Askesis is an unusual word not to be found in some major dictionaries.
Quote:1 entry found for askesis.
Main Entry: askesis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a practice of severe self-discipline or ascetism for spiritual reasons; also written ascesis
Etymology: Gk.
So there is one.
Notice the link between self-discipline and a spiritual dimension.
It makes one wonder whether rejection of spirituality is simply a self-serving justification for the opposite of self-discipline which is self-indulgence.One would suppose that with regular items on English programmes relating to obesity,effective ending of marriage and record levels of energy consumption, and thus poison production, in the USA, a powerful lobby would exist to downgrade any signs of spirituality.The honourable Judge Jones has given this lobby a boost recently and one presumes therefore that he belongs to it.
A good example of self indulgence running riot is the continued fatuousness and excruciating boredom of some of the contributions to this record breaking thread.It is as if some people think that their voice should be heard despite them obviously never having made the slightest effort to study the profound themes involved in ID and religious matters generally or even to read posts on the thread with any attention.
They do not seem even to be aware that opposition to spiritual values is a fundamental core belief of bourgeois revolutionaries of every stamp and that such opposition is always derived from city values and is set up to take power from the land elites and the religious elites and hand it to business elites which,of course,control media.
Whether God or the Universe exists or not is of no consequence whatsoever.Such things are red herrings.They are completely beyond the human scale of thinking and only totally undisciplined minds,spoilt brats one might almost say,would ever think otherwise.It is a form of intellectual self-castration.
We are dealing with social phenomena in the here and now and the future is the field of play.Anybody not addressing him or herself to that might just as well be shouting at the sky.
The rejection of religious values is a mere strategy of the urban mind to impose urban values on rural
settings and thus to exploit the rural economy even more.We have had an exposure of a large duck meat production unit today.Totally disgusting and the direct result of city values,business values,on the rural economy.3 big supermarket chains have said they are not buying from there anymore.Yeah-just because they have been found out.Fancy eating meat of animals that spend their whole lives in misery just because it's cheap.What a loss of personal dignity.Ingesting misery hormones to fund jee-jaw purchases.And that is what the customers of these supermarket chains have been doing.
Has anyone got any obesity,divorce,crime,energy consumption etc statistics state by state?
The attempt to impose business values on other nations is as ridiculous as it is tragic.And when they are imposed on education you cease to have education at all.(See The Higher Learning In America by Thorstein Veblen).
