Pantheist Religion of Albert Einstein

Over ten years I have read many hundreds of great philosophers, but of them all I have special affection for Albert Einstein. Having now read Albert Einstein's 'Special and General Relativity', and 'Ideas and Opinions' many times, I thought it would be nice to put up a web page that presented his religious ideas in as simple and ordered way as possible.
Albert Einstein was a beautiful man, wise and moral, who lived in difficult times. I think all people will enjoy the great clarity and wisdom of his ideas, and they will find them very relevant and useful in our modern (and very disturbed) world. As he writes on humanity and true religiousness;

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

I share the pantheist religion / philosophy of Albert Einstein that All is One and Interconnected (Nature, God),of which we humans are an inseparable part. Perhaps I am a romantic, but it is my hope that in the future Humanity will live by the truth, with greater harmony between different people, their religions and cultures, and to life in all its complex beauty.
Albert Einstein's ideas on Physics and Reality are also significant. It was from reading Einstein that I first realised that matter was not made of tiny 'particles'. And having also read Lorentz (who believed in an Absolute Space) I realised that a slight modification of Einstein's ideas on Physical Reality solved many of the problems of modern physics. Einstein represented Matter as Spherical Force Fields which caused 'Relative' Space-Time. This can now be explained by replacing Einstein's Spherical Force Fields with Spherical Wave Motions of Space, which cause Matter, Time and Forces.

Please see links at the top of this page for the main articles which explain and solve many of the problems of postmodern Metaphysics, Physics and Philosophy from the simple foundation of the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM).

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As Robert W Hefner has written in his book Civil Islam, the study of Islam in South East Asia is a particularly important and interesting area of research today as Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. Thus understanding Islam in Indonesia is important for the West and for the global community. Within this context, Indonesian Muslim society has to work to counter the post-9/11 discourse which has identified Islam with terrorism. In this effort, the cooperation between the Indonesian and Malaysian governments to project an image of moderate Islam is an eminently sensible measure. Indeed, Indonesia and Malaysia lead South East Asia in promoting a tolerant vision of Islam.

John L. Esposito’s article “Islam’s Southeast Asia Shift, a success that could lead to renewal in the Muslim World” describes South Eastern Islam as it stands today. Esposito describes how for more than 20 years, he had not been interested in South Eastern Islam. One of the main factors for this was the common opinion among western intellectuals that Islam in South East Asia is peripheral in the Muslim world. However, in the 1990’s he became increasingly interested in the phenomenon and began to argue that Indonesia and Malaysia would soon come to play an important role in the Muslim world (1997). In a world which perceives Islam as being incompatible with modernization and democracy, and as being a force for the inspiration of religious radicalism, South East Asia leads the way for the development of moderate Islamic values.

The resurgence of Islam in South East Asia beginning in the 19th century is a global phenomenon in which Islam has been transformed through its interactions with western civilization. This began earlier in the 18th century when Muslims began to realize how backward Islamic society was in comparison with western civilization. As a result of this interaction over the centuries, democracy has nevertheless been able to take root in Islamic societies because so many verses in the Koran are compatible with western notions of democracy.

However, the revival of Islam in South East Asia is not so much a reaction to western modernity as it is an integral part of a reformation process which indicates the viability of Islam in history. The revival of Islam in South East Asia constitutes an alternative Muslim discourse and is neither a threat to the west, nor a threat to Muslim society, since it is a revival based in Islamic tradition. In this, the central characteristic of Islam in South East Asia has been understood to be tolerance rather than radicalism as Thomas W Arnold has noted in The Preaching of Islam. There, Arnold concluded that the historical development of Islam in South East Asia has been largely a peaceful process. This is in contrast to the history of the spread of Islam in other parts of the world which has involved violence.

This characteristic tolerance allows for an ongoing dialog with western civilization which considers imperialism to be the negative aspect of western civilization with democracy being its positive contribution to the world. At a time in which Islam is associated with radicalism and as being incompatible with democracy, Indonesia and Malaysia lead the way in denying such stereotypes of Islamic societies. In fact, today, moderate Islam in South East Asia is the antithesis of radical Islam and may well help to diminish extremism and the use of terror in the name of religion. For example, Lee Kuan Yew, a Senior Minister in the government of Singapore, argues that moderate Islamists in the region must focus on the struggle against extremist Islam as its central goal.

