Post No. 3,239 - From a conversation with a friend

Photo by Greg Johnson on Unsplash  
(A farm field ready for sowing in the foreground leads to a home, farm structures, and trees in the midground, and a large, threatening tornado shows in the background, leaning over the farm buildings, against a dark grey sky)

 

I recently had a chat (by phone) with a friend I haven’t seen for a while, and that, and a few other matters, led to a few thoughts. 

 

The first is that it seems, or is too easy to assume (because of other examples of bad behaviour in corporations - particularly at the top), that too many - not all - of those who make enough money to retire without having to worry about money did by being the (rewarded) willing (or duped) of the neoliberal elites - the foot soldiers doing the bidding of their masters by pushing the limits of ethics and edging beyond decency. 

I also know others who didn’t behave that way and retired without money worries, but they had fairly ordinary, as-expected-by-conservatism lives - they haven’t taken on several sets of step- and foster-kids at critical (and expensive) stages of those kids’ lives, didn’t have partners who experienced major (including prolonged) health problems, didn’t relocate multiple times, didn’t see how flimsy and unsuitable Australian housing is and thus avoid buying any, and didn’t stir things up in the workplace by saying “no” to anything questionable (in other words, they were no Veronika from G Plus Animation). 

The problem is, generations of conservative politicians have assumed everyone is from that conservative pattern (there have been progressive politicians who didn't - especially in my home state, but not enough at the national level), and that has left many people struggling to survive - making those conservative politicians a bit like the tornado in the above photo.  

 

Speaking of assumptions and conservatism in lifestyles, my friend and I also discussed transphobia - he (cisgender) has observed transmen don’t experience the levels of transphobia that transwomen do. 

Our chat covered that one of the major motivations for the hate thrown at transwomen is that some men are so insecure and patriarchal that they fear anything that they consider is not heterosexual is a risk to their macho identity (it is not what would be considered normal male identity), and thus they fear what a well known trans advocate refers to as “accidental homosexuality”. 

With regard to the hate shown by some cishet women, some of them consider the existence of transwomen a threat to their princess-in-pink-with-a-pony view of femininity (which, to be fair, transwomen and lesbians and biwomen are - thank the Goddess, but the concept is also a belittling insult to the billions of women in poverty or rural situations where such affected delicacy is not an option), and they are unwilling to keep their fantasies to themselves and their life and so they demand that everyone else goes along with their fantasies, including providing social status points and worship and an adequate number of opening-doors-for-them and reinforcing their fantasy femininity as the sole acceptable model of femininity (which it is to patriarchs, fascists, and the like). 

To do that might also require them to grow  up enough to properly grieve the loss, or partial loss or modification of their life fantasy - which is something that EVERY person who is significantly different (whether through non-standard [according to patriarchy/fascism] sexuality or gender identity, or because of disability, non-standard life cycle, etc, etc, etc) has had to do. 

 

The next point, in reaction to an online YouTube video, is that I have chosen two of my eleven Deities of Tutelage or Service (Matron/nonbinary/Patreon Deity) - the others chose me, which is a process that Druid  John Beckett has written about quite eloquently at Under the Ancient Oaks. As a result of them choosing me (and was reluctant to accept service with two for some time), my Deities of Tutelage or Service come from a few different pantheons. So, based on my experience, my opinion is that to be too reductive and argue that people must choose only from one pantheon is arbitrary and often unnecessary (and sometime necessary for some people). Furthermore, people with advanced or complex spiritual obligations often need the additional help of other Deities to accomplish their life tasks (which is something I first came across in my days trying out Spiritualism, with my teacher at that time often saying people who had taken on more tasks were likely to have more guides and helpers to help accomplish that task).  

However, it could also be that people have a large task that is located within only one area, and thus may have one or a few Deities of Tutelage or Service/Guides/helpers/etc because their large/advance task is focused on a few skills, not many.  

Don’t make ANY assumptions either way based on arbitrary matters such as numbers of anything. 

Finally, as I have written elsewhere (including here), I retired from my day job a few years ago (and my professional registration will expire in a few months yay!). Others have also perhaps officially retired, but are still going - and Robert Reich is a key example, for the reasons he wrote about here (largely the poor state of the world as a result of USA’s current Autocrat-in-Chief).  

I am also having to resume work for a number of reasons, and one significant part of that is associated with my work here and on SubStack: basically, I have more spiritual work to do - more obligations to fulfill (although I won’t get through all this list, nor will I try with many of those). 

So, time for another cuppa and bit more work ...  

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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