Uncle Flo (imported) wrote: Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:31 am
This site, while not entirely inaccurate, was written by the author as a rationalization for being gay in an Islamic world. --FLO--
It is my (nearly?) lifelong observation that it is impossible for anything put into words in any or every language to be entirely accurate, that being because any (and every) word and its referent are never the same; a word symbolizes meaning in the context in which the word is used, and the one who speaks, writes, or otherwise encodes meaning into words inescapably has a different set of referent associations than anyone who reads or hears or otherwise encounters a already constructed word sequence can possibly have.
The word, "rationalize," has, in the dictionary I have close at hand, two contrasting meanings which I experience as antithetical; therefore, absent clear and unambiguous context (which I find both diversely and invariably impossible), regarding a word sequence used by an author as being of the nature of a rationalization, I find labeling a word sequence as a rationalization to be irrational. Alas irrational also, for me, is dictionary-defined in antithetical terms.
I find this antithetical aspect of human word-form language to be the manifest expression, if I may use a term of the Taoist process philosophy tradition, of the Great Separation, the foremost property of which is the separating of persons from self; the deindividuating depersonalization of the human brain biology disaster of the conventional infant-child transition discontinuity typically indoctrinated in children at around the age of 18 months of age.
The word, "rational" may usefully mean of accurate observation (accuracy of sensation, perception, interpretation, and noting) and accurate conduct in response to accurate observation. In that sense, "rationalizing" and "rationalization" are of the highest quality of human internalization of existence and externalization of internalized existence; and, thus, "rationalization" is a word for the highest quality way in which any person and/or persons can possibly live.
Alas, also, in the dictionary I have close at hand, "rationalization" is also defined as being an incorrect way of devising schemes of belief which distort observation so as to make a person's internalization of existence not only incorrect, but incorrigibly incorrect in terribly addictive brain-damaging ways.
Why did the author write about "born eunuchs"? For me to have a real clue, I find I would need to engage in a thorough, yet gently decent, dialogue with the author.
I do not consciously, willfully, project my delusions onto other people with expectation that others will do anything except wisely reject them, to whatever extent that is actually feasible.
If only I had a way to actually learn to hate, I suppose I would find myself hating judgment far more than all else that I could actually learn to hate -- all taken together.
I read the words on said site, and experienced them as an articulate description of the author's understanding of the concern(s) expressed.
How on earth would I ever have the capability to suggest that the author did not, in ways entirely accurate (to such extent as words and accuracy are not perfectly mutually-exclusive), convey his personal view of "born eunuchs"?
Sorry, I seem to have experienced more than 70 years of encounters with people who diligently and coercively work to inform me that I do not understand myself; and yet, when I ask such people whether they understand themselves, always find that they do not understand themselves and are working to deny to me my own self-understanding. Thus far, as best I can yet discern, all who have worked to teach me to not understand myself have totally failed in that effort; and, instead, have merely informed me of their socialization-process-generated brain damage.
I actually make no judgments, yet I have only languages available which contain judgment as an implicit premise; thus I expect to not be accurately understood much of the time.