The 7th question from seeking philosophical heroines...

ESSHOC · June 10, 2005, 10:40am

ESSHOC:

http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1443447) Religiously, we embody in ourselves some interesting living contradictions, that have proved very difficult for other philosophers even to accept, of being simultaneously Christian and Buddhist in that the husband is a born-again Christian and ordained minister currently earning his salary by performing Christian weddings in a country that’s 98% non-Christian, as are therefore the couples he joins in marriage. Yet his spirituality has extended by engagement in zen and yoga with years spent in both meditation and more active pursuits such as giving away all his money and walking barefoot through the Himalayan Mountains clad in the orange robes of an Indian sadu carrying only a sleeping mat and begging bowl. Husband and wife are both now certified members of Nichirenshu though the wife was raised in Zenhhu as a samurai boy as occasionally still happens in traditional families with first-born daughters. Her father said, “Well I’d hoped for a son, but it can’t be helped, so I’ll just raise her like one,” and entered on her honseki (national registration) the samurai nickname Saemonnojo, The Guardian of the Left Gate, a famous samurai hero; however, in addition to this intensive training in martial arts technique and philosophy, the wife was also taught both English and Christian doctrine from her pre-school years by two neighbors who were, respectively, head of the English department and headmaster at a college spun off decades earlier from the English school of the Nagasaki Y.M.C.A. Surely, there are one or two spiritual questions worthy of philosophical investigation with which we are intimate?

As I proposed that we’d have a couple of spiritual questions to investigate, let’s consider these two topics:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/sweet/song/the_sprituaL_sexuality_of_jesus_christ.htmJesus Christ’s sexuality. <-A topic I discussed with other philosophers and which we analyzed at GREAT l-e-n-g-t-h half a year ago that I have posted on this web page for your delectation.
http://www.dreamviews.com/Lucid Dreaming. Especially as presented in the film, http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte484v/wakinglife.htmlWaking Life. <-Many scenes illustrated and discussed here. See this film if you possibly can. It’s a life-altering experience.

“And what on Earth,” some might ask, “is the connection between these two subjects?”

“Well, hell,” we’d explain, “Jesus in the best metaphor we’ve ever found for the human condition outside of lucid dreaming.”

Sin-searingly yours, Hypatia Theon (As always prayer-fully at home in “The One.”