To this end, several conferences have been recently held in order to counter the influence of radical Islam in Muslim society and to counter the identification of Islam with terrorism. For example, the “Jakarta Charter 2001”, a Summit of World Muslim Leaders, was just one of the many conferences which have been convened by South East Asian Muslims as a means of responding to religious radicalism. The conference concluded that Islam is moderate religion which loves peace, is against violence and is for progress. Another example was the Jakarta International Islamic Conference (JIIC) convened by NU-Muhammadiyah in October 2003. These conferences asserted the role of moderate Islam in South East Asia, specifically the role that NU and Muhammadiyah actively play in countering radicalism. []

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Saini KM: West Java's literary maestro

From childhood to his present age of 70, Saini KM has remained a modest figure despite his accomplishments.

Born in small Gending hamlet, Kota Kulon village, in the West Java town of Sumedang, Saini has contributed significantly to the country's literary world, especially in West Java.

His modest personality and appreciation for his juniors has won him the admiration and respect of many.

"We should have mutual respect, including respect for each other's professions. And we should be serious in life with occasional humor," Saini said with a smile.

The prolific writer of poems, essays, plays and non-fiction works for 50 years has acted as mentor for more than a dozen younger poets like Acep Zamzam Noor, Beni Setia, Juniarso Ridwan, Deden Abdul Azis, Nirwan Dewanto and many more.

Saini can be likened to Umbu Landu Parangi, a literary guru of noted writers like Emha Ainun Nadjib, Linus Suryadi Ag., Imam Budhi Santoso, Warih Wiratsana, Oka Rusmini and Wayan Sunarta.

Those that know him well would say that he gives the impression of a serious man that never tells jokes.

"As far as I know, pak Saini has never cracked a joke, but he gets teased a lot," said Yusef Mudiyana, a theater director and actor from Bandung, West Java.

A local poet and cultural journalist, Ahda Imran, recounted his own, personal experience with the prolific writer.

Ahda said his poem had once been published in a Bandung paper under Saini's care, something that made him proud.

One day, Ahda came across an old man browsing in a Bandung bookstore and confidently advised the stranger which works were worth reading, and pointing out Saini's work. The elderly man just smiled, nodding now and then.

Only several months later did Ahda come to realize that the man was Saini himself.

"I was really embarrassed when I found out it was pak Saini. He could have revealed his identity, but perhaps its his style, making people laugh while at the same time feeling ill at ease," Ahda said.

He later bumped into Saini at Bandung's Indonesian Arts College when looking for information on theater reference books. He mentioned he needed certain Sundanese and Javanese books.

Saini said with his typical smile; "You can't get those books in Indonesia, let alone the Sundanese and Javanese ones, as they are kept in The Hague, Holland."

When he was a student himself, Saini had a keen interest in literature, prompting him to study in the English language and literature department of the Bandung teacher's training institute.

His studies nurtured his greater passion for literature and theater, and prompted him to set up a theater department at the Indonesian Academy of Choreography in Bandung.

In 1963, Saini published his first play, Pangeran Geusan Ulun (Prince Geusan Ulun), followed by a poetry collection, Nyanyian Tanah Air (Songs of the Motherland) in 1969.

For the theater, Saini wrote dramas like Siapa Bilang Saya Godot (Who Says I'm Godot, 1977), Panji Koming (1984), Madegel (1984) and Dunia Orang-Orang Mati (The Dead's World, 1986).

Madegel was staged in Japan in 1987, while his Ken Arok and Sepuluh Orang Utusan (Ken Aron and the Ten Envoys) was translated into German.

His works have also won many competitions. In 1973, his work Pangeran Sunten Jaya (Prince Sunten Jaya) won a Jakarta Art Council (DKJ) contest, followed by further DKJ competition victories for his piece Ben Go Tun in 1977, Egon in 1978, Serikat Kacamata Hitam (Dark Glasses Union) in 1981 and Sang Prabu (The King).

