Friendsters photo limit sucks. It should be limitless and should be free. Cant post any pictures. Sucks.Back to the drawing board. Suck some more.

Good day, I experienced an unusual feeling today. When i was eating dinner I felt something was moving inside my chest. It felt like wrigling or a twitching sensation. It’s really odd that when i swallow my food, it felt like I was eating it directly to my heart. Whoa what a feeling. Probably it was caused by my gluttony that i was actually twitching of delight.

Saw Devil’s Reject, actually bought a dvd today and watched it. It’s an old film (2005) but it sure is awesome, that is if you like mayhem and decapitation movies. Any way heres the plot summary.

Sequel to ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby’s father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in ‘House of…’) who’s obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding’s half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.

Dont watch it!

The Wife Of Christ
In the first month of 1896, Dr. Carl Reinhardt was prowling Cairo’s antiquities market
when an Arab manuscript dealer offered him a new find. Though he couldn’t read the
inscriptions, the German scholar immediately haggled its purchase. Written a fifthcentury
Coptic language, the bundle contained the never before seen Gospel of Mary,
as well as three other previously lost works. But 10 key pages from Mary’s Gospel
were missing or removed.
Her name was actually Miriam, as Marys were called in those days. In the custom of
the Middle East, last names referred to the place of residence or birth.
Magdalaa was a small fishing village on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
the “Village of Doves” was renowned for its temple priestesses, who ritually reenacted
the union of God and His Spouse with chosen men of the area.
Of all the Goddesses, Yahweh’s consort, the Great Mother-Goddess Asherah, was the
most honored and beseeched. “Extremely popular in all segments of Hebrew
society,” explains Hebrew scholar Raphael Patai, Asherah was worshipped alongside
Yahweh in King Solomon’s Temple “for over half of the Temple’s existence.”
As Dr. Patai puts it in The Hebrew Goddess, “It would be strange if the Hebrew-
Jewish religion, which flourished for centuries in a region of intensive goddess cults,
had remained immune to them.”

MISSING GODDESS BULLETIN
“ Where did this Goddess go?” asks Marija Gimbutas, author of Gods And Goddesses
Of Old Europe. “In Greece, Persia, the Middle East and India ancient myths of the
Goddess were obliterated or rewritten, and creation myths recast Her as the
enemy…She was made a consort of a more powerful God, an inferior part of a
pantheon, and was finally edited out altogether.”
As a consequence, “the role and respect of women declined precipitously as
matrilineal cultures became patrilineal and patriarchal and women became regarded
as property,” Gimbutas points out. “From Judea to Greece, Crete, Sumeria and
Babylon. The Goddess of the Canaanites, Asherah, was attacked and suppressed.
The cover-up was continued by the archaeologists and scholars and Biblical scholars
who either ignored what they found or reinterpreted it in the light of their own world
view.”

JESUS LOVES MARY
Jesus was preaching near Magdalaa, attracting attention by recruiting followers and
wandering like a charismatic vagabond. Even more scandalous, instead of having
women walk separately as was the custom, he was traveling in their company.
Mary “called Magdalen” was helping cover her Master’s expenses after He had cast
seven demons from her. Joanna, Susanna, “and many others also provided for them
out of their resources,” Luke says.
In six of seven lists given in the four Gospels, “the name of Mary Magdalen is given
first—ahead of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and ahead of the other women
mentioned,” points out Margaret Starbird, author of The Woman With The Alabaster
Jar.
“ Jesus was a frequent visitor at the home of Mary and Martha, and was in the habit
of teaching and eating meals with women as well as men,” confirms Karen King, a
Harvard University Divinity School history processor, and author of The Gospel of
Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. “When Jesus was arrested,
women remained firm, even when his male disciples are said to have fled, and they
accompanied him to the foot of the cross.”
There, Christ singled out Mary Magdalen to replace Him in the life of His mother
standing beside her. But His esteem for Mary of Magdalaa did not end with His death.
Just two days later, Christ chose her to become the first witness to His resurrection.
Was Mary Magdalen also present at the Last Supper? Rev. Patricia Westlake of the
Trinity United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs believes she was.

MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY
Though it accepts the Gospel of Mary as authentic, the Vatican is still keeping this
Mary under wraps. As Karen King points out, “The only existing Christian gospel
written in the name of a woman presents a radical interpretation of Jesus’ teachings
as a path to inner spiritual knowledge, affirming his death and resurrection but
rejecting it as a path to eternal life.”
Is Christianity’s crucifixion fixation a big mistake? Or is it a manipulation by a Church
that derives much of its power from assuaging guilt and suffering? The person
closest to Christ went even further, insisting that personal salvation is found within—
not dispensed by priests who have to be bought off like some heavenly protection
racket.
For those who revel in the Golgotha’s cinematic gore, and would seize on the Jesus’
torture and crucifixion as His main motif, Christ’s closest confidante reveals that
Jesus rejected suffering and death as a path to eternal life. Instead, Mary of
Magdalaa points to the symbol of the Resurrection as the core of His teaching, which
was above all not about pain and suffering but transcendence.
The response of the Church leaders was to smear Christ’s consort. In a biblical
remake, Magdalen was cast as a meekly repentant whore too busy washing Christ’s
dusty feet with her long hair to use those sensuous tresses for lovemaking.
Especially with Him.
Pope Gregory made the libelous link in 591 by highlighting Luke’s mention of Mary
Magdalen immediately after his account of a “sinful woman”.
“The pattern is a common one,” laments Jane Schaberg, a professor of religious and
women’s studies and author of The Resurrection of Mary Magdalen. “The powerful
woman disempowered, remembered as a whore or whorish.”
Magdalen “got a raw deal” Karen King agrees. “They saved Magdalen for the church
by making her a repentant prostitute. That made women non-threatening. They had
to somehow undermine her as a female authority figure.” As recently as 1995 Pope
John Paul II prohibited even the discussion of female priests as “heresy”.

THOSE GNARLY GNOSTIC GOSPELS
Further Gnostic accounts of Magdalen’s travels with Christ showed up at Nag
Hammadi in 1945, when two Egyptian peasants digging at the base of a cliff
uncovered a stash of fourth-century codices comprising 46 different Christian books,
almost all of which were unknown.
The Gnostics said that most humans are ignorant of the divine within them.
According to teachings directly revealed to them by Christ, our knowledge of
transcendence comes through intuitive reflection, stimulated by teachings and
sacraments administered by the apostles and their successors. For the Gnostics,
morality was not a set of rules but an inner integrity based on respect for the dignity
of all beings.
In his notorious gospel, Philip reported that Mary Magdalen always accompanied
Christ, who loved her more than all the disciples “and used to kiss her often on her
mouth.”
LOOKING BACK
The Bible was originally a collection of stories intended to impress new recruits,
Karen King points out, “It is unlikely that any of the New Testament writers actually
knew the historical Jesus. The earliest New Testament book—Paul’s Epistles—was
written 20 to 25 years after Christ’s death.”
As King notes, “The existing Bible today underwent additions, deletions, and
translation changes over the centuries. The Bible as we know it today was not even
compiled until the 4th Century.” If we’re talking traditional theology, she adds, the
earliest “surviving copies of the Gnostic Gospels predate the surviving Biblical
manuscripts by 200 years.”

FIGHTIN’ WORDS
Christ in intimate love with a woman, his mother not a virgin, no resurrection, the
second coming cancelled, Gaia and goddesses—for many Christians, “them’s fightin’
words”.
But other warlike words have flesh and blood consequences we ignore at the risk of
our souls. How people practice their faith reveals much more about congruity of their
lives and beliefs than the contentious and contradictory words that attempt to
describe and “own’ that which can neither be named nor exclusively claimed.
How many children did Christ bomb?
Why aren’t more Christians asking this question? Killing 800,000 beloved children in
Iraq in the name of Christ perverts His message of love and compassion with the
same cynicism as Osama bin Laden quoting the Quran. Before we start worrying
about who was sleeping with whom in Galilee—and what that might mean for the
rest of us—the ongoing genocide by Crusaders in Iraq must be addressed by all
those who call themselves “Christian”.

QUESTION PERIOD
Isn’t it time to start a questioning a religious paradigm said to be wrongly fixated on
torture and crucifixion by the only person said to have completely understood Christ?
If deeply considering even a symbolic “wife of Christ” can help us examine what we
mean by “right to life”, “Gods will”, and our conditioned disrespect for more than half
of the planet’s human population, hadn’t we better get started?
With temples, priesthood and adoring worshippers long established throughout Egypt
and the Holy Lands, the Church proved adept at adapting local worship and
iconography to its new mythos. Megan Hunt is one of many researchers who say that
images and figures showing Isis suckling Horus morphed into the Christian figures
and paintings of the Madonna and Child.

