Posted on 01/16/2002 1:25:44 AM PST by Mercuria
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Nurse Ratchett is not referring to stillbirths, miscarriages, or adoption. She's referring to pre-natal homicide. Most hospitals are involved in that despicable industry.
AB
Kids do turn out depressingly uniform these days, do they not? Scary.
(P.S. I took yet another set of black and white photos of Salina, Kansas my last trip out there and caught a gaily-painted pint-sized "JOY BUS" out back of some Baptist church ... probably the most adorable this Okie reared in the Bible Belt had ever seen. Weeks later one of my grandmothers was looking through the photos and says, "Ah, a joy bus. You understand Joy, don't you? Jesus ... Others ... and then You." =)
This, I think is the key: the idea that though not an act of rebellion, joy is both subversive and liberating, a pledge of allegiance to another world and life. Leading us out of this world, subversive joy overturns not only the slavery imposed by the world, but also self-forged bonds of despair, self-pity, bitterness, and melancholy.
Surely discomfort in the presence of joy is the response of a sensibility not more alive to the world, but more hobbled by envy or bitterness. Though it arises in the solitary heart, when that heart is responsive joy does unite, almost demanding to be shared. Willy-nilly it finds an outlet, refusing to be thwarted.
Heaven must be the place where everyone is joyous.
Enough! the Resurrection,
A heart's-clarion! Away grief's gasping, ' joyless days, dejection.
Across my foundering deck shone
A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to the residuary worm; ' world's wildfire, leave but ash:
In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.
G.M. Hopkins, from "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection"
IMHO this is not necessarrily true. I believe that it is possible to share in another's joy. Unfortunately, society(public schools)teach children to be suspicious and jealous of anyone who appears joyous or contented and that they are entitled to a piece of that which makes the person happy without actually having to work for it themself.
"You cannot make people joyous just by being joyous yourself. Joy has to be generated by oneself. It is or it isn't. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood or communicated. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
It is so easy to let oneself be drawn into the tear shedding world of self/corporate pity. It is just part of our nature to want to belong with a familial group even if it means again getting into the ruts of these sackcloth wearing hypocrites. First and foremost, it is a choice; but it is not too profound to be understood or communicated. If this were true then I would not have understood the words of a 'true' friend when she was telling me the gospel. And I would have never understood the meaning behind the words telling us to be "a peculiar people". Being seen by a world of sad ghosts as a "madman" is to me a verification of my joy.
Is it madness to have joy that so many friends also share your joy in the face of an ungodly world? Is it madness to have joy over a belief that those who have gone before and professed the works of Christ will be met again in the fullness of time? In my lights it is not madness but is seen by many as mighty peculiar. Wonderful! It gives them something to ponder and to talk about. Hopefully with a JOY filled person.
Shoot, I'll go out on a limb here and say, I hope you both have a joyful day!
I say, HAVE A GREAT DAY, EVERYONE! Leave the WTC memorial true to the photo. If New York wants to commisson an artist to make them a diverse satue, than so be it. But leave history alone.
A regular Theda Bara! :-)
I'm fighting the PC morons in my own little way here at work. I have literally wallpapered my office with very un-PC photos such as Shrillary on top of the WTC with the plane coming in, Rudy about to push her off into the path of a subway, etc. I also have very un-PC things like a cartoon of a firefighter with the inscription, "The biggest heroes didn't hit over 70 home runs this year (and they didn't ask to be paid more than $10 million)" all amidst my co-workers who comprise a VERY liberal and VERY sports-minded bunch of people.
I also have a copy of the flag-raising as it REALLY happened displayed prominently. The funny thing is, although I get some very surprised reactions and comments to my "wallpaper" none of the higher-ups has asked me to remove it.
One small step versus the world of PC......
(( hug ))
Tra la la la la...
"Henry Miller, in Sexus, put it so much better (yes, it seems someone almost always already has):Wow. What a great quote from Henry Miller!
Tears are easier to put up with than joy. Joy is destructive: it makes others uncomfortable. 'Weep and you will weep alone.'What a lie that is! Weep and you will find a million crocodiles to weep with you. The world is forever weeping. The world is drenched in tears... But joy, joy is a kind of ecstatic bleeding, a disgraceful sort of supercontentment which overflows from every pore of your being.
You cannot make people joyous just by being joyous yourself.
Joy has to be generated by oneself. It is or it isn't. Joy is founded on something too profound to be understood or communicated.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
And ANOTHER excellent essay from AnnaZ!!!Thanks for the flag, Mercuria!
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