For 20 years, during the period 1976-1996, Saini was entrusted with a poetry column, called "Pertemuan Kecil" (Small Gathering), which was printed in a Bandung publication.

Through the column, Saini scrutinized and analyzed the works of West Java's emerging generation of poets.

Through its existence, the poetry column helped produce noted poets in the country, with Saini acting as their mentor.

"Actually I made no significant contribution to literature and culture," Saidi said modestly.

"The preservation of culture is the responsibility of all citizens, including experts, government officials and religious leaders, not only artists."

After Saini was appointment the Education and Culture Ministry's director of culture in 1996, he gave up the column to focus on his busy work schedule.

Saini said he believed writing poetry was a matter of emotion and opportunity rather than bad or good literary expression.

"One who starts writing poems may not produce good works, but he or she should have the opportunity for literary revelation to ensure better compositions in the future," he said. [JP]

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Book : Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm
Publisher : Springer Netherlands
Copyright : 2006
ISBN : 978-1-4020-4114-3 (Print) 978-1-4020-4115-0 (Online)
Part : Section V
Pages : 263-276
Subject Collection : Humanities, Social Sciences and Law


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Clara Ng portrays women as a non-single entity to avoid stereotypes in her literary work. Clara, who has penned eight novels, promotes lesbians, metropolitan career women, victims of domestic violence, animal nursery employees and car workshop owners as the protagonists in her literary works.

In Gerhana Kembar (Twin Eclipses), a collection of short stories, Clara, a graduate of communication studies from Ohio State University in the U.S., relates that "truths" and loves are found both in straight and homosexual relationships.

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Malaikat Jatuh (fallen angel), her latest offering, explores death, with women again starring as the main characters.

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The characters in her earlier books were often metropolitan working women with their urban issues, which many might view as superficial and unsubstantial problems.

But many women on Clara's blog assert the topics are "gue banget" ("so me"). But Clara says she does not care much for literary critics, as long as her works can reach her readers.

After writing her first novel, Tujuh Musim Setahun (Seven Seasons A Year) in 2002, Clara decided she wanted to make writing her full-time profession. Her novel Dimsum Terakhir (The Last Dim Sum) is being made into a feature film and is scheduled for release next year.

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Clara's occupation is supported by her hobby: Reading. She has collected more than 1,000 novels in her home in Tanjung Duren area, West Jakarta.

The mother of two not only writes novels; she also writes children's books and has written 21 to date, including Seri Berbagi Cerita Berbagi Cinta (Story Sharing Love Sharing Series), a series of seven books; Sejuta Warna Pelangi (The Million Colors of the Rainbow), a series of nine; Bagai Bumi Berhenti Berputar (As if the Earth Stops Rotating), a series of five.

A book from her seven-book series titled Rambut Pascal (Pascal's Hair) was awarded the best children's story in 2006 by the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI). The same association also awarded Clara's Sejuta Warna Pelangi the best book award in 2007.

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The Other Obama

Ya, Barack Obama today has become "top headline" in most mass media from US to Asia, and particularly Indonesia, where Obama spent his chilhood in this country. What make people are interested to talk about Obama, I think because Obama represent the new voice of America. People, almost Indonesian, hope Obama will bring America to the new power for peace, which take respect for the difference, moslem and minorities. Here is a good view of Obama which I found at the New Yorker.

One January afternoon at the University of South Carolina’s Children’s Center, in Columbia, Michelle Obama scrunched her five-eleven frame into a small white wooden rocking chair. The state’s Democratic primary, which her husband, Barack, needed badly to win, was in forty-eight hours. Obama picked up a picture book, flared her nostrils, and began sniffing noisily, in the manner of a bear foraging in the woods for dinner.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!” she read to a group of preschoolers. “The bear will tromp through the forest on his big hungry feet and”—sniff, sniff, sniff—“find that strawberry, no matter where it’s hidden.”

The kids burst into giggles. Obama picked up another book, from the “Olivia” series.

“I have Olivia in my four-year-old class!” one boy yelled.

“Is she a friend of yours?” Obama asked.

“Yes.”

“Is she a pig?”

