The Yin and Yang of Things
I Saw the Witch Doctor, She Told Me What to Do
Most of you are too young to remember this fifties song.
Peace.
I got a comment today from an old friend, Lexa Roséan, a Wiccan from the great site The Witch Doctor is In. She was upset on seeing the dialogue taking place about Kwanzaa in the last two posts, Boxing and Kwanzaa, and Festivus for the Rest of Us, The Kwanzaafication Factor, and where I addressed the arguments of the magnificent paz y amour, from the wonderful blog the path. I understand your concern, Lexa, but as I said in my response to your comment, don't worry—there's love in that dialogue, not anger and not strife.
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Honesty is Such a Lonely Word
One of the problems I have seen in America in our recent history is our unwillingness to be honest with each other. This is the whole purpose of this blog. I want to be forthcoming with my readers and I want them to be truthful with me. This means saying exactly how we feel and see things, while at the same time being respectful and doing it with love. We need this. Treating minorities like children, which is the Democratic way of doing things, is the tool of demagogues, and is insulting and exploitive. Being too polite and too politically correct leads to the perpetuation of outright lies, and keeps us from addressing real problems.
The great shibboleth of multiculturalism, the totem of the left, has led to all of us being separate, and not even that equal. Honest dialogue is part of the solution. By honest dialogue, I don't mean cruelty. I don't mean Uncle Joe telling Aunt Bertha how fat she looks lately. But I do mean Uncle Joe telling Aunt Bertha that he knows a great gym that just opened and would she like to go with him to check it out?
New Age Conservative
I am a New-Ager. I've said this before. I grew up Catholic, and still believe in and love the religion, although I am not a church-going practitioner now. Maybe I should be. God knows, I need Him at this time in my life. I expanded my religious horizon by converting to Judaism in order to get married to an Israeli, some many years ago now. Then, after cultural differences would not let us remain married, we became lifelong friends. I continued my religious seeking with New Age stuff.
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I notice in talking with our present-day soldiers and vets, like Sarge Charlie (and check out the award-winning blog of his wife Empress Bee (of the High Sea), at Muffin53) in Florida, a Vietnam vet; and SgtDub (great polar bear shot today! Polar bears in the Middle East? Check it out!), currently serving in Afghanistan, that they do have an obvious balance of Yin and Yang. These are kind men, generous of spirit. Yet, they are willing to kill the bad guys, if necessary. This is the ideal man or woman. Yin and Yang together.
Both are vital for survival, and for the evolution of a better society. I continue to love New Agers, like Lexa Roséan—but I hope that New Agers will study their roots and allow Yang back into the picture. Then, nobody will get upset over a vigorous argument on race. People will understand why we need a strong military. That masculinity is not a dirty word; that we need both the feminine and the masculine, the light and the dark. Then, we'll make a dent in racism, and promote peace, and love.
God bless.
Rock
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The only religion I don't like at this time in my life is Islam. Prove me wrong, my Muslim friends. My gripe with Islam is that they need to stand up, en masse, as Tarek does in his blog rambling and blathering, and denounce hatred, put a Fatwa against bloodshed, and wage Jihad on terrorism.
Getting back to New Age, I took the Course in Miracles and did Rebirthing and all that. I read Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra. I love all this stuff, as it is full of love, peace, hope, and beauty. It preaches accepting and cherishing everyone. So, with regard to religion, at this point in my life, I am trying to listen to God. I learn about Him from my Catholic roots, from my training in Judaism, from my exploration of New-Age, and from His "talking" to all of us through our fellow human beings. I think He communicates with me through this blog, with the people who read and comment here.
What's the Problem with Wayne Dyer?
Yet, with all this, I came one day to see the limits of New Age too. I expressed some of these views in several posts (Pacifism Kills; To God, Aetheists, Wiccans and My Muslim Friends; and The Problem with Wayne Dyer) and I'd like to revisit my view on Yin and Yang today.
Get Your Yin Yang Straight
One of the problems with New Agers, and with liberals, the left, and Democrats, is that they have a serious imbalance between Yin and Yang.
The left embrace only the Yin. They and their constituents, including Feminists, promote the feminization of society, foreign policy, race relations, and everyday life. Their slogans are always things like "Make love, not war," "No war for oil," "War is Evil," "The Death Penalty is Inhuman," "Free Tookie," "Guns kill," and so on. They deny and obliterate the necessary balancing Yang, which should include things like just wars, preventative wars, a strong defense, punishment, retribution, and even revenge.
They attack everything "masculine." Boys are not allowed to be boys, and are made to feel guilty for following their nature. Schools are taught mostly by women, who admonish boys that negotiation is the be-all and end-all for every problem. This imbalance continues into adulthood in our society when Democrats want to negotiate with Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and terrorists. Neville Chamberlain had a serious imbalance of Yin and Yang. Israelis should just be nice to those nasty Palestinians and there would be world peace. All war is bad. And the worst war is the "hideous" pre-emptive war.
Balance Flowers with Bullets
Peace, Love, and Strength
The New Agers, and Feminists, liberals and Democrats, are wrong with this philosophy. Survival demands a balance of Yin and Yang. Life is not all peace and love and joy and flowers. It includes dirt and feces and blood and tears. God, the God of all of us, or gods, or Nature, or the Universe, demands that we be strong. This means we need to be kind, but we also need to be firm, decisive, and swift in our justice and defense.I advise New Agers, including myself as one of them, not to put flowers in the barrels of soldiers' guns, as we did in the Vietnam era; instead, we should give batches and batches of flowers to soldiers—for keeping us alive, safe, and secure.