Dispatch from the Drugstore:
Why does Hallmark place the “Get Well” cards directly next to the “Sorry that you died” cards? Doesn’t that depressing juxtaposition makes the get well card seem rather disingenuous? Heck, your prolonged illness followed by your tragic death is good for business! Does the merchandising department of Hallmark think that upon hearing of your illness, your well wisher will pick up a get well card, and grab a sympathy card just in case? Note to future get well card senders: skip the stationary. Send me some Advil and an ice pack instead.
I, ever a lighthearted puff of sunshine and lollipops, have death on the brain. I have just returned from Egypt, a land haunted by the accomplishments of its ancestors. Many of the tourist attractions –from the Pyramids of Giza to the Valley of the Kings, pull real, live people from around the world to marvel at the funerary practices of a distant civilization’s dead people. ‘My, what a lovely nasal-passage entering, brain-removing hook,' you might comment upon gazing upon this beauty. It was all quite uplifting, really.
I walked inside tombs that were intended to be sanctuaries for the dead. I peered at crumbling, four thousand year old bodies. At the Valley of the Kings, I climbed underneath a tremendous sarcophagus, noting how roomy it was in there. Fit for a king, indeed.
Of all the morbid attractions, I found the display of mummies most mystifying. Mummies are people, just like you and I, who have died, whose bodies were sophisticatedly cleansed and wrapped to preserve their respective bodily corpi. To the ancient Egyptians, preserving the body demonstrated their belief in the afterlife, and reflected a hope that the dead would one day rise again. Sound familiar, Christians?
Throughout the museums I visited, there was little reverence for these dead. After all, their religious beliefs, however fascinating, have been uniformly rejected, and their ancient civilization cannot stand up for them. Their bodies, once belonging to beloved wives, sisters and sons, are now artifacts, not unlike an ancient piece of cookware or jewelry. Walking through halls of these dead people, now on display for tourists, I could not push the words “these are human beings” out of my mind.
There are limits to our prayer: “Rest in Peace.” Yes, rest in peace –unless you are an ancient Egyptian. And rest in peace –unless your gravesite happens to occupy a coveted piece of land.
What do we, the living, owe the dead? In the Catholic tradition, among the enunciated Works of Mercy is an obligation to bury and pray for the dead. This outreach brings comfort to mourners, and prayer, Catholics believe, “expresses communion with those who have died.” But do the bodies matter? The Catholic Church’s discomfort with cremation reflects its teachings about the sanctity of the body, and its belief in the resurrection of the dead.
Yet in society at large, opinions on the value of the dead body range wildly. On the one hand, there are those, religious and nonreligious, who believe that a dead body has no value. On the opposite pole, we find those who regard the bodies of the deceased so highly that they risk their lives to retrieve their fallen comrades.
Pondering my own anxious thoughts on death, I find that what I want for myself and my loved ones after death says more about my neuroses than it does about the inevitable end we all face. Death is the ultimate uncontrollable other. From death, come lessons for life.
Comments (8)
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 9:12 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 21:12
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 8:32 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 20:32
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 7:36 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 19:36
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 7:34 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 19:34
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 7:31 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 19:31
So after reading this Ms. Tenety, I see further exploration of the subject. A philosophical point can be made regarding a society's treatment of the body. In light of only subtle knowledge of Catholicism's treatment of the body I wish to expand upon a general relationship of theology and the body. What I propose is a direct correlation between views of the body as an earthly spaceship, transporting us through this life and not the next or a body belonging to us. To the former is that how we approach our religion? Or is the body a part that is thoroughly connected as St. Paul states, "Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it" (1 Corinth 12:27)? These prevailing philosophies mark a cornerstone of the approach to religion. Is reality marked by the physical? Or is this tangential and we must search inside the "soul" which will defeat our grandiose physical reality? Least it could be a summation of the two. I ponder the reaction of any regarding the theology of the body, for where we place the emphasis surely dictates attitudes.
