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. > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >