tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post9216196260346158284..comments2024-01-12T12:39:47.241-08:00Comments on The Christian Monist: The Blame Game - Another Opium of DyingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-81327746049127341512009-03-04T08:51:00.000-08:002009-03-04T08:51:00.000-08:00Addendum. Just hit me, JMJ:Therefore, the reasoni...Addendum. Just hit me, JMJ:<BR/><BR/><I>Therefore, the reasoning goes, since I’m so smart not to smoke, I’m protected. That some how gives us some comfort.</I><BR/><BR/>How does that differ from doing the right magickal rituals (done just so) to keep death away from yourself?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-878914472051909043.post-48960369688213079582009-03-04T08:47:00.000-08:002009-03-04T08:47:00.000-08:00In the fist example, again I sense that we Christi...<I>In the fist example, again I sense that we Christians really don’t know how to deal with bad news. To share an honest, but sad story among Christian friends is as socially offensive as farting really loud.</I><BR/><BR/>Because Happy Clappy Joy Joy Joy cannot endure contact with reality. That's been the whole theme of your blog, the danger of Dualism between the Physical and Spiritual, where going full honk into one makes the other unreal -- at least until Reality kicks in your door.<BR/><BR/><I>In the second situation, I observe how we build insulation between ourselves and bad things by casting blame. Yeah, Terry smoked. So somehow he got what he deserved. Therefore, the reasoning goes, since I’m so smart not to smoke, I’m protected. That some how gives us some comfort.</I><BR/><BR/>That and Militant Antismoking has become a fundamentalist religion these days (it was California's State Religion before Global Warming was invented), and all heretics must be burned.<BR/><BR/>Just like Manichean Dualism, except replacing the Spiritual with the Healthy.<BR/><BR/>And you get the same "Holier-than-Thou" compartmentalization as with a Gnostic Pneumatic -- I remember one sexual predator type getting oh-so-righteous about anti-smoking.<BR/><BR/>(Hmmm... fits in well with the original meaning of "Pneumatic"...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com