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January 2010 
What makes something sacred?
Posted on Oct 11th, 2009
by 
Shameslaya
Shameslaya
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 11, 2009:
The consensual conferring of a judgement tempered by selfobject need, ostensive awe, snakeoil-duping, experimental zeal or obsessive ritualism...it isn't in the object (although pretechno folk ascribe sacredness to a certain something which resides within the object...the Golden Bough is replete with such info...eg manas to the Polynesian tribes....and note that this sacred something differs from the idea of shakti or prana which animates everything....in that this manas-stuff has the magico-mythic quality of ascribing a level of sentience to the object which the object does not, in veritas, possess...)....it isn't in the object, it's our decision to confer sacredness on your dog's crap or the pope's ring....thus everything is sacred in those times when you have the blissed-out unitive experience, and nothing is when you lose a loved one to murder.
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what of the sacredness of everything in itself rather than the subjective conferring of sanctity? much love
“thus everything is sacred in those times when you have the blissed-out unitive experience, and nothing is when you lose a loved one to murder.” Amen Brother
Smacko!! Hit the nail on the head and drive it home.
wooohoooo baby !!!
gags on use of baby word…
:D
but but God lives in my rabbits foot! are you telling me He doesn't??
(fakes dismay)
Nicole; sounds a bit metaphysical to me.
Gil; om shanti
Sandi; banging steel pins into the coffin of magical duplicity
Elisa; God may live in your rabbits foot but he also resides in every nasty thought and devastating tragedy that ever befell ye
smoochies :)
you're right! rather :)
yes god lives in thoughts of smothies too