spirit, in so far as it is the Spirit of God, is not a spirit beyond the stars, beyond the world. On the contrary, God is present, omnipresent, and exists as spirit in all spirits.” G. W. F. Hegel) where the essence of mankind is to find himself in the collective identity of humanity. Anything or anyone who would deprive man of this quest for identity with his own nature, that nature which is common to all mankind, would be considered as abusive. "An act of violence is any situation in which some men prevent others from the process of inquiry ...any attempt to prevent human freedom is an 'act of violence.' Any system which deliberately tries to discourage critical consciousness [thinking about and therefore questioning the authority role of parents when it blocks carnal praxis] is guilty of oppressive violence. Any school which does not foster students' capacity for critical inquiry [any school preventing students the freedom to call the parents office of authority into question] is guilty of violent oppression." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed) “Natural sociability and morality are present in men and women. What has to be eliminated is the disgusting moralizing which thwarts natural morality and then points to the criminal impulses, which it itself has brought into being.” (Wilhelm Reich)
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information. It is a learning situation in which the cognizable object (far from being the end of the cognitive act) intermediates the cognitive actors-teacher on the one hand and students on the other. Accordingly, the practice of problem-posing education entails at the outset that the teacher-student contradiction be resolved." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Education which is able to resolve the contradiction between teacher and student takes place in a situation in which both address their act of cognition to the object by which they are mediated." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Human beings are because they are in a situation. And they will be more the more they not only critically reflect upon their existence but critically act upon it." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
Paulo Freire is preaching that when the child identifies with the authority structure of the parent, accepts the authority of the parent, for the parent and for themselves, they are supporting "manifestations of dehumanization." Not only must the child be liberated from the authority of the parent at home, he must also be liberated from the authority of the parent within himself, i.e. his conscience. By helping him become aware of the parent within, which divides him from his true nature (the conscience), and by helping him become aware of the source of this division as coming from his parents, i.e. their way of thinking, i.e. that they are in an office of authority over the child, class consciousness is brought to life in the child, he can then be helped in getting rid of the parent without, producing a classless society, by uniting his conscience with his will (which negates the conscience since it is the parents will within the child,) and develop a healthy super-ego. By getting rid of the parent within (by helping the child to become at-one with his desires and his will within), he can then, collectively (with "others"), get rid of the parent without. By helping the child become at-one with his desires and his will, which are in common with others without―consensus―and putting into action―praxis―the removal of any condition which attempts to restore parental authority and the conscience, "dehumanization" (belief in God and obedience in Christ) can be removed from the world, i.e. the "oppressed" can then be emancipated from their "oppressors," the next generation can be liberated from their patriarchal parents and a patriarchal God.
"In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Reflection upon situationality is reflection about the very condition of existence: critical thinking by means of which people discover each other to be 'in a situation.' Only as this situation ceases to present itself as a dense, enveloping reality or a tormenting blind alley, and they can come to perceive it as an objective-problematic situation — only then can commitment exist. Humankind emerge from their submersion and acquire the ability to intervene in reality as it is unveiled. Intervention in reality — historical awareness itself — thus represents a step forward from emergence, and results from the conscientizacao of the situation. Conscientizacao is the deepening of the attitude of awareness characteristic of all emergence." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
"Students, as they are increasingly posed with problems relating to themselves in the world and with the world, will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge. Because they apprehend the challenge as interrelated to other problems within a total context, not as a theoretical question, the resulting comprehension tends to be increasingly critical and thus constantly less alienated. Their response to the challenge evokes new challenges, followed by new understandings; and gradually the students come to regard themselves as committed." (Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed) [It is not enough for students to think about annihilating the traditional home, the patriarchal paradigm, they must annihilating it, i.e. put your thoughts into action, praxis.]
Thus "spiritual abuse" is actually a humanistic way of looking at Christianity, making its 'purpose' a social cause, that of overcoming any institution or paradigm which inhibits human relationship building, a democratic ideal built upon the acceptance of the natural man as the norm (tolerance of ambiguity, which is an abomination to God). Ironically, the emergent church, the "conscientizacao" church (the revolutionary churches of heresy; Church growth, emergent church, mega-church, etc.), suppresses the truth of man's nature as declared through God's word, while claiming to be promoters of the gospel. These men, and men who think like them, even though they call themselves ministers of God, are ministers of Belial. " Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 & 7:1
Herbart Marcuse, in his book The Future of an Illusion, wrote that Freud "... praised science and scientific reason as the great liberating antagonist of religion.”
According to Freud, the Id, the core of man's being, his natural impulse, drawing him towards the pleasures of life, i.e. the "life instinct," can only come to know total freedom when man unites with mankind, collectively rises up with his Ego, i.e. his "death instinct," and annihilates the oppressor of human nature, i.e. the patriarchal parents and God (the praxis of patricide). As the Marxist (transformation form), Theodor Adorn wrote: " . . . the impact of Sigmund Freud's work on modern culture [was] . . . the connection between the suppression of children (both within the home and outside) . . . the psychological dynamics of the life of the child and the adult alike." For too long, according to Freud, man had yielded his Ego over to the oppressors of human nature (yielding his super-ego over to higher authority and thus producing a deformed super-ego under the control of a rigid conscience―producing "neurosis"), and accepted a condition whereby children, and thus society, learned to "blindly" obeying parents, teachers, and all higher authority, i.e. God, i.e. Hitler, and therefore surrendered their "death instinct" to support their 'oppressors' instead of using it, as it was intended by nature, to fight for liberation from their oppressors. By submitting to higher authority, the flexible super-ego became subject to (deformed into) a rigid conscience. “It is a function of the ego to make peace with conscience, to create a larger synthesis within which conscience, emotional impulses, and self operate in relative harmony.” “When this synthesis is not achieved, the superego has somewhat the role of a foreign body within the personality, and it exhibits those rigid, automatic, and unstable aspects discussed above.” (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality).
