\Ahem ... i has your attention pleasing?
*grin*
I like epiphanies, have at least a day ... mind numbing, soul wrenchin ... OMG so THAT's how it is epiphanies. OK, most are really awful, simplistic and silly, but i still like to think that some are good, even important.
Which is how i was thinking about obelisks the other day. And how they were symbolic of the male phallus and paternalism of all sorts, etc etc. Lo and behold, i look up and see a church steeple. Um ... you following?
I bounced the idea off my wife, as i do several of my thoughts, sort of sanity check, and she immediately agreed, church = male chauvenism at it's finest. Well we COULD talk about St Peter's square at the vatican, and the centrepiece, a magnificent obelisk. The point is, this was done to us, this INSULT really. We all congregate (well churchgoing people) every sunday to celebrate under the efigy of a phallus.
It's gross ... it's such a big lie, which is probably why we don't see it. I kind of like churches .. the ideas behind them, the goodwill displayed, and the sense of community. But so many ideas, like steeples, seem to come from elsewhere. Where??
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