Instinct

Julieeto Substack ^ | 26 Mar 2023 | JUliette Ochieng

[Rummyfan]

I finally broke down and got the blue-backed check mark for my Twitter account yesterday. So far it’s just for one month and, as a result, I’ve had to block far more accounts showing explicitly sexual photos and videos than was so before. Call me an oddball, but I don’t even like sex scenes in movies; they make me feel like I’m peering into someone’s bedroom window.

I used to be a regular reader of several liberal and leftist sites. But, as my rightward conversion progressed, I began to find them rather annoying, the main annoyance being the obsession with sex. Now I like sex as much as the next girl, but, after reading or hearing too much about it, there’s a point at which I will say, “well go fuck somebody, and come back when you want to talk about something interesting.”

Some Jewish and Christian commentators have great takes on this subject, which, of course, is couched in Jewish/Christian scripture: if God made us higher than the other beings on the Earth, made us in His image, gave us the ability to be like Him, then He gave us the ability to control our fleshly instincts with our higher, God-given reasoning.

Even separating this teaching from its moorings, this ability is undeniably present - to a greater or lesser degree - in individual cases. However, when this ability is ignored, underdeveloped or scorned, chaos reigns.

[Rummyfan]

I don't think that is all we are.....

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How did they do bad Photoshop 30 years before Photoshop was invented?

[Rurudyne]

“Even separating this teaching from its moorings, this ability is undeniably present - to a greater or lesser degree - in individual cases. However, when this ability is ignored, underdeveloped or scorned, chaos reigns.”

The first time I ever heard of George Soros was back in the 90s on some talking heads show where he was guest. In his interview I heard him bad mouthing the human capacity to reason.

I realize that some say Reason is a hard master but it is at least a master that can be chosen, where irrational Passion cannot be.

We are now seeing the madness that comes from nitwits accepting every passing urge or tittilation, every moment of curiosity, as if somehow what they truly are.