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[savage_arctic]

Today I was in Architecture History class, mind still racing as I just got my paper finished and turned in minutes before the beginning of the class. Today we were talking about ancient Greece temples. This is a fun lecture because you see the different columns and proportions, etc. Basically, you get to see what the big deal about Greek

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[blueyedchik]

we were talking about that exact thing in my mind body and society class. religion is based on a being or beings which one holds sacred. to be sacred that being(s) must have a devine power that both compells you toward it and pushes you back in fear. like you said without fear, God has no control. just as in all situations where power is the main aspect, with out fear of the consequences of being defient towards the "powerful one" there would be no power, no control.

love is, indeed, a system of power. but a system of power based on fear. fear that love may be taken away, fear that the love is not being returned, fear that you are not loving enough or in the right way. therefore love is a component of fear, which makes up power.

and on a side note, isn't it strange that sacred and scared are just one letter switched.

[savage_arctic]

Good point. Desserts is stressed backward. Something else to think about. :P

[reinja]

ah, now you are breaching the word love. No other word has so many conotations and dinotations, theories in psychology, communications, sociology, culture study, or anthropology study to it. Yet, for all of those, the problem is that it is simply an emotion, not a defined set of words. But because it is an emotion, it is impossible to take it out of us and place it into a media where it can be completely understood in all its vageries by another person, and hence, it has gained some notoriety as being different from other, more simple emotions. 5 different people could believe that they are in love, and it would more than likely be 5 different feelings. Anyway, I'll stop thinking I understand what I am talking about and leave you with that.

[reinja]

actually, the most commonly agreed upon mythology with medusa doesn't really involve jealousy so much. You see, apparently Medusa was a beautiful woman who Posiedon happened to rape in a temple of Athena. Athena, angry at the desicration of her temple, came down to that temple and assessed the situation. Seeing that medusa was pleading with her, posiedon could not be punished due to zeuses rule about the gods fighting each other directly, and her own anger at the event that just occured, she cursed Medusa with hair of snakes, a scaly body, stoning eyes,and claws of bronze, which she promised would not only make no man or god wish to rape her again, but would make her powerful enough to stop any man foolish enough to try. Needless to say, this made her more than a little bitter, and so she went away into seclusion, until perseus showed up, and the rest, as they say, is history

[savage_arctic]

Ah! That would be the other half of the problem! Good call! Illusions of fear to expose our insecurities so that we seek someone who claims to be stronger for salvation. Why is that so much in our society attact our confidence and tries to make us doubt ourselves? I'm getting rather tired of it.

[xcdragonfly]

I think my friend Jessi may have seen the same guy, or someone like him, some extremist Christian that was around your campus today. She was ranting about prejudice in a "loving" religion. guess that fits right in to all this.

[savage_arctic]

Thankfully, I didn't get to hear anything of what was said. I had my headphones on. But I just had a dream where I was walking back to my place, but to get there I had to cut through the backstage of a play put on by evangilist trying to convert people. The leader mentioned to remember to speak to this group and that group (I think one of them was Methodists), and I just stopped for a bit and chewed him out for discriminating. Strange dream.

[blueyedchik]

i wish people didn't try to convert people. freedom of thought, believes, and religions, i say!

[blueyedchik]

and by believes... i clearly meant beliefs

[savage_arctic]

Well, not only that, but it is also saying that your way is better than the other's. I know I'm not the greatest at this, but I try to remember that people will come to you when they need answers, and that you can't really just give it to them. Trouble is that it also works with memories too. The random person who decided to talk to me on the bus about construction seemed weird at the time, but later what he said made sense. Timing I guess.