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Monday, June 18, 2007
Recaf coffee
"Do you have any decaf coffee?" "No. I've got recaff. It's the same mild, pale taste of decaf, but with the caffeine put back in." - Ideal (Good English comedy show)
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Just you wait with that recaf (Professor Higgins), we'll probably be seeing it in the not-too-distant future. We've already seen a lot of worse stuff.
I have a less computerized and more poetic explanation for that promptitude: Maybe Miss S simply switched back from Recaf to a good (and tonic) brand of coffee. :-)
"Bzzzt! I am Cornhulio! Wanna see my bunghole?" -- (Beavis, after too much Recaf)
It's a pity, when you think about it: some kind concerned soul is deeply caring for our afterlifes and relentlessly trying to bring us back to the Light, and in case of success, we won't even have a name to thank in our prayers. How sad...
Besides, I suddenly shiver at the following thought: maybe "he who lives by the Domai shall perish by the Domai"? Is this the kind of drama that ended Anna Nicole Smith's marriage, I wonder?
That's it: no more dark chocolate after midnight for me. It seems I have the Mogwai syndrome: I look like a nice Furby, but late snacks make me rowdy.
To be frank I think that one must have been a late addition to the bible or something. There is not a single man anywhere on the planet who has not looked at a woman and wanted her. And he would not be human if he never did. Man and woman are created to want each other.
Maybe that's the famed (and infamous) production defect commonly known as the "Original Sin"? But if such is the case, I blame it on the botched after-sale maintenance service. They should have recalled the whole stock to the factory and fixed the problem once and for all, instead of bringing out a model with design flaws.
Terry, don't worry too much. If we're to be graded on a global curve, a universal weakness shouldn't shift the proportions in our final destination. Seriously now, it's too universal, innate, biological and all... to worry about. Might as well be guilty of gluttony for fantasizing about a good meal, for instance if you're very poor. "In your heart you've already eaten it", and you've definitely smelled it with your nose if it was across an open window, but you took nobody's food so where's the harm?
I myself had already reflected about that Gospel passage. Let us remember this book is packed full with images, symbols, and even koans in a way. Perhaps the true intent of it was: "Think all within yourselves: is there anyone of you who hasn't felt sexual desire, not only abstract, but attraction toward another person? No? Because it's NATURAL. So be smart, and draw the logical conclusion: SEX IS NOT A SIN." I see it as another formulation somehow of "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", "judge not least you be judged too one day"...
If you really think this christian philosophy with a fresh mind, free from the centuries-old and sometimes pathetic human dogmas, you might very well find in it a Truth much deeper, more fundamental and certain than anything some narrow Bibe-thumping minds try to "un-teach" you. No way I can become an atheist just because of the errings of humans, not even that dang holy Pope himself. If a good cause is poorly defended, the worst mistake would be to throw away the good along with the bad. And let's remember that sexuality two thousand years ago was intricated to the core with an archaic culture, where the honor of a man is set between the thighs of "his" women: wives, daughters, etc... If you left your sister elope, you were forever disgraced, so better to kill her on the spot. Still happens in the Arab world today. :-(
If two people are sincerely in love, and they have intimate relations without receiving the blessing of a priest, is there evil in this? If two people who are not in love get married for whatever reasons, calculations or mistake, and have intimate relations officially licensed by a priest, is there God-pleasing beauty in this? I use my common sense. My religion is based on this fundamental postulate: The greatest of all possible sins is the absence of love. And it's probably the ONLY true sin.
When I look at a woman with admiration, desire, and respect, I don't feel that to be a sin. Nor the need to apologize for that belief. Women go to great lengths to HAVE that effect on me. While harassing a person simply because he/she doesn't follow the same rules I chose to, like liturgy or social choices, this I feel is a sin of gratuitous judgementalism.
Remember: be it God or Evolution, something has put in us our innate sense of right and wrong. As children, we are born ignorant, but innocent. Our fundamental nature doesn't know evil. It'll only come from poor choices over time. Always. It doesn't really matter whether these poor choices are made out of ignorance, or out of the erroneous belief that one is above all possible ignorance/mistake thanks to reading a Book.
So, to make a bold paraphrase: "Go in peace, my children. Sin no more, but never be afraid to love, for this would be truly sinning."
reminds me of some coffee I've had before... :)
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Miss S
Wow, I love getting a comment less than two minutes after posting. You must have loaded the page within 20 seconds of my posting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a program.
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Are you serious?
ReplyDeleteDo you honestly think when you die that you are going to get away with that Domai trash?..Sadly mistaken.