THE VIRGIN AND THE WHORE
Instead of fully embracing this rich tradition, the Church’s deliberate neutering of the
women closest to Christ has crippled our culture. “Traditionally the virtuous wife
could not be sexual; the sexual woman could not be virtuous,” Starbird laments.
“Between the virtuous chaste Mary and the penitent sinner Magdalen, there isn’t a
model that allows women to experience themselves “as fully human.”
But the model is at hand, hails a resurgence of Mary Magdalen fans. The Other Mary
is back to reclaim her rightful place at the side of Christ.
What if she was His wife?
To be concluded…
As Karen King insists, “Religions are constantly being interpreted, which means that
people must take responsibility for their religion and its effects. This perspective
insists that communities of believers need to engage critically with their tradition and
be held responsible for how they appropriate it.”
BLAME IT ON BROWN
Browns defenders say that questioning presumptions is always useful. But outraged
detractors say that throwing bricks through church windows just to hear glass break
can be disastrous for believers inside who become seduced or confused into losing
their faith.
The risk of relapse and rebellion are real. At least 17 million souls have acquired
their own copies of The DaVinci Code, and perhaps passed it to another 25 million or
so.
Brown’s admitted agenda is to set a badly skewed story straight by wrenching it hard
the other way. “Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and
Goddesses,” he told a wire service widely distributed throughout the EU and UK.
“Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been
stripped of their spiritual power. The novel touches on questions of how and why this
shift occurred…and on what lessons we might learn from it regarding our future.”
Marija Gimbutas also defends breaking all that stained glass to let in light and fresh
air. “My concern in my own research has been to recover the lost bits of this great
Goddess tradition that still lurk beneath the surface of the Christian scriptures,” she
explains. How would the world be different if the primary image of the Christian faith
were not a naked man dying on a cross but a naked woman giving birth, if “this is
my body, this is my blood” were said not by Christ but by Mary?”

BECOMING A VIRGIN
As good Christians everywhere reached for their pagan repellant, the BBC aired a TV
special suggesting that Jesus’ mother might not have been a virgin after all.
Language experts told the BBC that the word translated as “virgin” in officially
approved Bibles may have mistaken the original Hebrew word, almah, which really
means “young girl” or “maiden”.
It wasn’t until December 8, 1854 that Pope Pious IX used his newly acquired
“infallibility” to declare the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary inviolate.
She was in good company. “Virgin birth” is a hallmark of religious traditions that
predate Christianity by centuries. The offspring of virgin mothers includes Buddha,
Dionysus, Christna, Theseus, Melchizedek, Plato, Apollonius of Tyanna, Merlin,
Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Jason, Pythagoras, Plato and many others.
The direct prototype of the Goddess Mary was the Goddess Isis. Enormously popular
throughout the Roman Empire during Jesus’ time, the “Mother of God” and “Queen of
Heaven” had been worshipped for more than 3,000 years before Christ appeared.
Were Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalen an intimate couple? The Gnostic Gospel of
Philip describes the Bible’s most enigmatic woman as the “consort” of Jesus—a word
carrying sexual connotations. Philip called her Christ’s constant companion, whom he
used to “often kiss on her mouth” and call the “Woman Who Knows All.”
The author of The Woman With The Alabaster Jar, further points out that Mary
Magdalen’s anointing of Jesus with sacred oil from her clay jar was one of the few
events recorded in all four New Testament Gospels—Christ insisted on it. Anointing
of the head with oil “is an unmistakable symbol of the Sacred Marriage ceremony
performed by temple priestesses,” Margaret Starbird writes.
Perpetuating family lineage was vital in biblical times. Why would it be less so for the
sole bloodline of Jesus Christ? Margaret Starbird wonders if the wealthy Mary
Magdalen was “a Benjamite heiress destined to carry on a sacred bloodline.”
But announcing the nuptials would have put a death warrant on Jesus’ heir.

MRS. CHRIST?
Humbug, sniffs biblical scholar Kenneth Woodward. The argument that Jesus must
have married because most other Jewish men did “is hardly persuasive.”
The early Ebionite or Jewish-Christian tradition would certainly have considered Mary
to be his wife, he adds. Starbird observes that up until the 14th or 15th Century,
“Mary Magdalen was perceived by many Christians to be the Bride of Christ, who
later bore his child.”
AS LEGEND HAS IT
The generally accepted story is that both Marys went to Ephesus, and eventually
died there. But an alternate ending has Magdalen arriving on the coast of Gaul there
in the proverbial boat without a paddle around the year 42. An ancient French legend
says that Mary Magdalen brought ashore a daughter, “born in Egypt,” named Sarah.
“Many believe that Mary Magdalen was herself the earthen vessel bearing Christ’s
child, the sacred bloodline of David. This was indeed what many early Christians,
including the Cathars believed,” writes Deborah Caldwell.
Something must have happened, because the cult that flourished in Mary’s name
grew so great, in 1208 Pope Innocent III ordered everyone professing veneration for
the “grail mother” to be executed.

