Comments on: Sod off, God! Week continues

By: Epiphany number 24136 « Canace

Epiphany number 24136 « Canace — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:12 +0000

[…] And today, I find this: But do we really need all those needs? […]

By: Pony

Pony — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:13:08 +0000

I’m not a Christian, but grew up surbloodyrounded by them. I remember the men, dads, never went to church.

By: phonelesscord

phonelesscord — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:53:46 +0000

As for conflating ritual and habit - isn’t a ritual just a habit that the ritual-doers have imbued with some deeper meaning/feeling? And can’t we imbue with feeling any of the many habits we all have?

Champagne brunch with your best friends every Sunday morning is just as solid a ritual as going to church with your family every Sunday morning, if it makes you feel like part of something.

Is it a deep human need? I have no idea, but I know that ritual comes in lots of packages besides the god one.

By: rainie

rainie — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:39:16 +0000

Has anyone noticed how most rituals involve huge amounts of labor by women? Thanksgiving. Setting up the tree. Hanging the stockings by the chimney with care. Buying said stockings. Communion. I remember growing up that my mother periodically took a turn at preparing the trays of tiny glasses of wine and strange tasteless meltaway body of christ wafers.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:20:44 +0000

Jodie, are you sure your dogs weren’t peforming some Caninocentric ritual about T’ranta Claus?

By: jami

jami — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:51:01 +0000

my first reaction to this was that we can’t know if people can survive without ritual because those experiments haven’t been done.

but they have. all of us are indoctrinated to participate, yet lots of us end up grumblingly paying lip service to ritual, as jodie suggests, to make other people feel better and you know, to hang out. i’d rather not blow hundreds of dollars and a lot of time this month buying gifts for my massive family. but it will make them happy, and making them happy makes me happy.

we don’t need ritual. but we certainly do enjoy the company of our loved ones, be they dogs or two-year-old children beginning their third year of indoctrination into the ways of santa– er, baby jesus.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:07:45 +0000

Ron, I’ll never forget the first time I saw a tarantula marching across my yard, or how crazy it made the dogs…they kept making little runs at it, as though they’d attack it and then draw back at the last second while barking like crazy. It ignored them (and me) and just kept going. Since our yard was an acre, this lasted a good 2 hours. I am still fascinated by tarantulas.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:30:41 +0000

Scarlet Pervygirl, that interjection was in response to Pretty Lady’s recent effusion. In meatlife I’ve had to drag that gimmick out all the way to “poopsie” to get the point across. There are people, including strangers, I’ll allow to call me by generic endearments but there are people from whom those come across as condescension. I took the liberty of schmittoxing someone who was possibly aiming that only at Twisty, but what’s a comment string for, after all?

I have noticed that posters who attempt to condescend to Twisty or the rest of us can be counted on to out themselves as trolls shortly thereafter.

Hey, Keeshond, don’t be dissing tarantulas. First impression of the first one I saw in the wild: “Look — a mink crab!” Come on now, what could be cuddlier?

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:16:36 +0000

The boys’ foggy notion of what is need and what is want is the flaw in communism; that part about: To each according to his need, from each according to his ability. But, one boy’s need being another’s want, that didn’t work out too well.

Come to think of it, the boy’s foggy notioning is the flaw in all their theories, religions and philosophies, essentially little more than a lot of boy babble about the difference between want and need. Their wants and needs. Women’s wants and needs? Who cares?

The good news is, women will soon take back the world in The Invisible Revolution:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_alex_gab_061126_who_is_really_behind.htm

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:45:20 +0000

“If there were no patriarchy, would you carry around no resentment? Or less than you do now? Or would it be redirected?” Beard

Yep. Yep. Nope.