Forget burning incense to the Queen of Heaven...I'm pulling out my voodoo dolls (I got on my last trip to Nawhlins) and poking for the Queen of Voodoo, Mary Laveau and hoping to curse BushCo et al.
(Hey...the dolls came with instructions. I'll give it a shot.)
Posted by jillian at September 3, 2005 02:47 PMjillian -- worth a shot but doubt that voodoo is any match for the Free Market Fairy.
Posted by Marie at September 3, 2005 03:40 PMWe are but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organizm.
Posted by Thomas Ware at September 3, 2005 04:32 PMWe are but fleas agitating the hide of a far greater organizm.
Have you already forgotten the message inherent in H. G. Wells War of the Worlds? You had a chance to see Tom Cruise play the hero in yet another repeat of that story this summer!
How soon they forget!
Posted by pessimist at September 3, 2005 04:41 PMKanye West For President in '08!
Posted by Mal Feasance at September 3, 2005 06:35 PMThe phrase "God helps those who help themselves" is NOT from the Bible but rather from Ben Franklin, but millions of B ible-reading Americans think it is. I justifies their self-centeredness and disregard ttowards helping their fellow citizens.
Posted by katjam at September 3, 2005 07:17 PMkatjam -- neither does most of what they spout. But must say that I didn't know that they ascribed that one to the Bible. Never let it be said that they let the teachings of Christ get in the way of what they want to do. Like everything else, the Bible is a stage prop for them.
Posted by Marie at September 3, 2005 08:03 PM
jillian; I’ll try it because I do have 2 real African ceremonies dolls.
Pessimist; I have been so sick of repeat movies. Is it because no one can come out with a new script?
Mal Feasance; Who the hell is Kanye West.
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Posted by muckbat at September 3, 2005 08:51 PMBendito -- usually ignore you, but in this case I won't --
If you read the whole piece you would know that I don't accept a Judeo-Christian world view.
Think if it like this -- Say your pals (well, we know that you don't really hand with them; you're just one of the doofuses they have conned and you embrace them as idols) manage to destroy this country. Then erase all record of the "New Deal," and in the new books they create to feed the masses propaganda, they leave in one little conversation in which someone says, remember when there was something called Social Security and old people and widows and children didn't live in abject poverty to which the guardian of Newspeak responds, "that's heresy -- never was there a time when life was better for so many." Then a few hundred year later someone comes along and wants to reference a time when things were different and better and that one statement is the only evidence of that it had existed. Sure, she would be quoting from Newspeak, and wouldn't be interested in the Newspeak propaganda that went along with it.
Posted by Marie at September 3, 2005 09:55 PMMarie,
Your Newspeak explanation is quite good. It gave me chills.
Posted by OffTheFence at September 4, 2005 12:31 AMOffTheFence -- probably borrowed it from "1984," but it's been a long, long time since I read it; so, I'm not even sure that I got the "Newspeak" right.
Maria Guibutta's (sp?) (UCLA anthropologist) studied what is called the prehistoric goddess cultures. The historical record is so limited and fractured that a full picture cannot be retrieved. However, assuming that all the inhabitants of those cultures did not die out and were integrated in those that succeeded, we can also postulate that customs and practices were also carried forward. I've come to believe that all the exhortations against the false idols of the old religions and frequent lapses back to them found in the Old Testament are not all about what today we would view as pagan worship of animals and inanimate objects. I think it was the female centric religion that the male centric religion of Judaism sought to destroy. But somehow it continues to resurface -- as seen in the Renaissance with the adoration and elevation of Mary. Not surprising that she was left behind with the establishment of new Christian sects. (New meaning younger than 1,000 years.)
Posted by Marie at September 4, 2005 01:17 AMI don't know if it's spelled with one S or two but it's definitly from 1984. That's why I got the chills. I'm seeing, feeling, hearing way too much that reminds me of the book.
Posted by OffTheFence at September 4, 2005 01:56 AMIt actually from he Ancient Greeks:
Hercules helps them that help themselves.
Old saying: adapted for new myths...
Posted by John B. at September 4, 2005 09:02 AMJohn B. -- thanks.
OffTheFence -- I think Billmon has that book memorized and has been making frequent use of it in on his blog for over two years.
Posted by Marie at September 4, 2005 11:05 AM