Once a critic

 I spent a lot of time on the idea that we as humans built up our whole world view. Hardly anyone knows what a culture is like untouched, although we pretend the Natives of America were, it seems fairly obvious they had contact at least with ancient other people for their pyramids and even their numerology. I know that it is obvious to people about time passing, but how obvious? One wonders how common intelligence really is.

So it seemed to me that we had become accustomed to believing about things what we knew was real but putting a bend on it. Our own interpretations here and there. And it was always interesting to what degree we diverged, not in erring, but sometimes.

The idea that occurs to me often is that we are always trying to nail the truth. We disagree on certain items, things clash like patterns in separates, pants and shirts, socks and shoes. As we elaborate the clashes are more ugly or even beautiful, according to taste and open-mindedness.

I was criticizing Carl Jung this morning. His writings are in my H G Wells book. I find them to be "cryptic". I do not think cryptic is a very good way of telling things. Perhaps one must understand things to be able to decipher the writings of things. Or else the writer doesn't want people to know. Or even BETTER, the writer has a hard time manspliaining them. I dudegress.

Criticizing, after we look closer, is a lot like having a new theory. A jeer, a haughty attitude, is the typical thing that's awful. It is awful to be haughty, so says God. But to criticize, a word with meaning, a meaning that can be broken down, measured, divided into classes, with plusses and minuses. A negative criticism, a needless jeer, a positive criticism, roaring laughter.

So it seems much of what is very difficult is indeed complicated by the vast audiences. Beside me is Jungs "Theory of Personality". When we look at a person we have to take in their entire being. Someone said to me once, "I am the pretty girl" meaning that if you do not make yourself pretty, you are not pretty. 

It is your personality which makes you pretty. One might think a positive attitude then, is beauty. A lot of the time this is true. We have to critique our reasons based on the beliefs and opinions of other people. What is a pretty girl? Can a pretty girl not braid her hair and wear lots of makeup? Can a woman covered head to foot be found beautiful?

I wondered today if Jesus meant to prescribe an anti-beauty regimen to women when he told men not to love the exterior person.  He warns them, do not love them for their beauty. Even this has a lot of personality. It could be that our loving something that isn't lasting is going to hurt them both.  Or that if you love something such as this it will be what the wife has to work for, when she could be caring for the children, & not letting your daughters be beautiful. Or what about another pretty woman? What our eyes see makes our mouths water. What our hearts feel is supposed to be eternal.

I think, personally,  that Jesusnasks women to do something and men to do something. He says,"Be modest. Love truly" and that becomes a lot to a whole lot of different people. 

Nailing it, so to speak, isn't so easy. 

Today I put money into a prayer box for something very important. If I was trying to "Nail it" I would be wondering if too little meant I didn't care or too much was buying Gods love, like paying for indulgences in Martin Luther's day. Can you imagine sincerity of heart?

I made a meme: