Faith ignites

Hope and the infinite brain of being interact
Faith  is for the forlorn
Faith is not scorn
Goodness  is   always approximate
Do bad and become bad.
Fractals made my home infinite
Kill yourself  with kindness, instead of others.
Cruelty runs faster but blinder.
Armed struggles are too weighty with meaning.
To eat or not to eat when you are taking antibiotics
Pause before screeching or swearing
Always get washed before  you go to breed.
Buy a big bed  for when you are  both sulking.
Don’t frisk me.

Darting in exquisite geometry

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How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how I held you for a moment that was infinite
and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some finite boundaried world

Tell the truth or commit a great crime

My problem is strident conceit
In how I  can bear twisted feet
I never wear sandals
Nor go out with vandals
And I always  say,love ain’t defeat.

I think pride is a valuable trait
When finding an other to play
For  the humble get nowhere
Don’t even go there
Play your piano today.

Deceit seems a very good line
When trying to find husbands online
But when they set eyes on you
What on earth will you do?
Tell the truth or commit a great crime

Killing with kindness is right
As only God knows you’re a blight.
What people think of you
May not be perfectly true.
Pretend you can’t see without light.

Aggression is there in our genes
But too much can often demean
Save it for dust
Then wipe if you must
Smile for you’ll always be clean

Envy is a wonderful gift
The race always goes quite a drift
So envy no single one,
Envy the whole or none.
Keep walking and  may  you be swift

Rage may boil kettles  of acid
A fact quite unknown to the placid
Then when you drink tea
Scalded you’ll be.
Derive your own truth from the asses.

We could cut down the roses in our rage.

Grass and daisies have no   spikes nor thorns.
So we can run barefoot across the  lawns.

Why do roses hurt  our hands unknown,
When sheep don’t hurt the shepherd as they’re shorn?

 

We could cut down the roses in our rage.

Their   own aggression might bring down their death.

Yet, beauty in their form makes love engage.

So we ignore their useless,painful wrath.

 

Recklessly we love a spiky friend.

Enchanted by their learning or their face

But wounds unneeded bring this to an end.

Patience thins, we sever  this embrace.

 

Roses have a beauty that beguiles.
Shall we  then endure their thorns and wiles?

The cost of loving

At first there is a gaping wound of loss
But our blood clots and seals the wound  up tight
Any movement brings a painful cost

After time and months of pain have passed
The scab has formed ,our body does what’s right
At first there was a gaping wound of loss

Yet if we’re struck, the wound reopens fast
We must  be careful not to enter fights
Any movement brings a painful cost

Easing is a gradual,lonely task
And even then the pain can take a bite
In where was a gaping wound of loss

Every death  creates another ghost
But not an evil angel of the night.
Any movement brings a painful cost.

Let me see your face in dreams tonight
I can’t live without your kindly light
At first there was the sacred wound of loss
Love dies not but carries its own cost

Without your presence

Being home without  your presence dear
Without the warmth  that poured from your blue eyes
Makes me feel invisible right here.

I do not have antipathy to fear
Inevitably   panic rises high.
Drinking tea without  your presence dear

Sharper was the pain that  cut through me
I realised that Death was coming by.
I feel  unreal, while knowing I am here.

Then there is the suffering to believe
So from my mouth I gave a stuttering sigh
Coming home without  your  care so dear.

Oh, humans can’t escape  the sorrow of deep grief
A sheet of tears fell from my stricken eyes.
I feel my heart was emptied by a thief.

 

I never asked the question ,tell me why.
I know that all the living  come to die.
Being home without  your presence dear
Makes me feel I’m lost and not quite here.

 

 

Worries people mention in the Newspaper Psychology Page

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Being a male virgin at 29.
Not being a virgin and wanting to seem like one
Wondering if it is bad for your partner to make love with others  and what to do about it.
Love
Sex
Is love always sexual?
Children and dating for the divorced
Death and desertion in a nutshell
What to wear as an older person on a date.
Whether to perm your hair or shave it off and buy a wig
The price of wigs
Is it worth buying yourself   more makeup?
Does foundation make one look better?
Do men like makeup?
Do women like hairy men?
Do women like men’s beards?
What to talk about on a date if you are a mathematician.
How to conceal  your history from a  lover.
Should I make my house over to my second husband?
Are men after my  house or is it Love?
Will he want me to wash his clothes?

New Books: Time to churn

Non-linear algebra and agnosticism
Non-Euclidean geometry and alienation
Losing Base.
Futile non-connection
Over-whelmed by the Other
Atypical dismay.
Disorder matters.
Help  yourself in Theory and Keep Practising
Conned by the words.
Discounting your Finances
Romance and other Tongues.
Moral Sex for Atheists
Sir Rather Clinging Foil, a Thief for Dummies.
89 Ways to avoid connecting with Bothers
65 Ways to make Fiends angry.
90 Ways to Evade Succour.
23 Ways to eat  a Cake twice.
45 Ways to miss Mass.
89 Ways to hope with Grief.
Grief without angst.
Angrier than The Weather.
908 Ways to ask for a Scalp.
765 Ways to  style your hair when feeling morbid..
Hurricanes and how they can curl hair free.
Turn loss into space for growth
Emptiness is not Bad.
The Empty Vest: a widow’s  dishonest life
Don’t wear this under pants: silk  and its care.
Oil yourself with Vaseline :76 ways to Save Your Face
Have your cake then beat it

What is alienation?

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https://www.thoughtco.com/alienation-definition-3026048

 

“THE BROADER THEORY OF SOCIAL ALIENATION

Sociologist Melvin Seeman provided a robust definition of social alienation in a paper published in 1959, titled “On the Meaning of Alienation.” The five features he attributed to social alienation hold true today in how sociologists study this phenomenon.

They are:

  1. Powerlessness: When individuals are socially alienated they believe that what happens in their lives is outside of their control, and that what they do ultimately does not matter. They believe they are powerless to shape their life course.
  2. Meaninglessness: When an individual does not derive meaning from the things in which he or she is engaged, or at lest not the same common or normative meaning that others derive from it.
  3. Social isolation: When a person feels that they are not meaningfully connected to their community through shared values, beliefs, and practices, and/or when they do not have meaningful social relationships with other people.
  4. Self-estrangement: When a person experiences social alienation they may deny their own personal interests and desires in order to satisfy demands placed by others and/or by social norms.

CAUSES OF SOCIAL ALIENATION

In addition to the cause of working and living within the capitalist system as described by Marx, sociologists recognize other causes of alienation. Economic instability and the social upheaval that tends to go with it has been documented to lead to what Durkheim called anomie — a sense of normlessness that fosters social alienation. Moving from one country to another or from one region within a country to a very different region within it can also destabilize a person’s norms, practices, and social relations in such a way as to cause social alienation. Sociologists have also documented that demographic changes within a population can cause social isolation for some who find themselves no longer in the majority in terms of race, religion, values and world views, for example. Social alienation also results from the experience of living at the lower rungs of social hierarchies of race and class. Many people of color experience social alienation as a consequence of systemic racism. Poor people in general, but especially those who live in poverty, experience social isolation because they are economically unable to participate in society in a way that is considered normal.