AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS-Rule 2
Treat Yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
” If we wish to take care of ourselves properly, we would have to respect ourselves-but we don’t, because we are-not least in our own eyes-fallen creatures. If we lived in truth; If we spoke the Truth- then we could walk with God once again, and respect ourselves, and others, and the world. Then we might treat ourselves like people we cared for. We might strive to set the world straight. We might orient it towards heaven, where we would want people, we cared for to dwell instead of hell, where our resentment and hatred would eternally sentence everyone.“
beleaguered | put in a very difficult situation. | |
Genesis | the origin or mode of formation of something. | |
commensurate | corresponding in size or degree; in proportion. | |
akin | of similar character | |
stulification | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on | |
congenial | (of a person) pleasing or liked on account of having qualities or interests that are similar to one’s own. | |
dwarves | a person who is of unusually or abnormally small stature because of a medical condition; a person affected by dwarfism.![]() | |
usurped | take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force. | |
totalitarian | relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. | |
subjugation | the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control. | |
buttressed | increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce. | |
malevolence | the state or condition of being malevolent; hostility. | |
aforementioned | denoting a thing or person previously mentioned. | |
stonemasons | a person who cuts, prepares, and builds with stone.![]() | |
lumberjacks | (especially in North America) a person who fells trees, cuts them into logs, or transports them to a sawmill.![]() | |
devouring | eating food or prey hungrily or quickly.![]() | |
lurking | remaining hidden so as to wait in ambush. | |
palpable | (of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible. | |
amalgamated | combine or unite to form one organization or structure. | |
hearkened | listen. | |
accusatory | indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong. | |
narcissistically | tending to derive erotic gratification from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes. | |
excruciating | intensely painful. | |
altruistically | unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoistic). | |
entropy | lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. | |
staggers | any of several parasitic or acute deficiency diseases of farm animals characterized by staggering or loss of balance. | |
atone | make amends or reparation. |
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