English and English “... further state that 'The superego .... is conceived in psychoanalysis as functioning substantially in the same way as the conscience.' Superego development is conceived as '…the incorporation of the moral standards of society.' Internalization (incorporating as one’s own) is thus a critical element in superego development and in the development of conscience.” (Krathwohl & Bloom, Affective, p. 39)
According to Bloom, i.e. the "Taxonomy," although
both the conscience and the superego depend upon environmental
conditions for their development, they are different in their functions
based upon the environment which developed them. Therefore it is
important that we distinguish the differences between the conscience and
the superego. Norman Brown wrote: “What we call ‘conscience’ perpetuates
inside of us our bondage to past objects now part of ourselves: ...” “The guilty conscience is formed in
childhood by the incorporation of the parents and the wish to be
father of oneself.” (Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History) Therefore the conscience is developed within a
Patriarchal Paradigm environment and retained by it. Therefore,
according to Erick Fromm, the conscience makes and keeps the child
subject to the parent's will, trumping his will. “The most effective method for weakening the child’s will is to
arouse his sense of guilt.” “The most important symptom of the defeat in the
fight for oneself is the guilty conscience.” (Erick Fromm Escape
from Freedom) This author and his book is sited by Bloom as an example
of the ideology of the "Taxonomy." (see footnote on page
166, Book II Affective Domain)
The importance of the traditional family in developing the
conscience is even noted by the man most responsible for bringing the
police force under the control of the "Taxonomy" system. Dr.
Robert Trojanowicz wrote in his book on "Community Policing,"
i.e. communist policing: “Social control is most effective at
the individual level. The personal conscience is the key element in
ensuring self-control, refraining from deviant behavior even when it
can be easily perpetrated.” “The family, the next most important
unit affecting social control, is obviously instrumental in the
initial formation of the conscience and in the continued
reinforcement of the values that encourage law abiding behavior.”
“Unfortunately, because of the
reduction of influence exerted by neighbors, the extended family and
even the family, social control is now often more dependent on
external control, than on internal self-control.” (Dr. Robert
Trojanowicz The meaning of “Community” in Community Policing)
Don't be deceived into thinking that Trojanowicz is
promoting the development of the conscience, i.e. promoting the
environment which develops it, he is not. He is only identifying
its source of development with the intent of changing the environment,
negating the traditional home environment by making the family dependent
upon the community and thereby 'changing' the rigid, inadaptable to
change, intolerant of ambiguity, conscience into a flexible,
socially tolerant of ambiguity, adaptable to change, superego.
By 'changing' the environment from a top-down preach and teach
environment into an "equality of opportunity," permissive, dialogue
environment the conscience can be changed into a superego. The
difference being the freedom of the individual to incorporation his own
will (ego), his own impulses and desires, which are affecting him in
(stimulated by) the present environment, into his conscience
(effectively or rather affectively negating his conscience). “It is a function of the ego to make
peace with conscience, to create a larger synthesis within which
conscience, emotional impulses, and self operate in relative
harmony.” “When this synthesis is not achieved, the superego has
somewhat the role of a foreign body within the personality, and it
exhibits those rigid, automatic, and unstable aspects discussed
above.” Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)
emphasis added The demands of established right and wrong are
changed into opinions, thereby making the conscience no longer rigid but
influencable by the current (contemporary) changing situations of life. “... the super-ego ‘unites in
itself the influences of the present and of the past.’” (Norman
O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of
History) Without the change in environment (from rigid
and demanding to flexible and permissive, the conscience can not be
changed into the superego and the person remains subject to he who is
above (remains tied to the past as perceived by the spectrum ideology).
"If
the individual complies merely from fear of punishment rather than
through the dictates of his free will and conscience, the new set of
values he is expected to accept does not assume in him the position of
super-ego, and his re-education therefore remains unrealized."
(Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum
Change)
“Therefore the levels of the Taxonomy should describe successive levels of goal setting appropriate to superego development.” (Krathwohl & Bloom, Affective, p. 39)
Besides there being a behavior change in the person, there is a spiritual effect to this procedure as well. “Stopping the internal dialogue [a person's dialogue with his conscience] is, however, the key to the sorcerers’ world." (Carlos Castenada Tales of Power, 1974 as quoted in Richard Bandler, Patterns of the hypnotic techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Vol. 1. 1975) When relationship with God (Spiritual) is superseded by relationship with man and the creation (temporal), making God subject to man's subjectivity (human perception), then any restraint of 'normal' human behavior can be perceived as "spiritual abuse." and people who submit themselves to such conditions as being "masochistic," and those demanding such conditions as being "sadistic." “. . . Definition of religious experience as experience of absolute dependence is the definition of the masochistic experience in general.” “Both the sadistic and the masochistic trends are caused by the inability of the isolated individual to stand alone and his need for a symbiotic relationship to overcome this aloneness.” Fromm believed that man could "not take the last logical step, to give up 'God' and to establish a concept of man as a being who is alone in the world, but who can feel at home in it if he achieves union with his fellow man and with nature." (Erick Fromm Escape From Freedom)
