Overcoming the N word
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Salut ——> The N word, in this case, doesn’t end in R. Nor does it end in A… for the hip hops heads. This is a different word entirely. See, God has died. And it’s not for the first time. In fact, God has died and been born again many times. He is, like the rest of us, a part of the world of perpetual birth and death and birth again. Some may call this reincarnation. But…. there is often a gap. A gap between death and the start of life again. We’re in a gap now. The ancient world, and even later, was full of mystery. There was custom built on top of the mystery. Custom to emphasise and aggrandise the mystery. It extended beyond the religious and the sacred. For example… what was the source of the Nile? No one knew. To follow it through the desert and into the heart of darkness was beyond the ability of the men who asked. For us today we still have (a little) mystery in the world. And a lot more in the universe. But they tend to be a side note or an afterthought. A more common and pertinent question is … what’s the point? In The Histories there is the story of the festival of Bubastis in Egypt. Men and women drift down the Nile in their boats. They play flutes and castanets and sing. When they pass a town the boats drift in towards the shore. The men and women onboard curse out the people watching. They yell at the onlookers and the women even lift up their skirts and expose themselves. More wine was drunk than in the whole of the rest of the year put together... The other day a letter arrived from some arm of the French bureaucracy. I had to resubmit three copies of my ID. The format and verification was wrong. Ugh AIDAN100 |
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