Soon, the story was over. “Let’s see,” Obama said. “Maybe we have a special guest who will read to us.”

She got up from the rocking chair and walked over to a set of French doors. “It’s Cocky!” the kids shouted as Obama threw open the doors to welcome an enormous red rooster, dressed in a U.S.C. basketball jersey. She flung her arms around Cocky to give him a hug, a gesture somewhat thwarted by his plush potbelly. “Cocky! Let’s read one book together with Cocky.”

Obama selected another book and held it up to Cocky’s beak. “Here you go, Cocky. Can you read?”

“Cocky, I love you!” a kid screamed.

Sharing the stage with a large, fuzzy piece of poultry might have daunted a more delicate sort of aspiring First Lady, but Obama took her eclipse by Cocky with the seen-it-all aplomb of one of the human characters on “Sesame Street.” That day, she was wearing a pair of high-waisted pin-striped sailor pants, a gray cashmere sweater, and a strand of pearls, but, though she is stylishly appointed, she is not dainty. She is often called “regal”—whether in The New Republic or in Glamour—but her bearing is less royal than military: brisk, often stone-faced (even when making jokes), mordant.

Obama works out like “a gladiator,” a friend has said. When people—they’re almost always shorter—ask her to pose for pictures, instead of bending her knees she leans at the waist, like the Tin Man. Her winningly chipmunk-cheeked smile is doled out sparingly, a privilege to be earned, rather than an icebreaker or an entreaty. Obama, who graduated from Princeton, earned a law degree from Harvard, and became, first, a corporate lawyer and, more recently, the vice-president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, spent all but the first year of her childhood in a four-room bungalow on Chicago’s South Side. Having traversed vast landscapes of race and class, often as a solo traveller, she evinces the discipline and, occasionally, the detachment of an Army brat. She can seem aloof from politics. Her mother and her older brother both say that she has never once phoned them in tears.

Obama is cool in temperament. When Stevie Wonder, whom she was escorting to the stage at a rally in February, tripped on a riser, sending her tumbling down next to him in front of thousands of people, she exhibited no embarrassment or alarm, turning what could have been a blooper-reel nightmare into a non-event. She is unquestionably accomplished, but she is not a repressed intellectual, in the mode of Teresa Heinz Kerry. More than anything, she seems to enjoy talking about her husband and her daughters (Malia, nine, and Sasha, six). She can give the impression, in the midst of the campaign’s endless roundtables and kaffeeklatsches, that she’d rather be talking to them. Obama seems like an iconoclast precisely because she’s normal (the norm for a candidate’s wife having been defined, in the past, as nonworking, white, and pious about the democratic process).

Obama is also cool in the other sense of the word; her tastes, references, and vocabulary—“freaky,” “24/7,” “got my back,” “American Idol,” Judge Mathis—if not exactly edgy, are recognizable, which, for a political spouse, makes them seem radical. Of the Iowa State Fair’s corn dogs and candied apples, obligingly gushed over by hopeful First Ladies every four years: “Stuff on a stick.” Here’s Obama, talking to me in her motorcade halfway between Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Green Bay about Obama Girl, the young woman who professed her crush on Obama’s husband all over the Internet: “That was a little weird, because, you know . . . I just assumed, you know, there’s no way anybody’s gonna hear about that. And one day Sasha comes home and she’s, like, ‘Daddy has a girlfriend. It’s you, Mommy.’ And it’s, like, ‘Oh, shhhhhhhhh—yeah.’ ” Curse word averted, barely.

Her lack of pretense has made her popular with the portion of the electorate, and the media, for whom prim Laura Bush seems out of touch. Cindy Moelis, who has known Obama since they worked together in Chicago’s city hall, in the nineties, told me, “I’ve actually had girlfriends call me and go, ‘You’re so lucky. If I’d only met her fifteen years ago, I bet we would be best friends.’ ” “Can Michelle Obama Be First Lady No Matter What?” pleaded the headline for a post on Wonkette, the political blog, about a gathering of candidates’ wives. “Please don’t get all Botoxed and start acting like some sort of Stepford wife. Please?” the post went on, remarking approvingly on what it termed the “ ‘bitch, please’ look” that Obama had seemed unable to suppress in the wake of a comment by Ann Romney.

