The Word of God is a didactic, patriarchal paradigm. It is a system of
thought and action based upon belief. "He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:16 A
person either obeys or disobeys. From Genesis to Revelation the Word of God
is contrasting ways of thinking (paradigms). "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 repeated message is that
man would turn back to God and his paradigm. "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 There is no middle ground in a didactic, deductive,
patriarchal paradigm. Break one part of the law and you break it all.
Discourse will not change the outcome, repentance will. The message is
antithesis, dualism; obey me and you will be blessed or disobey me and you
will be cursed, black or white, right or wrong, heaven or hell, sheep or
goats, saved or lost, Christ or Belial, something is one way and can not be
any other way, etc.
From the fall of Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12-15) to the fall of mankind
(Genesis 3:1-6) the didactic, patriarchal, biblical paradigm has been
opposed by the dialectical, heresiarchal, worldly paradigm. This paradigm
is a system of thought and action based upon opinion―private
interpretation. It focuses upon those things which are common and similar
to its nature. Whatever appears to be the best way to satisfy a person's or
a group's desired goal, in light of the evidence provided by the
environment, whatever is rational, reasonable, practical in the current
setting to solve the problem of personal and or social dissatisfaction,
whatever "seems to be" right, is right. Situation ethics, values
clarification, Socratic critical thinking, are just some of the labels given
to this system of thought and action.
Overcoming the dialectical split: circumventing the traditional family
role in society
“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
Those who praxis the dialectical paradigm,
purpose to circumvent the didactic paradigm. In a dialectical
paradigm, the didactic, the obedience vs. disobedience system of thought
(judgment based upon a non-sensuous based belief system―depending
upon faith), is treated as nonsense.
According to Norman O. Brown, imposed laws are seen as the source of
conflict (contradiction) when they interfere with natural self-environmental
relationships. When laws are presented in a formal and a logical
construct (obey vs. disobey) and limit "normal" earthly desires, they are to
be struggled against until the system which promoted them is negated
both in the mind of the person and in the praxis―life
experience―of the community. The conscience becomes seared in such a
praxis.
Formal-Logical law of Contradiction defines the
traditional family environment.
Setting the stage for circumventing God and His Word.
“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.”1
“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.”1
“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.”1
[No mention of God and His Word]
"Shift in philosophy
about police duties vs. community responsibilities to a
team concept of Total Quality Management of the
community. Reidentifying the police role as a
Facilitator in the community."2
“Identifying common
ground, where all factions of a community can work
together for the common good of the community in
a broader problem-solving approach. Forming a
partnership between police and the rest of the
community where each is accountable to each other and
the community as whole."2
"Leaders of the
community (law enforcement, government, business,
education, health, civic, non-profit, medical,
religious, etc.) collaborating to identify
problems in the community… and suggesting solutions
to those problems.”2
“The theme underlying
much of the research is that once you can identify a
community, you have discovered the primary unit
of society above the level of the individual and
the family that can be mobilized to take concerted
action to bring about positive social change.”1
“The community of
interest generated by crime, disorder and fear of
crime becomes the goal to allow community
policing officer an entree into the geographic
community.”1
1 Trojanowicz, The meaning of
“Community” in Community Policing (emphasis added)
2 COPS Community Oriented Policing Services
US Department of Justice
“Family organization is
the nucleus of all social organization.” “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.” Normal O. Brown Life Against
Death
"Using social environment forces to change the
parents behavior toward the child." Theodor
Adorno The Authoritarian Personality
“The major implication .
. . was the transformation of the family’s role
in the process of socialization.” Martin Jay The
Dialectical Imagination: The History of the Frankfurt
School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950
“The family thus
may be considered to be the psychological agent of
the society.” Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom
(emphasis above added)
It is
absolutely chilling to understand the implications of these
statements above.
For a better overview of this material listen to
Phil Wort's presentation on
COPS.
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The
"detoxification" of the traditional family experience.
“The conception of the ideal family
situation for the child: uncritical obedience to the father and elders,
pressures directed unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of
spontaneity and emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values.”
Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality
The dialectical process in praxis is
used to coach those under the influence of patriarchal authority how to
prevail over their fear of chastisement and to consciously outwit
such a system of "repression." They become adept in sidestepping an
obedience/disobedience definition of behavior and thus are able to justify
relationship with what was originally labeled, by traditionally minded
parents, teachers, ministers, etc., as deviant behavior―polymorphously
perverse. No matter how "caring and nice" the counselor may seem to
be and no matter how dire the situation may appear to be this is the leaven
they bring into the loaf. All of psychological counseling is built
upon the following foundation. Dad and mom are not perfect, but the office
is. It only takes a little leaven to annihilate the office. I Corinthians
5:6
“Children are polymorphously perverse. .
