our and their shame

The reason why we were not told the truth about the cause of our handicap was the shame of our parents
(my father, Henri Hendrik Cerckel, a medical doctor, having done it on purpose,
my mother being too stupid to understand this result of her arranged marriage).

We are however also ashamed and the “culture” also. (1) (2)

Indeed, at our births, everybody acted badly. This has frightened us within minutes. We have concluded within those same minutes that there was something wrong with us.
[Interesting questions:
Something wrong vis-à-vis what?
Did we know at birth what is “normal”?
Did we conclude that there was no order outside of the womb?]

This reaction has been stored. The conclusions we draw from this storage, i.e., the shame, prevent us from acting comfortably with people.

This shame is “asking” energy. Emotions are energy felt in the body. Positive emotions are useful. Negative emotions interfere with [our capacity to enjoy life].

Our energy is wrapped up in shame. This energy should be freed up.

Our handicap is not the missing limbs. It is the shame.

Shame can make people sick, making them want to disappear, jeopardising their life.

People humiliate/shame us because we are monsters. (3)

Shame is not only with our parents.

It is also in the CULTURE.

This SUCKS – gloog

Therefore,

1.
nobody dares to make explicit to us that the thalidomide warnings of Dr Ralf Voss at the 30 April – 01 May 1960 Düsseldorf congress of neurologists (4) were known eighteen months before 27 Nov 1961 when our drug was taken from the market.
(I was born February 1962)

2.
after half a century, we still have to fight AGAINST (our and) their shame.

The shame explains why we were never (fully? – I didn’t yet receive anything) compensated for the damage we are still suffering.

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
http://twitter.com/ivocerckel/

NOTES

(1)
Culture is the values, beliefs, behaviour, and material objects that together form a people’s way of life. Culture includes what we think, how we act, and what we own. Culture is both a bridge to our past and a guide to the future.
(John J. Macionis, “Sociology”, Prentice Hall, 2003 inr’l ed., p. 61 referring to Wolf Soyinka, “Africa’s Culture Products”, in: “Society”,  Vol. 28, No 2, January-February 1991, pp. 32 – 40).

(2)
Cultural forces constantly mould human biology. For example, culture is a key environmental force determining how human bodies will grow and develop. Cultural traditions promote certain activities and abilities, discourage others and set standards of physical well-being and attractiveness. Physical activities, including sports, which are influenced by culture, help build the body. For example, North American girls are encouraged to pursue, and therefore do well in, competitive track and field, swimming, diving, and many other sports [...] Why are girls encouraged to excel as athletes in some nations but discouraged from physical activities in others [e.g. Latin America]?
(Conrad Phillip Kottak, “Anthropology – The Exploration of Cultural Diversity”, McGraw Hill, 2000, 8th ed. p. 7)

(3)
If I used the noun “monster”, this is for the reason which makes you afraid of it.
Look at the dictionary definition
(a grossly malformed or markedly malformed animal or plant – Webster’s).
We satisfy this definition.
Ayn Rand gave the answer “for the reason which makes you afraid of it” to the question why she had written a book under the title “The Virtue of Selfishness”.
I do the same for “monster”. This puts the guilt on you, my dear reader, if any …
Any guilt or any reader? Good question!

(4)
Chronik des Conterganfalls
Tragödie – Katastrophe – Skandal?
http://www.wdr.de/themen/gesundheit/pharmazie/contergan/chronik.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=contergan
30. April/1. Mai 1960:
Auf einem Neurologen-Kongress in Düsseldorf berichtet der Neurologe Ralf Voss über die Nervenschädigungen, die seinen
Beobachtungen zufolge durch Thalidomid verursacht werden. Die Forschungsabteilung von Grünenthal versucht daraufhin, die Nervenschädigungen an Ratten zu reproduzieren – ohne Erfolg. Grünenthal-Forschungsleiter Mückter schließt daraus, dass es sich um besondere Situationen handelt, für die Contergan nur selten als Ursache infrage kommt.

notre et leur honte

On ne nous a pas dit la vérité concernant la cause de notre handicap
à “cause” de la honte de nos parents
(mon père Henri Hendrik Cerckel, médecin, l’ayant fait exprès,
ma mère étant trop bête que pour comprendre cette conséquence de son mariage arrangé).

Nous avons également honte et la culture aussi.  (1) (2)

Lors de nos naissances tout le monde a mal agi. Ceci nous a effrayé endéans quelques minutes. Nous avons conclu pendant ces mêmes minutes que quelque chose clochait
[Questions intéressantes :
Clochait vis-à-vis quoi?
Savions-nous à  la naissance ce qui était “normal’?
Avons-nous conclu qu’il n’y a avait pas d’ordre hors de la matrice ?]

Cette réaction a été emmagasinée, enregistrée, dans notre mémoire. Les conclusions que nous déduisons de cet enregistrement, c’est-à-dire  la honte, nous empêchent d’agir confortablement avec les autres.

Cette honte consomme de l’énergie. Les émotions sont de l’énergie ressentie dans/par le corps. Les émotions positives sont utiles. Les émotions négatives limitent notre capacité d’avoir un plaisir de vivre.

Toute notre énergie est emballée dans la honte. Il faudrait la libérer.

Notre handicap, ce ne sont pas les membres qui nous manquent. Notre handicap c’est la honte.

La honte peut rendre malade et peut faire de sorte que ses sujets souhaitent disparaître.  Ce faisant, ils mettent leur vie en danger.

On nous humilie, nous “hontise”, nous faisons honte parce que nous sommes des monstres. (3)

Mais la honte ne se situe pas uniquement chez nos parents.

La CULTURE aussi a honte.

