FROG IN THE Pot

These days, like the frog in the water pot sitting on the fire, we’re callous to the unthinkable. So another war – Iran this time? – nuclear? – doesn’t faze us. Nor does WWIII with us and the Brits getting slammed to the mat by a tight circle of Chinese (1/5 of humanity), Russians, French and Iranians.

So who gives a fig if WWIII starts next week?

"Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US forces against Iran planned, Russian military sources warn
By Webster G. Tarpley
Online Journal Contributing Writer

"WASHINGTON DC -- The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov…. Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.

"The attack is slated to last for 12 hours, … 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is the Sabbath in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories…."

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So – Planet of the Apes. Who cares. All we can do is what we can do. All I ask is that we arrange things so that when the new human race begins again, they’re aware of the deadly dangers of even having lunch with any War Gods who ride into town.

As might be obvious, I’m feeling a touch cynical this morning. But if ya have any ideas ‘bout what to do here, please. Fill me in.
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Thnx to duff for pointing me to the first article
& thnx to geotrac for the foto

GODDESS Utopia

Two recent emails to my new Goddess Group (which is flowing right along – next week we’ll gather for the fifth month in a row):

“For years, now, a virtual war has been raging over the issue of ancient matriarchy. The warriors: theologians, archaeologists, feminists and prehistorians, primarily. I’ve thought about this less in terms of matriarchy than utopianism. When societies revolved around female deity, they tended to be more peaceful, less socially stratified and more democratic. And 'social stratification' covers a whole multitude of sins -- from sexism, racism and ageism to classism, slavery, poverty and so forth.”

“Goddess devotees have been tricked into believing a Goddess utopia didn’t exist. Many powerful forces want us to believe it didn’t. The fact is, however, much of the evidence suggests it did.”
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thnx to Young and flickr for the foto

TIME TO Party ON DOWN?

Duff thinks it's time we formed a Goddess Party (no, not the kind with Champaign and party favors -- the kind that boxes the Reps and the Dems about the ears).

Whaddya think? Is it time yet?
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thnx to awesome joolie for the foto

3,300 GODDESSES AND Counting

Way-oh to all you Collectors of Goddess Names out there. Here’s a sobering factoid for ya:

“In 1914, Anton Deimel, the compiler of the first Sumerian dictionary, listed 3,300 names of Mesopotamian divinities, and the number known has grown with each passing decade” (Westenholz, Joan, “Goddesses of the Ancient Near East,” in Goodison and Morris, Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence, 1998, p. 67).

And this is just in Mesopotamia 'round about 3000-1000 BC! You know, that little spit of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq?

As I’m sure most of you know, the problem is, every town, village and city in the ancient world was the proud possessor of its own tidy little pantheon of goddesses and gods. And of course without cell phones or the internet, who knew who had which or what, and so who could trade or compare?
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thnx to doctian for the foto

BUSH TO CONGRESS: Drop DEAD

CONFUSED about why everyone's biting their nails re: Bush canning eight U.S. attorneys? Put baldly, it's this: Bush has sliced off another giant step toward crushing the presidency and plopping a dictatorship in its place. Bush breaks the law in ways that wound this country badly, and then axes the part of the government that could jail him for it -- like our now-defunct eight U.S. attorneys.

After weeks of administration lies about the "Pearl Harbor Day Massacre" of eight U.S. Attorneys, the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are preparing to subpoena Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, and Karl Rove.

But George Bush went on TV to declare he will "oppose any attempts to subpoena White House officials." Why? Obviously because Bush, Gonzales, Miers, and Rove conspired to fire U.S. attorneys who were prosecuting Republican corruption.

That's obstruction of justice - grounds not only for impeachment but also prosecution.

Bush promised to fight any subpoenas in the courts if he has to. Of course we know the Republican-controlled Supreme Court will take Bush's side, just as it did in 2000 when it threw out 175,000 never-counted Florida votes to steal the Presidency for him.

Ultimately Congress has just one tool to force Bush and Cheney to respect the Constitution: Impeachment and Removal.
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From democrats.com

Unfortunately, I noticed last night that a certain TV newscaster (i.e., one Lou Dobbs) was poking fun of Congress for spending time on this "inconsequential" issue. Lou, sweetheart, who's buttering your bread these days. Hmmmm?
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thnx to dorsia for the foto

VERNAL EQUINOX Woes

Ever wish you could skip the family's Vernal Equinox celebration -- just for one year? If so, you'll appreciate the story of poor Jeff Birch:

Area Pagan Dreading Big Family Vernal Equinox
Celebration

MEDFORD, OR—Despite evidence that the planets are aligned in his favor, local pagan Jeff Birch, 27, said Monday that he would "rather have a peaceful weekend at home" than attend his family's Vernal Equinox celebration on March 21.

"I realize it's supposed to be a festive time of conception and new growth in the womb of Mother Earth and all," Birch said. "But I just know that within an hour of arriving, things will get so bad that I'll be reverting to my 12-year-old self, hiding in the rec room downstairs, wearing my Iroquois false face mask and fingering my runes for comfort. It's not worth it."

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Most pagans look forward to marking the Vernal Equinox, when the hours of sunlight equal the hours of darkness. Yet for some, like Birch, this sacred springtime celebration of balance and harmony means contending with family infighting and undue stress.

"Talking to Mom the other day, it was the same old manipulative 'You're coming home, right?'" said Birch, referring to a recent phone conversation with his mother, Freyja Birch. "If I hesitate for even a second, she piles on the guilt — like how this may be the last year Nana Hippolyta can perform the garden fertility ritual, or that without my masculine energy, the yin-and-yang balance will be thrown off—until I finally give in."

"But I don't want to have to use up my vacation time and travel almost 300 miles to Portland just to listen to Grandma Moon Odin Rhiannon complain during the sunrise ritual that Mom's not putting enough rose petals in the cauldron or is letting the bonfire get too low," Birch continued.

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Besides the usual maiden-mother-crone conflicts, the strained relationship between Birch's sister, Pythia, who recently converted to Wicca, and his father, a devout Dionysian, is another source of tension, according to Birch. "Last year, Pythia brought her covenmate home, and Dad's still having a hard time with it," Birch said.

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Pythia isn't the first family member to stray from the fold. Fifteen years ago, Birch's uncle Jack married a Presbyterian and has raised two children in the faith. While he is still included in family celebrations, his eccentric monotheism is the source of much awkwardness, Birch said.

