To SPEAK Without Actually Saying Anything

 

I never thought of it, but this abominable character, known as Adolf Hitler, must have used a technique that's called stochastic terrorism when having his presumably very, very boring gatherings at his beloved private retreat, The Berghof in the Bavarian Alps. Here he hosted key Nazi top figures and their wives as well as foreign dignitaries like e.g. Chamberlain and Mussolini. Some of those attending these meetings have told about how he didn't really converse with his guests, but went on long tirades of plans and wishes. His Nazi henchmen were supposed to catch up on what he said and then see to is that his wishes were fulfilled. That means that they were to interpret his often not-altogether formulated ideas. These ideas might be hateful attacks on those he found less worthy of living than himself.

It's a strange fact that what e.g. happened at the camps often were born out of Hitler's rantings at these gatherings, and grew and grew as an idea from them. Seeing and hearing Der Fuhrer at Berghof obviously gave wings to his ideology, even though many - mostly the ladies? - found him extremely boring when he opened up for his endless tirades.

It's obvious that one of the many things the Hitler-fan, aka the American president, Donald Trump, has learnt from the German dictator, is his use of what is known as stochastic terrorism: A repeated use of hate speech and dehumanizing of specific groups of society. With Hitler it was the Jews, with Trump it's immigrant, people of color, women doing what he doesn't like women to do, Democrats or just someone he takes a dislike to because they don't like him.

The scoundrel in charge, so to speak, is inspiring his/her followers to target these hated individuals for violence and hate crimes of various art, but seldom demanding it in plain words. Stochastic terrorists do not supply their followers with any detailed plan of attack, which may keep him/her out of trouble as they may always protest "innocence" of the crimes they instigate. 

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/stochastic-terrorism 

 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/before-1933/adolf-hitler-issues-comment-on-the-jewish-question 

 

 

 

Weird Ongoings With The XY-Chromosome

 

God as a woman: The original Mother Goddess of everything. (The Venus of Laussel is an 18.11-inch-high, limestone bas-relief of a nude woman. She is painted with red ochre & carved into the limestone in the Dordogne region of south-western France. She is approximately 25,000 years old)

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My sole consolation for not knowing about the so-called "Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck" is that you simply can't know everything, and I admit this is quite new to me. I'm not even sure, I understand it, but no matter what, it's very, very interesting as it somehow mirrors the sad, but undeniable shift into Patriarchy:  

"The Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck was a period about 7,000 to 5,000 years ago when human male genetic diversity sharply declined across Africa, Europe, and Asia, similar to a 1:17 male-to-female ratio of effective reproduction. While the exact cause is debated, a leading hypothesis suggests that the rise of patrilineal clans and frequent warfare between them led to the dominance of a few males who monopolized reproduction, resulting in other males having reduced reproductive success."

"Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic diversity –specifically, the diversity of their Y chromosomes – collapsed. So extreme was that collapse that it was as if only one man was left to mate for every 17 women." Tian Chen Zeng thinks he has found the answer to the origins of this “Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck”. It has something to do with the clan-system as suggested here: "After the onset of farming and herding around 12,000 years ago, societies grew increasingly organized around extended kinship groups, many of them patrilineal clans – a cultural fact with potentially significant biological consequences. The key is how clan members are related to each other. While women may have married into a clan, men in such clans are all related through male ancestors and therefore tend to have the same Y chromosomes. From the point of view of those chromosomes at least, it’s almost as if everyone in a clan has the same father."

To me that looks very logical, but one thing is for sure: We are still in the early learning-process when it comes to ancient history, and there are many questions out there which haven't been answered .... 

