Other

Like I'm pushing you to jump off a

building, you know? Othering is the same as how people used to say, you people, when they talk about black people.

That would be like the idea of othering, right? Right.

Same idea here, except it's not.

In short, a girl branded an unfit wife will bear that mark until the end of her days, and any would-be partner who seeks to overcome that stigma will be browbeaten and pressured against such action.

Otherness, you see, is as much a virus as the flu, a virus of thought whose mortality is counted in wars, murders, witch hunts, and blood feuds.

A virus whose victims bear a dubious honor.

That of canonizing those too petty to love one another.

Modern day power.

Othering is the enemy.

Predictability is insecurity.

Heal thyself.

But ultimately, that's expressive of the Other.

So

what you're saying is what he didn't like about mysticism is the idea that you could actually find a unity with Otherness, where he refuses that unity.

Yeah,

he refuses that unity.

Because you need that sense of Otherness for the ethical.

For the ethic.

Mm-hmm.

Another reason can be why, why the love can be lacking is that true believers are somehow othering each other.

Somehow othering.

O- othering, um- Othering Christians in the same church.

Othering.

What, what do I mean by othering? Well, I, I mean what it says.

I, I know it's, wasn't u- didn't used to be a verb, but it is now.