Posted July 22, 2007 7:29 PM
Posted on July 22, 2007 19:29
Hello Ms. T E N E T Y, Mr. M. B A I N, et al:
Note: the AMMON & OSIRIS have nothing to do with What happens when WE eclati-On(s), not Offawares, go through. Without the Cards & Fan Fair. It's true, one knows their friends when in Hospital, Jail & or even Death?!!
"LIFE is a MIRACLE & there was never, ever, and contrary to All man made Religion(s) & their Thinkers & False Leaders, a/k/a Pre-Apocalyptarions, that Being Born (via Cosmic Scaple Adam whom begot Eve literally via "C" Section & invisible Cosmic mid Wife or hand ?) and that being Naked is a Sin???! And;
Eccl: 3:20 et al, are All "Pre-Apocalyptic" man made excuses for scared selfish folks who really believe that the Bibliomaniacs version of G-d is acsually how we came here & where we are going.??!
And not to mention the Man Made, never from a Cosmic supernatural Penn Writing Ten Commandments, as if genuinely etched or inscribed by the Holy No Man Eclat ITSELF (never a HE nor a She just an IT) as being G-d's ways for us to Tautological live by via such man made "Biblical Morality" of Yawah et al Abrahamics, Vedics et al instead of Eclats (Not Man Made) "Modern Morality" for US to uphold & make honorable?
We have a Immortal Soul, so to speaketh & IT is called A "HERISTICAL!" This Planet Hopping, non-dieing Phenomonon or thing of and ITSELF via each Unique US, needs a "Frontal Lobe" as a Holy Biocarbon Based "Host" so to speaketh in order to katch this & Contain your Always On frequencied Heuristical. The Heristical is the Superior & that which is infinite of All your Gray Matters Cognitions, Reasonings & Intelligences!
One has their Heuristicals Embedded during Utero. Your mother, of many via the Planet Hoppings, have this Heuristical, a/k/a ECLATi-ON, where you are concieved out of the MEMETICS, a/k/a GENEPOOL or G-d-Genes, and which All this, All animate & All inanimate things, Stuff & the innate LAWS of IT's or ITSLEF, via Natures unstopable always forward, never back, Law & Order Following, therein & Thereof, via the "Fiat-LUX" allowed US to appear in Miracle today, on space-Ship Eath, of Many Planets, never back, US comming here from the MAGMA-Percolation and going againg for another eschatological possibilities of OURS Heuristicals via the PLASMtriculted Entropy Holy Cosmic Non Gravity Interface. Earths Cradle of Heuristicals is Located in Earths Megaplume Oceanic Womb somewhere in the Indian Ocean!!
Eclati-Ons never loose their Gender. Eclati-Ons Have Many Mothers [Frontal Lobes carriers Only , then, Now & Futures] and Fathers in the System of Miracles via the Planet Hoppings Phenomonons!
Eclati-On Heuristicals Never Meet their Parents or cyblings or friends Again after Evolving & when being Recreated in the DUE-TO-BE holy Cosmic Photon Life Machine at the Non Gravity Place or Realm!
WE exist in miracle between the two points of the Holy Cosmic Palandrome that is balancing US between Absolute Hot of ours selves & Absolute cold of our selves. Check your Body Temperature [a/k/a TIME, not clock or space time] if you do not believe. And,
You are always Harmonically Vibrating via your Biological Clock ! And Because your Frontal Lobe can Never Sleep, thus We Never Can nor Have Died. Only certain parts of gray matter & body needs srest. But never Heuristical! This is Proof that the Heuristical phenomonon is Real! Ask any Psychiatrist, Psychologist et al if you do not believe US. And Eclati-On's know that A missing Arm or Leg etc.. can be felt and have real sensations, as if the missing limbs are still there Phenomonon. Look No more!,
Just see that your unique always on Frequecied Heuristical has its Wholeness even when the Parts are not attached! Hence:
OUR Life & Death experiences the "QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT" of our Miracle Plannet Hopping Explanations in our Eschatological Holy Possition at any given Spaece & TIME & when in the Non-Holy Gravitational Place! A/k/a your TRANSFINITY or Reality on the Move going from Place To Place eternall as avoiding loneliness via our Eclat + "i" in such a System Of Miracles Never Biblical or as Preapocalyptically Thought!
