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Maladjusment, n. –

a failure to meet the demands of society, usually reflected in emotional instability

Is it a bad thing in a sociaty like this one, in particular? This world order, which explicitly treats women as weaker and less valuable than man, other races as weaker and less valuable then whites, poor as weaker and less valuable than rich, ironically calls itself democracy.
They might call it democracy. They might call it equality. But we? We want THE TRUTH.

Let’s start with the words that Aeschylus, in his tragedy The Eumenides, put in Athena’s mouth: To male supremacy in all things, I give my whole hearted consent, says she, adding that mother is not the true creator, since she was born from her father’s head.
Later on, Aristotle’s basic strategy was to divide things into contradictions: right and wrong, good and bad, life and death, man and woman. Aristotle has dominated the human mind, particularly the Western mind, for almost two thousand years. But isn’t it now possible to get rid of the old man? He says in his books that women have two teeth less than men. Obviously man is superior, and the woman is inferior in every way, how can she have the same number of teeth? But very strange…. Aristotle had two wives, he could have counted their teeth before he wrote his book – this is simple, very simple scientific methodology – and he would have found the truth, that man or woman, it does not matter, they all have the same number of teeth.
A few brave women tried to scratch under the surface of history full of lies and reveal the real truth.
If there is history, where’s herstory?
The documentary Goddess remembered by Donna Read, a Canadian filmmaker, is a salute to 35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. The film features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish and Jean Bolen, all of whom link the loss of goddess-centric societies with today's environmental crisis. In the documentary it’s

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