It is in this light that the phrase "spiritual abuse" reveals its true colors. Adorno defined the two conflicting paradigms, the different between the democratic vs. the authoritarian type of relationships, in this way: "...democratic type of relationship, the ability of the subject to appraise his parents objectively, as contrasted with an inclination to put the parents on a very high plane." Objectivity would now be based upon the child's experiences with the world (subjectivity united with objectivity) and not from any source outside of his personal sense experience. Without this change incorporating his perception of the world, he would retain a patriarchal paradigm within his life experience. Adorno defined this condition, "the conception of the ideal family situation for the child: (1) uncritical obedience to the father and elders, (2) pressures directed unilaterally from above to below, (3) inhibition of spontaneity, and (4) emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values," as the problem which the next generation had to overcome where ". . . a tendency to transmit mainly a set of conventional rules and customs, may be considered as interfering with the development of a clear-cut personal identity in the growing child." "The power‑relationship between the parents, the domination of the subject's family by the father or by the mother, and their relative dominance in specific areas of life also seemed of importance for our problem." "Submission to authority, desire for a strong leader, subservience of the individual to the state, and so forth, have so frequently and, as it seems to us, correctly, been set forth as important aspects of the Nazi creed that a search for correlates of prejudice had naturally to take these attitudes into account." "It would then be more understandable why the German family, with its long history of authoritarian, threatening father figures, could become susceptible to a fascist ideology." (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)
This 'logic' is false science, yet it continues to be the reasoning (the improper use of "higher order thinking skills") behind the need for social change touted by socialist, communists, humanists, environmentalist, etc. To negate this 'logic' would be to negate socialism, communism, humanism, environmentalism, etc. The dialectic, which moves man from faith to sight, still uses the office designed by God for faith, i.e. the faith of Noah, Abraham, etc. in God, the highest authority. According to Transformational Marxists (social-psychology) ideology, when a culture moves from faith in God to faith in one man (sight based and therefore a dopamine driven-fear driven, "heresiarchal-patriarchal" paradigm), dictatorship or despotism follows (whether it be the scribes and Pharisees, i.e. those who loved Moses seat but hated the law of God, who used the power of the seat of authority to circumvent the law while profiting from their position of authority, Caesar, the Pope, Napoleon, Hitler, etc...). The reason being, to destroy faith in God means that man must turn to his own nature which he has in common with all mankind (self-survival and the love of pleasure; avoid pain and approach pleasure), and therefore he must make a god after his own common nature, a pantheistic, gnostic (socialist) structured god (either socialism following after a man, i.e. fascism, or socialism following after a group of men, traditional communism, or socialism following after facilitators helping all mankind to follow after mankind himself, i.e. Transformational Marxism, Communism, communitarianism, globalism, etc). Through the use of the "Taxonomy" the facilitator secularizes the patriarchal structure of God in a heresiarchal structure, he turns mankind himself into god, resulting in democracy, socialism, communism, humanism, environmentalism. When this fails, due to man's need for order from above his nature (a nature which self destructs over time, since it always collapses by the praxis of killing its own, i.e. killing those who seek to restrain him from his own self destruction) he turns to a man to rescue him from his own demise, and therefore a dictator ensues. Thus, according to Fromm, man's "Escape from Freedom" takes place because he can not become comfortable living in a state of lawlessness, i.e. his conscience remains active or at least semiactive and bothers him. Fromm goes beyond the conscience and also saw the key to the change of the conscience to the superego was not only to change the person in though and feelings but in behavior as well (his focus for purpose could not be found in a man above him working for change, but in mankind itself working with him and him working with mankind for change). Without the change physically being experience by the person, he would remain habitualized to the past condition. Therefore habitualization (role-playing) is key to the success of the change process. Without it the process would only remain contemplative.
The dialectical can only be perpetuated by an environment which provides a sense of law and order while it is actually being run by those who are lawless, i.e. those who are above the laws of carnal restraint, who promote the "common human experience," so they can control man and use him to their own end, supporting their lust for the pleasures of this world (or the sensual pleasures of the future world of their imagination). This is why the conscience, which ties man to the past, actually making him subject to an authority figure higher than his own nature, must be 're-programmed' into the super-ego, which 'realigns' him to his present "sensuous needs" (carnal flesh) and his "sense perception" (the world), making him subject to those who control the experience stimulated by the environment. Not until he sees the social programmers coming to remove him from the environment (because he is no longer needed or has become an obstacle) does he realize the folly of this way of thinking and acting (theory and practice) and seek to create a 'Thermidor,' a way out of his own death, not buying into the "dying with dignity" ideology. But then again he hasn't embraced the dialectical mindset that "death can be a learning experience," (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History) in the 'here-and-now.' In dialectical 'logic,' since only that which is 'concrete,' i.e. material, i.e. sensuous, i.e. subject to the person in the 'specific' moment does experience take on relevance. Thus when life becomes void of sensuous gratification its relevance ceases. This democratic ethic of relevance justifies, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, right-sizing, etc., i.e. the killing of its own citizens in the quest of human experience founded upon world peace and social justice for "all."
"The democratic alternative, humanitarianism, (is) the ability to like and dislike, to value and oppose, individuals on the basis of concrete specific experience;" (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality) All who follow this pathway of thought travel down Karl Marx's anti-Christ dream “. . . to overthrow all conditions in which man is a debased, enslaved, neglected, contemptible being.” “The critique of religion ends in the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man;” (Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right') While oppression by men upon men is condemned by God (caused by the wickedness of man's heart), to overthrow the patriarchal paradigm, because of the abuse of mankind, is to attempt to overthrowing God. This is the real intent or the socialist program.