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While he treasures happy memories of Vernal Equinoxes from his childhood, Birch said he comes away from today's holidays a few pounds heavier from the rich holiday food, several hundred dollars in debt from buying gifts "that will probably just get returned or regifted at Samhain anyway...."

Much thnx to The Onion for the news on the Birches.

CROSS-Wired IN THE WOMB?

"The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has incurred sharp attacks from both the left and right by suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified."

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Here’s Cousin Doris' 2c worth: “My preacher preaches black people are pitiful. I think we orter peek into the womb afore baby’s born to make sure baby’s not black. If alas and alack baby’s black, I say make those dudes switch that baby to white afore it’s ever ‘lowed to see the lighta day!”

(For those of you come lately to this blog, plug "Cousin Doris" into the search box below for more of her gems of wisdom).
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thnx to mmagallan for the foto

GODDESS WOMAN PAR Excellence

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is untrammeled and unrepentant: "I am supposed to apologize for saying the prophet [Muhammed] is a pervert and a tyrant," she declares. "But that is apologizing for the truth."

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you are a heroine. We salute you.

VALERIE TO Squeal ON THE MADMAN

If you can grab a tv this morning at 10, do it. History is being made, and you’ll want to see it. Valerie Plame is going to testify in front of Congress.

Remember Valerie? The CIA agent who, along with her hubby, refused to kowtow to Bushlet? So Bushlet exposed her, putting her life on the line?

Today at 10 am on C-Span, the Sweet ol’ Dems are going to seat her in front of Congress and let her tell her story.

Babies, a mad man’s running our country, and no one will stand up to him ‘cause they’re shaking-in-their-boots terrified. Everyone sayin’ “Whooo-ee! I ain’t touchin’ that boy! Look what he done did to Ms. Plame!”

TIME TO Exit ALL CLOSETS

Whoooo-eee, I say!

Monday, California Representative Pete Stark announced that he "does not believe in a supreme being, making the Fremont Democrat the first member of Congress — and the highest-ranking elected official in the U.S. — to publicly acknowledge not believing in God."

"Fred Edwords, a spokesman for the [American Humanist Association], said non-theistic Americans often faced discrimination for their views."

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Huzzah! Huzzah! I say this calls for national celebration! Break out the champaign and the wizza-ma-doos, friends and relatives! Let's party!!

Americans brave enough to stand up and say "Poo!" to the War Gods may finally be abandoning their closets. Monday, March 12, 2007, babies -- mark it in your minds. I suggest it's a date that will spruce up our history books far into the future.

And hats off to Rep. Stark! Good job, dude!
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Thnx to jfg for the foto

JONATHAN THE Impaler SHARKEY IN ‘08?

Goddess bless the U.S. Secret Service! What busy little bees they are. Turning over every stone and toadstool for threats to Baby Bushlet.

Latest threat: candidate for U.S. Presidency in ’08, Jonathon 'The Impaler' Sharkey from NJ. Mr. Sharkey promises to run on a platform that includes impaling Bushlet if and when he (Mr. S.) is elected.

Mr. Sharkey had only one complaint about the Secret Service: “They never even asked to see my impaling stick!” Mr. S. is running on the ticket of the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party. Backing him all the way is his lovely wife, Spree.

For MORE on Mr. Sharkey's campaign go HERE or HERE.

MY QUESTION: Mr. Sharkey is obviously patterning himself after the famous Medieval clod Vlad the Impaler. But was Vlad a pagan -- or a Christian? Should Mr. S. be allowed to run as a candidate in a party of Witches and Pagans? Shouldn't we insist he switch to the "Christian Vampyre & Impaler Party"?
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thnx to scarry for the pic

WHAT CHANNEL DO I Turn TO?

Dear Bunches of Beautiful Blog Readers,

What TV channel do you flip to, to get the daily news about the fighting in Iraq? About anti-war protesters? About how our returning soldiers are cracking up? About our hordes of homeless dudes, battered women, and runaway teens? About New Orleans?

Like, uh, I wanna be able to turn on some channel whenever and get news about not some, but all of my people. Not just the ones Big Bro wants me to see, but the ones who show how we might be blowing apart at the seams. I know that channel's out there somewhere, 'cause everyone's always talking about 'the liberal media.'

Love always,
Athana
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thnx to mintchocice for the foto

Z Budapest: New Website

Z Budapest, a beloved early leader in the Goddess Movement, has revamped her website and begun a new blog. Take a stroll on over and check it out.

"Come hither Boomer Women, Goddesses of our times, you with a bit of life's mileage on your soul! Come, Maidens with rosy cheeks and tumbling curls! Come Crones and Wisewomen, you who guard the secrets of life! Come Mothers and Daughters! Come Tough Girls and Tomboys! Come Vixens and Vamps! Global Women: Chinese, Latina, Japanese, German, Dutch, Portuguese, come women of the world! Come if you feel empty inside, there is soul food for you here. Come in all sizes: fat and skinny; in all kinds of magical traditions: Wiccans, Witches, Bitches, Middle aged she-fairies, Madonna worshippers, Virgin lovers, there are sympathetic hearts for you here."

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BABY BUSH Bombs IN GUATEMALA

Mayas Will Ritually Cleanse Site After Bush's Guatemala Visit ~ BBC News, UK -"We will burn incense, place flowers and water in the area where Mr Bush has walked to clean out the bad energy." MORE>>>>
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Thnx to HotGoddess for this tidbit of religious news

ANNE BARING'S WEBSITE

I just discovered Anne Baring's website. Here's a tidbit from it:

"But the predominant mythic image of the age - which could be characterized as 'the god without the goddess' - continues to support the very oppositional and mechanistic paradigm that the latest scientific discoveries are refuting.... It may seem a lot to claim that mythic images are so important to all areas of human experience, but the discoveries of Depth Psychology have shown how radically we are influenced and motivated by impulses below the threshold of consciousness...."

Anne, along with Jules Cashford, wrote The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image , a fine resource offering an historical, scholarly look at what's known about Goddess.

Return OF THE GODDESS AKA HANLEY DENNING

I’m feeling haunted. Last night the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, was packed, all 1900 seats filled. When I got there an hour early, they were already turning people away.

