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Fascinating topic. Something it is important to understand. it does make me kinda sad tho, because scapegoating, is sort of giving away your power to make things better your own self. Edipus rex also comes to mind. a king, i guess can also be a scapegoat? Sparta and Athens were pretty different cultures, even the poetry and arts were very different. at some point (plato, i think) wanted them to merge more. It is challenging to understand how brutal people are. Especially for a culture that watches violence for entertainment. (i don't)

Ok here is my question you are free to ignore, because it is not the same region. In places like Montana, where it was 50 degrees below zero last year, (some cows froze to death) . in the far north people would have to just stay inside for a few months. Forced contemplation of self. with no books or distractions but a burning fire that is life. just 8 hour poems like the kallevala. what i would do is explore my consciousness. it is better than TV. talk to the ancestors. make friends with the black forest mushrooms. 50 words for snow. mamouk. would there not be a development of individuality and self regulation there?

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A washcloth is a scapegoat. So too is soap. I think people who were into human sacrifice added it to the scapegoat medicine and maybe that’s the part that is sad? Human consciousness still uses scapegoating but persecution is a very special form of scrutiny and people couldn’t experience scrutiny without it. It feels like scapegoating is a way of channeling your power. Even if the power is to be persecuted.

Don’t forget scapegoat was an honor for some. Villages in mesoamerica would worship the scapegoat all year long. He had access to the highest places and his role was sometimes mutually beneficial

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Well, i just think it is sad when people are wasted. but i guess it is fair to say some have wasted themselves for what ever reason. loss seems to be a soar spot for me lately, what with everyone killin’ themself and others suffering extreme hardships and Not killin’ there-self. i do not know what i’d do if i didn’t talk to animals and plants and was a mom.

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It’s sad because we value life. This is progress.

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Hmm. you are right. yes it deserves some more thought. abortion , the honored dead. death in the service of life. That Is the way the world works, from the buffalo to john barleycorn. I will be thinking about the eye thing for the next few years, Balor the evil eye and odin. Some fae has One eye in this world and another, in the otherworld. 2 points of awareness. I wonder if we sleep, to harmonize these two. Thank you!

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Nov 2Liked by James True

Got inspired by this episode and wrote this : https://open.substack.com/pub/thewhychromosome/p/the-sacred-runtime

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Great article! Monism is back baby

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Ps: i am not a richman from richmond, quite the opposite, so i am proposing this with strong feelings towards what happen with helene baal disaster( yeah its my mom name so i feel responsible 😜)

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Hi. Thank you for supporting my work. I hope you like the books. I sell signed copies from my Shopify store here… https://jamestrue.myshopify.com or if you want to send me the 222 somehow we can do that too. My email is james@jtrue.com if that helps.

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