Why did you have no child? Why not now?
What I'm going to intrude into your life and say next fits with my thesis that we are in a >Divinely Groomed< Marriage of American Civilization with the beautiful Bride named China, and a world triumph of Good might be their offspring.
Of course, there are many, many possibilities of how the world and all peoples may express themselves, but this is one that has momentum all its own. The Chinese are learning English because it is the great language for Law. They are also mastering our European strings and orchestras more deeply than are we. And their excellence in mathematics and abstract study is a Joy and wonderful gift to the future.
Can you imagine, dear friend, having two half Asian boys, two sons to raise into your old age? math and engineering and electronics and aviation and physics and philosophy and poetry and awe.
Yes! Marry a Mandarin soon, friend. Have a son and raise him well.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The day before Halloween . . .
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| Synchronicity wrapped him fittingly in the obits. | <><>
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| The flash of immortal peach-red that is caught in flight is where the flicker gets its name. |
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| His tail begins in a heiroglyph. |
It gave me a chance to meet the lady in the little frame house right there, her door was open anyway, and I asked her for some newspaper so I could carry this treasure home.
It was such a gift because I have loved these gorgeous woodpeckers ever since I met them in Idyllwild, at Helen Bell's cabin, when I'd take care of her on the weekends.
Monday, November 1, 2010
In Argument, Version II
"What a waste of Reformation Sunday!"
That was my first thought, laughing all the way down the hill after church. A lost opportunity, where instead of breaking free and fearless, we were reminded to follow the tribe, obey their rules and be afraid of each other. I could not stand Ms. _________ talk, and it brought up the worst of what this last decade has ushered in, grounded in the ways of Caesar and not in God.
I was laughing at how much I was in alignment with Martin Luther's mood so long ago, it was like I was celebrating my own private Argue-with-Somebody Day. First there was that God-awful sermon. (if you want my mean plainspeaking review it is the previous post)
Then, a highlight was Susann's sharing with the actual points Luther posted and what we hear when we read them. It was inspiring to consider that such a move would have been "against God", and what responsibility he took on by doing it. Also, he showed a fearlessness in trusting in the discourse with his fellows on this topic of God's favor and word.
A free-thinking, adventuresome Man of Faith. (A toast to this man, Praise God for such a one, clink!)
Then we went into a breeze-thru the last chapters of this Bible study that we hadn't finished (Revelations starts Next week for our 11 am group), and actually it was to good affect. The last item covered was the Trinity, and I made a huge discovery, haha.
It says the Trinity is not actually mentioned in the Bible, but is implied. Hmmm. Well, many ways of perceiving the Godhead are described in both Old and New Testaments, and more could be implied by the Gospel stories in particular.
The One possible implied Lord God that I am fond of is going for what Lao-Tsu named "an infant before it knows how to smile". An Infinite Infant, always expanding and made new, always in wonder. But that wouldn't fit with this other image, the Trinity, that also is not in the Bible. Like I said, hmmm. In argument, yes, thank you Mr. Luther, for daring to respectfully show the way.
That was my first thought, laughing all the way down the hill after church. A lost opportunity, where instead of breaking free and fearless, we were reminded to follow the tribe, obey their rules and be afraid of each other. I could not stand Ms. _________ talk, and it brought up the worst of what this last decade has ushered in, grounded in the ways of Caesar and not in God.
I was laughing at how much I was in alignment with Martin Luther's mood so long ago, it was like I was celebrating my own private Argue-with-Somebody Day. First there was that God-awful sermon. (if you want my mean plainspeaking review it is the previous post)
Then, a highlight was Susann's sharing with the actual points Luther posted and what we hear when we read them. It was inspiring to consider that such a move would have been "against God", and what responsibility he took on by doing it. Also, he showed a fearlessness in trusting in the discourse with his fellows on this topic of God's favor and word.
A free-thinking, adventuresome Man of Faith. (A toast to this man, Praise God for such a one, clink!)
Then we went into a breeze-thru the last chapters of this Bible study that we hadn't finished (Revelations starts Next week for our 11 am group), and actually it was to good affect. The last item covered was the Trinity, and I made a huge discovery, haha.
It says the Trinity is not actually mentioned in the Bible, but is implied. Hmmm. Well, many ways of perceiving the Godhead are described in both Old and New Testaments, and more could be implied by the Gospel stories in particular.
The One possible implied Lord God that I am fond of is going for what Lao-Tsu named "an infant before it knows how to smile". An Infinite Infant, always expanding and made new, always in wonder. But that wouldn't fit with this other image, the Trinity, that also is not in the Bible. Like I said, hmmm. In argument, yes, thank you Mr. Luther, for daring to respectfully show the way.
In Argument (rude first disgorge) version I
Review: Sunday's sermon was shallow drivel of the most dangerous sort
Ms. ______'s lecture was a chattering of word-bombs (Groupthink, Code Pink words -- like Diversity and Fairness -- that generate a culturally-conditioned response, a Pavlovian reflex). I resent that our pulpit would be used for such a shallow talk, glittering with these charged call-outs that mock thoughtfulness. And I figure I reject her full-buildout notions of how Fairness will be imposed in her dream world.
I must say, she began beautifully however, sly one that she is. She begins with a lovely story of Estonia and the singing line of freedom-standers. Best part of her talk and Susann says we shall rent the film of it, very good. But then she takes a magician's leap, a bait-and-switch actually, to equate Estonia's condition to the Corporate hold on the world today.
I missed the bridge that connects this cruel enslavement of peoples by Stalin to Corporations today. How do you get from there to that? Their roots are sharply distinct from each other, rising on either side of a chasm. Besides that, the assumption that corporate structures are in themselves a force for evil is not one I share and won't get tricked into assuming with you, Ma'am.