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere Aude! Dare to know! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment." (Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg in Prussia, 30 September 1784)
“We must ultimately assume at the highest theoretical levels of enlightenment ... a preference or a tendency ... to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc." (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)
“All concepts that are irreducible to facts are meaningless.” “Everything that is not reducible to number [in other word material in nature] becomes illusion for the Enlightenment.” (Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists) [If it can not be put down on a ledger sheet, it can not be evaluated. And, if it can not be evaluated, it can not help the church leadership develop a feasibility study to determine the potential for church growth and success. “The scientific study of ideology can only be made on the basis of theory.” “The immediate effect of spiritual factors on the realm of the corporal is an illusion.” (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)]
"Enlightened economics must assume as a prerequisite synergic institutions [Church Growth, emergent church, contemporary church, etc] set up in such a way that what benefits one benefits all.” “Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation.” “The more enlightened the religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an enlightened way.” (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)
“Meaningful work comes very close to the religious quest in the humanistic sense.” [The] "'goal is simply to build group companies where people can self-actualize.' (George McCown)" “The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together.” (Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management)
“The Christian religion has been deeply affected by the process of Enlightenment and the conquest of the scientific spirit.” (Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality)
Because "enlightened" ministers lust to fill their bellies, love to receive the praises of men, and love the sound of there 'eloquent' opinions, they must mingle the lost and the saved within the Church (building church growth upon polls and surveys and synergistic programs). To initiate and sustain growth they must also change the word of God into opinions (theories) so as not to offend the lost. Opinions keep things from getting too personal and thus help in keeping people from experiencing feelings of guilt, conviction, or condemnation directed against their own carnal nature. Opinions help in keeping man from experiencing preaching and teaching from "higher authority," which is seen as harming them "spiritually," i.e. making them subject to an 'authoritarian' outcome. The eye must become a human eye, the ear a human ear, no longer cognizant of commands above human nature. "'A stranger, even if his name were God, who imposes commands upon us must be resisted, he must be killed because nobody can stand him.' (Paul Tillich)" (Leonard F. Wheat, Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism) “A logical connection emerges with the anthropological perspective of the young Marx wherein ‘the eye becomes the human eye, the ear the human ear.’” (Erich Fromm, Marx’s Concept of Man, in Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists) "With the devaluation of the epistemic authority of the God’s eye view, moral commands lose their religious as well as their metaphysical foundation." (Jürgen Habermas Communicative Ethics The inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory)
Thus faith is turned into sight and man must turn into himself to find any hope for salvation, personal salvation, an individual before a Holy God, must be turned into general salvation, society built upon human nature. "(1) The fact that moral practice is no longer tied to the individual’s expectation of salvation and an exemplary conduct of life through the person of a redemptive God and the divine plan for salvation has two unwelcome consequences. On the one hand, moral knowledge becomes detached from moral motivation, and on the other, the concept of morally right action becomes differentiated from the conception of a good or godly life." "Discourse ethics correlates ethical and moral questions with different forms of argumentation, namely, with discourses of self-clarification and discourses of normative justification (and application), respectively.… justice and … solidarity." "… uncoupling morality from questions of the good life leads to a motivational deficit. Because there is no profane substitute for the hope of personal salvation, we lose the strongest motive for obeying moral commands." "Discourse ethics intensifies the intellectualistic separation of moral judgment from action even further by locating the moral point of view in rational discourse. There is no direct route from discursively achieved consensus to action." "With the loss of its foundation in the religious promise of salvation, the meaning of normative obligation also changes. The differentiation between strict duties and less binding values, between what is morally right and what is ethically worth striving for, already sharpens moral validity into a normativity to which impartial judgment alone is adequate. The shift in perspective from God to human beings has a further consequence." "This agreement expresses two things: the fallible reason of deliberating subjects who convince one another that a hypothetically introduced norm is worthy of being recognized, and the freedom of legislating subjects who understand themselves as the authors of the norms to which they subject themselves as addressees. The mode of validity of moral norms now bears the traces both of the fallibility of the discovering mind and of the creativity of the constructing mind." "… moral commands were previously justified in a metaphysical fashion as elements of a rationally ordered world. As long as the cognitive content of morality could be expressed in assertoric statements, moral judgments could be viewed as true or false." "But if moral realism can no longer be defended by appealing to a creationist metaphysics and to natural law (or their surrogates), the validity of moral statements can no longer be assimilated to the truth of esoteric statements." (Jürgen Habermas Communicative Ethics Source: The inclusion of the Other. Studies in Political Theory) emphasis added
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." Ephesians 6:1-3
"I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." John 5:30
"For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak." John 12:49
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:20
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." Philippians 2:5-8
In this way ministers of opinions, and their followers, grieve the Spirit of God and oppress (grieve the spirit of) the redeemed. They are blind leaders of the blind. Anyone who does not abide in the 'love' of church growth, i.e. the 'fellowship', i.e. participating within the 'community of believers,' is seen as isolationistic (when they leave to find a place where the Word is preached, where men fear God and love his Word) and are labeled as potentially divisive, ministering 'spiritual abuse' when they scripturally expose and reprove sin within the fellowship, especially when they expose the heresy of the leadership. Those who preach and teach God's word, like Jesus did in the wilderness and in the temple, are called "unteachable" by those ministers who love to dialogue opinions. Thus, the "lust of the flesh" abides, undisturbed, within the 'camp.' It all makes sense to those who seek after the pleasures of the flesh while calling themselves Christians (prosperity and popularity being the benchmark of spiritual maturity). If knowledge, cognition, does not follow this route, if it is not comprehendible to the common experience, it is perceived as being irrational, and therefore irrelevant to the purpose at hand (initiating and sustaining social harmony, i.e. "making customers" as Peter Drucker defined the 'purpose' of the church). Any anti-social information must be treated as "inappropriate" information. Much of God's Word is being treated as "inappropriate information" today, especially within the "Church." In this way, the mind of Christ is replaced with the mind of men, religious men who have put themselves in Christ's seat, next to or even in the place of God. Humanism is a pagan religion. It is still a pagan religion even when you put Christian in front of it to deceive the innocent.
