QUEEN as Chattel

When Queen Elizabeth I said, "I'm a hopeless romantic... in that I see no hope in romance." consideration has to given. Didn't she have a failed relationship or two in her years and didn't British law control her ovaries in a manner of speaking? As Queen protocol restricted her sex life, and conditioned men of the court had to follow certain rules with consequences should they be broken for a sexual liaison with the Queen. So, it makes sense. If what I recollect is true romance had no place for her to indulge in romantic daydreams or romantic trysts. 

 There is a depth to Queen Elizabeth I's insight. I had not considered it from the weight of her view as Queen and a woman. But, if memory services me correct didn't she rule as an unmarried woman? In England, that statement has to be clarified. It has to be rated against the backdrop of the times and the conditions she created for herself in that brutal and crude culture she presided over.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

4.7.16



Fluvia Lacerda on the balcony stands in stark contrast to the conditions of royalty and womanhood of Queens of Europe in centuries past. It is a question of freedom. Are women free in the 21st century, or under less restraints? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.10.16

PRACTICE 40

A MYSTERY TEACHES

One of the finer things in life is newness, and the presence and feel of virginity. Virginity has never escaped the notice of the jaded, the experienced, or those who've lost theirs without fanfare. In the same breath those who've given their virginity away in a blessed and precious way have a continuous relationship with themselves different and far removed from an initial bitterness in the mouths of those whose virginity was not treasured.

Virginity and the Virgin are to be reared as holy beings in a world that despises the newness of dawn, the freshness of Spring, the touch of Earth, our Mother, the exuberance of children's play, and the hope for a better day.

How life would be different with reverence. How sex would feel if being held were as intense as being loved. What words would be said if a man knew how being touched determines the nature of sex. In the strong bodies of young women the right man's thrust into her will empower the two of them plunging them intertwined into the mysterious aspects of their essences and who they are! His semen would have the thickness and weight of integrity, and secure the presence of the security his soul gives her to grant him permission inside her.

Pussy is precious and magical. It tastes, and feels that way, and throughout the duration of its vitality should be the expansion of the notions of play and foreplay, intercourse, exchange, eloping, and merging into one entity tied to each other's soul. Maturity emerges from the profound mysterious impact and fact of sexual play into discovery of the soul's heart song.

Iam the promise of more; more time with you, more time to live, to dream, to be in your body present, stimulated and contributing to the waters of Life. I am because you are. 

Here is a riddle of existence: "Pussy and Divinity; one comes from the other which came first?" 

– Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.23.13 

Delotta Brown is sucking her finger...

Amanda Jean 



Vanity in purple nighty.

 

a Watching Parable: the 10 Virgins



Aida King in the moment !!

October 19, 2015

Parable of the Ten Virgins


Narrative

In the Parable of the Ten Virgins, Jesus tells a story about a party of virgins, perhaps bridesmaids^[2] or torchbearers for a procession,^[3] chosen to participate in a wedding. Each of the ten virgins is carrying a lamp or torch^[3] as they await the coming of the bridegroom, which they expect at some time during the night. Five of the virgins are wise and have brought oil for their lamps. Five are foolish and have only brought their lamps.

At midnight, all the virgins hear the call to come out to meet the bridegroom. Realising their lamps have gone out, the foolish virgins ask the wise ones for oil, but they refuse, saying that there will certainly not (Greek ou mē)^[4] be enough for them to share. While the foolish virgins are away trying to get more oil, the bridegroom arrives. The wise virgins then accompany him to the celebration. The others arrive too late and are excluded.

"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, "Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!" Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, saying, "What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us." But he answered, "Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you." Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming."

— Matthew 25:1-13, World English Bible



Japanese rope bondage is commonly called shibari in the US,
but kinbaku is a more correct term.

Interpretations

The parable is one of a sequence of responses to a question in Matthew 24:3:

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

— Matthew 24:3, King James Version

Other parables in this sequence include the parable of the budding fig tree (Matthew 24:32–35) and the parable of the Faithful Servant (Matthew 24:42–51). The parable of the Ten Virgins reinforces the call for readiness in the face of the uncertain time of this second "coming."^[2] It has been described as a "watching parable."^[5] Like the parable of the Lost Coin, it is a parable about women which immediately follows, and makes the same point as, a preceding parable about men.^[6]

In this parable, Jesus Christ is the bridegroom,^[2][5] echoing the Old Testament image of God as the bridegroom in Jeremiah 2:2 and similar passages.^[2] The awaited event is the Second Coming of Christ.^[2][5] R. T. France writes that the parable is "a warning addressed specifically to those inside the professing church who are not to assume that their future is unconditionally assured."^[2]

The parable does not criticise the virgins for sleeping, since both groups do that,^[3] but for being unprepared. It is not clear exactly what form this lack of preparation takes: the foolish virgins may have taken insufficient oil or, if they light their lamps or torches for the first time when the bridegroom arrives (having slept through the previous hours of darkness), they may have brought no oil at all^[4] (it is also unclear as to whether the foolish virgins succeed in purchasing any oil that night:^[7] most shops would not have been open^[8][9]).

The parable is not written in praise of virginity,^[5] and indeed Louis of Granada, in his The Sinner's Guide of 1555, writes "No one makes intercession with the Bridegroom for the five foolish virgins who, after despising the pleasures of the flesh and stifling in their hearts the fire of concupiscence, nay, after observing the great counsel of virginity, neglected the precept of humility and became inflated with pride on account of their virginity."^[10]

Spencer W. Kimball gave an LDS perspective on the difference between the wise and the foolish virgins, and why they could not share the oil: "This was not selfishness or unkindness. The kind of oil that is needed to illuminate the way and light up the darkness is not shareable. How can one share obedience to the principle of tithing; a mind at peace from righteous living; an accumulation of knowledge? How can one share faith or testimony? How can one share attitudes or chastity.... Each must obtain that kind of oil for himself.... In the parable, oil can be purchased at the market. In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living."^[11][12]





White mother's concept of care!!!!

