With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.''Where?''Genesis, Chapter Three. The covering of nakedness. The acquisition of shame was the first consequence of consciousness, of the speciating moment. Take shame from me and you are calling me pre-human.
Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn__, it__ because we__e trained ourselves to be numb. We__e bought into the great societal lie that emotional and sensitive is bad, is shameful, is weak, and worse yet is unlike Him.
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Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn__, it__ because we__e trained ourselves to be numb. We__e bought into the great societal lie that emotional and sensitive is bad, is shameful, is weak, and worse yet is unlike Him.
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