Only a few pages remain in which to spell out current state in affairs.
We must relate the morality for which we have opted in writings to the mental health and hygiene goals which have been long acclaimed.
Over forty years ago Dr. Menninger wrote a modest description of the scope of medical psychology entitled The Human Mind. It dealt with the diagnosis and treatment of Mental Illness.
Present book referenced: Whatever became of Sin, now drawing to its conclusion, could be viewed as modest testament of Mental Hygiene.
Book proposes that Mental Hygiene is a reality, not a metaphor, that people indeed can be happier, healthier, kinder, and more secure in the Integrity of their being by a few intentionally preventive measures that Life-care movement grass root effort securing senior solvency have listed for inspection.
Destructiveness can be lessened, painful coping efforts can be assisted, anxieties attenuated, not by mere reassurance or comforting words or minimization or distraction, but by a deliberate Renunciation of Apathy and a Courageous Facing of the Responsibility of EVIL.
Followers must surely know by now that we would not claim your attention for these many pages of commiseration of our common discomforts and misfortunes only to propose the amendment or our vocabulary by the one word Sin. What then is the Message?
The message is Simple. It is that concern in the touchstone. Caring, relinquishing the sin of Indifference.
This recognizes acedia as the Great Sin; the Heart of all Sin.
Some call it selfishness, some call it alienation, some call it schizophrenia, some call it egocentricity, and some call it Separation.
“Have the men of our time lost a feeling of the meaning of Sin?” asked Paul Tillich.
Do they realize that Sin does not mean an “IMMORAL ACT” that ‘Sin’ should never be used in the “PLURAL”, and that nor our Sins, but rather ‘OUR SIN’ is the Great, all-pervading Problem of our life?
To be in the state of Sin is to be in the state of separation under God.
Separation, he continued, “May be from one’s Fellowmen, from ones True Self and /or his God.
(Tillich used “Ground of being”; readers can choose their own word.)
Separation is another word not only for Sin, but for Mental Illness, FOR CRIME, FOR NONFUNCTIONING, FOR AGGRESSION, FOR ALIENATION, for death.
Some prefer one or the other, but all these words describe the same thing.
I am now influenced in all my thinking, of course, by unsound dynamics unduly cast upon self by another that have situational escalated into proverbial laymen’s life’s work in which are needed passed on.
Daily I must endure from professional others; disturbed emotional states, personality disorganization, and inextricable difficulties as direct result in bad judgment, never ending unpleasantness, or series of injuries that in many ways reflect Biblical story of ‘JOB’ and the miracle of God’s love for one of integrity.
Incubuses can be lifted, not pooh-poohed, or exorcised or swept under the Rug or Concealed – but EXAMINED, RECOGNIZED, ACKNOWLEDGED, AND THEN CORRECTED in an intelligent adequate way.
From this one will become a transformed Person. He or She will have “RECOVERED.”
State needs to start recognizing the persecuted senior in need and begin helping them.
Situation may not be analogous, but perhaps it is in some respects comparable to national problem abroad?
So now we must question within whom are responsible for Illness only partially conquered - Crime Miserably Controlled and collective depredations abundant that compass moral responsibility faintness?
Power flaunting holding no remorse is of plague proportion that wastes, pollutes, defiles, steals, hoards, exhaust and destroys.
Journalism pauses occasionally to gaze in alarm and apprehensiveness; they acknowledge general parol's of theoretical ill repute, but no corrective Peccavi or Mea Culpa escape their lips.
Some ascribe current grieves to the human condition, to repetitious, irremediable loss.
Centuries ago states of mental anguish were ascribed to Demonic and their victims were regarded as wicked creatures.
With the comings of scientific insights the contributions of social toxins that lead to constitutional disorders became recognized and later the effects of social pressures and personal experiences became even more important but what was considered demon possession were not.
So this now brings us to fact that if science can build Bombs that can blow this planet out of our solar system - 10 times over - then indeed they possess enough skill to replace old notions and ethically reconsider ideas of sin and give it an appropriate place in their work.
We know something about the effects of sorrows and disappointments and defective genes and disturbed body chemistry and derangements of fantasy from poor person standpoints but literally know nothing about the assumed highly educated one in status as mutant ninja turtle that many times compass having been made asses out of you and me and society.
As scientific field white collar forensics is the new frontier that ensures positive evolution.