What was the attraction? An unlikely combo: A hell-hole in a pit in Guatemala City filled with mountains of rotting, stomach-wrenching garbage; tiny tots picking food from this garbage; a 36-year-old Maine woman named Hanley Denning who, in 1999, sold all her possessions to open a rescue center for the kids; an Academy-Award nominated film about all this; and, finally, the sudden mind-wailing death of Hanley in a car crash in January.

The life of the “Angel of the Dump” snuffed out in an instant by a truck that lost its brakes and slammed in to her car.

Here’s what’s eerie: before her death, Hanley went to the budget director of Safe Passage (her organization) and said, “If anything should happen to me, I want Safe Passage to keep on going. Will you make sure it does?”

To start Safe Passage Hanley sold her computer and her car for $5000. With this she kept the organization going for a year. Then she bagan drawing in volunteers and money like the sun draws worshippers. Now the SP annual budget is 1.6 million. Last night at the end of the program I talked to one of Hanley’s volunteers, a fifty-something guy. “How’d she inspire people?” I asked.

“She’d just say, ‘Do you think you could do that?’ And I’d think to myself, ‘For you, Hanley – anything!’”

The Dump is a deep, open sore in the middle of Guatemala City. It’s so big it’s divided into zones, and it’s filled with thousands of tons of garbage riding in on trucks every day from all over the country. Sometimes kids are buried in the garbage and never found again – not even their bodies or clothing. The methane is so bad that cancer’s rampant among dump residents. A few years ago the entire dump caught fire and burned for days.

But before this, the granddaughter of Ub Iwerks, one of the two men other than Walt Disney who started the Disney Corp., went down to Guatemala to make a film about the gorgeous Guatemala countryside. Once there, however, Leslie Iwerks, like Hanley Denning, got lured to the dump. And like Hanley, once she'd seen it, she couldn't leave. She knew she had to make her film about the people trapped there. Leslie's Academy-Award-nominated film debuted last night in Merrill Auditorium.

I got to talk to Leslie afterwards, too. I asked her if she'd ever gotten used to the stench of the dump while down in it filming. She said she never quite did entirely.

It’s astounding to think that one 36-year-old woman living right around the corner from me in Yarmouth, Maine, could do what Hanley Denning did. The church she borrowed to work and live in was next to the dump and infested with roaches, flies, and other vermin, all of which Hanley had to clean up herself. And I’ve heard through the grapevine that at first the dump people -- who included drug addicts and criminals -- didn’t accept her. They smeared feces all over the walls of her church.

I suspect Hanley was The Goddess come just long enough to clean up one of the worst sores on the surface of Her earth. And after She got things going, it was time to head for home again.

Go HERE to read more about the event last night. Go HERE for more about Hanley Denning. Go HERE for more on Safe Passage. HERE is the Safe Passage website.

INTERNATIONAL GODDESS FESTIVAL

Another Goddess gathering to add to our list:

The International Festival of Goddesses will be held on the 21st - 22nd April at Brighton Racecourse in the UK.

LET'S Kiss AND MAKE UP

If we'd let Her, the international Mother Goddess could pacify and unify our entire world.

Every country in the world is blessed with its own ancient Mother Goddess to return to. Before being forced underground by the bogus War Gods, She was our natural guiding light

The Great Mother Goddess shivers at the idea of war, social snobbery, self-inflicted wounds, and/or a lack of a sense of humor. She adores us the way a healthy mother adores her children: with no strings attached. You don't have to kill your son Isaac to win Her love.

When we centered ourselves around Her, we had no wars. We were all freedom-loving, non-violent, generous, playful, creative risk-takers. She teaches us to love each other with stars in our eyes -- just the way She loves us.

In some ways the international Great Mother Goddess is like the virgin Mary. But unlike Mary, there's no War God looming behind Her holding rabbit ears up behind Her head. Our Mother don't 'low no wars between Her kiddies; there's no War God pushing Her around!

Also unlike Mary, our Mother Goddess is full of playfulness. She loves a good joke and some clowning around here and there. And to Her, sensuality is a sacrament -- Her gift to us. She urges us to enjoy all our senses.

So people, what is our problem?!? Why are we carrying snooty-snob, bully-boy, me-first, uptight godlets like Jehovah, Allah, Yahweh and Vishnu around on our backs when we could be enjoying sensuality, unconditional love and permanent international peace by booting these bully boys and returning to our true guiding light, the International Great Mother? Jeesh!
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Thnx to irinsmith for the foto

Holy DRINKING WATER FOR THE TROOPS

Who else but the Land of the Military-Industrial-Christ Complex would come up with ...

Ta Da!

Holy Drinking Water for the Troops! However: Let this be a ...

"Warning to sinners: If you are a sinner or evil in nature, this product may cause burning, intense heat, sweating, skin irritations, rashes, itchiness, vomiting, bloodshot and watery eyes, pale skin color, and oral irritation."

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Thanks to Echidne of the Snakes for this, who got it from JR on Eschaton

ANYONE ELSE Heard THIS?

Before he was even elected Bush told his biographer that he wanted to be President and start a war with Iraq -- ‘cause that would cement his place in history. He also said if he became President he would scrap the entire US government – except for the military.

Anyone have a source for this?

R U Hardwired for God?

Anthropologists and evolutionary biologists say you are. Author-anthropologist Scott Atran is fond of performing the following experiment in his classroom:

“... He presents students with a wooden box that he pretends is an African relic. 'If you have negative sentiments toward religion,' he tells them, 'the box will destroy whatever you put inside it.' Many of his students say they doubt the existence of God, but in this demonstration they act as if they believe in something. Put your pencil into the magic box, he tells them, and the nonbelievers do so blithely. Put in your driver’s license, he says, and most do, but only after significant hesitation. And when he tells them to put in their hands, few will.

“If they don’t believe in God, what exactly are they afraid of?”

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As we're fond of saying here, it’s not a matter of choosing to believe. It’s a matter of choosing to believe in a violent, bully-wimp, snooty-snob war god like Jehovah, Allah, Yahweh or Vishnu -- or in an everyone’s-equal, unconditionally loving, courageous, risk-taking Mother Goddess who will heal our world.

The choice is ours. What kind of world do you want?
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Thnx to Victor for the foto

Smashing THINGS

Kudos to anyone who can put a finger on something The Bushlet has done right since taking office in 2000.

Better, kudos to anyone who can find something he's not smashed. Baby is well below par re: doing anything right. But is there anything that was working the day he took office, that is still working?

Iraq? No. U.S. international relations? No. New Orleans? No. The U.S. Constitution? No. Separation of church and state? No. Our VA hospitals? No. The drug trade in Afghanistan? Aha! Yes.

