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i can't speak for others but i tend to have my surges of religious feeling in periods of low libido so , to me the elephant in the room when talking about religion the whale in the Sanctuary , as it were is sex the old New England church at the beginning of John Huston's film-version of Moby...

even after a statement about Gyd's love & forgiveness , immediately before this pronouncement is pretty harsh stuff children paying for the crimes of their father (or crimes of their grandfather or crimes of their great-grandfather) this kind of harsh sentiment can be found elsewhere in...

he's in a better place some person (not a Quaker) says , shaking my hand & i have to wonder where this notion comes from xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when u die , u "go to heaven" (or to someplace not nearly so nice) is the assumption of American Christianity & is an assumption...

the spiritual (in 58 words) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this is written by the E-author of the Torah (the Elohist) while (overall) i prefer the J-author (the Yahwist) her or his very-fluid & slyly ironic storytelling (the distancing wit of a secular scribe , not a priest) really high-caliber...

in an era (Hellenistic) when the high gods seem increasingly far-away & impersonal (relevant only to the rich & powerful who can afford to sacrifice at their temples) Asclepius garners a strong appeal to the average Jenny & Joe not a god of strength or speed or beauty or authority , (but...

i have a question about when a person (when u or i) talks with Gyd ... will a gentle heart hear gentle words ? will an angry heart hear angry words ? (will a person hear , basically what is in-their-character to hear ? receive divine sanction to break-thru her or his reluctance to act ? to act...

in the desert , with only a day's supply of water it makes good sense to pick out u'r sightline on the horizon & stay steady on this destination , till u arrive at the oasis do not get distracted by that mirage of water to u'r left , or by that dry gulley to u'r right , which may or may...

the juvenile Mongolian wolf who created civilization in the beginning , is survival of the fittest (the first cause & prime mover of organic life) it is the one law , the one design which preserves & replicates genetic-form thru time (genotype winners over genotype losers , "eternal" over...

been wondering something about the "beatitudes" (blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth blessed are the merciful , for they shall be shown mercy et cetera) spoken by (or at least credited to) Jesus the Galilean the beatitudes have a similar rhetorical style to ancient songs of...

it is one of the nastiest autumn days in memory big wind with driving rain , cold burr it is cold the nastiest , where i live & also along most of the Oregon & Washington coastal areas but there is a pocket , a break in the weather up the coast from me , where Ma & Pa still live Pa ...

the snake & the apple Genesis 2 of the Bible does not specify which reptilian or amphibian genus the "serpent" of this folktale is nor the particular genus of the "forbidden fruit" but by the time Renaissance painters are depicting the tale what is depicted is a "snake" & an "apple"...

exquisite creature xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it is gray & drizzly early-afternoon in early June , this year (2011) in Corvallis , OR my friends from work wave their final congratulations & head for the parking-lot & their hour-plus drive back to the coast i'm...