tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post3869774942074397784..comments2023-11-05T02:55:10.230-06:00Comments on Gottesdienst Online: Reclaiming the “Discarded Image” -- Using Narnia to Reclaim What it Means to be Male and FemalePr. H. R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16756503062523543708noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-67064735257087130922013-01-27T08:49:22.331-06:002013-01-27T08:49:22.331-06:00Carp, or write about Lewis yourself. Dr. Veith is...Carp, or write about Lewis yourself. Dr. Veith is an English professor, he'll read almost anything and this ask you what do you think about it. This is what I think about looking to Lewis fantasies for real meaning about anything important, and I took a good swipe at Tolkein too. Yes, it's what I really, really think; so why would I care about someone's review of it. So, I said so. I have issues with the author and the topics. I told you that as a favore to a dear friend, no one else could get me to do this, I read one of Lewis' inciped books and suffered through. When it comes to thinking, the English are "in a muddle." But, not always, just since about 1850, I'd say. Oh, do you want to know what I think about Dickens gloomy novels? There's a horror subject for you.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-1309434506779450202013-01-23T09:59:32.795-06:002013-01-23T09:59:32.795-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501327753737422337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-79504452066579037742013-01-22T20:49:11.730-06:002013-01-22T20:49:11.730-06:00Pt.2
We all learn to be civilized and socialized t...Pt.2<br />We all learn to be civilized and socialized to some extent. We are warned not to take a puppy away from its litter mates till it has socialized with them. But disease can keep us unsocialized, such as schizophrenia, that can be so deadly in males 16 to 30 years of age. Their code is broken, their epigenetics has gone all haywire. Being themselves would kill too many people. We have to keep them in protective custody.<br /><br />Just because you came out of the box with a set of codes doesn't mean you can live with those codes unless you fall somewhere near that 80%. If your codes are harmless to yourself and other people, be yourself or you will fight being yourself until you give up fighting, which may come for many as late as death. <br /><br />God may require a life of acted normalicy (being in the 80%) for Christians. He says that at our baptism/cleasing, he gives us his Spirit to be our energy to fight sin, even for a lifetime. Many over the centuries have done it, in lives of quiet desperation. A sin acknowledged, and confessed, and repented, and fought against, is a sin God forgives. A sin denied and lived out joyfully, is a sin not ready to be forgiven and the kind that carries us away from God.<br /><br />It would be like a loveless marriage, made and maintained by the necessity of others Couples have feighned domestic tranquillity for decades and died as unloved as when they married. It happens, and sins happen when the temptation to find love or someting like it for only a night happens, though they would not.<br /><br />The Hindus insist that first you marry (whomever your family has chosen, with a little input) then comes love. That living with someone for years brings a kind of love. Not the hot passonate love of one night, but the respectful love of the marriage of two people and two families. Their movies are full of this principle, though I don't know how well it works out in practice. And the Hindu couple is assumed to be sexually attracted to the opposite sex.<br /><br />First of all to thine own self be true.<br />I am not what I am.<br />I will never tempt you beyond your ability to resist.<br />It should be against the law for heterosexuals to marry homosexuals (someone, if they don't know what they are getting into is going to get hurt very badly, logic and common sense would tell us, nicht wahr?Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-90814473061744956822013-01-22T20:47:33.273-06:002013-01-22T20:47:33.273-06:00Today, no one should be striving to be male or fem...Today, no one should be striving to be male or female. Just be what you are. It's hardwired inside of you and like the reading of the DNA by the nodes on the RNA and the resultant proteins, it writes itself. We are getting to the point of being able to change DNA, RNA, the nodes, and the epigenetics of it all. But if you are conscious of making an effort to be more male or to act more feminine than you feel, you're not using you're own codes in the nucleus of every one of your cells.<br /><br />Are we male because we think male, or do we think male because we are male (our codes are male codes). Same for female. And it seems that we have about 80 per cent that fall comfortably in 80% of male or female. Males who are 100% male are usually criminals of the worst sort. <br /><br />The feminine is the civilizing agent, they calm even the gay males. Male socialization with no scent of the feminine, and I do mean scent, is frenetic at it's most harmless. Just the presence of women and children can calm a mob of men.<br /><br />Men who do not need women for sexual comfort, spend their lifetimes seeking the right man and rarely find him. They may be with hundreds of men and they end a relationship on a sudden whim. Love for them dissappears suddenly and they go, never to return. Broken hearted sadness fills their songs.<br /><br />Women who do not need men for sexual comfort also don't use men to make babies, except for an anonymous puddle of codes. They easily form lifelong relationships, and rarely ever part. They can fit quite easily into everyday society, though I never see but that one takes a masculine role and the other the femine.<br /><br />The thing is, are they reading their own codes, are they being true to themselves and not acting a part others would prefer.<br /><br />Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778905687600416321.post-84137573408540238262013-01-22T18:58:04.773-06:002013-01-22T18:58:04.773-06:00Confession of a differently fantacized: Never read...Confession of a differently fantacized: Never read a word of Tolkein, just the idea mehs me into yawning. Movies OK because New Zealand is so heart-stopingly beautiful. Read LW&W at the insistence of a friend; it was a labor of love. Can't stand C.S.Lewis. Excuses I just don't need. <br /><br />Actually I rarely read fiction, even when it's realistic fiction. Most movies irritate me or disappoint me. Loved the Bourne Trilogy and bought my own copy. Mostly because of the actors, Borne and the girl in Paris. Hated the ending in Moscow. If something explodes in a movie, I'm usually up and out of there. Guns, drugs, stupid drug culture people, not interested. I am not entertained by vacationing in other peoples' misery. Nature shows in brilliant color and very sharp detail, love it. Liked the British former military survivalist shows. But not the snakes. <br /><br />But, no. I can't imagine that any English thinker could have anything to say that I would want to read. I might enjoy meeting Lewis at the Tea Room on the corner across from the Ashmolean in Oxford, and having a nice chat. But I would mostly be enjoying his accent, had I lived then and there. <br /><br />Spent 3 weeks in England, 2 at Oxford the last two weeks of May in 1991, Like Alice entering wonderland, in fact attended a production in the Magdalin gardens of a Cab Calloway version of Alice. Beautifully and imaginatively done. Got 3 credits toward my Library Degree. Wrote paper on the history of the Bodlean Library and we visited every kind of British Library from London to Bristol to Avon. <br /><br />The Bard is the great exception and especially his sonnets, let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. And productions of Jane Austen novels. But, no C.S. Lewis and Naria If would be like Uncle Remus rediscovers the image of the briar patch in Joel Chandler.<br /><br />Love popular, but correct and well written popular history. But straight history is fun too. Have you read the book about the 2 sisters of Henry the VIII. Canadians can be expected to know more English History, but the Anglosphere is collapsing about our ears. Who knows anymore. <br /><br />I was going to move to Greece for the duration of the Reconstruction, but am hearing that everyone has switched over to burning wood (gas too expensive for heating) that leaves a heavy smoke in the denuded valleys. But, I'll bet that Laconia has been spared the worst of it. Think I'll go anyway<br /><br />Did I mention an abhorance of the idea of reading any Rowland, but have enjoyed parts of each of the movies. I never waded below the surface, took it just as I saw it.<br /><br />I want to learn a new language, no slavic, I have sworn off any slavic.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.com