I think women are intimidated into 'playing' dumber.
Men are clutzes and think they know everything.
Women know better, but frequently suboridinate that to the men.
When women refuse to subordinate that "enlightenment" to men, then they frequently become the women's libbers.
So women are stuck in this no-win situation where they know better, but have to keep silent about it.
Men aren't aware of how intimidating they are. So they rush headlong where angels fear to tread, dragging the women along with them, the women all the time knowing better.
So both sexes are doomed, but for different reasons. The women know better, but can't do anything about it, in many cases; the men don't know better, but are loaded for bear in
trying everything under the sun to do something about it.
So we stumble through life, any apparent attempt at any relative 'smoothness' only temporary, it being covetous to ever look upon our neighbor in such a way - that 'they' have it made; our 'have-it-madeness' only lasts for any short period. There are no 'smooth paths', and no one 'has it made', though for short periods any given party may appear to 'have it made', and thus, they seem to 'know what they are doing'.
No one knows what they are doing. The woman is hitched to a man, and the man is a fool. We are given the semblance of smoothness, because for short periods, 'smoothness' seems to appear. But that's judging by appearances. Big mistake.
All of western civilization is a judgement based on appearances - all of our inventions a response to how we 'see' things. And we take our chances with them. Sometimes we win, sometimes we win for a long time. Other times we don't win.
This is the reality, the daily reality that we are a part of. We can't observe it like a movie and say that's all just them.
But in all of this is also the other reality of His power through us. In that, or in Him, is the escape from this body of death.
Women are so different from men. And men so different from women.
But we each have the same basic instincts, the same basic 'soul'; we are just very different expressions of that same basic 'entity' or 'life', or 'soul'. We all want the same basic things, and have the same basic ambitions, or 'goals'(i dislike that word
). We all like to get off work at the same time. And we all like things to be a certain way.
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