Now here's something Baby can take credit for! The Afghan drug trade had its best year, last year, and we can thank Master Bushie for it, indeed we can!

LESSON: Plug your ears and go "Nanananananana" when a politician tells you what she's going to do once in office. Instead look at what she's already done.

Anyone who looked at Bush's past (from torturing frogs in childhood to being number-one among state guvs for electrocuting people) coulda seen in a trice that he'd wreck the world once he set foot in the White House.
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Thanx to greenpeace.org for the foto

Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, Little Tiny Town lost its mayor in a plane crash. Belinda Bright and Sue Shiny were super excited about running for the vacant mayor's seat.

Billionairess Winona Wiley of Winona's Widget Factory called Sue into a back room : “Sue! I’ll give you a half a bill’ to campaign for mayor. But -- ya hafta promise that after you become mayor you’ll look the other way while Winona's Widget keeps on killing Little Tiny Town’s water and air.” (The Factory's pollution had put Little Tiny Town on the map -- for having the nation's highest cancer rate.)

For the months leading up to the election, Sue’s face is smashed onto the TV screen 24/7. Belinda Bright's funds pay for one ad a week -- on the cartoon channel.

After Sue becomes mayor, she gets a gleam in her eye, “Aha! Now I can do anything I want! I’m gonna smash Winona and her pollution!” She tries. And lo and behold, on a vacation flight to Florida, her plane mysteriously crashes; she dies….

Winona to Melinda Mild: “If you look the other way while we pollute, we’ll give you a half a bill’ to campaign for mayor of Little Tiny Town.”

And so it goes.

THE SOLUTION: (1) The boring, boring [excuse me while I yawn], boring, boring thing called “campaign finance reform.” No one who runs for office should get any more money than anyone else. Even playing field and all that.

(2) The US of A used to have other laws in place to keep the filthy rich from being filthy. "Trust Busting" laws etcetera. We need to bring back those laws.

Unless of course we all want to become slaves to Winona Widget -- which is where we're headed.
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thnx to kjirstin at flickr for the foto

GODDESS TV SERIES Pushing Off

Last night I caught the opening episode of a brand new Goddess TV series! Dudettes and dudes! Whether you’re left or right, this show will rock you! For righties, it’s about battling Big Taxes; for lefties, it’s about battling the rich while they bleed the poor.

Of course we Goddess people know it’s really about the Goddess Mari, or Marian, and Her band of Merry Men, all of whom have learned to be good Mother Men, i.e. egalitarian, democratic, generous, independent, smart, playful, generally non-violent and peaceful, caring courageous risk-takers.

Playing the Goddess is Lucy Griffiths. Playing Robin Hood is Jonas Armstrong. Playing Sir Guy of Gisborne is Richard Armitage. Go HERE for more.

I watched the first episode last night at 9 pm EST, on BBC America, channel 74; it’s good; I think I’m hooked already.
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Thnx to Ariel for the foto

Bring BACK MAMA

Kiddies, the good news is we can save the planet! How? By bringing back Mama Goddess. Evidence is strong that the entire world used to revolve around Her. And when it did, we lived and basked in utopia. Archaeological, historical, linguistic, biochemical and biological evidence all point to this.

When we welcomed the Mother Gods, we were egalitarian, democratic, non-violent, peaceful, generous, independent, smart, rich, playful, creative, sensual risk-takers. Our men were manly-men, our women forceful femme-fatales.

Keeping our male war gods on board isn’t cutting it, people. The war gods just can’t love us as hard as Mama can.
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Thnx to lakepeople for the foto

JESUS' SON JUDAS' Bones

Oh, fun! They’ve found a pile of bones labeled “Jesus” and “Jesus’ son Judas,” and now everyone’s all stewed about whether Jesus had a son.

Except Jesus is just a Fig Newton of everyone’s imagination. Which kinda kills the fun a little.

Jesus did not exist. Well, actually, to be exact, hundreds of Jesuses existed. It was A Thing around the year zero for everyone to go around saying they were sent from god to save the world.

“The Jesus who was called Christos, ‘Anointed,’ took his title from Middle-Eastern savior-gods like Adonis and Tammuz, born of the Virgin Sea-goddess Aphrodite-Maria… ‘Iasus’ signified a healer or Therapeuta, as the Greeks called the Essenes, whose cult groups always included a man with the title of Christos.

“The literal meaning of the name was ‘healing moon-man,’ fitting the Hebrew version of Jesus as a son of Mary, the almah or ‘moon-maiden.””

For a dude who supposedly used miracles to heal all those giant crowds of sick people, isn’t it a might curious that no one in Jesus’ time ever mentioned him in any known writing?

And, “Healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out devils, handling poisonous serpents etc. were so commonplace that [the Roman scholar] Celsus scorned these ‘Christian’ miracles as ‘nothing more than the common works of those enchanters who, for a few oboli, will perform greater deeds in the midst of the Forum….” (Walker’s Woman’s Encyclopedia)
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Thnx to pixelbase for the foto

THE OCCUPATION PROJECT

Yesterday I spent the day camped out in my congressperson’s office. Mainers are planning to stage sit-ins every Wednesday until Tom Allen agrees to refuse to fund the War.

Last Wednesday, a friend’s friend Natasha was arrested and spent the night in jail. You can read all about it HERE. What you won’t read is that Tom’s Communications Director, a big burly man with black hair, burst into tears when the police came to haul everyone away. Natasha said that made everything all worth it.

This “Occupation Project” is spreading across the good ol’ US of A. So far, in addition to Maine, “sit-ins have led to arrests at the local offices of U.S. Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.”

About thirty of us packed like sardines into Tom’s little waiting room. Five read prepped statement to the big, burly black-haired Communications Director, who stood patiently and silently facing each reader with a resigned look in his eye.

An old white-bearded man named George used scotch tape to stick 20-30 pictures of him and his grandkids all over Tom’s freshly painted walls, along with flowered silkscreens filled with husky magentas, lime greens, yellows, and anti-war slogans.

I sat next to Looki from Holland, about 80 years old, her grey hair pinned back in a bun and held there with a barrette, her eyes rheumy. Looki looked like she might weigh all of 80 pounds.

Natasha and the other 12 arrested last Wednesday are not allowed within miles of Tom’s office, on pain of death.

