Yes, the title is an obscure reference to Chuck Schuldiner's same named album. Chuck belongs to a long line of geniuses who have left us much too early and he was a classic example of what happens when gubbermints don't have a semi-decent universal health-care plan in place (yet still like to insist that they are ruling a first-world country.)
Healing implies a return to the original condition and this does seem to happen sometimes. What actually happens is, we either assimilate the wound or we die from it. And when we absorb the wound we "become different in essence", as the dictionary says. We lose our original nature.
So much for the return to innocence.
That's ok, it's one of those ridiculously overrated things anyway.
I prefer Welcome To The Jungle. It's much more honest.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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Amen to that Amanda! My husband is living with a long-term injury that is getting progressively worse because we simply can't afford to get it fixed, insurance doesn't begin to cover it. We are still paying for his heart attack. And you bet it affects the quality of his life. It sucks. I believe that quality housing, education, AND health care must be available to all before a country can truly declare itself a super-power.
Stop by and visit me at my new public blog! My name has changed but the story is the same. :-)
PS - I added your literacy link to my page - it's a cause I believe in!
I once referenced Chuck Schuldiner's case and the awful time he had getting treatment. My post was met with a "huh" because nobody knows who Chuck Schuldiner is. Of course that wasn't the point. The point was that he needed surgery and wasn't able to receive it because of bullshit rules and regulations. No cancer patient should ever be denied necessary treatment. There was an article in the Boulder Camera about impoverished breast cancer patients in this area who are dying because they can't afford treatment that has a good chance of saving their lives. UNFORGIVEABLE!
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This is exactly why I got so tweaked about my husband wanting to work for the school a while back. We have to keep our own insurance.
Paradise is lost and the doorman doesn't want us in.
Wounds should heal properly from the buttum upwards (von innen nach außen). Otherwise the risk of a festering infection of the whole body is too high and it must be reopened.
The opposite of innocence is knowledge. Maybe returning in the state of innocence is overrated, surely it is impossible. Or a person would have to loose her memory. And so start blank new. But to have to make all experiences new that lead out of paradiese ...
Nevertheless if you inspect the western cultural history from the late middle ages onwards "Back to innocence" as a motif runs through from the times of rebirth, Aufklärung (edler Wilde) to the Back-to-nature ideas. Even the ancient wanted back to nature and hang around with these potent bukoloi in Arcadia, pfeif' auf die Grasflecke... :)
Wirst DU gerade wieder ganz? I hope so.
What's even sadder, they love to shake their heads at "those poor third world countries" on top of it.
Mago, that was a pretty thought provoking comment, thank you.
I always feel stronger in the summer and I always like to think this means I'm on my way to being whole again.
But I've been tricked too often to actually believe it.
Even if I were to somehow become whole again then, according to my theory, I'd still be a different person because of what I've gone through. And that would be ok.
In fact... I hate the thought of rebirth and having to re-learn all these lessons.
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