Tags
This little excerpt from a book, a devotional even, comes from this article here by Peter Heck at Disrn.
She is writing what amounts to imprecatory psalms over white people, in an attempt to heal, an attempt to sort it all out.
I want to talk about the hazards, the dangers of the grievance industry, the toll that particular form of brainwashing takes on individuals, the victim mindset it creates.
I know this issue well when it comes to feminism. My kids don’t understand, they’re more like, “in your day when the dinosaurs roamed the earth women had no rights! How can you be against women’s rights?” Sigh. They have no idea I once slayed a wooly mammoth with my bare hands.
Feminism is not really about women’s rights just as the racial grievance industry is not really about the well being, health, and freedom of black folks. That’s a tough pill for many people to swallow, but it is the truth. These ideologies are designed to keep you in bondage, subjects of a mindset that is all about control. They play off of our natural and healthy resentments, our unhealed wounds, and our heart matters. Separate, divide, control.
There’s a “poor white man’s” grievance industry brewing up right now too ,and it’s the same darn thing. If you believe counting all the ways you are being slighted and shafted in society is the way to peace, power, healing, strength, restoration, I got a bridge to sell you. People who promote that kind of thinking have an agenda. It can be very seductive one, too. We all love some affirmation, some solidarity, to lick our wounds in fellowship. Animals by the way, lick their wounds to wash them, to kill germs, to promote healing, and that’s a good thing. The problem arises when that’s not what it’s all a about out at all, it’s about nurturing resentment, offense, unforgiveness, bitterness, and a sense of being victimized.
My eyes are wide open. I don’t need anybody to tell me the truth about the total depravity of mankind (of which women are an integral part.) My grandmother was shot. I was 14 years old living on the streets of LA. My friend’s pregnant dead body was dumped in an alley by a man who she believe loved her. I’ve seen some stuff. The world is not an easy place of cut and dry extremes, as if to say we can easily sort it all out, as if to say, good cop, bad cop, no donut for you. Relationships, circumstances, and culture are complex.
We need to be really careful with what I call our ”perception deceptions.” Everybody hates me. It will always be this way. The patriarchy is out to get me. White supremists are hiding in the parking garage. Rapists are hiding in the park garage. All men are evil and dangerous.
Question those narratives! Ask yourself ”’why”’ you believe what you do. Ask yourself who benefits from holding onto this mindset? What purpose does it serve?
”Perception deceptions” can be swept away by having a ruler, a tape measure nearby. We can ask for context, by what measure? By whose standard? Take for example the statement, ”women weren’t treated very well in Biblical times.” That is a subjective perception. Is it true? Perhaps partially, but without context we have no way of emotionally processing that information. Yes, women have encountered oppression all throughout history and yet not long ago half the population was dying of dysentery by the age of 40 and we were burning men alive at the stake. What is the context?
I love how the tales of women are so carefully preserved in the Bible and yes, that is a miracle, and yes men do have a propensity to dominate, to erase women’s voices. Sometimes it is deliberate and evil and sometimes it is just biology, design. Literally, the example of ‘voices’ is a good one, those sweet, rich tones of men singing can easily drown out many women’s softer tones. That doesn’t make it bad, its actually quite beautiful, which is why we carefully craft choirs with different tones and pitches. Don’t forget the sopranos, who can just upset my whole apple cart analogy.
My point being, the evil men’s patriarchy club of women haters did not hold committee meetings like the Taliban of today do. That is actually a rather modern perversion. We see burkas and watch the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and think, this is how it was for women in ancient days, thank God we’ve progressed. We often fail to realize that “Arabian Nights” and ”I Dream of Jeannie,’ is a more accurate representation of historical culture and native garb that what we see around us today.
Perception deceptions. Ironically when we perceive our ancestors solely as victims of oppression, we fail to honor them, we dismiss their humanity, we disregard their strength, and we perceive ourselves as more valuable, as more sensible, as more progressive, meaning more highly evolved. It’s unbelievably disrespectful.
Something I love about the Bible, it tells the truth of women’s lives, the diversity if our character, and our roles in the world, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We are not victims anymore than Jesus Himself was a victim, and I think this is a very important concept to grab onto. He lives in us, He is what allows and enables us to rise above the things we see out and about in the world. The woman at the well had five husband and she was a Samaritan, but Jesus doesn’t validate her victimhood status, He actually sees her and speaks the truth of who she really is. That is the kind of internal transformation, the metanoia, that came to set the captives free. When we believe that we will be made right and whole when the world around us changes, we are in captivity and bondage, and it is a psychological and emotional bondage that in many ways is far more damaging then actual physical oppression.
jsolbakken said:
“If you believe counting all the ways you are being slighted and shafted in society is the way to peace, power, healing, strength, restoration, I got a bridge to sell you. ”
There ain’t no substitutes for knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and discernment. I tend to agree more with Thomas Jefferson, who said in a document that used to be more well known and better understood, that people are more inclined to suffer abuse than to take steps to end it.
People first need to know the simple truth about what is right and what is wrong. This is the difference between merely griping and moaning and whinging about unpleasant circumstances and seeing avoidable injustices that can and should be rectified.
Thanks to the wicked demon-infested Satan worshipping banksters and their Globalist minions, the vast majority of the 7+ billion people in the world have lots to complain about, justifiably so, but nobody can fix anything unless and until they understand what the problem really is.
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
I’m all over, “name that evil for what it is.” Absolutely! Also, we do need to vent sometimes. The problem arises when we falsely believe we’re going to “fix it.” How are you going to fix greed, corruption, and sin? We aren’t. He is God and we are not.
Everybody always wants to change the world, but nobody ever wants to change themselves. When Jesus went riding in on a donkey triumphant on Palm Sunday, people thought He was going to overthrow the Romans and set the Jews free. They wanted a warrior of the literal kind, a King of the Jews to lead them. Much like we still do today, they wanted a physical solution to what is really a spiritual problem.
I often complain about the world system myself, but the Lord always reminds me I am not of this world, I am set apart, a royal priest hood, the inheritor of a kingdom. I’m not supposed to be chasing after worldly things and getting more and more frustrated trying to fix it. It’s worldly, it’s broken. However, if we focus on ourselves and our relationship with the Lord, we suddenly have the power to move mountains.
LikeLike
jsolbakken said:
Funny thing about changing my self, instead of trying to change the world, it still annoys people. I reject society because I think it sucks; instead of trying to change it I withdraw as far as I can arrange it and people call me selfish and anti-social and deviant. Not that I care what they call me, I only point it out to show that we’re damned if we do and we’re damned if we don’t. Society tries to insist that we don’t just passively conform but actively support its stupid @$$-clown BS, which is a lot of what I hate so much about it.
I figured out as a kid that if I didn’t do my own thinking for my self, there wouldn’t be any thinking happening.
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
It’s really true! In a dysfunctional system, any self improvement or rejection of what is dark is going to cause resentment, offense, envy, fear, a whole slew of negative human responses. I know it probably sounds crazy, but the trick is to learn to love people, to show them a lot of grace, and to not grow bitter, cynical, and resentful about it all.
LikeLike
jsolbakken said:
I Corinthians 2:2 “2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ”
I’m trying very hard to implement this in my life. I find it really adjusts my attitude about everything.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Lisa V said:
I really hope you write a book one day…biographical in nature. You sound like you’ve had such an interesting life and experienced so much wisdom and healing from hardships (even tragedy). The quote from that book is quite amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone actually PRAY to hate a whole group of people. Guess I won’t make the cut in her book. The victim culture is ridiculous now days. I often wonder how our history books will be written. How “oppressed” people will be described as being. (I can’t help but hear Monty Python in the background “Help! Help! I’m being oppressed! Because that’s about how much truth there is in it – LOL). I see a whole bunch of us sitting around in some rest home somewhere telling stories of what really happened and younger generations thinking we’re crazy because it won’t match the “history” books. Of course, we might be crazy by then. On a lighter note, my kids have started responding to my “when I was your age…” with “Mom, we weren’t born in the 1900s.” Makes me feel really old. LOL
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you for your kind words, much appreciated. I’m glad I’m not the only with kids who think I’m old, which apparently means completely out of touch and kind of dumb.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Sam said:
I never killed a wooly mammoth, but I once killed a wooly worm. And all by myself although my brothers were watching.
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Good for you. 🙂
LikeLike
Mel Wild said:
“Question those narratives! Ask yourself ”’why”’ you believe what you do. Ask yourself who benefits from holding onto this mindset? What purpose does it serve?”
That would be the reasonable thing to do. The problem with the “woke” religion is that their greatest enemy is reality, so to question their dogma would be to have the whole thing collapse on itself. Anyway, reasoning is part of the oppression of the white man patriarchy. To ask them to question it would be considered a micro-aggression. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Indeed, reasoning is oppression and expecting us to think for ourselves is clearly micro-aggression.
This is yet another reason why I love the Lord, He can handle all my questions and demolish all my arguments, except the good ones of course! From the persistent widow to the neighbor who wont stop knocking, from the lady of the dog crumbs to Abraham arguing about 50 righteous people in Sodom, God shows all through the Bible He actually wants us questioning, petitioning, arguing, and thinking for ourselves! 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Mel Wild said:
Exactly. The Lord would be on the extreme other end of the spectrum from ‘woke’ unquestioned allegience. That’s religious fanaticism, which Jesus wasn’t a fan of. He wants us to faithfully question everything (like the Bereans did in Acts 17), to see if these things were so. He is the One who said, “Come, let us reason together” (Isa.1:18).
LikeLiked by 1 person
The Night Wind said:
A lot of insights in that post: I did a follow-up on it.
https://nightwind777.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-season-of-our-discontents.html
LikeLiked by 1 person
insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you, Night Wind. Great post! I really enjoyed how you broke it down into “just” hatred and “mortal” hatred. Also, you made a really good point about how, “The real oppressors in our society right now are largely within ourselves.” What we are currently experiencing culturally just strikes me as a really bizarre type of spiritual and psychological warfare. The ‘oppressors’ really are within our own minds and primarily figments of our imagination.
LikeLiked by 1 person
SLIMJIM said:
Quite nuanced. We must beware of our blindspot yet also beware of those who want to sell a narrative for their own power
LikeLiked by 2 people