From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:08:53 EDT Subject: God Inside Me. --part1_133.1f121ed0.2be17945_boundary Subj: Re: God inside me Date: 30/04/2003 18:45:14 GMT Daylight Time From: rparkany-AT-borg.com (Rick Parkany) GEVANS613-AT-aol.com wrote: > This is not rhetoric - it can be seen with awful regularity in the headlines > of our press all over our country, and on our TV. People are frightened TO > GO TO CHURCH. > Oh! SNIP... Prometheus retorts: The first Ethical Lie enmeshed in the kiss shared by fools underneath the portal to deception that dictates the first Moral Lie: *Know Thyself!*... ...*this is not rhetoric*... ... Jud: You speak wise words. Thanks for recognising the sincerity of my post - I was a little worried that my information regarding the actuality of British newspaper and TV reportage may be misconstrued by some as constituting some measure of atheistic Schadenfreude at the low esteem of the church and religion in general. Maybe these errant kissing priests you mention DO know themselves, and have come to terms with their proclivity to "know" [in the biblical sense] the bums of the younger members of their flock, silently and quietly, underneath the portals of the church and in the protection of the cloisters, have cloaked, deflected and otherwise concealed their natures in spite of their holy vows to the Pope and Mother Church - what do you think? R. Parkeny: The matirx of differences between the Semitic, Arabic, & Western churches are as complex as are those among the various cultures in which they are *embedded*. For example: it can be reasonably argued that semitic and arabic tribes and many other collectives are matriarchies disguised by custom as patriarchies...in fact, for Jews, the mother is the hearth of religion and she is awarded the awesome task to imbue the moral and ethical fabric of the patriarchs into each ball of flesh into whose eyes she gazes while in her arms (after Merleau-Ponty & Levinas). The wise women send out the men into the world to do busyness and to loose themselves. They laugh behind men's posturing! So, too, did the pre-Columbian women...they sent their men off to sweat lodges to smoke their dreams while the real work of the world was done at the hearth... I tire of these shop-worn assaults and ad hominems...can we ever get beyond them, this list? this droll form of a pissing match has been going on for at least ten years that I know of, boys--and what is the gain? piss-stained archives... ;-} rap. Jud: At first glance what you say appears to make good sense - I admire wisdom - are you saying that the Catholic church should rid itself of it male pontifexes [or is it ponce-ifexes?] and enrol Jewish women or Colombian trilbyed, alpacaed crones as its spiritual leaders? I think you could be right, and last sundays 8 lonely parishioners at our village church could happily grow to more. You'd make a good PR man - ever thought of it? I hope that that target of your bile is the religionists who mask out, play down and otherwise dissemble and ad homineminically employ the extendible shrivelled member of the dead Levinas in order to flagellate the imagined misinforms of scabrous atheists on the list? The pewter wee-wee pools that glint in the quiet cloisters of our archive are piped by pious pipettes, not atheist spouts or spurts. <A HREF="http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/ ">http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/</A> Jud Evans - ANALYTICAL INDICANT THEORY. <A HREF="http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com">http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com </A> --part1_133.1f121ed0.2be17945_boundary
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