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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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About my mother

Before you meet my mother, or even as you meet her, stepping over the threshold of my front door, you need to realize that she can be a thoroughly wicked individual without realizing it. Not that we all can't be wicked; And not that she is more wicked than other peoples' mothers. But, her wickedness is of a particular manner and stamp and has to do with an incorrect understanding of the gospels carried down to her through generations of protestant indoctrination. This foible of hers has taught me that I must never complain. The trouble with this is that in living with her, I find that there is no air and no space. One must live in an environment of constant fretting and disturbances and fear. A house of poltergeists could not be more violent or shattering to the peace. She does not allow for weekends. Her mind is completely traumatized by her fear of the oncoming approach of the end of the world. She does not care about society, and yet for her it is absolutely repugnant when a faraway man or woman dies at the hand of a black; this is enough to set her off completely for the rest of the day; or when a queer in some remote country waves his rear end in front of a passing car during a pride parade, she can not, wil nicht let it go..These things set her off and keep her working like a demon possessed. Now the same Nazi demon is being set off in me; it is apparently somewhere lurking in my blood; somewhere in all German blood. Yes, we all have it. After all, how is she to deal with that other part of reality that is not dealt with by the protestants, the German Lutheran clergy, which is in fact dealt with by Jung, the Swiss psychoanalist; but which I am certain was known to its infinite degree dealt with by Jesus himself? "How muszt she know that religiozity and negatifity do not make a zaint of anvone?" More often it makes them a judgmental german shepherd, or as the Germans call it,Deutscher Schäferhund of a person, indeed she is never happy but for the endeavor of chasing down demons in other people while remaining completely oblivious to the fact that this is a demon in its own right.

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