"By redefining terms, Tillich cultivates a 'double-speak' designed to convey opposing messages to different groups. He refuses to define terms to which he obviously attaches definite meanings. Tillich’s elusiveness reflects a calculated effort to remain esoteric. He keeps his deepest meanings hidden from all but a few who are prepared to receive it. [Leonard Wheat's comment regarding Nels F. S. Ferre who attended one of Tillich’s classes at Union Theological Seminary] Tillich at first treated Ferre as one of the innocent whose abiding faith should not be disturbed. 'But by the time I had phrased my questions with depth and seriousness long enough and often enough, I knew he actually did not believe in the Christian God who raises the dead and who works personally in human history.' (Ferre)" (Leonard F. Wheat Paul Tillich’s Dialectical Humanism)
In conclusion, regarding the cognitive domain and the "lust of the flesh," the six steps of Bloom's Cognitive Domain Taxonomy follow the dialectical pattern as explained above. His "taxonomies" are the basis of all curriculum development in education today, not only in secular education but in Christian education as well. Most home schooling education material has gone this way as well, having hired "professionals" trained in Bloom's curriculum development methods to keep their material "up to date."
Curriculum determines the leaderships paradigm, how they think, feel, act, and relate with others. It is these people who then determine the learning environment of the students, how they must perform. Curriculum, when applied in the classroom helps develop the paradigm of the next generation, i.e. how they will vote, work, live, and play. They then will determine the living environment, the curriculum and the paradigm used to develop the next generation.
Bloom's, Knowing, Comprehending, Applying, Analyzing, Synthesizing, and Evaluating, follow the same steps as used by the woman in the Garden in Eden. She Knew what God had commanded, not to eat of the 'forbidden' tree, since God had told Adam not to eat of it, yet she only shared her opinion of God's command, revealing her sensuous dissatisfaction with it. Dialectically, Knowledge must be experiential, recognizable to the person before it takes on relevance, i.e. it must be based upon 'reality' according to the person's own experiences, thus making the person adaptable (changeable) in the future, disposed to environmental influences in times of crisis, while didactically, Knowledge is the information or the content learned so that the person is able to call upon it in the future, that they might not be quickly destabilized by environmental influences but be able to maintain or create order (stability) in the time of crisis. “We are not attempting to classify the particular subject matter or content.” “Only those educational programs which can be specified in terms of intended student behaviors can be classified.” “By educational objectives, we mean explicit formulations of the ways in which students are expected to be changed by the educative process . . . change in their thinking, their feelings, and their actions.” “Educational procedures are intended to develop the more desirable rather than the more customary types of behavior.” (Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objective: Book 1 Cognitive Domain, pp. 12, 15, 26, ?) She therefore rejected the patriarchal, faith based, spiritual, obedience to higher authority Knowledge in favor of the heresiarchal, sight based, experiential, question authority Knowledge. Taking on the seat of authority by herself, without God she became a slave to her own sensuousness, driven to understand life by her own ever-changing, never establishing dialectical way of thinking. " Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7
The woman in the Garden in Eden also Comprehended the consequence of her actions, if she should disobeyed, i.e. that she would die. As we know, she did not put her faith in God but rather leaned to her own understanding. She practiced dialectical reasoning, basing reality upon "sense experience." Enticed by Satan she was facilitated into trusting in her own feelings and reasoning abilities (which would only guarantee a sensuous, materialist, this world outcome). Placing her trust in her own "sense experience," triggered by her "sensuous need" to touch the tree (the environments temporal effect upon her, drawing her to it), guided by her "sense perception" that the tree itself posed no danger to her personally (the 'forbidden tree' was just like all the other trees, and they posed no harm to her, i.e. her ability to identify her "felt" needs satisfaction, i.e. her wants, to the object in the environment which triggered it), she justified within herself her "right" to eat of the fruit of the 'forbidden tree' (making God's command irrational and therefore his office irrelevant, i.e. anathema to her 'here-and-now', corporal, materialistic, sense based "reality"). The issue was not whether the tree was poisons or not, the issue was her obedience (or disobedience in this case) to God's command, recognition of his office of authority (or disregard for his office of authority), i.e. obedience (or indifference) to his paradigm, his way of thinking. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8, 9
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10
The act of Comprehending, whether it is to man or child, is like the parent looking the child in the eye and stating, "Do you understand what I just said?" i.e. "'I AM' the one in authority, and you had better not forget it." Comprehending or understanding is not based upon an opinion, an evaluation made from personal experience or desire, as an act of experimentation in a laboratory, as Bloom intends, which, when applied to rocks, plants, and animals (laws of nature which are observable and repeatable) would be good science, but rather Comprehending, when it comes to man made in the image of God, is, trust in me and "obey" my commands, i.e. honour my office of authority, "I AM God and you are not." This is the message throughout the entire world of God. But Bloom, building his curriculum upon man himself (his limitations to sensuousness), i.e. psychology-sociology-anthropology, carries out his paradigm of humanism, which results in a socialist objective of "There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:18
Even when traditionally minded educators use the "Taxonomy," attempting to maintain a traditional structure in the classroom, for the sake of the parent-child relationship, by their very praxis of Blooms Taxonomy, they destroy that bond. “Any non-family-based collectivity that intervenes between parent and child and attempts to regulate and modify the parent-child relationship will have a democratizing impact on that relationship regardless of its intent.” Warren Bennis The Temporary Society
"So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." Galatians 3:9, 14
Comprehending, which must accompany knowledge, is dependent upon faith. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6 "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness." Geneses 15:6
Faith in higher authority, God being the highest authority, leads to obedience and blessing (spiritual blessing). This is the promise of blessing to all who follow in the faith of Abraham, that is, follow in his faith in God, holding fast to a patriarchal paradigm. "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Genesis 12:3 The patriarchal paradigm, though important, will not work without God directing it. "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23b The blessing from God, by man's faith in him, as Abraham had faith in him, is that "the blessing of Abraham" will come to "all families of the earth" through Jesus Christ. Cultures and nations begin with families. Jesus did not reject the family structure when he told us we are to call no man Father on earth ("And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9), or when he stated that he came to divide the Father from the son ("Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Matthew 10:34-39). He simply meant that all authority, to be just, must come from God first. That we are not to depend upon man to discover the "purpose" in life, but rather to trust and obey God, desiring for him to direct our steps.
