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My three year old grandson said to his mother, 'Mom! Hey mom! When I hold it too long it starts to get hard!'
The innocence of babes continually amazes me. I can not believe that I was once that innocent and then gradually became paranoid about so many social things that I resembled a bundle of irrational fears.
Then began the 'un-bundling' of fears one by one, examining each and saying, 'Why did I think that? Where did that idea come from?' Most of the time the source
Labels must be an invention of a suppressive power.
Individuals are unique and to attach a label to someone is reducing a complex person to one word. Labels are a form of classification into groups. The label has a unique meaning to anyone who uses it to describe someone, and the other who hears that description of a person attaches his own meaning to that label. Therefore, a label communicates nothing about the subject person, yet labels are bandied about as if a label does mean
I believe that the separation of the mind and the flesh is responsible for the general aversion toward nudity in society. Such separation is physically impossible if you consider what we are in context to other living things. To separate mind and body you would have to separate the brain so that it could not receive signals, and that means, for all intents and purposes, dead.
The dualistic notion of separation of mind and flesh has a long history and is embedded in religion. Religion
Perhaps the secret to body acceptance is to accept nudity of others first.
While visiting Vancouver my son-in-law asked me what I would like to do. I replied that I would like to go to Wreck Beach. His response was something like, 'That would be great if everyone there was not so ugly.'
In effect he was saying that he would go there to see beautiful naked women, but there would be few of those that would look like well-endowed models. I doubted that he would have actually
I apologize for the random nature of the following.
The word naked, or a state of nakedness, sounds too harsh for me. I prefer nude or nudity.
Naked seems the appropriate word when describing someone who is without clothing due to circumstances beyone his or her control. This might apply to someone who is wearing no clothing when a fire alarm sounds and there is not time to find any clothing; a naked person in this case escapes the fire. Another case is when someone