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Here are some examples:

McCAIN: Said one way out of the financial crisis is to "stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us."

THE FACTS: Although he didn't spell it out, he was referring — as he has in the past — to purchases of oil from countries hostile to the U.S. The figure is inflated and misleading. The U.S. is not spending nearly that much on oil imports and roughly one-third of what it does spend goes to friendly countries such as Canada, Mexico and Britain.
— The Associated Press

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OBAMA: "I believe this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush and supported by Senator McCain, that essentially said that we should strip away regulations, consumer protections, let the market run wild, and prosperity would rain down on all of us. It hasn't worked out that way. And so now we've got to take some decisive action."

THE FACTS: McCain has indeed favored less regulation over the years but supported tighter rules and accountability on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years before the start of a financial crisis prompted in part by those giant mortgage underwriters. Obama was not a leader in that unsuccessful effort. Some of the current problems can be traced to legislation passed in 1999 that lifted many regulations over the financial industry. That deregulation was championed by then-Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, a McCain supporter, but also by President Clinton, who signed the legislation, and by former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, now a top Obama economic adviser.
— The Associated Press

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McCAIN: In a jab at Obama, McCain said that the last president to raise taxes during difficult economic times was Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression.

THE FACTS: While the recession of the early 1990s didn't compare to the Great Depression, Bill Clinton raised taxes — which, as both Clintons like to remind everyone who will listen, led to the greatest economic expansion in the country's history.
— NBC News' blog First Read

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McCAIN: Said he would provide a $5,000 refundable tax credit for families to buy health insurance "rather than mandates or fines for small businesses as Senator Obama's plan calls for."

THE FACTS: Obama's health care plan does not impose mandates or fines on small business. He would provide small businesses with a refundable tax credit of up to 50 percent on health premiums paid on behalf of their employees. Also, large employers that do not offer meaningful coverage or contribute to the cost of coverage would be required to pay a percentage of payroll toward the costs of a public insurance plan. But small businesses would be exempt from that requirement.
— The Associated Press

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OBAMA: Said McCain's proposal to give people a tax credit in exchange for treating employers' health insurance contributions as taxable wages amounts to "what one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away."

THE FACTS: Obama's suggestion that McCain's health care plan is a wash for families is misleading. McCain offers families a $5,000 tax credit to help them buy health insurance. The corresponding increase in taxable wages would result in a much smaller cost than the value of the tax credit, at least at first. Over time, the value of the tax credit may diminish as premiums rise. However, the Tax Policy Center estimates that McCain's plan would increase the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion over 10 years — mainly because it would lead to less tax revenue coming in, meaning it is a true tax break overall.
— The Associated Press

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McCAIN: Went after Obama's ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, especially the campaign contributions Obama has received from their employees.

THE FACTS: What was missing? McCain mentioning the ties his own campaign manager had to both Fannie and Freddie. The New York Times reported that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis' firm received $15,000 per month through August from Freddie Mac. That followed other reporting that Davis received $30,000 per month to head up an advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, set up to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to protect it from more government regulations.
— NBC News' blog First Read

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OBAMA: "Actually I'm cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut."

THE FACTS: Obama has many ambitious plans to spend more taxpayer dollars on a variety of federal programs, including clean energy technologies and job training. He's said he'll cut pork-barrel programs and the costs of the war in Iraq to pay for it — as well as raise taxes on the wealthy — but the specifics of his new spending plans greatly outweigh the few spending cuts he's identified.
— The Associated Press

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McCAIN: Said that Obama has voted to raise taxes 94 times.

THE FACTS: As fact-checkers have constantly pointed out, that is an exaggeration. Per Factcheck.org:

* 23 votes were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all; they were against proposed tax cuts.
* 7 were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, while raising them on a relative few, either corporations or affluent individuals.
* 11 votes the GOP is counting would have increased taxes on those making more than $1 million a year — in order to fund programs such as Head Start and school nutrition programs, or veterans’ health care.
* The GOP sometimes counted two, three and even four votes on the same measure. We found their tally included a total of 17 votes on seven measures, effectively padding their total by 10.
* The majority of the 94 votes — 53 of them, including some mentioned above – were on budget measures, not tax bills, and would not have resulted in any tax change. Four other votes were non-binding motions related to conference report negotiations.
— NBC News' blog First Read

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McCAIN: Said Obama supported a congressional earmark of "$3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Ill. My friends, do we need to spend that kind of money?"

