[aikido7]

Silliness. Confused disbelief, but mainly--silliness.

A Methodist and child of the South, I remember well the undercurrents of the slave trade. Definitely separate, definitely unequal. Like ancient Hebrew "purity codes"--the ones Jesus was able to break beyond.

"Certain things" do not "belong" with "certain other things." Imagine the social fear of a harmless but pervasive purity code rule that is unquestioned (Why, for instance, is it allright to swallow one's own saliva only when it is IN the mouth to begin with?). Forget about whatever is actually occuring in true, common-sense reality--that is just (eeeww) GROSS.

Purity--racial and sexual. Don't mix the races and don't let that primitve sexual out-of-boundedness contaminate our white world. Just look at the African dancers, the rhythm of rap music or anywhere where the "blacks dance better than whites" is displayed. Watch our white women!

The West and its Enlightenment's primacy of mind fears the ancient wisdom of the body. There's surface envy from the Caucasian and buried rage. And rage is always a cover for fear. Fear the body, fear sexuality, fear the Other.

Not yet, my Lord. No WAY we are yet ready to love others as ourselves.

Myself included.

[xzins]

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[lockeliberty]

The times, not ours, we proclaim, for we see far better from here. Ah, perhaps true, yet in the looking back are we blind to the present or have we just deconstructed the past so that we can reconstruct the present in our own imagination. Alas, that which is immutable, typological, and theological, which was from the beginning, is it subject to the juste milieu? The other, sure, but always grounded in the transcendental norm.