tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4253614231795376181..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Empty GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81199920642964560622012-11-26T14:14:05.646-08:002012-11-26T14:14:05.646-08:00Oh the EU
considering banning
"baby boxes&q...Oh the EU <br />considering banning <br />"baby boxes" <br />unauthorized but not uncommon <br />feature on the landscape<br />especially Central Europe<br />heated night depository on the <br />outer wall of clinics or hospitals where people <br />can secretly <br />abandon <br />newbornsVINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51164308232753553362012-11-26T04:09:31.988-08:002012-11-26T04:09:31.988-08:00Three Movements
Dressed simply in black . . . ta...Three Movements<br /><br />Dressed simply in black . . . tall<br />arch and pale<br />the piano sunny<br />as she welcomes us to our pain<br /><br />You wanted to feel its scale<br />wrung to joyful tears and sadness -<br />buzzed and lit<br />refusing to be extinguished<br /><br />As the world in all its pettiness was<br />so too the uncertain beauty of it<br />taking shape: an immense<br />emptiness Gracious and becoming<br />Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80116373122045902662012-11-26T03:51:38.685-08:002012-11-26T03:51:38.685-08:00The street preacher in the doorway under the arcad...The street preacher in the doorway under the arcade of the closed-down department store was delivering his Gnostic message to an audience of two. I was put in mind of the audience relations that maintain in blogging.<br /><br />It was a dark and stormy night, as the story goes. Rain was beginning to fall.<br /><br />The depersonalization or self-emptying of Christ, achieved through the constriction or contraction of his infinite light, would allow space to exist. That would be good of him.<br /><br />Then again, if Christ was merely Jesus, a person, and not God, and not a container of infinite light, he would simply be practicing humility. That would be better of him.<br /><br />The Bulgakov version of the story of Yeshua is interesting. It makes Jesus into a sympathetic human being with a megalomaniacal streak and a dangerous disregard for his own physical welfare.<br /><br />These street preachers, with their ragtag disciples (street-soiled runaways, dogs with dirty bandanas), make one understand that religions are born not of belief but of desperation and desolation. The rest is just the trappings.<br /><br />The empty god stared down at me from his sacrificial pole and pointed to a darkened doorway down the block.<br /><br /> With him to enclose<br /> Is better than to oppose<br /><br /> To withdraw<br /> ...............though<br /><br /> He might be waiting<br /> Behind that doorTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81388310603657909592012-11-25T18:49:21.102-08:002012-11-25T18:49:21.102-08:00the effect of light can be so different and have s...the effect of light can be so different and have so many meanings...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32825337212963182612012-11-25T11:02:30.859-08:002012-11-25T11:02:30.859-08:00Image of Deus Absconditus set against space where ...Image of Deus Absconditus set against space where all spirit has been harried away. <br /><br />This also brings to mind the Tzimtzum (contraction) but with the hope of a beginning gone.<br /><br />Words and images are all too apt for a dark night after the rain here.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com