Weaver & Loom

Fear and Love are to core drivers to boundaries. Fear causing us to run from negative consequences and love driving us towards positive relationship and outcomes. 

One without the other produces toxic relationships. Love or fear directed in the wrong manner produces unhealthy patterns and cycles. 

Fear negative results drives us from wrong doing--but that must be coupled with love to do go towards others. 

Through understanding some basic frameworks by which we can judge our boundaries and relationship--we are able to the see more clearly how larger system of society ought to function in a health manner. 

We have to know WHO we are serving and WHO we are not.

What is our responsibility and what is NOT.

What can we expect from the other party—and what we CANNOT.

If we can not frame our personal worlds correctly we fall into codependent relationships (where we need others to need us) in order to find value and security. 

This fosters FREEDOM. Freedom to know what we are pursing, purpose in pursing goals and serving others—WHILE having the independence to know are not responsible FOR other people—but we do and a responsibility TO other people.

Stay tuned for the next episode where we talk about the frame work and spheres and domains of societies and how they all are designed to function interdependently  . . . and what happens one they overstep their domains.

Sources and additional Reading:

 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201412/codependent-or-simply-dependent-what-s-the-big-difference

 http://www.webster.edu/student-counseling/problems/codependent.html

https://proactive12steps.com/codependency/

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Rights, Entitlements . . . and boundaries? And how our conflation of these terms are creating a toxic environment. 

Rights and Entitlements, strangely enough we are going to tie this into our interpersonal lives with boundaries and how most of the things I read about “boundaries” are really entitlements masquerading as rights.

What is the difference between Rights and Entitlements

Much of the same thing is happening. I see across the society and culture this self-help inner peace nonsense that masquerading as “boundaries” and “rights” that are really entitlement that will end up bankrupting your relationships.

We claim these “personal rights”  as “healthy boundaries” which is really self preservation to keep us safe and protected—building walls to keep us comfortable. Why? because we have assumed “comfort” is a owned to us--but it isn't.

No one can make you feel anything… Often when we are believe we are victims and not powerful people we focus on our entitlement that isolates us causing us to seeks our own selfish desires. Building walls and then we expect people to give us emotional equity love and support when we haven’t nourished those relationships.

Sources and additional Reading:

https://www.loveaddictionhelp.com/personal-bill-of-rights

https://medium.com/@shin.eug/rights-vs-entitlements-14428368185b

 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/Swaminomics/let-s-not-confuse-entitlements/

https://fee.org/articles/rights-versus-entitlements/

 https://www.newsmax.com/johncylc/natural-rights-us-constitution-entitlements/2017/08/04/id/805919/

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Words matter. The meaning of our words matter. And understanding their meaning is critical to understanding our world and acting within it. 

In this episode we discuss justice and how it contrasts with what has come to be referred to as "Social Justice".

We define the meaning of Justice, Mercy, Grace, and Judgement and "Social Justice" as defined by those who stand and march for "Social Justice".

Justice makes impartial judgements regardless of race, class, or gender. Social justice make partial judgements in favor of "disempowered minorities" based on race, class and gender.

Justice give each man what he is due. Social Justice redistributes what each man earns until "financial equality" is achieved.

Sources and additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice

 https://forward.com/culture/408113/tzedek-what-does-justice-really-mean-anyway/

 https://www.wordfoundations.com/2019/03/16/five-categories-of-contrast-social-vs-biblical-justice/

https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/documents/ifsd/SocialJustice.pdf (Page 2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci

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The nuclear family is under attack maybe more than every before in history—Today we discuss why some are working to erode family values, and why we must defend it . . .

In this episode we talk about:

• How to escape poverty
• Role and strength of the Nuclear Family
• Why Black Lives Matter as a movement is dangerous
• Why we must discern truth NOT just push for "change"
• Why Cults and socialism push to destroy traditional family
• And most importantly why (if you care about your children and grandchildren) you must fight to preserve the values and morality with the family is build upon.
• What Marx and Engle REALLY believed (according to what they wrote) AND why it is so deadly. 

The fruit of Marxist ideals is death. We have witnessed the destruction of nations, murder of 100+ of millions of lives all in the name of progress unto and new man, new society, and equality.

And we have seen the fruit of healthy families building generational wealth through family godly morals and values--ideas free for anyone to implement and better their life today and thereby help their communities rise out of poverty and pain.

