On Sep 19, 2:09В am, Free Lunch wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:48:57 -0500, Day Brown
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>>>Joseph Humming wrote:
>>> Where would we be without young women?
>>Bored. I note that none of them are here. I've logged onto some of the
>>blogs and websites that purport to be 'wiccan', but I just dont have the
>>patience for fluff bunnies. They're kinda cute, going on about love
>>spells and potions, astrology, tarot, and runes.
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>>But when you get into the real history and prehistory, when witches ran
>>communities on drugs, sex, rock and roll, their panties get in a wad.
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>>But there are some who've actually read the archeology and documentation
>>and not only see what was really going on, are looking at how to recover
>>it. The ones I know of are smart, have careers, are not looking for Mr.
>>Wright, but are looking at some deeper meaning than malling with the
>>money they make.
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>>And the question is where they, in that effort, will lead us. It wont be
>>to Jesus.
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> That is a good thing, since the leaders who want to 'lead you to Jesus'
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Anyway, as I was saying...
How are we to use our unique intelligence? Just to be a little more
skilled at this and a little more knowing at that? Or is there more
still?
So, anyway, we set off, circumscribed and defined by our culture and
our creativity. Were we aware that we were a unique creature engaged
in a colonisation of the planet? I don't see it. At every point our
own range of human response - religious, artistic, political - seems
to have served our needs.
But not knowing anything of our evolution, of our connection to the
chain of life, of our global reach, of the genesis of the globe
itself, of the universe, of our essential individuality...we were
doomed to endless error. Such was the nature of our colonisation,
shot
through with error and opprrssion.
Andf then - quite recently - we found a way through. We embraced
technology, permitted knowledge and established freedom in many
places. So now what? Do we still just respond to circumstances - as
we have always done - or do we take a deeper view of ourselves?
But maybe we are wired to respond to our own creations? Maybe we are
incapable of responding to the fact of our uniqueness in the chain of
being? Or will there come at some stage a shift in our response, a
gradual acceptance and valorisation of our potential - and destiny -
as a species? And if such a shift is to come will it be mediated by
Asperger-like people who fail to be awed by the flawed products of
our
creativity and cling instead to a dogged truth?
Joseph Humming