. . by the standards of normal adult sexuality.” “Infantile sexuality is
the pursuit of pleasure obtained through the activity of any and all
organs of the human body [touching, seeing, muscular activity, pain,
etc.].” “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.” “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
“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 come to ask himself ‘What does it mean to me?’” Carl
Rogers On becoming a person
"Without exception, patients enter group
therapy with the history of a highly unsatisfactory experience in their
first and most important group--their primary family." Irwin Yalom
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
". . . 'to expose the patient, under more
favorable circumstances, to emotional situations which he could not
handle in the past. ... undergo a corrective emotional experience
suitable to repair the traumatic influence of pervious experience.'
Franz Alexander, 1946 in Ibid.
"He reenacts early family scripts in the
group and, if therapy is successful, is able to experiment with new
behavior, to break free from the locked family role he once occupied. …
the patient changes the past by reconstituting it." Ibid.
"Through the therapist's continued
willingness to verbalize and to confront the calamity calmly, patients
gradually realize the irrationality of the feared calamity." Ibid.
"The therapist assists the patient to
clarify the nature of the imagined danger and then ... to detoxify, to
disconfirm the reality of this danger." Ibid.
He reenacts early family scripts in the
group and, if therapy is successful, is able to experiment with new
behavior, to break free from the locked family role he once occupied.
... the patient changes the past by reconstituting it." Ibid.
"There is no type of past behavior too deviant for a
group to accept once therapeutic group norms are established." Ibid.
CONTRAST VS. SIMILAR
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 1:21
The United Nations knows that in a "face to face,
informal meeting," leaders and representatives compromise their
allegiance to their country and become devoted to the global cause.
Representation can only exist with contrast between parties whereas
mediation/compromise can only exist with identifying and focusing upon what
is similar/common between parties. National sovereignty is
maintained in across the table, formal meetings―recognizing
contrast between nations―“. . . attitudes which make for national
aggression," and globalism is engendered in face to face,
informal meetings―discovering what is similar
between people―". . . attitudes that increase international
understanding.” Tensions that cause war ... a group of men
brought together by UNESCO 1950
In the environment of similar―consensus―
contrast is negated―neutralized,
marginalized, and then removed―Neutralized when everyone―the
We―has equal input, marginalized
when the We then refuse to listen
to you, and removed when the We
decide you are being divisive and you need to go, or you
realize you are no longer being listened to by the We and you leave
on your own.
In the environment of contrast―"Ingroup,
Outgroup"―similar is
regarded as conspiratorial and judged as most evil―heresy/treason.
It is reflected in the phrase "Evil company corrupts good morals."
A person with this paradigm must either repent, convert, or leave/die.
“Obedience and loyalty are the first requirements of the ingroup member.
What is called power‑seeking and clannishness in the outgroup is transformed
into moral righteousness, self‑defense, and loyalty in the ingroup.” “The
ingroup must be kept pure and strong. The only methods of doing this are to
liquidate the outgroups altogether, to keep them entirely
subordinate, or to segregate them in such a way as to minimize
contact with the ingroups.” Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian
Personality None of these options, as listed by the Marxist Adorno, are
given to the church, the called out ones―out of darkness into light. It is,
like pilgrims and strangers, in the world, but not of the world. 1 Peter
2:9-11
"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." 1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I write here as a Christian whose Lord has stated that
this world is not his kingdom. John 18:36 Unlike any other religion whose
claim is repent, convert, or die, it is in God's hands to determine the time
of death and the eternal resting place for those who reject Him and His Word
and it is not mine. I am simply to follow Christ and be a witness of His
mercy and grace in the life I now live in him; by His blood, by my testimony
in Him, and by not loving this life to the end―to
endure does not imply vengeance. "Dearly beloved, avenge not
yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance
is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." Romans 12:19
Yet I must expose those who praxis
heresy/treason. My faith does not negate my right to protect my person, my
family, my neighbors, and my nation, from enemies―foreign
and domestic―for conscience sake. The one thing that I can not do is
defend my faith. It defends me, not from the environment, but from my self―my
carnal nature―and its desire to fellowship with the environment, i.e. to
worship the creation. I must let God and His word defend me for my eternal
soul's sake. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not
sin against thee." Psalms 119:11
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
The inalienable (no man can put a lien upon) rights
recognized by our framing fathers (of the U. S. A.) were foundational to
each sovereign state's identity―every
citizen has the right of faith, faith which protects them from their
carnal-socialist-environmentalist-cosmic focusing nature. Communism―communitarianism,
socialism, globalism, humanism, environmentalism, internationalism, etc.―building
upon the dialectical praxis of synthesizing self and
environment―seeks to remove those rights. They can not exist
with those rights in place. They always remove rights by redefining them as
privileges. They do this by getting those in
authority to change or shift their focus. To no longer focus upon contrast
but to focus upon similar i.e. those things which we all have in common―our
carnal nature, our common "felt" needs―is what unites us. "One for
all and all for one"―consensus―removes
my right of humbling and denying myself before a holy and just God and
restricts me from proclaiming my faith to the world.