The head of Peace Action Maine was with us: big guy in his thirties with his hair tied back at his neck and pulled into a bun.

Another of our fearless leaders was a young guy, thin as a carrot and with a halo of curly red hair. His wife was also thin as a carrot but she had black hair and glasses with thick black rims and manages the best Goodwill store in the area, the one across the Million Dollar Bridge in South Portland.

We all sat on the floor, read poetry and talked.

Tom’s staff refused to give us the key to the bathroom. But we outfoxed them; went next door to the Immigrant Legal Aid Fund and got their key.

Around 5 pm, a camera man from Ch. 13 News, and a slinky young reporter with long black hair came and interviewed four people out in the hall, a Sociology Prof from USM, two other guys and a woman who sneaked over from New Hampshire.

At 5:30 we unwilling to be arrested left, and six stayed. Among them were three old men with white beards and moustachios who, as we left, were lined forlornly in a row on Tom’s off-white waiting-room couch beneath an oversized, neon-orange Georgia O’Keefe flower.

My friend Jan poked her head back into the room and said, “Don’t worry, it’ll be alright.” (Jan’s been arrested three times). One guy said, “Don’t you worry about us.” I.e., you’re giving off fear vibes in our direction, don’t do it. Jan looked appropriately chastened, and we punched the elevator down button and left.

Nothing in the paper this morning about our six heroes. Hope they’re okay. And I hafta wonder if the big burly guy managed to get through the ordeal with shedding tears this time.
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thnx to maineinfo.net for the pic of Exchange Street where we picketed, and where Tom Allen's office is.

Babies, keep an eye on Big Money.

Big Money's a sickness just like the gambling sickness – it sucks ordinary people in before they know what hit them.

Big-Money sickness comes from Big-Daddy God and his social hierarchy that he wears around his shoulders like a coat of fleas. In Mother-Goddess societies everyone’s important -- no one, for example, deserves food anymore than anyone else. In Big-Daddy-God societies, you have homeless dudes lying in ditches, and oil-rich dudes "living in" 600-room mansions. And all of us War-Goddites, we say, “Oh, some of us are so good we deserve 600 unused rooms; others are so bad they should sleep outside and die.”

This is the Big-Daddy Effect. Unlike the love of the Mother Goddess, Big Daddy's love comes with strings. If you don’t say How High? when he says Jump, you end up a homeless dude dying in the ditch.

Anyway, of all the filthy things Big Money’s doing, the worst is wiping humans off the planet by ruffling our climate. Almost more disgusting than that, BM is trying to fool you into thinking that the heroes trying to warn us about climate change and global warming are a buncha ninnies.
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STARS Streaming INTO THEIR EYES

The latest is, Big Money made up a fake organization – the “Tennessee Center for Policy Research” -- and used it to slam Al Gore. Go HERE for more.

Gore, of course, is the dude with enough guts to stand up against Big Money. Gore’s trying to warn us that BM is threatening to wipe us off the planet with the sludge it spews into our air and water 24/7, as it makes its widgets, which it sells to us so it can get even Bigger with more and more Money.

Now I promise yur gonna get hit in the head with a lotta cow pies coming from Big Money about how Global Warming’s all a Big Buncha Rubbish.

Whenever you get so slammed, ask yourself:

1. What do people like Al Gore have to gain by lying about global warming? Answer: Not a heck of a lot.

2. What does Big Money have to gain by lying about global warming? Answer: Money streaming into their coffers like stars streaming in from the heavens -- they get to keep on ramming our air and water full of filthy sludge in the process of making their widgets they sell to bring in the stars.

HOPI MOTHER GODDESS on the Slimy Slide

The "Hopi Mythology" section on Wikipedia was Condemned, so I replaced it with the following. Even though it's referenced to the teeth, I'm wondering how long the War Gods out there will let my entry live and breathe:

"The Hopi Mother Earth was symbolized by their Corn Mother, 'Spider Woman, Sand Altar Woman, and other female spirits conceived to be the mothers of all living things. This mother is represented in the cult by the sipapuni, the opening in the floor of the underground ceremonial chamber, or kiva, for the sipapuni is the womb of Mother Earth, just as it is the hole through which humankind originally emerged from the underworld' (Hultkrantz 1990: 213-14).

“'For traditional Hopis, corn is the central bond. Its essence, physically, spiritually, and symbolically, pervades their existence. For the people of the mesas corn is sustenance, ceremonial object, prayer offering, symbol, and sentient being unto itself. Corn is the Mother in the truest sense that people take in the corn and the corn becomes their flesh, as mother milk becomes the flesh of the child' (Wall 2004).

"Traditionally the Hopis saw the goddess Spider Woman as their creator: 'The Hopi see Spider Woman as Grandmother of the sun and as the great Medicine Power who sang the people into this fourth world we live in now” (Gunn Allen 1992: 19). Under centuries of pressure by white culture, however, Spider Woman has recently turned male: “The Hopi goddess Spider Woman has become the masculine Maseo or Tawa…'” (Gunn Allen 1992: 41).

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Dozier, Edward, The Pueblo Indians of North America (Case Studies in Anthropology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970).

Gunn Allen, Paula, The Sacred Hoop (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).

Hultkrantz, Ake, “The Religion of the Goddess in North America,” The Book of the Goddess Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion, Carl Olson, editor (New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1990).

Wall, Dennis, and Virgil Masayesva, “People of the Corn: Teachings in Hopi Traditional Agriculture, Spirituality, and Sustainability,” American Indian Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2004, Vol. 28, Issue ¾, pp. 435-453.

BORN BAD?

In a comment a few days ago, anne said “I think some people are born mean and some have meanness thrust upon them.… I once had a cat that was born mean. We got it as a kitten and treated it kindly, but it was just nasty from day one, deliberately aggressive. We were all glad when it up and disappeared one day.”

You might be right, anne. It could be that some humans are just born bad because of messed-up hormones or something. On the other hand, here’s the difference between your born-mean kitty and a born-mean baby girl. Baby Girl comes with a humongous brain for learning. Why? Because we humans are born dumb as mud. Your kitty came born with a bushel-load of instincts – automatic operating instructions. Your kitty is born running. Very little education needed, and it can take care of itself in the big wide world.

This is why most animal babies are on their own in weeks or months, whereas Baby Girl can be camped out on your doorstep til she’s forty. She comes as dumb as a doorknob, and it takes years to get her packed with operating instructions.

