Friday, August 10, 2007

Ramblings of a mad man

There is a sense of doom surrounding me. You have to be mindful that sometimes it's intuition. It is unusual for me to get that deep dread like feeling. Maybe, 'cause I'm working weekends on top of night shift. Still, I can't help but ruminate. We hold our cards to close to our vest in life. Why? We don't want to show ourselves or share ourselves because of vulnerabilities, jealousies and competition. In an attempt to balance our superego with our id we push a facade that entertaines us more than others. "How many fond fools serve mad jealousy". What mask we show will debase for rivalry sake? Ultimately to what purpose?

Still, there are others; Those that expose their id with no sense of personal dignity and whom turn inwardly for brutish self satisfaction. These are the ones we avoid or embrace. Contrary to what we imagine ourselves to be, but nurtures that superficial illusion of charity to impress others with, but is more entertaining for ourselves in reality.

Are these relative truthes? No, "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight." The weights mentioned in this verse and 20:23 are weights that required some work. They had to be as exact as possible. The point is, the balance required effort from the seller for integrity. The way a person knew an precise weight was to examine and work with measurements of existing scales or baselines. We are all off a bit. We all have some balance issues, the point is that a person needs to work on it keeping in mind that God detests our indifference to the rational truth. This truth is time tried and evident in our creation. It is our conscience. This brings us to the concern of the ego which attempts to balance both id and superego. This also requires an issue of boundaries. To set what is acceptable for oneself in life or not. What is the point of the boundary? Biblically its a just weight. Factually, it is a cosmic justice that seeks its own balance through a bipolar mechanism. The imbalances we include in our lives serves no purpose but to destabalize the rational truth. That being, equity in speech, thought, behavior and faith. In other words a sense of wisdom after we balance the scale which tells us how to keep the scale balanced.

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