 Escaping Poverty

 https://www.dicksonpost.com/opinion/three-laws-of-statistics-for-avoiding-poverty/article_7e27e960-eb49-11e8-870b-df394ab63f2c.html

Role and strength of the Nuclear Family:

 https://revisesociology.com/2014/02/09/functionalist-perspective-family/

Sullivan Institute Cult:

 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/american-cult-5-spiritual-groups-that-went-too-far-202224/the-peoples-temple-1955-1978-202246/

 https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/23/nyregion/saul-newton-85-psychotherapist-and-leader-of-commune-dies.html

 https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/inside-the-rise-fall-of-a-1970s-upper-west-side-cult

Details on Engles and Marx's Writings:

 https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/History/Faculty/Weikart/Marx-Engels-and-the-Abolition-of-the-Family.pdf

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23027744?read-now=1&seq=14#page_scan_tab_contents

Article by the NMAAHC on "Whiteness" **Correction: National Museum of African American History and Culture**:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/african-american-museum-site-removes-whiteness-chart-after-criticism-from-trump-jr-and-conservative-media/2020/07/17/4ef6e6f2-c831-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

 https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/1283862959513632768

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During the Chinese Cultural Revolution Totalitarian control was carried forth by undermining traditional morality, the family unit and public displays of violence through struggle session to strike terror into the hearts of the people because if you could strike terror in the hearts of men and women—you could control society.

If you remember a couple episode back E156 we discussed six traits of totalitarian cults we discussed why these orgs break up the family and why they use public punishment, shame, justified violence, to control the massive through eliminating a safe haven to turn (family) and through creating terror through public killings that are irrational.

In 1840 China began to modernize from traditional Chinese. Over about a 80 year period of time there were multiple wars in China that led to China adopting a Communist State in 1921.

Communism adopted ideas from Darwin and social Darwinism—and believed the violent struggle was the only way forward to progress as a species.

In the 1920s in the USSR there were public show trial where people were falsely accused of baseless crimes and executed. Russia was looking for Comrades to take over the world. In China they had been suffering set backs, disappointment and lack of global recognition after WWI.

They turned to Communism and Lenin Marxism: promised utopia but adopted ideas of no private land ownership, violent revolution, and destruction of traditional values.

The CCP was enacted genocide against anyone within or outside of the party who displayed individuality or independent thought. You could not have your own opinion—just that of the party’s talking point.

• In 1952 2.4 Million killed "anti-revolutionaries"
• Some estimated 5 Million killed from the KTM party
• And some 10 million killed in the Land Reforms.

Communism used LIES to justify violence, altered and conceal historical truth, and closed loops of logic and manipulation of justice:

• Muder is not allowed—except if someone betrays the party
• Honor your parents—except if they are "counter revolutionaries".

China Communist documents out lines the abolition of the family rooted in region (Daoism, Buddhism). So they started to destroy temple, kick out the monks and make them join secular society, destroy statues, burn scripture.

Additional Resources:

CCP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China

KMT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang

Struggle Sessions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

Guangxi Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre

Chinese Cultural Revolution:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Humanitarian_crisis

Video series on Communist China: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLED64004A96BE76FA

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French Revolution began 150 years of chaos, war, bloodshed, revolution…. Each movement being eaten by the next…

France in the 1789 had LOTS of problems: high tax on poor, Rich, oppression etc.  CLEARLY in need of Revolution. America had just gone through their own revolution. But the ideal of these two revolutions were VERY different.

In America, the Puritan and Protestants came over in search from religious freedom. They adopted ideas of Milton on freedom of speech and the dangers of censorship.

They adopted believed in the premise that the INDIVIDUAL was the supreme expression of the state. And the state was in place to EMPOWER the individual.

John Adams’ Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ratified in 1780, provides the basic framework for American governing philosophy:

 “All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.”

Note: This put the power and responsibility into the hands of the individual. Liberty in the hand of the individual… the seeking and obtaining safety and happiness was the individual’s responsibility.

France’s 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man is an ode to the collective. “The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation,” it states. “Law is the expression of the general will.”

The guide of the French Revolution was not liberty—but “Equality”. Not individual freedom—but the government responsibility to level the playing field and give equity to all people.

The America Revolution the PEOPLE gave power to the government, in the French the GOV/collective give power to the people.

In the years following the American revolution we see peaceful governance.

In the years following the French Revolution we see the Reign of Terror with mass execution “for the common good” . . . they hunted down nobles and business owners and beheaded them without trials.

The premise was IF there was an inequality it was due to oppression—and oppression must be punished “To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty” Robespierre

EQUALITY was more important that LIBERTY.

