What if Religions were required to be kind?

A kind religious world - now there lies a radical idea. Can we imagine a world where Jews and Muslims are not fighting over a Holy Land that supposedly was left exclusively to each by a confused God who is the God of both?
Can we imagine a world where Hindus and Muslims are not killing each other in India and Pakistan and Kashmir? A world where Jerry Falwell and company are not calling hell and damnation down onto homosexuals and others made in the image of God? And where inquisitions and crusades are outlawed and apologies are made by Popes for anti-Semitism, witch burnings, crusades, and inquisitions of the past? And where the gold stolen from the indigenous peoples of the Americas that still adorns the churches in Rome might be returned to its poverty-stricken rightful owners? Yes, a kind religion would be a revolution. The word kindness, after all, comes from the word for kin. It is about how we treat those who are nearest to us. It is a family word. If religion were required to be kind it would have to find kinship with other religions, or better still, other spiritual traditions. A reconstruction of religion on the basis of fierce kindness and real kinship would require a deconstruction as well. Are we capable of deconstructing our religious attitudes to make room for this reconstructed kindness to emerge? I would hope so, and I suspect that Jesus and Isaiah, Buddha and Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dalai Lama would concur. In fact, is it so strange a suggestion to propose that this is what they taught in their lifetimes?

Mirror mirror on the wall

?htiw gniyalp ma I tahw eziler ot ekat lliw ti gnol woh rednow htiw lla uoy esaet ot yot wen a yob hO
tuo siht erugif ot gnola uoy evael lliw I daer ot segap dna enim ot atad attog I llew neppah nac gnihtynapah ot ylekil si gnihtyna llafeerf ni dna llafeerf si siht rebmemer yrroS
?rebmemer yzarc uoy ekam ot dna nuf rof si siht annog ton wan ?rekcehc lleps esu naem uoy od tahW

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::Chuckles softly :: now wasnt that fun?

Humm, Pickles in more than just a sandwich..

Pickles, do you ever think about them or look at them in a diffrent way? Some folks do .. My friend Dawn does and oh my she is wickedly funny and snidley sly in her twists and turns of a pickled high. Hope you laugh as hard as I did when you read what she has to say about the wonders of a Pickle.

Pickle Song

Some sweet and some sourAll have the shape we love to

Munch, crunch and devour

Vinegar cures them

Makes flavor beyond compare

Heaven to savor

Slowly nibble them

Pickles IS as Pickles DOES

Pucker therapy

I love pickles, oh yesLove to touch, lick and caress

This pickle is YOU

Pickles are symbols

Have any of you surmised

This secret of mine?

Pickles have manhood

In their shape and design

Juicy seeds inside

Engendering lust

Hunger, desire and craving

For all things long-ish

For the "member" thatIt imitates in my mind

My mind so fertile

That all things long-ish

And of that diameter

Makes me romantic

Heart beating quickly

Thinking of silk-skinned hardness

Tasting of sweet salt

Then going back toPickles for generic talk

Those symbols I love.

I will talk of them

Like they are what I want most

But they're not at all.

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Whoa Dawnie thats to much .. Girl you have a wonderful way of presenting a pickle ..THANKS!

OH mercy.... what a night !!

