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by SteveC
Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:23 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: We Are The 99%
Replies: 100
Views: 19103

CarmelaBear wrote:
In the next act, a mother hawk, who is itching to put boots on the ground, is the new feminine symbol who will crash through the glass ceiling in time to re-install our famous symbol of sexual entitlement as co-president.
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The more Hillary talks, the scarier she becomes.
by SteveC
Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:29 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Buy low, sell low
Replies: 2
Views: 1512

FYI, I finally finished my book, The last chapter had been dogging me for a while (like two years, I think). I was never happy with it. Even this version is more wordy than I would like, but it is more of a step-by-step description of how we can have a new economy, complete with how to make the tran...
by SteveC
Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:21 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Buy low, sell low
Replies: 2
Views: 1512

Buy low, sell low

I have an article today at opendemocracy.net if anyone is interested in reading or discussing.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/transforma ... er-economy
by SteveC
Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:28 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Numbers R Us
Replies: 60
Views: 12744

romansh wrote: If there was a company that had a reputation for not administering its payouts fairly would you insure with them?
Funny, when you said that, I imagined government.
by SteveC
Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:47 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: On Consideration of the New Year
Replies: 70
Views: 17782

Architect: Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the Source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Mat...
by SteveC
Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:37 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Numbers R Us
Replies: 60
Views: 12744

Insurance is a ponzi scheme, which just goes along with all the other oddities of our advanced brain. We can invent lies and believe them at the same time, As far as therapy goes, everything needs to get talked out. Writing is an excellent release. Our healthcare system is unfortunate. It shouldn't ...
by SteveC
Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:37 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Numbers R Us
Replies: 60
Views: 12744

Insurance is a ponzi scheme, which just goes along with all the other oddities of our advanced brain. We can invent lies and believe them at the same time, As far as therapy goes, everything needs to get talked out. Writing is an excellent release. Our healthcare system is unfortunate. It shouldn't ...
by SteveC
Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:10 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Numbers R Us
Replies: 60
Views: 12744

WOW! Mercy is a wonderful thing, but I am a bit confused by your post. On the one hand, you see the rapist as a person who is lost and needs to be forgiven. You blame the culture for creating rapists and 'lost men.' Sex as violence and a way of stealthily striking the weak fits within a large contex...
by SteveC
Fri Nov 01, 2013 4:07 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What does Joe say about hero destruction?
Replies: 14
Views: 3768

Steve this is good no? What is the point of hanging on? 99% of people's problems are because they are hanging on to their old myths. Firstly and foremostly to their parents and childhood persona, then refusing to make the change from student to householder etc etc. Rarely is it the case that someon...
by SteveC
Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:40 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What does Joe say about hero destruction?
Replies: 14
Views: 3768

The joy of giving is preceded by the joy of having. Of course, the challenge of moral insight is that it can easily be faulty, which is why the issue of hero construction (ourselves) and hero destruction (others) is a bit complex. I do not think of duality as a bad word. It is a fact of the conditio...
by SteveC
Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:20 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What does Joe say about hero destruction?
Replies: 14
Views: 3768

The seen and the unseen are inherently dualistic. In trying to create a bridge between different societies and their different myths, he also separates them, too. That is the nature of bridges; there are two sides to the river that runs between them. Again, Orwell and Hoffer both discuss myths in a ...
by SteveC
Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What does Joe say about hero destruction?
Replies: 14
Views: 3768

Yes, I get all that. God doesn't fix the problem, he fixes the people who make the problem, and that results in changes to the status quo. Joe Campbell follows that process and puts it into the context of a myth (new wisdom) that becomes the basis of the society. That is not what I am asking. Does J...
by SteveC
Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:12 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What does Joe say about hero destruction?
Replies: 14
Views: 3768

What does Joe say about hero destruction?

The hero's journey is about 'following your bliss' which is a process of self-discovery, etc. We are all on this journey, with various degrees of success and self-awareness. My question is more a question about a question (if that makes sense). It was inspired by the recent Russell Brand tirade agai...
by SteveC
Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:10 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Campbell's Political Cynicism
Replies: 39
Views: 8578

The mercy you give is the same mercy you earn. So the ladder is for both the high and the low to build, but for ourselves, it is our ladder that we build. The great ending of the movie Metropolis: Head and hands want to join together, but they don't have the heart to do it...Oh mediator, show them t...
by SteveC
Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:41 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Campbell's Political Cynicism
Replies: 39
Views: 8578

Only the merciless are in need of mercy.

For the top to come down from their perch, we need to build them a ladder.