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VIRGINITY: first a virgin

Virginity:


Have a bit of respect for this. The first time doesn't so much 'matter more' to a woman than to a man, but it matters differently. If you find yourself getting into bed with a girl who is a virgin on only a few hours or minutes acquaintance, your're going too fast for both of you. For a start, she's unlikely to be baby-proof: stay with the non-coital extras until you're both quite sure you know what you are doing. Cutting notches is irresponsible. Whatever you do be gentle and slow, as she's bound to be tense and nervous - even if she doesn't look it. 

Girls who are virgins will usually say (you can't tell reliably by inspection) and a loving man will ask - men don't usually advertise the fact. However experienced he seems, the idea should be in the back of the woman's mind that this could be the first time and he may need help: if you're critical or disappointed you could do real mischief. If you're both virgins, you are starting from scratch - don't hurry it.  

There's usually no physical problem over first intercourse if you're careful. The commonest is simply male over-eagerness or nervousness. If there are problems, get them dealt with at once. 

~ p. 92 from the best seller, 

The Joy of Sex: a gourmet guide to love making edited by Alex Comfort, M.B., Ph.D. 

demands upon a woman 

 Mary wasn't the first holy virgin. The mother of Jesus was not the first to have the story of immaculate conception. That being said let these words be the impetus for an intellectual journey and spiritual adventure to unravel what you have accepted as Biblical truth and look beyond the guise of originality Western Christianity imposes upon the senses at the same time espousing a lifetime of separation from Earth's energies, and a spiritual conquest of women's wombs, their sexuality with the props that support the illusion of power. An example of the illusion is as simple as the priest robes worn by Roman Catholic priests. The most horrific take over was the conquest of the womb by rape, and the assumptions of Western medicine that white men know more about birth than any woman's mid-wife. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.11.15

Rebecca Love on beach 

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a Style of a Mogul

Let's Talk Universal Spirituality! 

Religion is Sexual…The Christian religion begins with a virgin who gets pregnant, outside of marriage, something the religion itself dogmatically forbids. Merry Christmas!

From the huge child molestation scandal that has racked the Catholic church to sex scandals by Protestant preachers from Jimmy Swaggart to Ted Haggard (former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and a former ORU college mate of mine), it seems that more than ever, the story of sexuality and Christianity has become a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” Why the proliferation of sexual misbehavior among “holiness people,” and especially among ministers?

The Reality show, "LA Preachers" has raised the subject of sex, "sin" humanity and indeed reality in a way that has people considerably interested in discussing the delicate subject anew.

In religious circles, human sexuality, especially homosexuality is a profoundly delicate and passionately avoided taboo. Christian religion is subtly built around sexuality and sexism. After all, it begins with God supposedly impregnating a teenage virgin already pledged to, presumably a much older man. You would think God would have chosen an uncommitted, slightly older woman.

From the outset of our cherished religion, the God we are taught to revere and worship, all but breaks up a home and commits a form of adultery. Adultery is one of the foremost sins banned by the Ten Commandments, so is this an act of holy hypocrisy? If so, it was perhaps the First Hypocrisy in a landscape littered with faith leaders and “fathers” who professed sexual purity in public only to engage in lewd and lascivious acts behind closed doors…until they were found out.

Christian theology teaches that Jesus bore our sins, actually becoming sin while not necessarily sinning, and yet the Holy Spirit is said to have impregnated Mary while she was betrothed to another man. How this actually took place remains a mystery we are expected to accept by faith. We can either assume it to have been “spiritual insemination” or that somehow the third member of the Trinity actually had physical intimacy with a 12, or 13 year old girl. Today, that would be considered statutory rape. The Holy Spirit would have to be arrested and prosecuted for such a crime. The thought seems preposterous indeed. Imagine the prep walk, the plea, the press conference: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Mary…” And then we wonder why our subculture has such a preoccupation—a forbidden yet irresistible fascination—with sexuality and the sexual act. It’s not a mystery. The Christian religion begins with a sex act that we have spiritualized and sanctified as holy and even wholesome. Our salvation is tied to it.

Christianity, like most religions, is a fertility religion founded on the idea of the sacredness of life, beginning with its procreation and followed by its consecration and preservation. Fertility religions emphasize the importance of life and its origins, beginning with human genesis, (genetics) sexual or spiritual. Both were revered as the beginnings of life. From the start of the human race there has been a preoccupation with how we got here and where we go when we leave. Since life comes through male and female conjugal relations, our first reverence and forms of worship revolved around sex and its attributes.

We are taught that we Christians are God’s spiritual seed and that we should be randomly scattered over the planet in order to extend God’s family on earth. Millions, particularly our Catholic family, even call Christ the Immaculate Conception. And even though Mary had at least six more children (presumably by Joseph), she is still revered and worshiped as a Virgin. Did her many sexual acts with her husband in later years simply not count, or would we rather ignore them? Our entire Christmas holiday (holy day) revolves around a pregnant virgin chosen by God to be the mother of Christ if not of Christianity itself. Are we missing something here?

-  Carlton Pearson dec. 14, 2013

Tyra Banks in a gown in shadow

Mother's protest