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Hey I don't have a degree and even I knew that! Like I say, its usually 
good to read more than one book...

On Nov 3, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Lene Wangmo wrote:

> On 11/3/04 1:34 AM, "chris.film at gmail.com" <chris.film at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Lanny,
>>
>> Please keep your profane tongue of this discussion list. Many of us
>> are believers here and do not want to hear this...
>>
>> Chris
>
> Chris,
>
> I have a Master's Degree in English Literature.  The f word that yanks 
> your
> kneejerk piety chain originates in the Middle Ages during which time 
> the
> Church forbid divorce.  When husbands wanted a new younger model for 
> wife,
> but couldn't divorce their wives (because of Church law), the 
> misogynistic
> patriarchal Church did allow men to accuse (most often falsely) a wife 
> of
> infidelity (which the Church considered heretical IF perpetrated by the
> woman), and the Church then took the" wicked woman" off the man's 
> hands,
> threw her in the dungeon to die from beatings and starvation, tacking 
> above
> her dank cell a board inscribed with four letters that symbolized "For
> Unlawful Carnal Knowledge."  The reason the acronym word continues to
> distress some people is that society continues to harbor subliminal 
> fear
> regarding disobedience to the rule of the ruthless Church because of 
> the
> dire consequences to their dictum "obey our dogma or die." 500 years of
> torturous Inquisitions will do that to the collective unconscious of 
> our
> species.  Those who use the f word are those of us who enjoy flipping 
> the
> bird at the abuse of power by religious leaders and politicians who
> manipulate a populace with inquisition-like tactics that control 
> populations
> by fear, turning them into obedient, unquestioning sheep, to serve 
> their
> greed.
>
> HTH
>
> Lené Wangmo
>
> (two hands up to BushCo and evangelical idiots)
>
> PS: the origin of the word “country” is rooted to the pre-patriarchal
> religious era when the Great Earth Mother was worshipped as Creator in 
> an
> Earth-centric spirituality.  The two (once very sacred) words: Cunt 
> and Tree
> were symbols of the divine union of female creative power of earth 
> with the
> phallic power (symbolized by tree) which in sublime union with deeps 
> roots
> into earth and high branches reaching fruitfully to heaven--created 
> bounty
> for all.  The first of those two words, now considered an evil word, 
> was
> once sacred before the misogynistic patriarch religions took over and
> demonized the feminine.
> The evolution of “cuntree” to its present word “country” now is a
> patriarchal word, stripped of all of its feminine creative and 
> nourishing
> power, abused by the corporations who rape the environment to serve 
> greed.
>
> PSS. So, Chris, and many others who piously believe they represent
> that which takes the moral high-ground, are in fact often times merely
> parroting patriarchal religious misogyny.  What they categorize as 
> profane
> was once quite sacred—the feminine.
>
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