June 16, 2002

  • Well, I think we can be fairly certain that the aliens who are observing us from space in remote orbit aren't trees.  Otherwise, in sympathetic compassion, I'd think that they would have revealingly assisted us in snuffing out the Colorado forest fires by now.


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    Okay, the Catholic Church, after decades of bashing the poor man, just made Padre Pio a saint, right?   Well, there was a man resigned to a monastic life, suffering purportedly from *stigmata* wounds (piercings of the hands and feet that would periodically bleed as if emulations of Christ's piercings form the Cross), and further suffering without a peep the insinuated papal accusations (1930's)  that his *stigmata* wounds were self-induced through ethching his hands and feet with acid.  What a compassionate, self-effacing fellow.  Fine.  But (and this is a contemporary *but* driven simply by timely concerns) what if those stigmata wounds were actutally not acid, but the markings God bestows upon priests who become monasticized due to their pedophile excesses? What if those piercings were not the marks of holiness, but tantamount to the mark of Cain, who God marked upon the forhead for murdering his own brother?  A ludicrous suggestion, I know.  But then again, what was Joseph Campbell's distinction between a loving, nurturing mother and an evil witch?  The witch goes merely one step further and eats the young.  So are not pedophile priests just such bitch witches?  And aren't evil witches usually marked and blemished by sores and ugliness?   So if *stigmata* = *stigma* then "marking" is a sign of punishment and not sanctity.  Unless, of course,  you read Herman Hesse's "Demian".


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    Don't worry, be happy!

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