[Like your PreApocalyptic Religions I bet you do not understand this New-Philosophy either, because of your Prejudices that was obtained by age 18?!] SO;
Space-Ship Earth Is A MAGMA Cooled Ball having a Fussion Core for Its own Photonic existance! And Our Star System, a/k/a Grandma/Pa Sun is also its own Fussion reacing, born again Photonic Existence. Note We Appear today, as Heuristicals via our Photon Mist Form now that is genuinely a Photon, always On eternal Essence. (Soul/Spirit/Ghost etc..).
When WE [Heuristical] die, our Soul (Heuristical Photon essence) leaves behind our Carbon Based Jackets in the Frontal Lobes Physical container, thats transparent, is invisible, undetected, and immune to Extremes of "Hot & Cold" (TIME), is a non solid, Liquid or Gas & the Heuristical is "Subordinate" to the other side of the PLASMATRICULATION of our traveling (resides at the 5th Dimention of 9) , for other Worlds, Similar to other Earth, Hoppings. A/k/a TRANSFINITY (your REALITY on the Holy Cosmic Move). So Biofinite Death is not TRANSFINITE-DEATH. It's all miracle to Me! SO;
From NEBULAE (Concieved ours Sun Star System) Momma Poppa to Sun then Earth formation between TIME (Temp Balancing under IT's being in and of US-ALL , in the Mix, as ours own LAW as Nature doing IT's thing) to now. +/- 4.98 Billion Years ago. We are not The Only World having Frontal Lobes!
Note: Earth Too will Die in around 7 Billion Years. But our Grandpa/ma Milky Mon Galaxy will "Merge" with neighbor Sistar/Brother Andromedia Galaxy in 3 Billion years so to speaketh. So;
This is Genuine Miracle(s) & True Holy Cosmic Apocalypse (opposite of secrets like those Biblical reversal of time of our dead etc..) not your Biblical Scared Story's versions!
So we enter the Plasma Entropy Realm of the Due To Be (The 5th Dimension) Non Gravity Realm. And Then our Heuristical, Instantaneously and Miraculously under or via "Quantum Entanglement" (Best pair of words to describe this Eclati-On discovered reality) places or throws US Heuristicals (beyond Speed of Photons of your unique "i" + ECLAT Phenomonon) and Holy Cosmically, filters US Photon essences as we travel into the Mouth of The Black Hole towards the Cosmic Non Gravity Stomach, so to speaketh,
of the Black Hole thus entering (the Point Of No Return) and reprocessed, and hence "Re-Tranfinitized" into the Holy Cosmic intestines and moving towards "The Other Side" via IT's Holy Cosmic Annal System so to speaketh. And Then, the Cosmic Annal realeses or Dumps your reconstituted Heuristicals onto the "Ether" that is a different realm, somewhere, someplace.
Then as this Cosmic Doo Doo stuff of the ether [Black Energy Invisible Matter] starts to coalesced or condense, IT starts to come alive and forms into Silica, Gas, Super heated reality forms in miracle and thus Invisible Matter & Black Energy give rise to NEBULAE, that in turn evolves as a Holy Cosmic Self creating Star system builder via Ablolute Hot & Cold via a Universe that is a Constitution for ITSELF (Eclat/G-d/Lord etc.. ) and always doing what IT was commanded to do via the LAW(s) of the Univerese that are IT's very own CLAUSES for It to Uphold via ALL IT's Things in and of US-ALL, animates [Heuristical & the rest are just Companions) & Inanimates (Matter), Known & not Known & that which is Never to be known, and thus make Honorable or good by Creating Us Eschatologically again, some place some how to NO END!