I always suggest that people who are interested in how the social structures changed with the uprise of Patriarchy read this book, but there are many ways to achieve more knowledge, and there is much more than what one single book may bring .... 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tian-Chen-Zeng

 

https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/06/01/puzzling-biological-event-7000-years-ago-something-weird-happened-to-men/?fbclid=IwAR1sPebC2ted3GLPC_aJRFqkWZ5OXiy0T432WJ5K4hcMBGWmgo6vZWzf8Lw

 

https://www.populationmedia.org/the-latest/unmasking-the-patriarchy-its-origins-impact-and-the-path-to-equality 

 

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Rethinking Some Common Human Concerns

One of the most interesting aspects of conversations is that beneath the words that are being uttered there are even more that are not being put into words. Still they are being understood as part of the dialogue. The same goes for silence which may even form part of an ongoing dialogue. However, it takes some empathy to hear what's not being said out loud. Also, it may not have a chance of working with people of a very different cultural background, unless the conversation is about common, basic feelings of e.g. maternal love, fear of death, hunger, a wish for success in life, etc.. When it comes to philosophy it's different, but I, for one, don't doubt that a Church-freak from the Middle Ages would understand a teleevangelist of today even though they wouldn't agree on every detail.

Religion is business, now as then, and it's weird how what Jesus fought in real life somehow has gained access as religious practices into the lives of people of today. But what may be called "The American Christianity" takes the cake when it comes to weirdness. 

 

It's not only weird, it's totally uncanny, but I suppose this transformation comes from the American craving for token of what they call "success", but which only is that up to a certain point. 

The Helping Hand That May Not Belong To A True Helper

 

Yes, all of us may be in need of a helping hand, but the owner of that hand may not act out of the noble feelings, he/she proposes to have. It's a very interesting fact that the "helper" may at the same time be a sort of "oppressor". Sometimes it's necessary to discern between these two - namely in the same individual! - unless the one in need of help wants to allow the "helper" to run his/her own show as an oppressor. 

A beautiful, altruistic situation, but on the other hand, she may have designs upon the cat, whom she intends to grab and keep as a pet or as an object for sale. Not that this looks like a sneaky plan by a child to subdue the animal, but ....

And what about this situation? The man may not have any designs upon the poor puppy, but, on the other hand, he may: Don't Indians eat pets, e.g. cats and dogs like this one? (Actually, I don't know if that's the case, but the suspicion is there).

 

Yes, that's a beautiful moment of true altruism as the child is too young to have designs upon the camera person whom he is offering the sucker. For a hand to be genuinely helpful it must be connected to an innocence like the one we see here. There is nothing "double-faced" in a child like this one which is a guarantee that he is not suffering from something I myself have found in some kinds of helpers: Those who are bordering on something one might see as the "Munchhausen By Proxy"-concept. They are very eager to take over situations that don't need being taken over in a strong wish to appear in a certain manner as "The Good Samaritan". In their own opinion they are conducting not only good, but also necessary acts of kindness, and it may be very difficult to make it clear to them that, yes, some individuals are in need of a helping hand, but what they chose to offer is nothing, but an annoying interference. To help without any ulterior motives is a beautiful act of true kindness, but very often it's mixed up with something not all that beautiful ....

 

Revenge The Silly Way

The president of the USA, Donald Trump exhibiting one of the actions he likes the best, namely executing POWER

Revenge is fascinating, but according to The Bible, it's not permitted. Several Bible-verses speak of how "revenge belongs to God, and not humans". However, being humans we may want to revenging ourselves when we feel wronged, and Donald tRump obviously loves a good, successful revenge against those he sees as his enemies. Actually, he goes a bit further than just revenging himself, as he also expects others to identify with him and his wish for revenge. That's like widening the borders of his personality to encompass everybody else, who thus are expected to feel as one with him. It's utterly narcissistic and not likely to happen in what we might call "real life", but in his delusions and sick imagination it's simply "natural": The way of the world. 

In the first official campaign rally for the 2024 Republican nomination he vowed "retribution", not against those who have made problems for the USA, but for those he feels have wronged him as a person/politician: HIS PERSONAL "ENEMIES". He has been quoted as having said: "I am your warrior, I'm your justice. For those who have been wronged and betrayed, I'm your retribution." (This statement was uttered in Waco, which makes sense as that word is pronounced like "Wacko", which means "Crazy", and crazy it is. However, it's obvious that he has no intentions of stopping his revenge tour, and that he expects everyone to follow and support him).