Right then and there, if no one would have cared or noticed me, I would have walked out. But it would have been rude here, among such good people I have come to cherish and respect, and I would embarrass some for Drama? no. I will stay, as an anthropological study of the Now, and observe how this kind of pestilence enters into the Holy Temples, even this gentle, loving place.
OK, so we're into the evil of corporations, and I wonder if that includes the Nature Conservancy, very influential corporation after Unions (20 of the top 25 donors to all campaigns over twenty years), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that gets so much of its money to ensure the we are all AIMED correctly. (You wanna get political in this sanctuary? I'm not planning on leaving. Shall we really talk?)
And then the fast-talking spinmeister hurls out a biggie, a Mother of all Word-bombs: "Haiti", and it works like a charm. We are surely triggered to fall into God-sad dispair and sense of failure, and so we don't notice how she quickly asserts evil corporate culpability to their tragedy, so fast that we skip across the ridiculous assumptions and logic. ("wait a minute. Is Ms. ______ seriously charging that the dysfunction of this ex-French colony is because some corporation wants to grow bio-designed grain on it's hillsides? Seriously?") I would love to enjoy a faith-based, Christ-based, prayer-based discussion on the wretched roots of Haiti's condition, but it is wrong to use their name as a scaredoll to support your Leftist view and get a cheap communal grunt. Ewww.
Finally, this lipsticked carnival barker at our precious pulpit hauls out her battlecry, so that we all know what she is talking about: Justice. Yes, I have heard this call before in other churches. Those churches weren't as well-grounded as this one, and they succumbed to the Political Dialectics of the Day, Man-to-Man, just what I need to go to church for, haha, don't get enough of that everywhere else I go. No, Sir, I'm not leaving. Here I stand in devotion to the Highest God, and I reject your cheap incitement to feel superior.
The Lord is our Justice, and I will rest in Him. And I have learned the hard way that Righteous Angry Judgement is inevitably Wrong (wasted energy and a long path back) and must be tempered by Love and Respect and Sisterhood. So I've learned to not trust those who waggle such mob-think tools at me.
Although, haha, as you hear from my words, this whole thing flared up my own righteous judgement, so I see I must temper and not be so unkind...give me a bit of time. (Update: See my kinder report in next post)
Let our churches not succumb to the fashions of the day. Let us listen to the Lord.
Ms. ______'s lecture was a chattering of word-bombs (Groupthink, Code Pink words -- like Diversity and Fairness -- that generate a culturally-conditioned response, a Pavlovian reflex). I resent that our pulpit would be used for such a shallow talk, glittering with these charged call-outs that mock thoughtfulness. And I figure I reject her full-buildout notions of how Fairness will be imposed in her dream world.
I must say, she began beautifully however, sly one that she is. She begins with a lovely story of Estonia and the singing line of freedom-standers. Best part of her talk and Susann says we shall rent the film of it, very good. But then she takes a magician's leap, a bait-and-switch actually, to equate Estonia's condition to the Corporate hold on the world today.
I missed the bridge that connects this cruel enslavement of peoples by Stalin to Corporations today. How do you get from there to that? Their roots are sharply distinct from each other, rising on either side of a chasm. Besides that, the assumption that corporate structures are in themselves a force for evil is not one I share and won't get tricked into assuming with you, Ma'am.
Right then and there, if no one would have cared or noticed me, I would have walked out. But it would have been rude here, among such good people I have come to cherish and respect, and I would embarrass some for Drama? no. I will stay, as an anthropological study of the Now, and observe how this kind of pestilence enters into the Holy Temples, even this gentle, loving place.
OK, so we're into the evil of corporations, and I wonder if that includes the Nature Conservancy, very influential corporation after Unions (20 of the top 25 donors to all campaigns over twenty years), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that gets so much of its money to ensure the we are all AIMED correctly. (You wanna get political in this sanctuary? I'm not planning on leaving. Shall we really talk?)
And then the fast-talking spinmeister hurls out a biggie, a Mother of all Word-bombs: "Haiti", and it works like a charm. We are surely triggered to fall into God-sad dispair and sense of failure, and so we don't notice how she quickly asserts evil corporate culpability to their tragedy, so fast that we skip across the ridiculous assumptions and logic. ("wait a minute. Is Ms. ______ seriously charging that the dysfunction of this ex-French colony is because some corporation wants to grow bio-designed grain on it's hillsides? Seriously?") I would love to enjoy a faith-based, Christ-based, prayer-based discussion on the wretched roots of Haiti's condition, but it is wrong to use their name as a scaredoll to support your Leftist view and get a cheap communal grunt. Ewww.
Finally, this lipsticked carnival barker at our precious pulpit hauls out her battlecry, so that we all know what she is talking about: Justice. Yes, I have heard this call before in other churches. Those churches weren't as well-grounded as this one, and they succumbed to the Political Dialectics of the Day, Man-to-Man, just what I need to go to church for, haha, don't get enough of that everywhere else I go. No, Sir, I'm not leaving. Here I stand in devotion to the Highest God, and I reject your cheap incitement to feel superior.
The Lord is our Justice, and I will rest in Him. And I have learned the hard way that Righteous Angry Judgement is inevitably Wrong (wasted energy and a long path back) and must be tempered by Love and Respect and Sisterhood. So I've learned to not trust those who waggle such mob-think tools at me.
Although, haha, as you hear from my words, this whole thing flared up my own righteous judgement, so I see I must temper and not be so unkind...give me a bit of time. (Update: See my kinder report in next post)
Let our churches not succumb to the fashions of the day. Let us listen to the Lord.
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