Ceci nous SUCE notre énergie – gloug

dès lors

1.
personne n’ose rendre explicite que l’alerte à la thalidomide du Dr Ralf Voss au congrès de neurologues des 30 avril – 1er mai 1960 à Düsseldorf (4) étaient connus de tous dix-huit mois avant le 27 novembre 1961, date à laquelle le médicament fut retiré du marché.
(Je suis né en février 1962.)

2.
après un demi siècle, nous devons toujours nous battre CONTRE (notre et leur) honte.
Cette honte explique pourquoi nous n’avons toujours pas été (entièrement? – moi je n’’ai encore rien reçu) dédommagés pour le dommage que nous subissons toujours.

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
http://twitter.com/ivocerckel/

NOTES

(1)
Culture is the values, beliefs, behaviour, and material objects that together form a people’s way of life. Culture includes what we think, how we act, and what we own. Culture is both a bridge to our past and a guide to the future.
(John J. Macionis, “Sociology”, Prentice Hall, 2003 inr’l ed., p. 61 referring to Wolf Soyinka, “Africa’s Culture Products”, in: “Society”,  Vol. 28, No 2, January-February 1991, pp. 32 – 40).

(2)
Cultural forces constantly mould human biology. For example, culture is a key environmental force determining how human bodies will grow and develop. Cultural traditions promote certain activities and abilities, discourage others and set standards of physical well-being and attractiveness. Physical activities, including sports, which are influenced by culture, help build the body. For example, North American girls are encouraged to pursue, and therefore do well in, competitive track and field, swimming, diving, and many other sports [...] Why are girls encouraged to excel as athletes in some nations but discouraged from physical activities in others [e.g. Latin America]?
(Conrad Phillip Kottak, “Anthropology – The Exploration of Cultural Diversity”, McGraw Hill, 2000, 8th ed. p. 7)

(3)
Si je dis “monstre”, c’est for the reason which makes you afraid of it.
Regardez la définition d’origine au dictionnaire
(être représentant une malformation importante – Larousse).
On répond à cette définition.
Ayn Rand donnait la réponse  “for the reason which makes you afraid of it”
à la question de savoir pourquoi elle avait écrit un livre
sous le titre  “The Virtue of Selfishness”.
“Selfishness” c’est  “égoïsme”.
Moi, je fais la même chose pour  “monstre”.
Cela culpabilise les autres.

(4)
Chronik des Conterganfalls
Tragödie – Katastrophe – Skandal?
http://www.wdr.de/themen/gesundheit/pharmazie/contergan/chronik.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=contergan
30. April/1. Mai 1960:
Auf einem Neurologen-Kongress in Düsseldorf berichtet der Neurologe Ralf Voss über die Nervenschädigungen, die seinen
Beobachtungen zufolge durch Thalidomid verursacht werden. Die Forschungsabteilung von Grünenthal versucht daraufhin, die Nervenschädigungen an Ratten zu reproduzieren – ohne Erfolg. Grünenthal-Forschungsleiter Mückter schließt daraus, dass es sich um besondere Situationen handelt, für die Contergan nur selten als Ursache infrage kommt.

Update 1 added possibly related news
Update 2 adds the text of that news

At the Thursday 06 August 2009 European Central Bank press conference after the meeting of its governing council leaving interest rates unchanged at 1%, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said that Italy’s projected tax capital gain on the gold reserves of the Bank of Italy raises concerns as regards infringements of community law and that the ECB has a negative judgement of this piece of legislation.

I am waiting for the transcript of this question and answer to appear on
http://www.ecb.int/press/pressconf/2009/html/is090806.en.html

But in the meantime, I cannot but wonder what implications this has for FreeGold.

Is the following news item perhaps related?

Central banks to lower gold sales ceiling
By Javier Blas in London
Published: August 7 2009 12:10 | Last updated: August 7 2009 17:08
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5f5fbefa-8338-11de-a24e-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html
SNIP
Gold bulls were given a psychological boost on Friday as European central banks announced a lower ceiling than expected for their bullion sales over the next five years, reducing their annual quota by 20 per cent to 400 tonnes. UNSNIP

European central banks will thus sell less gold than expected

Here’s the text
PRESS RELEASE
7 August 2009 – Joint Statement on Gold
http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2009/html/pr090807.en.html
SNIP
In the interest of clarifying their intentions with respect to their gold holdings the undersigned institutions make the following statement:
1. Gold remains an important element of global monetary reserves.
2. The gold sales already decided and to be decided by the undersigned institutions will be achieved through a concerted programme of sales over a period of five years, starting on  27 September 2009, immediately after the end of the previous agreement. Annual sales will not exceed 400 tonnes and total sales over this period will not exceed 2,000 tonnes.
3. The signatories recognize the intention of the IMF to sell 403 tonnes of gold and noted that such sales can be accommodated within the above ceilings.
4. This agreement will be reviewed after five years. UNSNIP

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
http://twitter.com/ivocerckel/

BANK OF ITALY: TRICHET, CONCERNS ABOUT GOLD TAX
http://www.agi.it/business/news/200908061609-eco-ren0046-bank_of_italy_trichet_concerns_about_gold_tax
- Frankfurt, 6 Aug. – The measure taken by the Italian government to tax capital gain on the gold reserves of the Bank of Italy ”raises serious concerns”, said ECB president Jean Claude Trichet. The ECB, Trichet continued thinks that this law ”is very negative”. It raises ”serious concerns” on the possible encroachment of EU regulations. Regarding a possible appeal against the measure, Trichet said that the Italian government has promised to apply it only if the ECB and the Bank of Italy approve it. ”I don’t want to make predictions” he added. ”We’ll see what happens”