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Lately I'm hearing a lot of this talk from people,"if I only had done this, or I should have done this, or how things would have been different if I did this etc."


Its a problem. Its about creating more suffering on a mental level.


Here's what Emma Jung said about it in her salient book 'Animus and Anima.'



"Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itsef in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really only leads to self-torture. Here, too, there is again a characteristic failure to discriminate between what is real and what has been thought or imagined."

Simple interpretation: Don't waste your time, it doesn't help you in any way. Just proceed.

Finally I must say the right has lost its gravity lately. Maybe its the result of the election, maybe its the result of the Bush Administration's implosion, who knows. Now they're going after Keith Ellison. He wants to be sworn in as congressman on a Koran instead of the Bible. The right says its got to be a Bible. Isn't it just like the right, tremendous fight and energy but always the wrong battle.