MORE SECRETS REVEALED—MAYBE
“ Jewish tradition would have accepted Jesus as a sexual being within a lawful
marriage,” Roxanne Roberts reports in the ‘Post.
“Martin Luther believed that Jesus and Magdalen were married, as did the Mormon
patriarch Brigham Young,” Time records. A 2nd Century tradition recounted in
various heretical Christian sects also taught that Jesus was married.
Early Church leaders were not convinced. But several French kings—and “The Matrix
Reloaded”—continued to float the story that descendants of Magdalen’s child founded
the Merovingian line of European royalty. No stranger to attacks on her own
sexuality, Diana, Princess of Wales was also said to have inherited Merovingian blood
from Christ and Magdalen.
Look what happened to her.
WHAT DOES DAN BROWN BELIEVE?
“ I was skeptical, but after a year and a half of research I became a believer,” the
author of The DaVinci Code told Roxanne Roberts. “The few Gospels included in the
Bible are not the only version of the Christ story.”
There are “contradictions.”
Does he believe that Jesus was actually married to Magdalen?
“I do,” Brown says.

GUNNING FOR THE GODDESS
I don’t, declares Karen King. “Looking at the history of early Christianity, there’s no
evidence at all that they were married.”
Academics with hard-earned honorifics who have devoted lives and careers to
parsing the lives of the apostles, tend to wave their arms and turn apoplectic when
confronted with alternative realities advanced by researchers with names like
“Starbird”, websites like “white moon”, or citations listed by Brown with Indiana
Jones-like titles like Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ.
But what really jams their biblical buttons is changing the gender of God.
O MY GODDESS
The first God was a woman,” asserts Riane Eisler.
It’s a very ancient impulse. So-called “Venus” figurines, crudely carved more than
20,000 years ago, are found all over Europe, from Vienna to Siberia.
As further proof, the author of the Chalice And The Blade points to an old agricultural
town called Catal Huyuk (chatahl-HU-yook) on the plains of Anatolia in what is now
modern
For nearly 9,000 years, this fertile river valley oasis was home to upwards of 8,000
people. But the murals painted everywhere on interior walls featured mostly men,
often bearded and wearing the latest leopard skin fashions, pursuing wild boars and
stags. Some of the animals are handicapped by big erections. On this side of the
eternal yin-yang equation, “Venus” figurines found in grain bins, including one with a
seed carefully inserted into its back, indicate intense interest in the fecundity of
women and the harvest–both essential to the survival of the tribe.
“Was Chatalhoyuk the bastion of female power it was thought to be?” asks Ian
Hodder in his landmark article “Women and Mean at Catalhoyuk” in the March 2005
Scientific American.
“Rather than talking simplistically about matriarchies and patriarchies,” he suggests,
we see a more sophisticated picture forming from the archaeological puzzle pieces of
this very successful, large-scale Neolithic town. In daily diet, burial customs—even
bread making and flint-knapping carried out in close domestic proximity around an
earthen oven—women and men in this society “appear to have lived quite similar
lives.”

