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the snake & the apple Genesis 2 of the Bible does not specify which reptilian or amphibian genus the "serpent" of this folktale is nor the particular genus of the "forbidden fruit" but by the time Renaissance painters are depicting the tale what is depicted is a "snake" & an "apple"...

exquisite creature xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx it is gray & drizzly early-afternoon in early June , this year (2011) in Corvallis , OR my friends from work wave their final congratulations & head for the parking-lot & their hour-plus drive back to the coast i'm...

Allelyah exquisite creature my friend Stevi (this past summer) flies out from Chicago for an extended visit & one thing u don't do around Stevi is say something half-baked in an incautious moment , i foolishly spout something (vaguely pantheistic) like Gyd is everywhere & everything then i see...

to "follow Gyd" does not mean "to follow a religious tradition" (to me) it means just the opposite it means (with Gyd) to lead a religious tradition to see the world new (with "new eyes") & to lead u'r tradition forward (with a heartening show of confidence which is part real & part...

Hindu Guru exquisite creature literary critic Harold Bloom (Anxiety of Influence) calls this process "misprision" (the Strong Poet will aggressively "misinterpret" the past in order to bend the cultural tradition , to make it go the direction she or he wants it to go) that (too) is...

divine intervention Allelyah exquisite creature i cannot pretend to comprehend the process u are describing (above) but it intrigues me , profoundly so i hope u won't mind my breaking-up u'r phraseology into manageable units to help me get-at its logic two things i get (so far)...

miracles Donnann exquisite creature near the top of the list of my father's hobbyhorses which riles him into a testy huff , is the subject of "miracles" nonsense , utter nonsense ! ! Pa says , with clenched jaw evidence of the senses , where is the evidence of the senses ? ...

Hindu Guru exquisite creature i struggle with the idea of over-personalizing Gyd the tradition i grow up in (a heretical tradition 3.5 centuries ago) favors a very individualized view of the Divine an "Inner Light" within each person this Light Within can produce intense...

anthropomorphism & metaphor Wil exquisite creature sampling threads in various sections of this website i'm noticing that u (typically) come off as being a pretty mellow guy except when it comes to the issue of "anthropomorphism" i have always had u'r same knee-jerk reaction when...

Hindu Guru exquisite creature thank u for sharing u'r essay my knowledge of Hinduism is paper thin (though my interest is growing) so take this (my particular sense of context) with a grain of salt from 8000-bce to circa 500-bce "Polytheism" grows & develops into the Temple...

time-travel back 2 billion years to the young earth with its new ocean suddenly teeming with single-celled life each cell competing against every other single-cell for available nutrients eventually (by accident) some of these individual cells bump up against each other & cluster &...

Muslimwoman exquisite creature i cannot begin to imagine the complex of emotions u must feel , here my first reaction to this topic is personal & visceral i sleep-around which any modern self-respecting single woman has a perfect right to do & anyone who thinks there is something...