So the thing is, you have years to pack Baby Girl with instructions that can override her hormones. But does Baby Girl listen to you? Sometimes. However, she also watches you (and others) for clues about how to behave.

Here’s what animals get that we don’t: Female rats are scared of everything – including baby rats. But when they’re injected with the hormones estrogen and oxytocin* these rats go into full-blown baby-being-born mode. They suddenly begin to build nests. They grab any baby they can find and plop it into the new nest. They wash the babies. They defend the babies against all would-be intruders. And even though they have no milk, these females settle down next to the babies in baby-nursing posture (Moberg 2003: 67).

Know anybody born knowing how to build a house? (Or even a rat’s nest?) No. We are born dumb as mud. We have to learn everything.

And if Baby Girl never ever sees anyone killing a homeless dude, and she is taught how to go to the gym and tickle her messed-up hormones by playing racquetball, then my guess is she won’t ever kill any homeless dudes.
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*Oxytocin is the hormone that helps females in all species bond with their babies.
The info comes from Moberg, Kerstin Uvnas, The Oxytocin Factor: Tapping the Hormone of Calm, Love, and Healing (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group [Da Capo Press], 2003)
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Thnx to steveFE for the foto

MEN Honored BY THE NAME 'MOTHER'

"At Laguna* all entities, human or super-natural, who are functioning in a ritual manner at a high level are called Mother.... The cacique [peace leader] is addressed as mother by the war captain.... The Turkey-Buzzard Spirit is greeted as mother by the shaman who goes to consult him. When the cacique goes to consult with the k'apina shamans, he greets them saying, 'How are things, mothers of everyone, chiefs of everyone.'"

About "Motherness":

"Its value signifies something other than the kind of sentimental respect for motherhood that is reflected in American's Mother's Day observances. It is ritually powerful, a condition of being that confers the highest adeptship on whoever bears the title. So central to ritual activities is it in Indian cultures that men are honored by the name mother...."

About the Mother-Goddess power to create life:

“The old ones were empowered by their certain knowledge that the power to make life is the source and model for all ritual magic and that no other power can gainsay it. Nor is that power really biological at base; it is the power of ritual magic, the power of Thought, of Mind, that gives rise to biological organisms as it gives rise to social organizations, material culture, and transformations of all kinds – including hunting, war, healing, spirit communication, rain-making, and all the rest.”

From Paula Gunn-Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, 1992, pp. 28-29).
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*The Laguna are Pueblo Indians living the American Southwest.
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“HEY MOM. COULD YOU Save THE WORLD?

“Women are experienced in looking after the children and fragile elders, cleaning up, setting the house in order, being frugal with resources, putting food on the table, maintaining peace in the family, and staying on good terms with the neighbors. These are the same tasks that need doing in the community, and on a national and planetary scale. The world needs what women can do. The world needs ‘mother’ to set things right in our unbalanced world.”

From Jean Bolen’s website.
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uNHOLY mATRIMONY

“The word ‘marriage’ came from Latin maritare, union under the auspices of the Goddess Aphrodite-Mari.

"Because the Goddess’s patronage was constantly invoked in every aspect of marriage, Christian fathers were opposed to the institution.

"Origen declared, ‘Matrimony is impure and unholy, a means of sexual passion.’

"St. Jerome said the primary purpose of a man of God was to ‘cut down with an ax of Virginity the wood of Marriage.’

"St. Ambrose said marriage was a crime against God, because it changed the state of virginity that God gave every man and women at Birth….”

from Barbara Walker, Woman’s Encyclopedia, p. 585 and quoting from William Fielding, Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and Robert Briffault, The Mothers.
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WARRIOR GODDESSES

Warrior goddesses were invented by War Gods. We’ve scared up little evidence that humans had war before 3000 BC. If we didn’t do war, why would we worship war goddesses? For the first three-fourths of the timeline below, no war. War goddesses pop up only in the last fourth of the chart.

I believe a primary source of war is abandonment of Goddess. If we adore a world with non-stop war, let’s keep our war gods. But if we prefer peace (but still excitement, challenge and lotsa fun and games), we woo back Goddess.

War is the opposite of Goddess. Sure, Goddess is about death, but first She’s birth, life and regeneration. For gosh sake, people, the Great Goddess is a mother! Mothers abhor war -- and anything else that prematurely bites off peoples' lives.

“Hey, Jamie! Come quick! Your fave cartoon is on! The warrior Jealous!* He’s gonna bring the bubonic plague down on that city he hates – New York! Then he’s gonna make George Bush kill one of his daughters (George gets to choose which)! After that he’s gonna electrocute a boy who sassed his dad! Quick, I don’t want you to miss this! The whole country says this dude is the one you’re supposed to grow up to be like!”
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*“… the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34:14
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Pic: Athena, after She was turned into a cartoon war character by the War Gods who wiped out the Greek Great-Goddess culture sometime before 3000 BC

GODDESS Timeline

Wouldn't I love to own one of these! The Goddess ubiquitous in time and space. I might hafta break down and spring for one. Go HERE to see more.

TIME TO Ditch THE DUDE

Babies, we need a new Role Model. Big Daddy War God aka “The-Lord-Is-a-Warrior”* isn’t cutting it. We need Mother Goddess to sweep back and calm us down.

Goddess men were manly enough to be manly and motherly too. Today, however, men crawl all over each other to see who can be most like the bloodthirsty, bully-gods Jehovah, Allah and Yahweh.

Never underestimate the power of role models:

Right after a hot new video game on killing the homeless hit the shelves, American boys began killing the homeless. “A segment called 'Bum Hunter,' hosted by a Crocodile Hunter-like actor wearing a safari outfit, shows him 'tagging' homeless people by pouncing on them and binding their wrists” to make it easier to kill them.

Some homeless-killer-boys “… have said they were inspired by ‘Bumfights,’ a video series created in 2002 and sold on the Web that features homeless people pummeling each other for the promise of a few bucks.”

Meanwhile, the National Coalition for the Homeless reports that “last year, there were 122 attacks and 20 murders against the homeless, the most attacks in nearly a decade.”

Here's just one case of how un-Goddess-trained testosterone with some boys wrapped around it, beat a man to death. This collection of Untrained T had a beer with the man and then casually murdered him:

"Luis says 'I'm gonna go hit him,' We're all laughing, thought he was joking around,'" but he wasn't, Moore concedes. "We just all started hitting him."