This is why Karl Marx focused upon the family as the key to the "annihilation" of faith in God (his idea being if you destroy the earthly paradigm you destroy the heavenly paradigm). "Thus, for instance, once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must itself be annihilated [vernichtet] theoretically and practically." (Karl Marx Theses On Feuerbach #4) Even with the intent of helping preserve the "earthly family," any effort from government would only serve to further its dissolution. "For how ever much the state or community may wish to inculcate obedience and submission in the child, its intervention betrays a lack of confidence in the only objects from whom a small child can learn authoritarian submission, the parents." "The state, by its very interference in the life of its citizens, must necessarily undermine a parental authority which it attempts to restore." (Warren Bennis and Philip Slater, The Temporary Society)
Comprehending (or understanding) is the recognition, by the child, of the office of authority held by the parent, the teacher (providing the teacher refuses to step outside of the patriarchal paradigm for the sake of preserving the family structure). Knowledge, therefore, is not only being cognizant of the command given by the one in authority, but also cognizant of the importance in being obedient to the one in the office of authority ("Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Ephesians 6:1), with the added understanding that all authority is under God's authority ("Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men." Acts 5:29)
"Any time we teach a child something, we keep him from discovering it himself," (Jean Piaget)
“Memory is not education, answers are not knowledge. Certainty and memory are the enemies of thinking, the destroyer of creativity and originality.” (William Glasser, Schools Without Failure)
“The organized subject-matter of the adult and the specialist cannot provide the starting point when education is based in theory and practice upon experience.” (John Dewey Experience and Education)
Dialectical "learning takes place especially through a spontaneous and autonomous effort of the pupil, with the teacher only exercising a function of friendly guide. To discover a truth oneself, without external suggestions or assistance, is to create—even if the truth is an old one. It demonstrates a mastery of the method, and indicates that in any case one has entered the phase of intellectual maturity in which one may discover new truths." (Antonio Gramsci) emphasis added [This would be properly applied in matters of science and technology as long as spontaneity and autonomy did not mean reckless disregard to the laws of nature, but when it comes to the issues of the soul this kind of thinking would only justify a sensuous based world, i.e. justifying carnal human behavior, i.e. in support of humanism.]
"A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself." "Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding." "He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding." Proverbs 18:2; 4:1; 15:32
"Kurt Lewin emphasized that the child takes on the characteristic behavior of the group in which he is placed. . . . he reflects the behavior patterns which are set by the adult leader of the group." (Wilbur Brookover A Sociology of Education)
By simply moving the teacher from the front of the classroom (inculcating facts and truth), to making the teacher a facilitator of "change," a "partner in learning" with the students (a teacher-student partnership treating feelings as facts, opinions as truth), the patriarchal paradigm, "obey your parents, in the Lord," is negated, and knowledge and comprehension become experiential. Thus 'reality' to the child becomes carnal (sensual) bound within their nature, waiting to be discovered and emancipated, with "mystical" religions experiences following alongside ("Baal," i.e. Gaia, Ying-Yang, Daoism, Shambalanisms, etc. i.e. Hermetic, Gnostic, Kabalic, Sophic are all dialectical in structure, i.e. uniting man with the cosmos, i.e. making him at one with the creation). "In order to progress from these ‘facts’ to facts in the true meaning of the word it is necessary to perceive their historical conditioning as such and to abandon the point of view that would see them as immediately given: they must themselves be subjected to a historical and dialectical examination." (György Lukács', History & Class Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism?) To progress from facts as given by higher authority, to be accepted "as is," memorized, and obeyed, the "educator" must help the child become cognizant (conscisous) of his own feelings of resentment towards higher authority and incorporate them as a fact within their learning experience.
"The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD. Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not. And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal." Jeremiah 11:1-17
Application would be to obey the higher authorities command with a clear conscience. When obedience is carried out then the Analysis would be, more than likely, reward or at least no punishment. If, however, disobedience is carried out, then the Analysis would be, while dad is taking you to the 'wood-shed' for chastening you would be say to yourself, "I now Comprehend that I need to paying more attention to Knowing what Dad said and doing it."
"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Psalms 119:11
In the garden in Eden, with Satan as the "master teacher," the facilitator of change, the Application was to consider the situation, since the Comprehension was "you will not die," i.e. you will not be taken to the wood-shed. The Analysis was that no harm would come by thinking upon the fruit of the forbidden tree. The Synthesis which would follow, was finding that the forbidden tree was the same as all the other trees (common-ism), the only difference being was that it was a liberating tree from 'the old way of doing business,' you could come to your own understanding by yourself, through your own reasoning (experiential) abilities. The Evaluation which followed, was that she did not die. She did not die, 'then- and-there,' that is, from eating of the fruit of the tree. The truth is, the forbidden tree did not cause their death. Her disobedience to God lead to her subsequent removal from the Garden in Eden. Her separation from the tree of life is what lead to her death. Adam, not being deceived like Eve, abdicated his role of authority under God and, like Eve, attempted to justify his behavior because of some fault of God, i.e. God had made the woman, for Eve it was, God had made the smiling Serpent, i.e. "it was the environment which made me do it." Both were expelled from the Garden in Eden and thus died due to their inability to access the Tree of Life. To move to Synthesis and Evaluation, when it comes to morals and ethics, requires that every child, every child, every child in the classroom must experientially come to know, comprehend, apply, and analyze for themselves what is 'truth.' They must all praxis sin. This is the solitary 'purpose' which 'drives' psychology-sociology-anthropology, the praxis of sin, i.e. the praxis of human carnal nature.
