Thursday
16 March 2000 |
Reading: The Temple and the Stone - Katherine Kurtz and
Deborah Turner Harris
Listening: Ana throwing temper tantrums Thinking: I'm a big fat cow. Drinking: tea Ok-o-meter: 7 in the morning and afternoon with a sudden front dropping us to 4 1/2 in the evening Quote for the day: The reason so many women fake orgasms is that so many men fake foreplay Weather report: sunny and windy 11:20 am
2:12 pm
Adam and Eve having eaten the apple "found themselves naked" and covered up. You don't think they didn't know before that they had no clothes? Of course they knew. But with t he fruit of knowledge, now they knew what could be done with their nudity and, being totally innocent until then, were embarrassed. This did not involve modesty (which is taught by others) but shame (which can be self-taught). Modesty is an act of manners, you cover up so that the less naive folk don't dwell on the physical (yes, I'm explaining badly, there's no easy way). Others are not embarrassed by you appearance, functions lacks or endowments, you are. No one is perfect but human nature seems to demand it, and finds embarrassment in imperfection. Is this a learned response? Little kids find farts and burps funny. They notice the attention it brings. If there was no notice, would imperfection then be perfect? Shame comes when the notice of your imperfections are noticed, by yourself or others. This may be overcome, or not. God made us in his image. He is perfect. We were perfect until we had shame. So is God imperfect, just refusing to find shame in it? Is the way to perfection refusing to have any shame? Next time someone says you should have shame say, "No, because God made me in his image and I am perfect." That's circular logic for ya. 9:07 pm
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