Maximilien Robespierre was monumental in sparking the French revolution… and ironically he was also lead to the guillotine when the people decided he too had too much power and an oppressor.

That is the issue here—one of many in the post modern marxist ideologies… those who lead the revolution often meet the same fate and the fury of the movement for equality continues to eat those who bring leadership.

It is the ouroboros —the self eating snake. Self destructive never satisfying force of chaos and destruction.

The French Revolution was lead by ANTI religious. It was largely sparked by an Anti-Clerical movement—AKA secularism.

They created a new religion to replace the Roman Catholic Church (which was in desperate need for reform). But instead of reforming—the torn it down, killed 16000+ clergy and nobles, and set up the Cult of Reason. Doing away with God—Mandated religion.

(Note the difference—freedom of religion vs MANDATE religion. Individual freedom and liberty vs subject to the state to press for equality.)

So—is the fact that it was a revolution that makes this Totalitarian? By no means—America had a revolution around the same time but the ideas and results were very different.

The French revolution was Totalitarian in idealogy because the idea was absolutely control over the individual for the sake of “equality” and with that came state mandated religion—a very different idea from the America Revolution—Freedom of religion.

First came the “Cult of Reason” that supplanted the Catholic church (Supplanting one mandated religion with another)

Here is where is gets really crazy and we see the extreme censorship and control of media and the totality of Totalitarian even in their erasure and rewriting of history.

Post Modern Leftist revolutions seek to erase and rewrite history so the past can completely be forgotten so that there is NO OTHER option—no descending voice—no other way of thinking.

The “Cult of Reason” Did away with the Gregorian calendar and set up a NEW calander to erase christianity, religion, and the past.

(Tear everything down and start over mentality VS let us learn from the past and slowly improve upon the foundations)

What did they do?

First introduced in 1788 and adopted in Oct 1793 – did away with 7 day week, replaced with 10 days.

Three “Dedaces” instead of week. With the name of the months being “snow” Rain, Vintange, fruits, heat, harvest, seedtime.

Replace the names of the Greek Roman Gods with scientific names.

Replaced all the Christian Holiday with holidays around the State and Political events (Putting Science and Government as God)

Each of the 360 days in the year was named for a seed, tree, flower, fruit, animal, or tool, replacing the saints’-day names and Christian festivals.

If you remember from the previous episode on the traits of Totalitarian cult they want TOTAL control, total control of media, of thought, ideas, they re-write history and ideas so that their ideologies have no beginning middle or end.

Why? Because if there is a beginning that means there could be a NOTHER option of thinking. And another option outside of their control is the greatest danger.

This Calendar lasted until January 1, 1806 when Napoleon did away with the old new way, and reestablished the catholic church and the Gregorian calendar.

Liberalism accepts and is open to criticism to they can find, and accept what they are doing wrong in order to correct their mistakes (slowly line by line improving society) Totalitarianism and the ideas that drove the French Revolution were “Tear everything down and START OVER” Don’t accept criticism. Don’t allow another narrative. Control everything.

The result?

Some would argue that the French revolution didn’t end until the 1950s when France joined the EU. For 150 years France cycled through revolution and instability.  

• French Revolution (1789–1792)
• French First Republic (1792–1799)
• First Empire (1804–1814)
• Bourbon restoration (1814–1830)
• July Monarchy (1830–1848)
• Second Republic (1848–1852)
• Second Empire (1852–1870)
• Third Republic (1870–1940), until 1914
•             Paris Commune (1871)
•             Royalist domination (1871–1879)
•             "Radicals" (1879–1914)

150 years of chaos, war, bloodshed, revolution…. Each movement being eaten by the next…

We must be awake and aware of the warning sign of marxist groups like Black Lives Matter . . . warning sign that could ultimately lead to your own destruction as the movement begins to eat itself.

Sources and additional resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Re...

There are six traits of totalitarian cults:

1) Control of the environment

2) A system of rewards and punishments

3) Creating a sense of powerlessness

4) Fear and dependency

5) Reforming the follower’s behavior and attitudes

6) Closed system of logic.

These were described by Margaret Singer’s Cults in Our Midst (1996).

In 1952, Asch wrote: ‘The greater man’s ignorance of the principles of his social surroundings, the more subject is he to their control; and the greater his knowledge of their operations and of their necessary consequences, the freer he can become with regard to them.’

