First Self Righteous Church of the Hypocrite » enlightenment http://fsrcoth.org hypocrisy gets a bad rap sometimes Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:53:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Children of the night http://fsrcoth.org/musings/children-of-the-night/ http://fsrcoth.org/musings/children-of-the-night/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:15:03 +0000 http://www.fsrcoth.org/wordpress/?p=61 Twentieth-century mystic Simone Weil wrote, “Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.” my mind boggles at the popularity of the “Twilight” series of novels and films, although I am certainly not their target demographic, … Continue reading →

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]]> 20111125-231034.jpgTwentieth-century mystic Simone Weil wrote, “Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.” my mind boggles at the popularity of the “Twilight” series of novels and films, although I am certainly not their target demographic, still I wonder at our ongoing fascination with vampires, werewolves, zombies and other “supernatural” monsters from the pages of history. Dwelling on this at length, I am inclined to believe that perhaps our modern enlightened age has stripped away so many of the things we used to fear in the dark recesses of our own unconscious minds, and our contemporary goddess “Reason” has left us all yearning for a simpler time with simpler monsters. Today, we look out of our comfortable ring of man-made firelight, the pitiful flickering barely illuminating our primative mud dwellings, and out in the darkness-but for the grace of God-there we ourselves lurk shambling in the night. Perhaps Edward the vampire is more comfortable than that after all…

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