tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post116232810772278810..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: Motherly love...Steerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1162422415606127992006-11-01T23:06:00.000+00:002006-11-01T23:06:00.000+00:00Interesting idea. I'm not sure about the concept o...Interesting idea. I'm not sure about the concept of transmigration of the souls, but it could be argued that our DNA (about which we still have a lot to learn) does the same thing, transmitting personality types across generations, making free will a spurious concept.<BR/><BR/>This is why some people want to create a national DNA database, not just to identify criminals but also to isolate any individuals with a genetic predisposition towards violence. It's all heading towards a scary 'Brave New World' scenario.<BR/><BR/>Having looked again at what I wrote, I didn't make my point very well. I'm not sure if Sue Katona is an aberration. It has been argued that the moral behaviour of the average educated person is at odds with the history of human nature, which is governed by darker impulses (Lyall Watson's excellent book 'Dark Nature' explores this theme) and that neurosis is the product of a clash between nature and nuture. To some extent I agree.<BR/><BR/>What depresses me about Sue Katona is not so much about her - every age has its Sue Katona's - but the degree to which society now tolerates (or is indifferent towards) behaviour like hers and values self-gratification over self-sacrifice.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1162350053308598222006-11-01T03:00:00.000+00:002006-11-01T03:00:00.000+00:00Ok, call me crazy but I just remembered and found ...Ok, call me crazy but I just remembered and found something that is interesting for all that the comprehension of morality is worth.<BR/><BR/>I posted a comment on this book on my blog (http://goncaloveiga.blogspot.com/2006/09/twenty-cases-suggestive-of.html) from which I encountered the most interesting hypothesis on the deviation from morality. I am aware that phenomena are multi-prompted and it is not wise to reduce an explanation to one argument. Therefore, in order to fully understand how this woman, Sue, thinks it would be necessary to study her childhood and early relationships (parents, friends, colleagues) along her early memories, dreams, fantasies and phantasies and ghosts.<BR/><BR/>Having all these in account, I cannot resist to quote this book, mentioned in Ian Stevenon's Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reencarnation(1966/1980), called A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, published in 1860, by a learned Unitarian clergyman, the Rev. W. R. Alger. There the author wrote:<BR/><BR/>"The theory of the transmigration of souls* is marvellously adapted to explain the seeming chaos of moral inequality, injustice, and manifold even presented in the world of human life" (pag.475)<BR/><BR/>*check Plato's Fedon for the concept<BR/><BR/>So, according to this author, someone who would have previously lived in a tribe for all her/his life (for instance on the Amazon), where promiscuity was normal and even morality accepted and promoted, would carry within her/himself these values on to the next life. If this next life would happen to be lived in a different globe region or, simplier, at a society with another type of instituted morality conduct, the individual would always have these past impressions at his (paralife-unconscious - this is my term, it doesn't "exist" academically, yet...) unconscious. And, lest society moulds, in a perfect fashion, the individual to act accordingly to its rules, the individual will always be driven by his unconscious impressions and pulsions.<BR/><BR/>Then again, it should be interesting to study individuals like Sue...Gonçalo Veigahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449433520233251752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-1162336146373774642006-10-31T23:09:00.000+00:002006-10-31T23:09:00.000+00:00That's some story... Moral consciousness at its pr...That's some story... Moral consciousness at its primary stage...Gonçalo Veigahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449433520233251752noreply@blogger.com