Sources and additional resources:

 https://aeon.co/essays/how-cult-leaders-brainwash-followers-for-total-control https://www.fecris.org/uncategorized/david-brear-the-universal-identifying-characteristics-of-a-cult/

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In this episode, I break down some of my thoughts from a previous episode with Dr Egnor (E153).

If you see a group movement or state that denies the individual's though, variety of opinion, agency and replaces it with group identity, social constructionism, and uses fear based terror based tactics such as cancel culture, intimidation, isolation, and the deconstructing of the family unit you are likely to be dealing with a group with Totalitarian tendencies (if not be a full blow totalitarian movement).

Links referenced in the show:

Solomon Asch: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1952-00803-001

Nicolae Ceausescu LAST SPEECH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIbCtz_Xwk

The Greengrocer: Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel:  https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf

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How can we take responsibility for the pain in our lives and not pass that pain on?

Our words have the potential to release us from the perpetual pain of traumatic experiences.

In the second part of my conversation with Dr. James Pennebaker, we discuss healthy ways individuals can process traumatic experiences and the power of expressive writing.

Dr. Pennebaker is a social psychologist and currently holds the position of the Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.

His work highlights the effects of natural language on the mental and physical health of people. In this conversation, we discuss his work Open Up by Writing it Down and the practical advice he offers to people processing pain.

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Key takeaways:

• Creating distance immediately following a traumatic experience is helpful—do not neglect this part of the process.
• People who do not voice their emotions through spoken or written words often experience physical sickness at a higher rate.
• Writing about your experience adds structure and objectivity to your thoughts.
• If you change your behaviors and thoughts, your language will follow. Language is a reflection of what is happening inside of you.

References:

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

Open Up by Writing it Down

Anchored: The Discipline to Stop Drifting

What to listen for:

1:21     Distraction can be a healthy coping process immediately following trauma.

9:10     In the right timing, writing acts as a healing exercise to process trauma.

12:59   Can writing make a difference about something that happened several years ago?

14:51   Unprocessed pain can result in physical ailments, so what are some strategies to process these experiences?

18:10   People are their own best therapists. There is no right way to process pain.  

20:38   Should a person work to change their language or behaviors first?

25:51   Debrief: taking responsibility for your emotions

33:00   Challenges to implement into your life this week

Quotes:

“By putting it on paper people will change their behaviors because they are looking at it from a more objective perspective.” [12:50]

“You’re responsible for the problems you’ve got—responsible in the sense that you’re the one that is dealing with them. Sit down and see what works.” [19:40]

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Did you know your usage of pronouns and prepositions might reveal parts of your personality that you’re not even aware of? Language is powerful, even the words you don’t even think about, like pronouns.

Our guest Dr. James Pennebaker is a social psychologist and currently holds the position of the Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies the ways emotional experiences, natural language, and physical and mental health all affect one another.

We discuss the language used by the President and former Presidents, analyses of the language used during coronavirus as an indicator of mental well-being, and findings presented in his most recent book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. https://amzn.to/3dARYra

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Key takeaways:

• James Pennebaker’s work was born out of a need to base psychological on real-world behaviors.
• Some parts of speech are processed in the brain differently than others. Knowing this, one can understand people better through the language they use.
• When analyzing the language used by people during the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Pennebaker found significant increases in anxious language and a decrease in language suggesting anger. This is beginning to reverse.

What to listen for:

01:44   How did you, as a social psychologist, decide to study people’s words?

6:33     Dr. Pennebaker discusses his findings of his language analyzing software, Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count (LIWC), which countered stereotypical perceptions about gender and language patterns.

10:19   How do we process various components of language differently in our brains?

20:00   Deceit is very difficult to detect, even for computers. Dr. Pennebaker explains why.

25:06   Pronoun usage provides insight into how a person, even the President of the United States, might be thinking.  

31:58   Analysis of Trump and Obama’s tweets while in office

35:20   Pronoun usage can indicate states of mental health.

36:40   What are you seeing through language analyses happening during the COVID-19 pandemic?

43:08   What will the future look like after COVID-19?

Reference materials:

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

Open Up by Writing it Down

Linguistic Inquiry & Word Count

The Online Research Consortium

Quotes:

“Early on I became a little bit appalled that so much of social psychology was based on questionnaires.

We didn’t look at what people were actually doing, we just asked them what they thought they were doing.” [02:55]

“It wasn’t that I was interested in language, but as a tool to understand people it turned out to be an unbelievably rich source of information” [10:02]

“What the hell is going on in our culture that tweets are a form of conversation?” [33:29]

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