Fact: bad character is currently on a rampage and its wake generally leaves subtle habitual errors, sloth, meanness, and disguised aggression with elaborate rationalizations, system is not prepared to deal with.
Attitude reflects: no need to neither apologize for ruthlessness nor be ashamed of being human like everybody else.
Additionally it states through unspoken word; this is the way we are so learn to accept it, let there be no reproach - repentance nor responsibility cast upon for mortal sins committed against as fundamental Caine who responded to God when asked where is Abel? “AM I MY BOTHERS KEEPER”?
Do these imprecations bring back peace, beauty, health and happiness destroyed?
Are such people to become our paragons of mental health as moral leaders?
“Suppose,” asks Toynbee, that within this generation ablest minds and most perceptive spirits were to come to the conclusion that the most urgent business of mankind’s agenda was to close the morality Gap. Well just suppose it, shut your eyes and wish fervently, PRAY FOR IT!
Though it is important for leaders to strive toward healing the sick, comfort the anguished, feed the starving, terminate waste - our brains are substantially larger than other creatures for a reason being ability to multi task resources that close morality gaps.
Helping is fine, but never enough when extreme issues between right and wrong continually resurface.
The time has come for leadership to take stance once again under God and end concealments of Evil under various euphemistic disguises and deist from it.
We hold abundance of false politicians while moral leaderships languish relying on salvation from the President, leading political figures and statesmen.
Toynbee’s Prescription is, in principle, already their program that should have been adhered to all along.
The role of the Clergy
Under god is a sprit that must be worked for and maintained in order to receive its plenty.
The devil on the other hand always provides what is not deserved so he can take it back and then some.
Clergies responsibility if we are to retain status as leader of free worlds is to reassert authority in Moral fields which they have let slip from their hands.
What are needed are rebirths of special prerogatives to restudy and update sin that identify Evil.
Once theorized; ordained speakers in faith should be ready to retrospectively hit the floor running offering real time perspectives that effectively warn us about it, and spur measures for combatting and rectifying it.
Morality under god forensics: to have been disenfranchised through science while forsaken’d by man’s entitlement laws - Not a Pretty Picture; so unless we are ready to put up a white flag to the world - We Best Get to it and stop skirting family values those Nine Men in Washington are always talking about.
We laymen have a fiduciary responsibility to support the clergy: priesthood comes in many forms through demonstrates that build believers into affirmative doers.
The Civil Rights struggle in our country certainly had its Brave Clergymen Spokesmen, and leaders – perhaps more often in action than in preaching – but they were pitifully a minority of own profession.
Indeed problem still remains consisting of weekend arm chair faith followers that profess to Micah what are acceptable parables worthy to receive offerings or donations.
J. Irwin Miller, a distinguished layman and industrialist once answered journalist attacks by readers digest launched at the world council of churches by simply asking them than Whose Job is it to cause Society to Repent if not the Churches?
Professor Hobart Mowrer once said; so long as a person lives under the shadow of real, unacknowledged, and un-expiated guilt they will continue to hate themselves and suffer the inevitable consequences of self-hatred. But the moment one begins to accept their guilt and sinfulness, the possibility of Radical reformation opens up; and ……. a Newer Freedom of Self Respect and Peace.
Mower is neither a psychiatrist nor a minister, but an experienced psychologist.
Referenced book: Whatever Became of Sin?
What distinguishes ordinary sin from blatant Evil can be found within one being unduly cast into where never belonged in the first place requiring endless bounty hunts before the law can be said to have correctly applied.
Illinois senior citizens have served their country and paid their dues to expect right of safe retirement environments, under God, that place fiduciary integrity first over criminal minded bottom lines.
What needs to be made perfectly clear to all public compensates: You work for us - not us for you.
Change all prescriptions fallen out of taxpayer grace no longer forgivable or open to further debate.
Story line based upon Life-care movement updated status and related stories of yesteryear.
The Moral man, said Freud, “is not he who is never tempted” but he who can resist his temptations.”
Movement is a grass root - not for profit senior community service effort - that shares experiences promoting better educational awareness through effective communications.
You do have a voice and a choice and Life-care movement cares.
We thank author Karl Menninger M.D and providing Library for sharing his accrued wisdoms that enable another to successfully navigate through uncharted seas by design that intentionally place senior solvency in Hell’s two tier biased kitchen of injustice.
True Freedom rarely comes free but is worth fighting for: in god, under God - securing family values that can be passed on.
