To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/04/23 19:14
Subject: Re: [K-list] How to?
From: l p
On 2004/04/23 19:14, l p posted thus to the K-list:
hmm, seems i've hit a nerve. anyway i just think it's all kind of funny. In
my opinion, can't get any more spiritual or holy than sex. It is what makes
the world......
have a good one eh???
lori-ann
>From: Forrest Curo <forrestcATadnc.com>
>To: k-listATkundalini-gateway.org
>Subject: Re: [K-list] How to?
>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:24:44 -0700
>
>
> >Ummmmm, nobody "invented" sex, but i think i get your point.
> > are you saying that sex is sacred, holy etc because ..... but isnt
> >it funny that the main reason many of us have sex issues is largely
> >due to our religious upbringing??? not sure bout all religions,
> >but doesnt the bible say something about sex being a sin, if not
> >a deadly one??? i might be off here.
>
>First, "God" is neither "nobody" nor "anybody." God is the whole What-It-Is
>and Who-We-Are.
>
>This is the world that has YOU in it; therefore it's been the appropriate
>place to be in your development so far... And this world comes with a long
>history in which people have been confused/learning-the-hard-way. The Bible
>shows you a lot of that confusion at work.
>
>European/American misinterpretations of the Bible abound. The authors were
>neither all-knowing nor stupid. They belonged to a wide range of different
>cultures, which means that they thought/felt differently in their
>unexamined assumptions about how human beings should live. Having to marry
>your brother's widow so she could have "his" children made sense to them,
>not to us. (Onan's "sin" was pulling out so he could keep on "trying" to
>fertilize his brother's widow, without being interrupted by an actual
>pregnancy; he was struck dead for neglecting his social obligation.)
>
>Nothing is in the Bible (or anywhere in our lives) by accident. But it
>wasn't written to help people get through life without having to think.
>People who would rather die than think just use it that way.
>
>Most people who think they're "living by the Bible" are really just trying
>to obey some idealised version of traditional social norms. Which have been
>anti-sexual for some very long time, because of the conditions in which
>those norms developed.
>
>God snuck some radically subversive messages into the Bible. But most
>people take them backwards.
>
>"I read your Bible day and night,
>But you read black, where I read white." (William Blake)
>
>Forrest Curo
>
>
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