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Interview With Rachel Tabachnick on NPR (audio) Related article: The Evangelicals Engaged in Spiritual Warfare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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Linda, yep you sent it to me a few days before I showed up here and after I had rerun into you at DU. The psychopaths are going down I would think but the brotherhood types may just make it back to Eden with whoever are left to begin a very different kind of battle. Does sound like a bumpy ride not just for us humans but also for the planet and all its life. -- John G. | |||
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Linda, John and any interested: This week during my tour of senior homes playing Spanish music on my accordion, I wore a black outfit with a silver buckle. At one house the caregiver opened the door, displaying an all black outfit but with pink edging. Her comment was, "I see you got the memo too!". Then she laughed. Since then I have been amazed at how many people are wearing black in some form, e.g. pants, tops, or patterns with black. Church has had people in similar black for years, maybe half the congregation, half of one's outfit. Also amazing to me is the number of churches painting the walls behind the altar black. One painted, then got rid of the choir, and my wife and I left. Currently our church has the walls in the coffeehouse black, but white behind the altar, choir still there. P.S. Nobody gave me any memo. In fact I was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt I have had for over a year. Maybe there is something sinister in this? Donald | |||
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John, That's what I thought, but I couldn't remember clearly. I do remember running into you on DU because you'd been doing a search for me...only a week or so after I had been searching for you. That was one of the more spectacular telepathic experiences I've had in recent years, so of course I remember it. I just couldn't remember clearly whether I sent you the channeling transcript at that time.
That's really a topic for the "Democracy" thread, where I began to discuss Starhawk's book The Fifth Sacred Thing, which I'm now reading for the second time. Anyway, the bad guys making it back to Eden along with the good guys is precisely the theme of that book! Of course the Dominionists would never recognize the good guys as "good" by their narrow theocratic standards. It's a very sexually liberated society, for one thing (but hey...it's Eden, ya gnow?) although this isn't the place to go into detail about that. The important thing is that the book is going to be made into a movie, and not some cheapie home video but a full-length feature film, with a big name director (not chosen yet) and the whole bit. When that happens, when Starhawk's socialistic polyamorous hippie utopia hits the big screen, the fundies and especially the Dominionists are going to have screaming fits. I just hope it doesn't endanger her life. As long as she was part of the Pagan subculture they could pretty much ignore her, except to throw the occasional potshot in her direction. But if the general public gets a close look at her magical visions and celebration of diversity? And LIKES them? It's going to hit the fan big time, I promise you. The fuss the evangelical types made over the Harry Potter books will look like a tempest in a teapot. Remember that "Arts and Entertainment" is one of the Seven Mountains the NAR thinks it has the God-given right to control, and this book pushes every last one of their buttons on many levels. It's not that it's porn, which is something they could deal with. Aftr all, many of them are secretly addicted to porn, along with the other vices they condemn so loudly in public but often practice behind closed doors. It's that patriarchy and patriarchal religion and capitalism (the unholy trinity) are DEFUNCT in the San Francisco of 2048. Finally and completely dead and buried. That's basically what makes it Eden, despite of the constant struggle for survival. Continued tomorrow on the other thread. --Linda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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