A Species of Donatism

It is a species of Donatism to be arguing and quibbling over the meaning of the words in the Canon of the Mass.

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A Thought About Reiki

"Reason the card, passion the gale." Actually, Pope was wrong. Reason and Feeling are equally passions. The irredentist, determined commitment to l'esprit de geometrie is no less a folly than the fantasy intuitions of the centering spirit. It is easy to poke fun at all the variants of touchy feely subjectivity dancing about as objective knowledge and actual cures; but why should willful ignorance in search of a different certainty be considered any less stupid? What is apparent is that we are constructed to think in certain ways and to feel in certain ways. As much as our bones, these constructs are us. The point is to rattle them in harmony. So, one could add to Pope: passion the rudder, reason the steam.

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The Mother of all Religion

One can't vouch for Protestants, but Catholicism is hardly a patriarchical religion. Catholics worship Mother Mary. Jesus is simply "God-as-Dumbfuck".

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When the Light Goes Out

When a light goes out we don’t say, “where did it go?" It just went out.

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An Hypocricy

God is that than which nothing more evil and repulsive can be conceived. The beauty of his creation is an hypocricy; the fraud of a Potemkin facade through the cracks of which seep the hidden anguish and cruelty.

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The Obama Message

"I have hope, and I ask all of you to join with me in my hope for change... A time for change has come, a change in the way change is hoped for, hope in the way change is brought about, a change in hope for a better future, a future full of promise and hope, a future of change and in the way we hope for the future and the hope it can bring us for a change."

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The Virtues of Snow

The nice thing about snow, is that it gives the homeless people something to build their shelters with.

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