Subject: Re: the royal path (or, how to win friendsss and achieve nirvana)
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 02:02:25 GMT
--- Jive Monkey <monkey_jive@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Cecilia-
>
> I read your original post on the royal path, and I really like it and
> believe it may be the best interpretation of the Glass stories ever.
Thanks, but I can't take credit for most of it. It was just the result
of some research, much of it from Eberhard Alsen's very fine book on the
Glass stories.
I still feel that the stories are more about Buddy than Seymour, but
that's just experience talking, a gut feeling that's impossible to
prove. (And I've tried, more than once.)
And I'm sorry, but I need to address this:
> ... for some reason I can't help but insert here something a
> friend of mine, a girl, said recently about religious girls with
> wrought iron chastity belts: "I dont' know where they get off thinking
> they can go out on dates and get all the attention that a boyfriend
> gives and not put out."
Umm, no. This is the sort of psychobabble that allows people justify
all sorts of scenarios to themselves that they couldn't otherwise
justify. What a person does, sexually or otherwise, is what they feel
that they can live with. Someone (male or female) with an "iron
chastity belt" chooses not to do what the rest of the world seems to be
doing for reasons of their own. Their choice. And it's up to noone but
themselves to justify it.
That the majority of folks seem to want to get naked right away is
something I won't deny. Can't deny. But the more that I think about
it, I was wrong to generalize about men and amounts of time. Because
though your average guy usually tries something, your average girl
doesn't necessarily say yes. And it's her right to do so. Rosaries or
no rosaries.
This statement from your female friend denies that right. Unfortunately,
she's not alone in her viewpoint. She's just vocalized the feeling in
society that allows people to feel like something which is a gift is
their right. It's not. Taking this statement to its natural conclusion
would allow some very great wrongs to go unchecked.
People need to start recognizing again what is sacred. We keep throwing
away our sacred items, our ideals, our spirituality, and nothing's left.
It shouldn't just be recreation. To paraphrase a guy a whole lot
smarter than I am, all we ever do our whole lives long is go from one
piece of holy ground to the next. Sometimes that holy ground is where
you sleep.
Sure, he may not have been perfect, but he sure as hell knew what he was
talking about.
Regards,
Cecilia.
(Stepping off her soapbox now. Sorry.)
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