"To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the forbidden fruit;" (Mike Connor quoting Brown. From the March 23-30, 2005 issue of Metro Santa Cruz)
"... the ‘original sin’ must be committed again: ‘We must again eat from the tree of knowledge ...." (Herbart Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud)
“In the process of history man gives birth to himself. He becomes what he potentially is, and he attains what the serpent—the symbol of wisdom and rebellion—promised, and what the patriarchal, jealous God of Adam did not wish: that man would become like God himself.” (Erick Fromm You Shall Be As Gods)
The "lust of the eyes" correlates to the affective domain (the heart of man, i.e. the imagination of the heart) as it is that part of us which seeks to "recognize" the object in the environment from which the want of a gratifying object within the environment was originally stimulated. The affective domain, according to Bloom has 5 stages of development, Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organization, Characterization. The eyes, by recognizing the item (the "other" in the environment) which stimulated the pleasure, gives it value, a feeling of worth "This is worth paying attention to, this is worth having." In the innovative moment, in the moment of discovery, anything which inhibited or blocked the pleasurable producing experience (was a barrier to sensuousness and spontaneity) becomes worth less (worthless) and therefore momentarily if not permanently irrelevant to what is of value in life. This is such an energy charged moment, deceit establishes its headquarters here. “During the period of innovation, an environment is invisible. The present is always invisible because the whole field of attention is so saturated with it. It becomes visible only when is has been superseded by a new environment." (Federal Education Grant, Dec. 1969 Behavior Science in Teacher Education Program p. 237)
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12
Our perception of how things are, i.e. what is reality, is distorted by the value or worth we place upon the things we perceive ("reality perception," Kurt Lewin). "Reality perception" is shaped by who we direct final accountability towards, i.e. who or what gives us meaning or 'purpose' in life. It can be either 1) externally, i.e. parent, God, i.e. patriarchal in paradigm 2) internally, i.e. our feelings, i.e. matriarchal in paradigm, or 3) 'rational,' i.e. our ability to "change the way things have always been" for the "betterment," i.e. peace and justice, for both self and others, i.e. change justifiable by all and for all, based upon the "felt" need to be adaptable to change in changing situations, i.e. heresiarchal in paradigm. "Reality perception" is based upon the value we place upon the object perceived which moves us in the direction of actualizing our own selves with the object (satisfying our "felt" needs), i.e. identifying with that which gives us meaning or 'purpose' in life which affect not only our lives but also the lives of others. For the humanist, this is a process which can only be initiated thought sensuality, sustained through spontaneity, and justified through dialectical reasoning ("rationally" circumventing barriers extrinsic to the individual which inhibit sensuality and spontaneity from actualizing self-environment unity). Thus man's nature (man driven by his carnal nature to find meaning and purpose within the world itself, i.e. man driven by his lust for pleasure, i.e. approval of his lust for the things of this world, i.e. "lust of the flesh," i.e. human nature, from others) becomes the basis of reality, since "scientifically," that is all that can be universally perceivable. When man places reality upon the things of his own perception, he is easily controlled by those who control the environment and is thus a slave to the world system and its "deceitful lusts." God warns us: "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Ephesians 4:14, 23-24
The "pride of life" correlates to the psycho-motor domain. The psycho-motor domain, referred to as 'physical skills,' is the basis for the justification of human behavior (it is the means whereby we can detect the world, relating with it, and changing it, i.e. change ourselves so that we can be at one with it and change it so it can be at one with us). It is thus based upon materialism. It is the "rational mind," i.e. the mind or affection set upon "things below," where the mind (the Ego, the "I will," the "death instinct") unites with "felt" needs (the Id, the "I want," the "life instinct") in the practice (praxis) of removing the condition which prevents the self-environmental pleasure cycle from coming into fruition. The cognitive domain, united with the affective domain, must be united with the psycho-motor domain if mankind is to annihilate the patriarchal paradigm, the paradigm of restraint which prevents the universality of human nature ( prevents "equality of opportunity" justifying mans carnal nature). The psycho-motor domain consists of 7 stages, according to E. J. Simpson, which are Perception, Set, Guided Response, Mechanism, Complex Overt Response, Adaptation, Organization. It is here that the psycho-motor domain 1) unites with the body's natural laws of the flesh, i.e. the want, 2) unites with the law of perception, i.e. materialization, and 3) unites with the carnal mind, i.e. the "rational" justification of carnal nature over and against irrational, non-temporal restraints (from God or parent), in the praxis of fulfilling relationship with the desired object (the "significant other," society, the world) by the use of force (called a positive social field of force, which simply means no one is disturbed at your removal when done for the sake of society). It is not only necessary to 1) "recognize" one's self in the "other" (the other person, i.e. society), and to 2) 'rationally' justify that oneness, but it is also necessary to 3) be physically able to overcome the barrier which prevents that oneness from being actualized. It is in the person's ability to use his psycho-motor domain, in overcoming that which blocks pleasure with the world, from which pleasure is derived. For the humanist, without the aid of the psycho-motor domain there would be no "hope" for a self-environment unity, the individual and society would be forever divided, the individual alienated from his own carnal nature and the world around him, driven by his carnal feelings and carnal thoughts but never free to fulfill them.
