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When I read the Prodigal Son story I do my best to find my own story empathizing with both brothers as victims of injustices learned through self and other punishment and economically dominant political control by others, heavily investing in self-victimizing images. Then I try to see how this all feels for their restorative justice and peace-invested patriarch, advocating for healing motivational causes and hurtful family-divesting behaviors. Then I wonder if I would prefer that Father to a birthright to own me father who believes it is his totalitarian sacred vocation to control my soul's polypathic directions and my other sensory erections and affections and dis-affections for victimizing victimless-criminals Which is, by accessible logic and ecologic, an oxymoron worthy of evaporation like degenerative military-intelligence and like gun-control, As if the entire pathological point of investing in hate- and fear-mongering is something other than to control your situation, which can only be sufficiently protected by owning and transporting, selling and buying and competitively trading, and seriously investing in guns As if the U.S. Constitution has nothing else to say about healthy self-defense, and growing well-being, and unity, Preferably through automated military-grade weapons for arming your home-militarization school and church of and for further ToughLove competitions in Win-Lose (0)-Sum HardKnocks especially for unredeemably hopeless criminals who obviously don't know Jesus, much less an omnipresent regenerative Gaia Goddess of ReStorative Justice and Matriotic Cosmological Peace. Because you missed that half-day in school, while out behind the woodshed, bullied for cranky behavior or deviant imagination or verbal risk-taking rather than being invited to embrace MotherEarth's natural-spiritual experiences and co-investments in Win-Win Golden Rules, Like water your wilting flowers and not your exponentially prodigal weeds. Or perhaps a bilateral Tipping Point resolution reweaves hidden in bicameral co-tensions, intentions, problems, issues, noticing basic ego-eco co-presence, breathing in and up Yang, out and down Yin speeds of bilateral healing flow, co-acclimating light from Here's phylogenic-interdependent fullness through Now's hologynic-emptiness... Actually, I usually get stuck on empathizing with the Prodigal Son as victimized and enslaved through retributive punishments for his victimless crimes, other than against his own ego-health, which isn't wise but not exactly cause to create a victim either. I seldom move on to how grateful I would hope to be to have back my brother who rejected us back when he might have been more fun to hang out with. As for the ReStorative Justice Advocate and Green CoOperative Farmer Father for 7-Generations of Tribal Peace, that co-empathic thought experiment is way past my pay grade.
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