"In" "Dependence"

For those who may not no: a word very often found in medical records is "noncompliance": there is even a code for it, one of the few I have memorized:V15.81.Rare is the day when I cannot apply that to at least one patient; in fact if I think about it, I don't know that I know anyone who is 100% compliant with my orders much less my strong suggestions! Which is a good thing in many cases; it keeps the multiplier effect from amplifying my mistakes and misapprehensions. But in many other cases, it leads to the ER, the hospital, and not infrequently, death. ("premature death" is a very iffy concept in the big picture. But those of us who believe in the validity and efficacy of choice tend to at least value human decision-making.)

Like many terms in science, this word "noncompliance" has more than a whiff of the Absolute about it. I prefer the word-if there is such a word- "hypocompliance". Just as it is hard to find a person who is totally compliant, it's equally hard to find a human being who has absolute zero redeeming aspects, or who is 100% wrong all the time. We use truth and the idea of truth all the time;but not fully;we are very selective, like our memory and cognition in general--by necessity as I have said before.

Likewise, "sin" is a much broader--yet much more specific--term than we care to apply. Sin is what other people do, right? Jesus was rejected by his hometown and even his brothers when he quoted Isaiah one day, and reminded the people that God healed a Syrian leper but no Israeli ones. What are you saying, Jesus? That I'm not good enuf? That my grandmother isn't good enuf???!!!

So God Himself had to preserve His Son from a "premature death" in Nazareth, from the crowd crowding him to cliff's edge.

"Sin" is often defined as "missing the mark." to somewhat soften the meaning and to usher it into the category of understandable mistakes, made by basically good and well-meaning people. I'm less and less sure that this is adequate; it certainly has no odor of infinite offense to it, much less of proportionate consequences. There are times, in the big picture, wherein hypocompliance becomes absolute noncompliance. When doctors play God or substitute themselves as gods, they take over Absolute--and rather unforgiving--terms that really apply only to God and to no one else. And many other prerogatives we take as well, according to the God-vacuum so many of us have, in God-terms--such as, "It doesn't get any better than this!"

The world also now casts the word, "dependency" into the same bed as many other things that seem evil not only to the secular mind but to all who practice "practical atheism" and breathe deeply of the fogs of nihilism as per Flannery. But as Dylan pointed out once, we are all utterly dependent, and usually we choose many masters and many teachers and much family depending--there I go again--on our felt needs at any given moment. "Independence" when one really considers it in the human sense, is not only relative but truly is only a theoretical concept, rather like absolute zero in physics--in more ways than one.

"Independence Day" therefore is about as meaningful as the movie of the same name. "Hubris Day" would be far more accurate.

Happy 4th of July then;and happy third of July to my Dad, also, who'll be x years old in the AM. May you score triple digits and the triple word box score as well!!!

Hasta Martes-maybe