ReplyDeleteMatthew 5:28 Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; cursed children.
Thank you for caring.
ReplyDeleteJust you wait with that recaf (Professor Higgins), we'll probably be seeing it in the not-too-distant future. We've already seen a lot of worse stuff.
ReplyDeleteI have a less computerized and more poetic explanation for that promptitude: Maybe Miss S simply switched back from Recaf to a good (and tonic) brand of coffee. :-)
"Bzzzt! I am Cornhulio! Wanna see my bunghole?" -- (Beavis, after too much Recaf)
It's a pity, when you think about it: some kind concerned soul is deeply caring for our afterlifes and relentlessly trying to bring us back to the Light, and in case of success, we won't even have a name to thank in our prayers. How sad...
Besides, I suddenly shiver at the following thought: maybe "he who lives by the Domai shall perish by the Domai"?
Is this the kind of drama that ended Anna Nicole Smith's marriage, I wonder?
That's it: no more dark chocolate after midnight for me. It seems I have the Mogwai syndrome: I look like a nice Furby, but late snacks make me rowdy.
Matthew 5:28 Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
ReplyDeletedear anon, i'm guilty of this. but at least domai doesn't degrade women the way other sites do.
pray for me. i need it.
To be frank I think that one must have been a late addition to the bible or something. There is not a single man anywhere on the planet who has not looked at a woman and wanted her. And he would not be human if he never did. Man and woman are created to want each other.
ReplyDelete"Man and woman are created to want each other."
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's the famed (and infamous) production defect commonly known as the "Original Sin"?
But if such is the case, I blame it on the botched after-sale maintenance service. They should have recalled the whole stock to the factory and fixed the problem once and for all, instead of bringing out a model with design flaws.
Terry, don't worry too much. If we're to be graded on a global curve, a universal weakness shouldn't shift the proportions in our final destination. Seriously now, it's too universal, innate, biological and all... to worry about. Might as well be guilty of gluttony for fantasizing about a good meal, for instance if you're very poor. "In your heart you've already eaten it", and you've definitely smelled it with your nose if it was across an open window, but you took nobody's food so where's the harm?
I myself had already reflected about that Gospel passage. Let us remember this book is packed full with images, symbols, and even koans in a way. Perhaps the true intent of it was: "Think all within yourselves: is there anyone of you who hasn't felt sexual desire, not only abstract, but attraction toward another person? No? Because it's NATURAL. So be smart, and draw the logical conclusion: SEX IS NOT A SIN."
I see it as another formulation somehow of "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", "judge not least you be judged too one day"...
If you really think this christian philosophy with a fresh mind, free from the centuries-old and sometimes pathetic human dogmas, you might very well find in it a Truth much deeper, more fundamental and certain than anything some narrow Bibe-thumping minds try to "un-teach" you. No way I can become an atheist just because of the errings of humans, not even that dang holy Pope himself. If a good cause is poorly defended, the worst mistake would be to throw away the good along with the bad.
And let's remember that sexuality two thousand years ago was intricated to the core with an archaic culture, where the honor of a man is set between the thighs of "his" women: wives, daughters, etc... If you left your sister elope, you were forever disgraced, so better to kill her on the spot. Still happens in the Arab world today. :-(
If two people are sincerely in love, and they have intimate relations without receiving the blessing of a priest, is there evil in this?
If two people who are not in love get married for whatever reasons, calculations or mistake, and have intimate relations officially licensed by a priest, is there God-pleasing beauty in this?
I use my common sense.
My religion is based on this fundamental postulate: The greatest of all possible sins is the absence of love. And it's probably the ONLY true sin.
When I look at a woman with admiration, desire, and respect, I don't feel that to be a sin. Nor the need to apologize for that belief. Women go to great lengths to HAVE that effect on me.
While harassing a person simply because he/she doesn't follow the same rules I chose to, like liturgy or social choices, this I feel is a sin of gratuitous judgementalism.
Remember: be it God or Evolution, something has put in us our innate sense of right and wrong. As children, we are born ignorant, but innocent. Our fundamental nature doesn't know evil. It'll only come from poor choices over time. Always. It doesn't really matter whether these poor choices are made out of ignorance, or out of the erroneous belief that one is above all possible ignorance/mistake thanks to reading a Book.
So, to make a bold paraphrase: "Go in peace, my children. Sin no more, but never be afraid to love, for this would be truly sinning."
"The greatest of all possible sins is the absence of love."
ReplyDeleteYes, that's a great truth.
And it must be equal love for everything and everybody. Which shows us how far almost all of us have to go yet.
But given enough love and enough time, all will resolve.