This is the platform of 'human rights.' Socialists do not love people, they love the pleasure they acquire from the liberation of people from Godly restraint and liberation from His judgment upon human, carnal thoughts and actions, thereby justifying man's carnal lusts and initiating and sustaining man's 'right' to 'pride of life,' as he draws others into the dialectical cycle of death. Through social programs, funded by the taxation of citizens, most citizens are forced, under duress (against their will), to 'support' programs which remove God given 'inalienable rights,' while humanists are able to enjoy their life of power, prestige, and pleasure as they force all citizens to participate in their programs promising physical, mental, and social health, where all citizens are guilty until they are proven innocent by their "willful" participation in the process, and must participate before it is know if the social experiment will work. "Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished." Proverbs 16:5 "Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." Psalms 40:4
"Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait." Jeremiah 9:1-8
When the person is "rationally" able to overcome (overthrow) any barrier or restraint between himself and the object of desire within the environment (as Satan helped the woman do in the Garden in Eden), he is able to, dialectically, experience a self-environmental unity (consensus), overcoming any self-environmental dialectical rifts caused by an above nature, non-natural, supernatural, spiritual authority. Since sensual satisfaction is only fleeting (temporal and therefore temporary) the process must be repeated indefinitely or at least until the environment and the person become one permanently (Nirvana), that is until all barriers to cosmic unity are annihilated (discrimination between right and wrong is negated and the 'death instinct' is fulfilled, all are equally one, i.e. dead).
"And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself." Luke 10:27
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14
While the humanist can only see man as a natural product of the environment to which he is bound. God has made it clear from his word that man was created by God for His own good pleasure. What God defines as man's sinful nature, the law of the flesh, the carnal mind attempts to define as simply human nature. Norman O. Brown, in his book Life Against Death, wrote “Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, . . . have all left man overly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic.” “The bondage of all cultures to their cultural heritage is a neurotic construction.” “Neurotic symptoms, with their fixations on perversions and obscenities, demonstrate the refusal of the unconscious essence of our being to acquiesce in the dualism of flesh and spirit, higher and lower.” (Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 1:26
"Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John 8:34-36
"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." Romans 8:16-18
UNDEVELOPED: Quotations and scriptures to add comments to later.
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:12-16
"… in all metaphysics the object remains untouched and unaltered so that thought remains contemplative and fails to become practical; while for the dialectical method the central problem is to change reality.… reality with its ‘obedience to laws,' [laws which are] impenetrable, fatalistic and immutable." György Lukács History & Class Consciousness Class Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism? March, 1919
“Laws must not fetter human life; but yield to it; they must change as the needs and capacities of the people change.” (Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ed. Joseph O’Malley)
“It is not the will or desire of any one person which establish order but the moving spirit of the whole group. Control is social.” John Dewey Experience and Education 1931
Conscientisation: "The process in which men, not as recipients, but as knowing subjects, achieve a deepening awareness both of the socio-cultural reality which shapes their lives and their capacity to transform that reality." (Freire cited in Schubeck S J, 1993: 46 n 41)
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit." Romans 8:3-5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:5-10
“The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.” Karl Marx Selected Reading in Sociology and Social Philosophy by T. B. Bottomore
"Tillich is telling those Christians who can hear that they can accept humanism without relinquishing Christianity if they will accept man as the true meaning of God." Leonard Wheat Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism: Unmasking the God above God. 1970
“Man knows about God only in so far as God knows about himself in man;” G. W. F. Hegel
"The question has previously always been: what is God? and German philosophy has answered the question in this sense: God is man." Frederick Engels The Condition of England A review of Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle, London, 1843 Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1844
"When the dialectical method destroys the fiction of the immortality of the categories [God's Law over man, parents law over child, etc.] it also destroys their reified character [Fear of God above man, parent above child, etc.] and clears the way to a knowledge of reality [Social Eros.] György Lukács History & Class Consciousness What is Orthodox Marxism? 1919
"Work done by Horkheimer in the thirties identified 'neurosis as a social product, in which the family was seen as a primary agent of repressive socialization.'" “A logical connection emerges with the anthropological perspective of the young Marx wherein ‘the eye becomes the human eye, the ear the human ear.’” (Erich Fromm, Marx’s Concept of Man, New York, 1961, p. 133 in Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists p. 212)
Cognition: To become aware of our sins before a Holy, Pure, Righteous, and Wrathful God, who is Loving, Forgiving, Merciful, and full of Grace toward those who repent of their sins which they have committed against him. King David stated it correctly, "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight:" "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Psalms 51:4a, 5
Repentance is to the Father.
Repent: a feeling of contrition for sin (a Godly sorrow for disobedience to God's will "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." 2 Corinthians 7:10) involving a willful admittance of our disobedience of God's will, a categorical acceptance of Gods will, and an imperative to obey God's will (which we can not do, but what he does though us when we humble ourselves before Him). A willful turning of our life over to God's will. Humbling ourselves before God and resolving to follow him and obeying him unto death, something which can only be done when we are "dead with Christ," denying ourselves and denying the approval of others (picking up our cross takes care of the 'other' in our lives in Christ), and following after Jesus (not imitating Jesus as dialectical "ministers" teach). In this way the dialectical process is negated since it needs self and others (social-psychology) in collective approval, with both following after ("driven" by) human "needs," "perception," and "experience" as the basis for "purpose" in life. Only in Christ is their life, and only in dying daily to self, can we know it.
"I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:32
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." 2 Peter 3:9
"From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17
"Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Acts 2:37, 38
"Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." Acts 8:22
"Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Revelation 2:1-7
Revelation 2:8-11 Their is no mention of repentance to the church of Smyrna but rather a message to endure: "Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Revelation 2:10
"And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." Revelation 2:12-17
"And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 2:18-29
"And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 3:1-7
Revelation 5:8-13 Their is no mention of repentance to the church of Philadelphia but rather a message to "hold that fast which thou hast": "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." Revelation 3:10
"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Revelation 3:14-22
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:1-23
Believing is upon the Son of God.
Believe:
Obedience is only possible through the work of the Holy Spirit in us.
Obey:
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