"skepticism is the chastity of the intellect" G. Santayana. I like him a lot.
The whole issue of Jesus and sexuality was a tough nut for me to crack. Back in my Jesus freak days I was so pure, so Christ like in my nature it is hard to deal with now, thinking about how far I was removed from my double mindedness about women.
My own sexual immaturity.
Jesus was cool yeah, but all the misogynist crap that men have laid on womankind in his name. That is what jack's my jaws these days. I don't have to deal with it in my life on a day to day basis. I just don't want no truck with it. All I want to be is aware of my own double thoughts about the fair sex.
If I was a woman I would probably be a nun.
I have heard it said that old men are a lot like lesbians.
I like Santayana's bit about the claw of satan
I saw the claw of Satan strike that child´s soul and try to kill the idea of God in it. Why should I mind that? Was the idea of God alive at all in me? No: if you mean the traditional idea. But that was the symbol, vague, variable, mythical, anthropomorphic; the symbol for an overwhelming reality, a symbol that named and unified in human speech the incalculable powers on which our destiny depends. To observe, record, and measure the method by which these powers operate is not to banish the idea of God; it is what the Hebrews called meditating on his ways. The modern hatred of religion is not, like that of the Greek philosophers, a hatred of poetry, for which they wished to substitute cosmology, mathematics, or dialectic, still maintaining the reverence of man for what is superhuman. The modern hatred of religion is hatred of the truth, hatred of all sublimity, hatred of the laughter of the gods. It is puerile human vanity trying to justify itself by a lie.
http://marquesdetamaron.blogspot.com/20 ... ayana.html
Silent Woman's abortion just grist for the mill
News story in the paper about pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for the emergency birth control pill. It violates their human conscience.
Being human, it is interesting, I am glad I got this chance to be a human, and secretely dread I have wasted it,
",,,when I see G d, may he greet me as a friend" gangs of new york the hanging sceene quoted from memory
"mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys"
human all too human, a title to a book I never read but Like the title yes sometimes I wish I was another species of mamals, but I have been told it is a great and fortuitous event to be born a human, sure feels like my first time, but I guess it could happen again and again, I am trying to remember if I have ever been born as a sea mamal before, a dolphin say.
Cyber Monday getting ready for the rush, working for the yankee dollar, drinking rum and coca cola, I wish.