Oh boy what a night I had! .. I got into the games again.. right now I am playing puzzle games they really push me to the brink at times.. Oh yeh they do.. The one I am playing right now is called heirophant and damn its a boggler .. kinda a rubiks cube without the twisting . and it keeps getting harder.. I thought at first that it was SO easy.. yeh my ass the first two or three levels are .. Called suckering you in and look out once the hook is set your not able to wiggle off!! I cant just walk away from it because why? I'm a sucker .. flat out.. I hate to leave and not win and thats the sucker of this game .. you get so close and trap yourself!I read someplace that women are more into online gameing and stuff then men are.. note this study does not count male children under the age of 18.. seems the kids love to play some games action and such appeal to the lil thugs women on the other hand seem to like any sort of puzzle game.. and we are good at it.. I think thats because puzzles engage us at a level that we are most comfortable with.. we have to think.. oh hell no; males of any age dont think they just wanna do.. apply that statement across the board to males of all ages.. slam bam thank you ma'am to pow bam bang .. doesnt matter they just want instant win or gradifaction.. WOMEN on the other hand THINK first .. oh hell yes I am a snot.
Do you think about the very first games you played ? I remember my fist PC game .. Baulders Gate.. OH wow what a great game .. a huge puzzle of course I think most of us who ever played D&D with friends enjoyed Baulders Gate and we played like crazy for coupla years .. then other stuff came out .. there was war craft.. now that one I didnt like so much .. was kinda pointless. TO ME anyways.. I gave that one away just because I didnt like the damn thing.. I loved Myst and all its spin offs .. again a huge puzzle .. and then theres my all time favorite agame .. Diablo.. the first game was slower than I liked but still kinda kinky and fun in a twisted way.. I got the Diablo :LoD 2 about five years ago and guess what ? I still play it alot.. I have beat the game useing 2 out of the 5 offered classes.. Amazon and Assision.. killer fighters and fun to play .. the Barbarian is fun but he doesnt move in a way I understand. The odd thing is I dont understand the magic user at all she is not my favorite yet I have watched other play her and she is awesome when she is fully developed the Druid I like alot and his powers of the earth are not so diffrent that the mage but he plays diffrently.. a warrior with suprises . the necro and the paladin are fun still learning them and I have been playing this game for nearly 5 yrs .. yeh slow learner I guess. but I have fun with it.. ..Another game .. more a time waster of course is Mah Johgg I like that one to because I can kinda get lost .. its best used when I wanna "hide" from the world.. What do you do for fun on a slow day? I be back later to offer my game scores .. LOL

Oh good morning world!

I got to thinking about how and where I want this blog : this newely created slice of me to go.. I got up this morning and thought well? and the "well" looked back and snickered ... DAMN now thats bad isnt it? .. At a loss because I really dont want to be a flame spewing anti war diss the gov type anymore.. OH dont get me wrong I havent changed at all.. I have how ever sunk to a eye rolling disgust of my goverment and the fool in charge.. respect must be earned and those chickenhawks and liars aint gonna get it from me. Not to say I dont have lots to say about the way they do stuff but I got other places to vent and shake my finger from.
Food? naw to that as well .. I am on a perpetual diet.. coffee and chocolate there is no room for food these days, besides I got a big enough ass anyways... my kids say I am one to begin with..
* ponders * humm must be why I vote a mostly democratic ticket these days .. yanno I used to be a republican yep for years & years untill I fell on hard times and learned a few major lessons..
Music? pass on that to for the most part .. its over done at other places and theres to many kids who know to little of the good stuff .. I keep that to myself as well...
OH I know "pet peeves" thats not one that I have toyed with befor.. I got alot of em to .. the best ones of course come from my own fubars .. yanno the ones about survay says you get a freebie and so ya play and play and play and no end insight? and then just as you give up the last page wants you to buy just one of the offering .. .. now how the flip did that get there? all's I wanted was my free bigscreen SHEESH! oh and because I screwed up and gave my phone number I will be treated to ongoing sales calls at 7 AM from a recording .. OMG the things I do to make my life hell at times. My own fault of course but I do take it out on the few unlucky salesmen who try so hard to be pleseant inspite of my rudeness . They do pretty good for the most part no matter what I say.. I think maybe one or two has hung up on me when I tell em some strange shit about how my blow up dollie got stolen and her antomincally correct blow up SO is still greiveing. I think those were the folks who wanted me to donate to the newest scam by the 700 club or to help buy ol' fartwell a new suit to preach in.. Hell I dont remember .. I just try to brighten MY DAY since those idiots almost ruined it by calling me at the butt crack of dawn . They deserve what they get if I dont have my glass's on and a cup of coffee in my hand befor the phone rings. I am sure you understand my point quite well.
Well enough of this mornings spew and hurbis Its freefall time and I gotta make an effort someplace today.. ya'll have a good day and SMILE they be so busy wondering why ya smilling at em they wont look back at yer arse!

Fresh page

well now a fresh start, a new blog I have learned alot from my first blogging attempts. Hey what can I say for myself? I had to learn someplace didnt I? I read a book today that said.. even whores were once virgins and yanno I kinda think bloggers are that way to. we try many things and edit and reshape and often move our muse to better pastures and always hope for better things. I think here I will just let my feelings and thoughts flow into the true meaning of freefall and enjoy the things that come forth. Poetry and such says alot about a blogger, Some good some bad but in the end its all planted and covered with more of the same.. so join me a little while and see where the ideas take us as I begin the freefall of this new blog