The citizen is a public, not a private man. The Public is that area of life in which are performed all those acts which are not private, and which constitute our interaction with the State as well as with local authorities, and with public entities such as business
I gave you an insightful. I love that story.
Harlan Ellison made me a freak (and if you send him a corpse and some wire he'll make you one too). Strictly speaking that isn't true. All he really did was give a particular shape, or pehaps only a cast of mind, to the freak that I always already was. His short story 'The Whimpering of Whipped Dogs', its portrayal of futility, weaknes
To mgosh: His first priority will be to establish a viable democracy in Iraq and then pull our troups home. You appear to be very well informed as to what Bush's plans are... Or is your comment simply a case of wishful thinking disguised?
To Dr. Guy: I may be naive - but you, like several others who responded to this, are inattentive. The article is not prediction, but speculation. It makes no pretence to saying what is in the mind of Bush nor what is about to happen, but deals in possibilities. Particularly those stemming from his fascination with conflict (not something unique to him - most Americans appear to be fascinated by violence), from his willingness to engage the ene
To Texas Wahine: thankyou, thankyou:)
To Daiwa: Chicken Little might be looking for a cliff. Me, I'd be happy to set the fire and then fan the flames.
Bush is back in for another four years - and I'm delighted. Not because I think he's an excellent President (this Presidential election has, I think, presented us with a choice between the unconscionable - Bush - and the incomprehensible - Kerry), and not because I think the future of America is secure under his leadership. The very opposite is true, in fact
I'm myself. I'm here for exactly the same reason that you are. We both continue to draw breath.
To SiRMetMan: I suppose, putting it at its most succinct, I'd be inclined to say that human existance is a by-blow, an epiphenomenon, of God's creative enterprise in the universe at large. And our self-centered fascination with what God thinks of us, his supposed consuming interest in the life of Man here on Earth and elsewhere, is something on a par with a worm or nematode supposing (if they could suppose) that the foot that crushes it doe
1) Which of your beliefs are unshakable? The one which says that my faith is mutable, fluid, flexible, defined only by the understanding that nothing of God can be known. I'd rather have a certain uncertainty than an uncertain certainty. 2) When and how has your faith been sorely tested? What beliefs and practices sustained you though those times? I've had periods that I refer to as my 'egypt times', in memory of the travail
God is alive and well and selling used tyres in North Eastern Ohio.... and laughing his ass off.
To little_whip: I know the dilemma you feel you face, that you describe so well. But it occurred to me, after our conversation of the other night on this topic, that perhaps you have found your True Will, and it is being expressed, even now. Many times you've said you drew me to you, and I agree. But you drew me to you for a particular purpose - so that you might have an opportunity to truly express the submission that so marks y
To SiRMetMan: Perhaps I'd find it just as refreshing to hear in what ways you don't agree with me...
To LordIbuprofen: Nothing wrong with smoothing our path in the world. Nothing wrong with a path that is no more than a path through this world. Ritual, as I said, opens many doors, depending on the Will of the Magickian, and the path I walk now is certainly smoother than those I struggled along before I became re-acquainted with God in the guise of the Bornless One. But as a consequence of that re-acquaintance I also discovered a defi
To notsohighlyevolved: this is an interesting reply (I gave you an insightful). The basis of the experience I describe in this article is Magick. Magick requires no faith, because it operates in the here and now, the 'real' world of the senses. If you were to practice certain rituals, if you were to say certain words, make certain gestures, in a certain order, then the Outside of Everything you know would manifest itself in your life. You woul
Comments here appear inconsistent and confusing. This is because several of them have been deleted and their author blaclisted on this site. This is why. Link
What drew me to my wife in the first place is her strength of spirit, her strength of mind and personality. Since we first met online that strength communicated itself in textual, non-verbal ways. It communicated itself through the 'darkness' implicit (and often explicit) in her writing. Both in her poetry, some of which is here on JU, and in the often extreme cruelty
I fully expect this article to receive no comments at all. So why am I going to write it and publish it here? In part, because having an audience of any kind is helpful in clarifying thinking. In part, because to do so gives honor to the gods (the gods that are dead). And in part, because I live in the hope that, one day, someone who does actually understand
To dabe: I understand the hypocrisy of the American culture. One of the things I've come to understand about American culture, in its general outlines, is its absolute sincerity. Americans are not knowingly hypocrites. They are, generally speaking, the most honest, the most generous people, I h
You and your naughty wife are just a wonderful, wicked blogging duo . . . so glad the two of you are here! Well thank you, Ms. Wahine. My enforced absence home-hunting here in Virginia, and becoming accustomed to a new work-routine, has kept me away from JU for awhile - but it's a temporary absence, an
To dabe: If He is indeed your Husband, then I guess he's cut from the same cloth as you. In a previous blogging incarnation on JU (as 'apollyon exterminans') I wrote an article entitled the 'Niggerization of Amerika' in which I made a distinction (totally missed by those who read it) between Am
If you complain about the price of gas while driving to the Greenpeace Rally in a monstrous SUV... you might be American Trash. If you spend 30 minutes driving around the parking lot (in the same SUV) looking for a space nearest the gym... you might be American Trash. If you spend hundreds of dollars on home gym equipment and dietary supplements and
As I've said to Her Malignancy on many occasions, she's free to do exactly as she wishes, whenever she wishes... there is, however, a cost to every action, and if some monstrosity of a bug waves its nasty antennae at me from my cereal bowl one moning her hide will certainly pay an exorbitant price the following evening. And as far as I can see, everything in America is Alien...
Anyone who has read little_whips recent article about mutant crickets ( Link ) will by now be aware of one of Virginia's more bizarre residents. They'll also be aware that I screamed like a baby girl the first time I ever saw one. Hey, I'm English. In England we
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