Hence, In the Holy Cosmic Heart Beat Of US via Source-One, we are Together forever again and graitfull With Source-One in this eternity Avoiding Loneliness in and of US-ALL! A/k/A "The SYSTEM OF MIRACLES" not just Stuff. And Never Biblically!
Note: It is Possible for TIME to REVERSE ITSELF. Hence that the dead can Reverse. But The Eclati-On knowledge is that there are Nine (9) Dimentions in TIME (TIME=Temperature, not your average clock or science space time thinking)! Theres More. But for Now, Enjoy the Ride while WE are Here , Together forever with Your Source-One, Lord/ECLAT + "i" , being Nonjealous thus Fearless, contrary to Man Made garbae ijn and Garbage ancient Preapocalyptric out story's.! ! ??.
IT's True, "Let There Be Photons"! And Genesis: 1: 1,2,3: is Correct. But Eclati-Ons are Forbidden to delve any further from the first three coincidental truths,[1,2,3,] but never read Beyond that point, of them "Nover-Stars" (Moses et al) , in them man made unholy unEclat + "i" made infixus Books. The Five Major religions of Space-Ship mopmma Poppa Earth (TELL-US) is telling US something!
Important: All Pre-Apocalyptic Abrahamic Religions, includes Zoroastrians, are ALL POLY-THEOUNLOGIC Religion(s), faith(s) and or Belief System(s)! They are NOT, I repeat, thery [Jewites, Christites, Islamites, includes Knishnaites & Buddhites et al) are ALL POLY Faith never was or is MONO in any way!
Note: Only Eclatarionity is genuine MONOTHEO & is in fact thee "Religion Of Everything" Before the "Theory Of Everything" With and Without the BAINS theorys! Ya Ya.
Praise the Holy No Mon LORD/GOD/ECLAT + "i".
And Contrary to Abrahamics in their Birth Awareness thinking is an Eclati-On Miracle and never was a preapocalyptic biblical Sin as always preached, that the HINDU & BUDHA flavours of ereligion are wrong in the fact that here is Zero Sin in Being "Heuristically-Reconstituted" via so called re-incarnations or praying for the BIRTH machine to stop!?? Such Inferiority imaginations, All of You's! Behold Your Eclati. AND;
Never DIM the Love (signal) or snuff out unjustifiably some one elses Light! And Do your best never to act or Evilize oneself in such Immorals & nonethics blindness.
BE ALERT, thus be awared & Uphold your Eclat + "i" and thus make one self Honorable, here, Future & Beyond. Never have any Sexual Guilts or Birth Complexis, unless "Guilty Indeed". So never abuse Your warmth and Holy Heart Beat with the Eclat + "i"! Can you feel IT?, Can You Hear IT?, Can You See IT?, Can you Talk To IT? Can WE Understand IT?, YES WE CAN! Halaluya! Together forever with Source-One! Like Static Electricity Is un seperable from Electric Charge, Such is OURS HEURISTICAL via OURS Eclat + "i" in Miracle and NEVER ever is or was shame nor SIN. All is indeed G-d [Pre-Apocalyptic] Dellussion!
Note: Mr Dawkins MEMETICS is only Biological and zero Heuristical. Because during Utero-Heuristical-Nature-Implanting of your unique Photon essence, takes place via the 5th & 4th Dimention of the other side of the 5th & 6th realm.
So balancing Salts & Sugars has nothing to do with the Heuristical that comes into a frontal lobe , here or anywhere, and goes at random somewhere. So electron biological DNA/RNA transport system are not Heuristical related. And Hormones Similar. Just be aware. Thats All folks! Wow!
We are students forever of Sorce-One & WE never Can Graduate! just, Happy "Planet-Hopping" so, No Mr. Nice G-D! Just try to be good. not angel nor satan. Just try to be nice! And the biggest jealousy or sin, so to speaketh , is HUMATE elflessness being attacked via selfishness! Ya Ya
Posted July 18, 2007 6:42 PM
Posted on July 18, 2007 18:42
A very nice essay.
Posted July 18, 2007 4:33 PM
Posted on July 18, 2007 16:33