“They hurled anything they could find -- rocks, bricks, even Baum's barbecue grill -- and pounded the 49-year-old with a pipe and with the baseball bat he kept at his campsite for protection.

“Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum's face before cutting him with a knife "to see if he was alive," Moore said.

“After destroying Baum's camp, the boys left the homeless man -- head wedged in his own grill -- under a piece of plastic where they hoped the "animals would eat" him.

“Then, Moore says, they took off to grab a bite at McDonald's.”

"They bragged about it around town....

"Ihrcke told police that killing 'the bum' reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows.

"Criminologists call these wilding sprees 'sport killing,' -- largely middle-class teens, with no criminal records, assaulting the homeless with bats, golf clubs, paintball guns."

For more go to "Teen 'sport killings' of homeless on the rise," CNN.com, POSTED: 7:55 p.m. EST, February 20, 2007
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“The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is his name.” Exodus 15:3.
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Pic: Mr. Rex Baum of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gas-station worker, homeless, now deceased.

THE GODDESS & THE Tarot Cards

Today I pulled out my trusty old Tarot deck to see about the role of Goddess men. It was Goddess-loving Minoan men who sailed the known world in search of gold, silver and precious stones and other things too – glittering tales from beyond, magic. Among the Great-Mother-worshiping Mosuo of China, too, it’s men who do the traveling and exploring.

Explorers come home with tons of tales to tell, i.e., as entertainers. Interestingly, the pre-Christian Tarot paint men in these same two roles: explorer and entertainer:

Other than the ruler cards (king, emperor and pope), the male cards in the major arcana are The Fool, The Magician, The Hermit, The Chariot, and The Hanged Man. All but the last are travelers. The Fool, the first card in the deck, is “the Green Man, the harbinger of a new cycle of existence, the herald of new life.” Also, however, The Fool is the “vagabond who exists on the fringe of organized life, going his own way”.

Originally The Magician too was probably a vagabond, “…the traveling showman, an entertainer like The Fool, who moved from town to town“. And The Hermit is an old man “setting off on the first stage of a journey… trudging along a dark and lonely road…”. The Charioteer in his suit of armor has “…no obvious mythological antecedents”; considering the chariot was originally a war vehicle, I think he's a later War-God addition.

Two of the above five cards show men as entertainers. Costumed as a court jester, The Fool is the medieval entertainer par excellence, the Brad Pitt and Jon Stewart of his day. Many jesters were “…highly gifted acrobats, singers and dancers …” traveling “far and wide, offering [their] services to those … who could afford [them]." Gallivanting from town to town “either alone or with a troop of actors," The Magician too was an entertainer, putting on shows and telling fortunes.

And what about The Hanged Man card? The Hanged Man “…cannot be found in any orthodox Christian symbology, and is one of the clearest indications that the Tarot trumps ... illustrate some non-Christian system....” The tree The Hanged Man hangs on is a “…symbol of the mother as the source of all sustenance; those who die on the tree are therefore being reunited with their source, through which they may be reborn into new life…”

Thirty-five years ago, Alfred Douglas said the meaning of The Hanged Man is this: “To achieve ... success ... one must align oneself with the rules of the universe rather than the laws of man.” The universe: the Great Mother Goddess of course, synonym for earth and cosmos alike.
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Source: Alfred Douglas, The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning and Uses of the Cards (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1972).

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Pic: Pre-1450-BC Minoan sealing showing the Goddess and Her worshipper.

THE SUPERIOR SEX?

Sometimes it seems almost impossible to say something nice about women without women reading it as something bad said about men.

In my mind, this is pure sexism. These are concerned and kind-hearted women, but they're certain they’re superior to men: in their eyes, men are such weenies they’d shrivel and die if women weren’t constantly handy to jump to their defense.

Mind you I'm not saying all of us women have our heads shoved this far into the sand, but this is a tendency to watch for.

Speaking THROUGH TREE LIMBS

The Great Mother’s howling around my house, speaking to me, throwing dancing shadows of winter tree limbs on the snow behind my deck. Went out to shovel and thought I felt Her inside me: “You, able to bear life, you know Me. Those who can’t bear life can’t know Me unless you tell them. They're destroying that part of Me that keeps your species alive. Tell them that -- that through their ignorance they're annihilating themselves.”
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Thnx to legley for the foto

CHRIST WHO?

Whoever said Christianity’s about Christ? Two-thirds of the Christian Rule Book (aka “Bible”) is about that hoary old War-God Jehovah. Christ doesn’t pop up until the third inning. And even then he’s only sonny boy. When it comes to dads and sons, we all know Daddy rules.
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BUDDHA Meets THE GREAT GODDESS

The Great Mother Goddess says,

"Like the Daddy War-Gods Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah and Vishnu, U 2, Buddha, are a coke & heroin gig. You lull 90% into choking down poverty and powerlessness so 10% can swim in riches. You're a 'state religion' -- keep the slaves shot up, forestall those uprisings against the rich.

"My children: Always be very chary of religions smelling like 'be happy in your misery.' They're either War-God religions or cousins thereof. I, your Great Mother, bore you all to be free, equal, and outrageously happy. You should be spending half of each day, 24/7, playing games and laughing like idiots. All of you. Snap to it!"
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thnx to lhumble for offering one of the few fotos available of someone laughing like an idiot. What's the matter with you people? Why d'ya hafta be under 7 or over 70 to laugh?!?

FUNDIE ORGS, List of

I feel into lists lately. How 'bout a list of wonko, weirdo, whacked-out fundie orgs?

Pastor Fred Phelps ("God Hates Fags")

Quiverful ("Birth a quiverful of babies/arrows for Jesus")

Real Men for Jesus ("Jesus was a macho man")

Less Whacked Out (?) But Still Out There:

American Family Association
Christian Coalition
Concerned Women for America
Coral Ridge Ministries
Family Research Council
Focus on the Family

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Know of any other juicy ones?

Let's send healing energy to these groups. They didn't ask to be born and pitched into the pathetic pits that are the Daddy War-God machines. They were born gorgeous and lovable, like all the rest of us.

On FUNDIES & FLEAS

Ever wonder why fundies resemble Jesus about as much as fleas resemble a thoroughbred Appaloosa?

