Sunday, April 13, 2003
Saint Patrick and Christopher Columbus
Well, its been some strange days just past and some strange days coming up. But I suppose if I felt that everything was status quo, that would be the time to take my temperature.Last night I saw a movie from my past:
Prophecy this is a truly horrible movie and i would not at all recommend it. It did however bring back some great memories. The exploding sleeping bag scene made me laugh. Also, there is a scene where the group is hiding in a underground tunnel for the prophecy muto-bear to go away. Its silent for several minutes and so one of them decides its safe and climbs up the ladder, only to have his face re-arranged in a design more closely aligned with the prophecy's face-design sense. I love that scene. SO predictable, but funny because of its predictability. This was a perfect horror movie morality play. The paper mill was using mercury in their paper milling process. This type of mess with the environment and it will mess with you - plot happens over and over again in the seventies. You don't really see that quite in the same way anymore. Another one of my favorites of this type was Food of the Gods in which the rats, and every other creature drinks water tainted with this engineered growth hormone stuff originally designed to make chickens grow bigger. The problem is the rats get REALLY big. The end of the movie shows some cows downstream drinking the same water and being milked and little kids drinking the ambrosia-ized milk.
The moral is if you want your kids to grow really big give 'em this tainted milk! MILK it does a body good. You may wind up crushing Tokyo fighting Rodan though. Never mind that though. People must not be afraid of ecological morality plays any more. Though I would think the time would be right for that.
Well its Saint Patrick's Day coming up and my nephew's first birthday. He's such a very cute boy and makes you love him in the way that only babies can do. He was born on Saint Patrick's day and has Irish from both sides. And so his middle name is Patrick. It is a good way to remember your Irish roots. My grandmother used to send me a card on Saint Patrick's Day every year inscribed - never forget you are Irish!!!! My only issue with Saint Patrick is that he is accredited with driving the snakes out of Ireland. Now when we are talking about these snakes, I believe that this is allegory for pagans. So his sainthood is dependent on him having driving out some pagans and gypsies? If it were all the same I think you should have let them stay. What do I know though. Maybe the snakes were actual snakes and he just charmed them away by playing a penny-whistle. I'm of the belief though that Pagans and Christians need to play nice, and that they are closer to each other than either group realizes. But that's me.
So I got asked to be in a service organization called Knights of Columbus. I am undecided. In my refection, I have been pondering their namesake Christopher Columbus. I have mixed feelings about Christopher Columbus, I feel like he part of the classification of colonizers. If morally lies in intent, he really is mostly blameless as he was simply looking for a shorter route to China. But my worry is that he is just another Pizarro / Cortés type. Only interested in the subjugation in the Indians or whoever is on the other end. Its all moot though, I can't look into his eyes, I can't ask him any questions. And worst of all, I live and breathe and take all my pleasure from a land that he "discovered". I have a lot of guilt around Columbus and by living in America I am implicated in his crime. Not only do I live in America, but I'm Catholic and Italian. I practically AM Columbus. Really all I can do is pray to God for forgiveness for being a part of all the native and otherwise people who had to suffer and or die in order to create and sustain this experiment we call USA.
So on that note I finished (sorta) posting nein tea. It still needs some work, but one can navigate through it. It is interesting how it has so much relevance 13 years later. There is much discussion of the Gulf War, Bush and other details that are still applicable even if it relates to Bush Jr. and not Bush Sr. So, read it if you like. Just be warned that its kinda terrible, and poorly written, and angry.
OK, Thats it for now.
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The moral is if you want your kids to grow really big give 'em this tainted milk! MILK it does a body good. You may wind up crushing Tokyo fighting Rodan though. Never mind that though. People must not be afraid of ecological morality plays any more. Though I would think the time would be right for that.
Well its Saint Patrick's Day coming up and my nephew's first birthday. He's such a very cute boy and makes you love him in the way that only babies can do. He was born on Saint Patrick's day and has Irish from both sides. And so his middle name is Patrick. It is a good way to remember your Irish roots. My grandmother used to send me a card on Saint Patrick's Day every year inscribed - never forget you are Irish!!!! My only issue with Saint Patrick is that he is accredited with driving the snakes out of Ireland. Now when we are talking about these snakes, I believe that this is allegory for pagans. So his sainthood is dependent on him having driving out some pagans and gypsies? If it were all the same I think you should have let them stay. What do I know though. Maybe the snakes were actual snakes and he just charmed them away by playing a penny-whistle. I'm of the belief though that Pagans and Christians need to play nice, and that they are closer to each other than either group realizes. But that's me.
So I got asked to be in a service organization called Knights of Columbus. I am undecided. In my refection, I have been pondering their namesake Christopher Columbus. I have mixed feelings about Christopher Columbus, I feel like he part of the classification of colonizers. If morally lies in intent, he really is mostly blameless as he was simply looking for a shorter route to China. But my worry is that he is just another Pizarro / Cortés type. Only interested in the subjugation in the Indians or whoever is on the other end. Its all moot though, I can't look into his eyes, I can't ask him any questions. And worst of all, I live and breathe and take all my pleasure from a land that he "discovered". I have a lot of guilt around Columbus and by living in America I am implicated in his crime. Not only do I live in America, but I'm Catholic and Italian. I practically AM Columbus. Really all I can do is pray to God for forgiveness for being a part of all the native and otherwise people who had to suffer and or die in order to create and sustain this experiment we call USA.
So on that note I finished (sorta) posting nein tea. It still needs some work, but one can navigate through it. It is interesting how it has so much relevance 13 years later. There is much discussion of the Gulf War, Bush and other details that are still applicable even if it relates to Bush Jr. and not Bush Sr. So, read it if you like. Just be warned that its kinda terrible, and poorly written, and angry.
OK, Thats it for now.
‹ read less
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