NP: three dispensations /GRGR Meta - light and dark

[Michael Bailey]

 Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Heady goal, no?
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> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.



Very!  Not to mention your 4-18-2005 reverie.  Though I just did.  Amazing
stuff.  I hope you've only just begun, it's great and inspiring reading!

I really like the way you incorporate the teachings in the Bible into all
aspects of life, including things that are x-rated.  I share with you the
experience of mental illness: 15 years on Trilafon (my doctor retired and I
found a new psychiatrist who told me after 2 interviews that I didn't need a
psychiatrist - this was in 1998 after I finally got married) a wonderful
halfway house experience in 1978, a number of wild experiences, most of
which are funny in retrospect; also, shame and admission that I have done
things requiring deep and abiding contrition - and a faith in a just and
merciful God (Providence, savior, universal life force, guiding
intelligence, Guardian Angel, "Principle" (wasn't there some book or movie
where the characters, instead of saying God, would say "Principle!" - one in
particular, a functionary but with a voice like Rock Bottom in the
Poindexter cartoons, stays in my mind) or, Storyteller, if you will)

I liked Gravity's Rainbow and read it as a rollicking read.  My overwhelming
tendency is toward happiness and feeling good, so I may have tended to skip
over the dark portions and implications in the text.  In addition, although
present, my delectation of x-rated material is limited, so I tend to focus
on g-rated material, and I have next to no appreciation of violence, so I
de-select violent subject matter whenever possible, no matter how artfully
presented.  My read of Gravity's Rainbow and my plan to post once a day,
moving forward a section per week, so far have been working fairly well for
me.  I devoutly hope that I have not offended anyone and will change, or
even curtail my style, on request.  I'm not easily offended, nor sensitive
about much, though I have vowed the 4 Noble Vows: (for which I thank
Salinger); the idea that I cause pain causes me pain. If there were a kind
of immediate or even thiotimoline((TM) (Dr Asimov))-based pre-knowledge that
were conscience-making, such as in the PDF and Revelations and the other
references you mention, a cyberneutic (?) guide, that would be a great
blessing indeed

(liking to continue something I perceive as a good thing, such as reading GR
more thoroughly than I ever have before, and this time with attention to the
scholarly and religious references)

Your erudition leaves me in the dust.  Not just yours, but that of many
(most? all?) other posters.  I can respond to what I catch, and grope for
some of the rest.

I'm not sure whether to specify a copyleft for my postings, or a BSD-style
license, so unless I otherwise request, please put my words in the public
domain (if the public domain will have them)
  Will respect other arrangements to the best of my ability, and limit
quotes to fair usage, though MLA format is a little formal for many of my
outpourings.

michael lee bailey
"I had it in mind to say that" - Temple, in Portrait
"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you, my friend,
when the demon is at your door, in the morning it won't be there no more" -S
Dan
"I had it in mind to say that" - Temple, in Portrait
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