Past life regression…
Past lives.
That’s my new term for talking about different periods in my life, it sounds better than saying, “in the 50’s when I was in grade school…” Instead, I can say, “in one of my previous lives, sometime in the ’50’s…” Doesn’t that sound better, like I’m re-incarnated or something - I don’t sound so old this way. Mentally, I have never matured beyond 22 years old, so I’m perennially young. Ya think? Okay - arrested development - I admit it.
Anyway, in a previous life, it was the 1960’s…and I was in high school. The Beatles and the British groups were hot - as was Motown and Sam and Dave, and other non-cross over black artists. My friends and I were so cool…and anyone we thought weird, square, whatever, we called “queer”. We’d call someone queer if they said or did anything lame. Queer meant lame, dork, gay, geek, fag, whatever the contemporary synonym is today. Homosexuals were homos, fruits, femmes, but queer wasn’t our term for them. Our parents may have said queer in their regard - but not us.
Now, when everyone is so PC, I guess gay is the preferred term, although gays like to use queer, elevating a derogatory term to the level of respectability by their use of the word. It’s like the “N” word for black people, they can use it, but we can’t. Fag is derogatory, even though kids say it now, the way we used to say queer in the ’60’s. (In fact, my friends still use the term queer that way - maybe their kids think mom and dad are really hip.) “You’re so gay!” actually means the same thing as when we used to say, “You are SO queer!” It just means weird or out of sync with what is cool.
Anyway.
This whole thing is about that Rainbow Sash crap, which I guess is going to be present at Masses around the country this Pentecost Sunday again. It is so queer! (This is not meant in the sexual preference sense.) I mean, who would wear a sash? I know the Knights of Columbus do, as well as the other Catholic knights groups do, such as the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre or Malta - or do they just wear capes? But these groups are not anarchists.
So no, I’m not comparing Catholic knights to Rainbow Sashers - but obviously, they had to be taking the sash idea from someplace - unless…unless the idea is from beauty pageants…oh yeah, queens wear sashes!
Anyway - it’s dumb and disruptive, and hugely distracting when they stage protests like that at Mass…and I think it’s kind of queer. Is nothing sacred to these people?
May 21st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I would say that nothing IS sacred to most of these people.
They just resent the meaning of their interpretation of the Sixth Commandment and the Church’s implementation of it.
If the Church declared that its positions on celibacy and chastity was a mistake, very few of them would ever be seen in a church building again.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:29 pm
“is nothing sacred to these people?”
Yes, it hangs, get my drift?
May 21st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Terry, they don’t know what “Sacred” means, and they don’t care.
They suffer from oral-exterior-intestional fusion, which is a condition caused first by extreme navel-gazing, and ends up with cerebral-intestinal INFUSION. Which is what they experience, and why they can’t see beyond what is before their eyes.
The condition requires surgery, but as they are fused in these locations, they are unable to request the needed assistance or even free a hand to sign the surgery waiver.
So what are you expecting from them???
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
THE
DESERTS
OF
ONAN
(Genesis 38:8-10)
If you plant
God’s seed,
It grows.
With holy
Intent,
An openness glows.
Then to man,
God
Provides,
Wisdom to
Know,
Grace which guides.
So abundance
Will spread,
Propagate,
Feed the early,
Feed the
Late.
And you,
Fruitful souls,
A cornucopia fills -
While the deserts
Of Onan,
Remain wastelands of spills.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Bottom line: they don’t understand their faith. They don’t *live* the Catholic faith … not as all baptized Catholics are called to. They are completely secularized. Add to this that they are coming from a place of hurt, often times abuse. They are deeply wounded. And they are angry as a result. Many SSA persons are ANGRY. Their desire for union is good (desire for the “other” is a reflection of our desire for God) but is disordered and misdirected. But you can’t preach to them about that and you can’t “tell” them that because in their hearts it is as natural and normal as what a heterosexual person experiences. What’s called for is not a political solution but conversion of heart, and only God knows what each SSA person needs in order for that to occur.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
“Queens wear sashes!” that illicited a very loud unlady like gaffaw at my work place.
;-P
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It will be intersting to see what goes on at the Cathedral this weekend with the new Archbishop. I think we should all be praying extra hard for him and for all the sashayers. I never have really understood why people think the Church should change to suit them. Why belong to something you don’t agree with…if you sincereley think you are correct?
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Jeron thanks for your insight - it is the right attitude.