My friend Micheal Herman (who is new to blogging but not to wikis) has added a really interesting point in my comments about the god/human division and Pilate’s role in the whole matter: ..there are those who’ve suggested that mao tse tung was a very high tibetan teacher, come to essentially take the karmic hit for busting the tibetan practices out of tibet so that the rest of the world could get at them. god messing in lives of people seems only to extend the division between god and people, no? That is a very interesting perspective. I replied: Maybe …
Our little place-blogging community has shown up on this week’s Carnival of the Vanities. Thanks to all who made it happen. Now go over there and read what these really interesting people have written about. Scroll down to the bottom to see the place blogging entry.
There is an amazing thing happening out there, in this post-Easter world. I admit to being a spellbound observer of the whole thing. Here’s the play by play: Bellona Times started the ball rolling with a riff on a Francis Bacon essay that treats Pontius Pilate as a sympathetic colonial bureaucrat who had been tricked by Jesus into fulfilling a prophecy he wanted no part of: Pilate’s patience is remarkable. Like later totalitarian regimes, neither imperial Rome nor Tudor England held truck with silence; self-incrimination was their favorite evidence, and they had no scruples about getting it. In fact, the …
Creation is a poem Poem, which is “creation” in Greek and thus St. Paul calls God’s Creation, POIEMA, like a poem by Homer, Padre Angel used to say. Each thing is like a “like” Like a “like” in a Huidobro poem. The entire cosmos copulation. And each thing is word, word of love. — Ernesto Cardenal Cosmic Canticle, Cantiga 2 “The Word” Vincente Huidobro (1893-1948) was a Chilean poet. He founded a school of poetry called “Creacionismo” or “creationism” “Creacionismo was the apotheosis for Huidobro, a space where the poet could assume a role as the divine. In his poem …