EVANGELICAL RAVINGS

ON THE POPES “Encyclical Letter HUMANAE VITAE” (Pope Paul VI, 25 July 1968). Which establishes the “long-held and unwavering” position of the Church against the use of BIRTH CONTROL:

How does one go about obtaining such apparent empirical knowledge in order to write as compelling a letter as this? I have personally tr
aveled into the realm of evil via coitus interruptus and found enlightenment – I could not have written this with more clear instruction.

…and “the use of contraceptives cause men to forget their reverence for women!?” Seriously? So I’ve cheapened women (er, I mean “baby vessels”) by not getting them pregnant. Well, now we know why the Taliban hate christians so much… contraception is clearly the impetus for islamic fundamentalistic values toward women. Why intervene with the stoning of women (which I read about in the old testament), just cut off the Taliban supply of contraceptives – or convert them to christianity…problem solved.

I guess, we will have to put warning labels on condoms, “The Catholic Church warns that the use of this product may promote pornographic fantasies about about women in socio-cultural bondage.” And here I was thinking, it would prevent pregnancy, hackneyed abortions, and abandoned children that are spawned by sinners and single “reverent” mothers…that is if the moms survive the pregnancy (or sexually transmitted virus) to be reminded of the “more respectful” rapist who didn’t wear a condom… (long winded I know).

How many women break from their ascetic ways and claim, “if you respect me, you’ll get me pregnant and marry me in the morning…” I more often get the clear message that her “physical and emotional equilibrium” depends on passionate acts of love and caress…not shaking her hand and kissing her at church during the benediction. Lest she obtain her own “instrument of satisfaction,” batteries included.

If there ever was a case for polygamy… you can only get the same woman pregnant once every 9.5 months (thereabouts – I had to change the gestation period because Arizona governor Jan Brewer, says that pregnancy begins two weeks before conception…still scratching my sinful head over that one)

When asked “why do you have so many children?”, the man answered,

“because I like sex.”

“…then why so many different women?” continued the flustered friar.

“simple – because they don’t.”

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LATEST RAGES

ON MORMON FOUNDATIONS OF POLYGAMY:   When your religion is working for you anymore, don’t retrace your historical context, just change your moral code! Which is why I brought up Jan Brewer – here is an example of where legislation wasn’t achieving it’s moral objective for medical rulings on “when a life begins” (which I already knows is after the age of 50) and so they decided to change biology.  (Brewer upholds that it begins two weeks before conception – huh?)

The best way to accommodate everyone in what is most certainly an ever changing future is to NOT learn anything too much – it will only be changed for us to learn again.
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Shifting

Sitting heavily outside 
at the corner of Library and Market, 
the skin of my ass slightly stuck 
to the Italian wool fabric of my pants.
(shifting)
 – still stuck…underwear, 
then what’s the purpose?  
I’m reminded that the world I imagine 
is far bigger than the one I’m actually in…  
People smile at me
when I’m in this world
but they are saying to themselves,
“…mine’s bigger than his, he should get in…” 
There’s not enough room on earth, 
for everyone to get the world they imagine…
if they do,
all but one of us will be pushed off the edge.

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Her Poem

It’s okay to let me go
For a moment to journey alone
To bear the torment once again
but I promise I’ll come home.

I’ve no fear of going back
Just to reminisce
A fleeting glance, a word perchance
Or just an awkward kiss.

With all I’d note, I’d understand
that home is cradled in giving hands.
That all we’d ever hope to see
Is cloaked with self discovery.

That every mistake I’d ever made
was a star placed in the sky
patterns for the journey back
flickering in your eyes.

And though it seems I’ll walk away
It’s only then I’d see
All the tears I’d saved back then,
Had I seen you walking toward me.

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Dance and the Dancer

Life lies in state beneath my fingertips,
Held at bay by the stay of my hand.
Poised in the breeze
As the weight on the keys,
Starts to tap out the song of a man.

That sparks a light in this torpid gray matter
Stirring an earth bound chance for
My soul to repose
And my pen to compose
A dance, for life as the dancer.

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Priorities

Our true purpose lures us away most strongly from the shores,
when we are caught in the clutching current of the routine.
so go ahead, be late for that staff meeting…
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is is as is

I’m uncertain of any connection between seasoned kelp and fugue.
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I looked at all the details, and I did not see the devil

I looked at all the details, and I did not see the devil

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regrets

The only regrets in life originate from poor spelling and picking up pennies heads down.
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Mathematics of happiness:

The time spent regretting yesterday, is only balanced by a longing to change tomorrow.  Funny thing about life right now, is that it can seem only half fulfilled between what just happened and what will happen next.  Why are you smiling?  I fail to see the humor in that.   

Assuming a gaussian distribution, there is a high likelihood that the real answer is in the middle – the joy of the “now” depends on where you set the variance of the before and after. I mean to say,

…it’s important to remain absolutely certain throughout your life…but one moment at a time.
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