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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject: ambivalence |
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If the God of stage one is double-edged, providing with one hand and punishing with the other, then he cannot be known only one way. Fear and love both come into play. For every biblical injunction to �love the Lord the God with all thy heart, all thy strength, and all thy soul,� there is a counterbalance. The injunction to �fear the Lord� is expressly stated in all faiths, even the faiths supposedly based on love. (Jesus speaks quite openly about the evildoers who will be �cast out with wailing and gnashing of teeth.�)
What this means in a deeper sense is that ambivalence is discouraged. Peace of a sort rule in a family where the children are told simply to love their parents but also feel secret anger, hatred, and jealousy toward them. The �official� emotion is only positive. An outsider may call this a false peace, but to the insider it works. But has negativity really gone away? It takes a great deal of growing up before one can live with ambivalence and its constant blending of dark and light, love and hate � this is the road not taken in stage one. |
1. Is 'be cast out' the same meaning as 'be thrown out into hell'?
2. What does 'ambivalence is discouraged' mean?
3. Is 'a sort rule' the same as 'a sort of rule'?
4. What is a verb of a subject 'peace of a sort rule'?
(Is a verb omitted?)
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: ambivalence |
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If the God of stage one is double-edged, providing with one hand and punishing with the other, then he cannot be known only one way. Fear and love both come into play. For every biblical injunction to �love the Lord the God with all thy heart, all thy strength, and all thy soul,� there is a counterbalance. The injunction to �fear the Lord� is expressly stated in all faiths, even the faiths supposedly based on love. (Jesus speaks quite openly about the evildoers who will be �cast out with wailing and gnashing of teeth.�)
What this means in a deeper sense is that ambivalence is discouraged. Peace of a sort rule in a family where the children are told simply to love their parents but also feel secret anger, hatred, and jealousy toward them. The �official� emotion is only positive. An outsider may call this a false peace, but to the insider it works. But has negativity really gone away? It takes a great deal of growing up before one can live with ambivalence and its constant blending of dark and light, love and hate � this is the road not taken in stage one. |
1. Is 'be cast out' the same meaning as 'be thrown out into hell'?
2. What does 'ambivalence is discouraged' mean?
3. Is 'a sort rule' the same as 'a sort of rule'?
4. What is a verb of a subject 'peace of a sort rule'?
(Is a verb omitted?)
Thanks. |
I think "cast out" can mean "thrown out" but not necessarily into hell, although someone who recognizes the religious passages may have more information.
"Ambivalence" is not being able to decide whether or not you like something, for example, not caring either way. That kind of feeling is discouraged, which means they don't want people to feel that way.
"Peace of a sort rule" seems to me should be "Peace of a sort rules" meaning "a kind of peace rules" where "rules" is the verb. |
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