The Trumpian delusions made me think of someone else who went through with his revenge plans, not by ordering arrests, deportations or sacking people, but by killing them single-handedly: Dr. Anthony Joseph Garcia who set out on a murder spree that cost the lives of four people, two of them totally innocent, but somehow connected to former colleges whom he felt had wronged him: A house maid and an eleven years old boy. They lost their lives, but had done nothing to deserve what he did to them. Some years later he killed a married couple - both of them doctors - who had been colleges of his, and when he was finally arrested the police found a list of other former colleges whom he seems to have planned to kill. The "logic" of this was that he was sure his career had been ruined by his dismissal from a job at a hospital because he seemingly didn't do what he was assigned to do. Also he was seen as flippant, and mean, even evil tempered.  

With Trump it's obvious that he is projecting his hatred out, expecting to see his supporters siding with him in his revenge binge because they also should feel what he does. It's different with someone like e.g. Garcia, who may be just as unpleasant as his colleges have said, but who doesn't expect support: He is the lone avenger, whereas Trump is like a general of an army out to get even for real or presumed slights, that in reality only concerns him and his bloated ego. 

Just like Trump, someone like Anthony Garcia doesn't accept rebuffs of any kinds, and a death sentence sure is a 100% "rebuff": He was convicted on several counts on October 26, 2016, and in 2018 he was sentenced to death, but I feel sure that he still sees himself as the victim, not the criminal who went on a murder spree, also targeting absolutely innocent people, like the boy and the house maid. 

 

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-24/trump-ran-on-a-promise-of-revenge-hes-making-good-on-it

 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/revenge

 

https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-revenge/ 

 

Wikipedia

"Drapings": Poem by Else Cederborg

Drapings

I draped my soul in my body
put on rounded breasts and hips
dressed in a waspy waist and silky skin
a pretty mouth with a secret, hungry twin
all of this I put on to robe myself in flames
flames in blood and flesh
burning, ready to sprout seduction

I draped my body in my soul
I sent fire through my entire frame
from toe to scalp it shot upwards
enlightening all that is me
this fire climbed up my spine
dancing as it went, singing holy songs
I dressed it as best I could
watching as it burnt through the fabric
melting my body, blending it with my soul

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"Cut it off, and SERVE ME!"

When God was a woman much was different, and some of it I find hard to understand. For instance, why would many female supreme gods - and many of them are even being called "Fertility goddesses" by modern scholars - want to be served by eunuchs??? Being supreme deities, whom everybody are supposed to bow down to, wouldn't they want to live "fast lives" with a lot of handsome and potent lovers??? Or put another way: Why don't they have male harems??? As far as I know only one (human) Chinese empress, namely WuZetian, did have a male harem, and although she may have been seen as divine, she doesn't come out as an early female goddess, like e.g. Tiamat, Cybele, Asherah, etc.. 

 

There are many of these goddesses, and to guarantee interest in modern times may be difficult. However, being worshipped in non-literary times they rely on good scholarship by modern scholars. In some ways the ancient female gods seem quite mysterious to me, first and foremost because these modern scholars often present them as luscious fertility goddesses. It's as if they can't fathom these age old divinities, except in their role as mothers.

 

The modern scholars keep talking about "sexual orgies", which doesn't fit another aspect of the goddesses: Many of the most important men in their lives are eunuchs, and their castration seems to be part of their allure for the goddesses. They may be in love with a handsome youth, but they are not lusting for every man in the vicinity, like e.g. the male god Zeus is out to seduce every woman who catches his eye. Also, the castrated youths are often their sons as well as their lovers which makes it even more confusing. 

 

 

Cybele's lover and consort, Attis, is often depicted as a young, handsome shepherd, but some see him as both her son and lover. He is supposed to have castrated himself so he was a eunuch who loved and served the supreme god, Cybele. 

 

 

It strikes me as very strange indeed that the consort or lover of the female god doesn't have what is needed to procreate. As I see religions as mirrors of (historically well-known) social settlements, I find it difficult to wrap my brain around something like that. 

 

 

https://www.popsci.com/science/lucy-ancient-human-walking-bipedal

 

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-aphrodite-adonis/ 

 

https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/roman-roosters-and-religious-eunuchs-blog-post-mary-beard 

 

Wikipedia

 

Britannica