"The reason why so many fundamentalist Christians are so notoriously "unChristian" is simple: for the majority of Christians (Quakers are among many notable exceptions) Christianity isn't about the teachings of Jesus, and never was. The early church fathers knew that Jesus' rather Buddhist message of nonviolence and voluntary poverty wouldn't fly in the Graeco-Roman world, let alone in the Middle East. The idea of a Redeemer on the other hand--someone who would voluntarily sacrifice Himself for humanity and their sins--was very popular. Instead of having to give up their worldly goods and espouse non-violence, all the Romans had to do was believe in the miraculous stories surrounding Jesus' birth and death, which was easy for them, since such stories had been told about pagan gods and heroes and were already familiar.

"Christianity as it exists among fundamentalists isn't about behaving like Jesus. It's all about faith--about believing the story. The underlying message seems to be: you can behave any way you want as long as you believe the story and say you're sorry before you die. Following the teachings of Jesus is much too demanding, whereas with the Christianity of fundamentalists all you have to do is shut your mind off."

From "The Great Fundamentalist Hoax," Philip Slater, Huffington Post
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REAL Men for Jesus

It just keeps getting better and better:

"A group calling themselves Real Men For Jesus argue that Jesus wasn't really the Bleeding Heart liberal he pretended to be, because after all he went around overturning tables, and was belligerent and destructive and made messes for other people to clean up, just like a macho man is supposed to do--just like George Bush, for example."

From "Is Religion Inherently Homicidal," by Philip Slater on Huffington Post. MORE>>>>

Scratching MY HEAD

I just don't get it.

Why would anyone choose to worship snooty, snobby, scroogie, stuffed-shirt, sexually-uptight, violent, war-ridden, me-first bully-boy boors with two left feet like Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, Vishnu and others, when they could have an egalitarian, democratic, non-violent, peaceful, smart, sensual, creative, freedom-loving, gorgeous, generous Great Mother Goddess who loves them ecstatically?
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THE GOD WHO Wasn't THERE

Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture.

Super Size Me did it to fast food.

Now The God Who Wasn't There does it to religion.

Holding modern Christianity up to a bright spotlight, this bold and often hilarious new film asks the questions few dare to ask.

Your guide through the world of Christendom is former fundamentalist Brian Flemming, joined by such luminaries as Jesus Seminar fellow Robert M. Price, professor Richard Dawkins, author Sam Harris and historian Richard Carrier.

See the movie the Los Angeles Times calls "provocative - to put it mildly."

Hold on to your faith. It's in for a bumpy ride.

Collecting GODDESS CONFERENCES

Glastonbury Goddess Conference, UK

Goddess Conversations Conference, Turkey

World Congress of Matriarchal Studies (location varies)

Women and Earth Conference

Archaeomythology Conference

Everyday Goddess Conference, Wisconsin

Women of Wisdom Conference, Seattle

3rd International Women’s Peace Conference, Dallas (July 2007)

Ariadne’s Thread Goddess Conference, Australia

International Conference on the Gift Economy, Nevada (2004)

Beijing Women's Conference, China

World Archaeological Conference

3rd Dutch Goddess Conference - http://home.hetnet.nl/~keltisch.priesteres/

Budapest Goddess Conference - http://www.goddessbudapest.com/

Goddess in Cornwall - http://www.goddessincornwall.co.uk/

Austrian Goddess Conference – http://www.austrian-goddess-conference.blogspot.com/

4th Annual Wise Woman's Festival, Florida (Apr 6-8, 2007) - www.flashsilvermoon.com

Iberian Goddess Conference in Madrid.  Third conference held in 2012
www.conferenciadeladiosa.es

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Some on-going, others may not be. Know others to add?
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Traveling TO GODDESS ON A BUDGET

Hot new book: Karen Tate’s Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations.

After reading this, I understand why people cozy up in living room recliners with travel books. Ya feel like you have a friend named Karen leading you by the hand around the world to the Goddess. You actually feel you’re inside Hina’s Cave in Hawaii, or inside the Temple of Hera on the Island of Samos, or gazing at the Labyrinth in Britain’s Glastonbury Tor. This more-than-a-travel book is dense with fascinating female-deity facts and blocks of solid info backed up by a 12-page bibliography. It’s also packed with photos, drawings and maps, too – at least one to every page spread.

With Sacred Places you will be winging your way to:

O Clonegal Castle and Newgrange in Ireland.

O The temples of Dendera in Egypt and the Sekhmet Temple at Karnak. The Isis Temple of Philae.

O The Temple of Oshun in Nigeria

O The Temple of Ishtar in Iraq

O The ancient Goddess cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in Pakistan.

O Mount Gulaga in Australia

O Machu Picchu in Peru.

O The Isla de Mujeres in the Yucatan.

O Spider Rock in Arizona, the Isis Oasis Sanctuary in California, and to the Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve in Wisconsin.

O Ggantija in Malta

O Ephesus and Catal Huyuk in Turkey

O And to over 90 other places powerful with Goddess.

If you're on a budget, this is the way to travel.

WHY CAN'T WE ALL BE THIS Good?

Jeezum, I’m coming up in the world, getting featured on this fine blog! Especially considering that the writers and commenters possess such rich and splendid vocabularies. Their thinking is impressive, too: how can we worry about eradicating war when we all need to focus on the tensions of the day?

Dudes! Keep up the good work! Need more blogs around like yours.
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SLIPPERY BED OF AMERICAN Blood

It's 5:01 pm, and I'm listening to Air America's Randi Rhodes as I work on the book I'm writing (the same book that’s been slurping up all my blogging time lately). She just said it so well:

“American corporations are enjoying an orgy on a slippery, slippery bed of American blood.”

PEACEFUL Protests

We need to march outside all War-God churches, colleges, seminaries and other institutions. What would our signs say? “Mothers, Protect Your Babies from War Gods.” “Jehovah Admits he’s a Warrior: Exod. 15:3.” “To Stop War, Stop War Gods.” “Christianity’s a Cult, Not a Religion.” “Christians Kill.” “Protect Yourself from Christianity.” “Abolish War Gods, Abolish War.” “The Bible Contains ’Warrior’ and ‘War’ 300 Times.” Similarly for Vishnu’s and Yahweh’s temples and Allah's mosques.

MALE GODS: Automatic WAR?

Do male gods automatically lead to war, hierarchy and dominance? Is there something about many men such that, when they get power, they do a hunter-group thing? I mean like they hafta have one guy bossing, and everybody else doing a “whatever thou sayest, o thou mighty one” type of thing? Or is it perhaps only men with an overshot of testosterone? Help me out on this!