Breath Play

“I was feeling so sad and my life wasn’t getting better I hooked up with this guy and I asked him to suffocate me while he fucked me. I thought it would be the best way to go. He held his hand over my mouth and nose and penetrated me..but instead of letting me choke he lets go of my mouth when I turn too pink. It gave me the best orgasms I ever had... I felt a lot more confident after doing breath play, I’m not even depressed and my libido is higher. I was so shy before”

-- Filthy Secrets

Breath Play

“I was feeling so sad and my life wasn’t getting better I hooked up with this guy and I asked him to suffocate me while he fucked me. I thought it would be the best way to go. He held his hand over my mouth and nose and penetrated me..but instead of letting me choke he lets go of my mouth when I turn too pink. It gave me the best orgasms I ever had... I felt a lot more confident after doing breath play, I’m not even depressed and my libido is higher. I was so shy before”

-- Filthy Secrets

Richard Dawkins on the Bible

I saw the enticing news blurb that Richard Dawkins wants school children to read the Bible, and I had to check it out. The catch is that Dawkins believes that there are so many horrendous things in the Bible, that if more children actually read the thing, they would no longer be credulous about holding up the Bible as our prime moral law, not once they know what is actually in the book.

But I think Mr. Dawkins is missing a wrinkle. The moral proposition that the Bible holds up as supreme is that we ought to obey God. The Bible then shows us that this may entail committing genocide or even killing your own son, if God so commands it.

The key is this: who speaks for God? Unfortunately, this tends to be the right-wing zealots, the kind of people who may want to execute gays or deny women their reproductive liberty or impose their narrow religious views on everyone. When it comes to who gets to speak for God, the liberals voluntarily take themselves out of the equation.

Nevertheless, I agree that the Bible should be read, at least by anyone who wants to be accounted a substantively literate person. I am just saying that it would not end our problems with right-wing, evolution-denying, gay-hating, narrow minded Christianists.


(Source: Richard Dawkins at The Guardian)

Richard Dawkins on the Bible

I saw the enticing news blurb that Richard Dawkins wants school children to read the Bible, and I had to check it out. The catch is that Dawkins believes that there are so many horrendous things in the Bible, that if more children actually read the thing, they would no longer be credulous about holding up the Bible as our prime moral law, not once they know what is actually in the book.

But I think Mr. Dawkins is missing a wrinkle. The moral proposition that the Bible holds up as supreme is that we ought to obey God. The Bible then shows us that this may entail committing genocide or even killing your own son, if God so commands it.

The key is this: who speaks for God? Unfortunately, this tends to be the right-wing zealots, the kind of people who may want to execute gays or deny women their reproductive liberty or impose their narrow religious views on everyone. When it comes to who gets to speak for God, the liberals voluntarily take themselves out of the equation.

Nevertheless, I agree that the Bible should be read, at least by anyone who wants to be accounted a substantively literate person. I am just saying that it would not end our problems with right-wing, evolution-denying, gay-hating, narrow minded Christianists.


(Source: Richard Dawkins at The Guardian)

Sylvia

Recall that Sylvia is contemplating the first snowfall from her dorm/sorority window, and her thoughts take a surprisingly dark turn, as she starts to write about war and the end of civilizations, starting off thus: “Now there is a stippling of white caught on the edge of things, and I wonder what would happen to us all if the planes came, and the bombs.” I suppose this is the influence of her studies aided by a morbid streak.

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Yet, while America dies like the great Roman Empire died, while the legions fail and the barbarians overrun our tender, steak-juicy, butter-creamy million-dollar-stupendous land, somewhere there will be the people that never mattered much in our scheme of things anyway. In India, perhaps, or Africa, they will rise.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950

Sylvia

Recall that Sylvia is contemplating the first snowfall from her dorm/sorority window, and her thoughts take a surprisingly dark turn, as she starts to write about war and the end of civilizations, starting off thus: “Now there is a stippling of white caught on the edge of things, and I wonder what would happen to us all if the planes came, and the bombs.” I suppose this is the influence of her studies aided by a morbid streak.

_ _ _

Yet, while America dies like the great Roman Empire died, while the legions fail and the barbarians overrun our tender, steak-juicy, butter-creamy million-dollar-stupendous land, somewhere there will be the people that never mattered much in our scheme of things anyway. In India, perhaps, or Africa, they will rise.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950