THE FACTS: McCain's phrase suggests Obama spent $3 million on an old-fashioned piece of office equipment that projects charts and text on a wall screen. In fact, the money was for an overhaul of the theater system, which projects images of stars and planets for educational shows at Chicago's Adler Planetarium. When he announced the $3 million earmark last year, Obama said the planetarium's 40-year-old projection system "has begun to fail, leaving the theater dark and groups of school students and other interested museum-goers without this very valuable and exciting learning experience."
— The Associated Press

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OBAMA: "We're spending $10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, at a time when the Iraqis have a $79 billion dollar surplus — $79 billion dollars."

Well, not quite. As Factcheck.org put it, "The country was once projected to have as much as a $79 billion surplus, but no more. The Iraqis have $29 billion in the bank, and could have $47 billion to $59 billion by the end of the year."
— NBC News' blog First Read

source: NBC News

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The Superior and Inferior Complex

Over the arrogant expression of the superior complex, the man advertises and emphasizes the own vanity. By the way, the vanity is artificial wall, made by a plaster, which cracks and wears away under the tooth of time. Along by all human principles to use it as visa to go through the field of progressives, we can call a non-sense. It can take you two steps ahead and immediately take you ten ones backward, into unexpected regress. The forward and backward game makes the man to slide in the mental extreme. In the phase of mental extreme are produced layers of FEAR that means much more expressive superior complex-aggressive behavior. The aggresive behavior reaches the higher points when the vanity is not accept on the imagined way, so it showed through the peoples' reactions. The demonstration of the aggressive behavior showed-over, ordering, playing the lead role, proposition of incompetent solution for some problem.

The mentioned machanical access discovered man's dullness and emptiness. The sensitive body mechanism who uses the fear as fuel mutilated the ability for objectivity. It only talks and when it is necessary to act, disappears. Much louder tone, too much quantity of activated fear.

The un-natural posture of the body represents a big fight not to allow the fear to come out and betray it. The other people must not notice sub- mediocrity. The performance of the exhibitionism means aversion to melt itself with the crowd. It is a centre of attention-the life motto.

The fear, blade of suspicion dismissed intoxication by the public applause. Now, the lonesome man faced up with the second face. During this bitter process with reality begins to grow the power so-called revenge manifested through offences and humiliation. The cruel fact is, a man caught by two, in same time.

The advertisement and revenge are un-successful done. Than, the man will withdraw into a shell and it is going to plan a new beginning. It starts with hypocrisy for a few moments it turns onto poltroonery. It loves the world, into its heart plays the music of humanity, but not for a long. The vanity chained into a cage, knocks on, kicks, pushes, twinkles to back the rule's position.

The final we can see, appear a clown but this time we do not hear the public applause than ironic endless laughing.

Outpouring of the inferior complex is determination to personal failure. The static mental status becomes because of the one- dimensional perception to the things and the last one approach because of the delicate emotional state.

The reasons for inferior complex are the base for different type of emotions whose keep the man into passive and inertly position. By the congestion of emotions, a man lost possibilities for real knowledge about current activities. Although it has an access to the things, carries out logical solutions and answers for the problems, its indifference means the fear by the public critical attitude and estimation, even to be favorable. It would be please if realize only minimal needs.

The motto life is isolation that evades a man to find some impulse as initial point.

The personal self-intolerance leads a man to self-compassion. While it spent a time for self- compassion, it must to move the other process, focus the system for accepting the impulse for evaluation.

Before this must to get seriously into the substance of the reasons for expression of inferior complex.

The superior and superior complex is code inside our genes-no escapisms.

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This article written by Marjana Zisovska. Marjana live in Republic of Macedonia, write short-stories. Email: rockcult@myway.com

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