SHE’S STILL A VERSION
For Riane Eisler, the big news is that the central icon of the world’s first “religion” is
a woman about to give birth—“not a man dying on a cross.”
Today’s largely unquestioned social scenario of “rigid male dominance, where strong
man rule is the prominent feature all the way from the family to the state,” Eisler
observes. “The result of such relentless subjugation of the sexually threatening
feminine is what we see in ‘dominator’ cultures today: A very high level of built-in
violence, mental abuse and fear.”
Even though the evidence of Eisler’s assertions is in our faces daily, this straightahead
rhetoric makes some people nervous. Beware “eco-feminist lesbian witches”
shriek the authors of Cracking DaVinci’s Code.
Warding off the restoration of the “sacred feminine” in male-dominated religious
practice that contradicts the conduct of Christ, Garlow and Jones draw a hard line,
declaring, “The symbol of the Goddess and the spirituality it produces find no place
in biblical faith.”
Bye-bye, Virgin Mary. Or as Bob Dylan might croon, “So long, Magdalena.” We’ll miss
them both.
How much longer will group photos of high Church honchos depict only men? It’s
hard to say. But even harder to shake a very old intuition that both genders and all
things partake of the same divine light, energy and nature. When the realization
sinks in that all beings are Blessed—and an attentive walk in the woods can do that—
our misguided dominion over all things ends in that moment.
Maybe just in time.
If the circle of inclusiveness is truly a sacred hoop, as the authors of Cracking
DaVinci’s Code fear and humankind’s oldest indigenous traditions hold true—if all
things manifest the same Spirit—the reverence and respect they commanded could
lead us gently out of a severely skewed mindset manufacturing mass extinction.
TRANSCENDENT SEX
Though it’s an old idea, making sacred love has always appealed. In Starbird’s
version of an unknowable story, Mary Magdalen was not from Magdalaa the village,
but Magdalaa the temple—which would make her a different kind of bride.
Residing in the consecrated precincts of the Divine Ancestress, home of the creator
of heaven, Earth, and life, temple hierodulae would make ritualized love with men
whose conscious co-operation ensured the seed for the fertility needed for the tribe’s
survival. The hierodulae were often called “virgins”, writes Esther de Boer, author of
Mary Magdalen, Beyond the Myth. Offspring produced by the “Sacred Marriage” of
their ritual unions were commonly called “virgin born”.
Christ’s own mother “is said to have been dedicated to Temple work; she lived there,
wove tapestries, altar cloths, prayed for the betterment of the people. She is
repeatedly called a ‘Temple Virgin’, and apocryphal books tell of her adventures
there under the high priest Zacharius,” Patricia Lefevere reports.
But early Christians who witnessed these scandalous practices had never heard of
tantric techniques. They called what they saw, “Promiscuous intercourse.”

CLASH OVER THE COREDEMPTRIX
When Pope John Paul II began drafting chapter 8 of the papal encyclical Lumen
Gentium, anti-eco lesbian witchcraft forces must have freaked. Was the head of the
planet’s biggest congregation about to sanction the rambunctious return of the
“sacred feminine”? How accurate was the rumor that Pope John Paul was also
considering crowning the emblematic Virgin Mother as “Coredemptrix” alongside the
Redeemer?
Catholics in more than 155 countries swamped the Vatican with petitions proclaiming
their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mother Teresa signed on. So did the papal
theologian emeritus, over 440 bishops and 40 cardinals.
It was a Vatican cliff-hangar. Speaking “ex-cathedra” meant that 860 million
members Catholics were bound to believe the Pope’s pronouncements or risk frying
in hell. With this encyclical, Pope John Paul could have switched the Patriarch’s
disastrous diversion back onto the old tried and proven yin-yang track.
What would the Pope say about Mary, and by extension, all women? . What would
happen if Blessed Mary were declared “Creatrix”— Giver of Life?
It all came down to how he spelled the Latin “co” in “Coredemptrix”.
Cheers and groans went up when Pope John Paul’s spelling of “Coredemptrix”
translated as “woman with the Redeemer”—not “woman equal to the Redeemer”.
During a general audience in Vatican Square a few weeks later, Pope John Paul
publicly reduced the Mother of God to the official role of “Helper”.
That’s it? Thanks for your help, Mom? Thanks for giving Christ His body and the
courage needed to complete His 30-year mission to redeem the entire human race?
In response to the Newsweek story, a papal spokesman had already stated that the
Pope had no plans to proclaim or even to consider a new “Marian dogma”.

STILL…
The fact that so many people venerate both Marys and continue to clamor for their
full recognition is an encouraging sign that many have not waited for permission to
make the transition toward a more complete “Christ Consciousness” that includes His
Sacred Mother and Spiritual Wife side-by-side.
Who doesn’t miss their Mother? Everyone wants to be healed of what’s hurting them,
and “mankind’s” failed divorce from the feminine is an owie that will take more than
hugs to fix. Though that’s a good place to start.
Given current rates of extinction, and the imminent crack-up of our mother planet,
why don’t we try a different model than the one that’s doing all the damage, the one
that isn’t working? Why not beseech Mary of Magdalaa to help us step out of a box
imposed by a predominantly male mindset that is not intrinsically “wrong”—just
catastrophically unbalanced after being largely uninformed in its decisions over the
past 40 centuries by the feminine half of the Creator’s omnipresent dyad?

CAN WE JUST HOLD HANDS?
The issue is not whether or not Christ had sex. The most urgent question is: Where
is a small band of fanatics preaching a perverted religion taking us?
The balance between female and male energies has been lost for millennia, Starbird
bemoans. “What kind of world could we live in now if the founders of Christianity had
acknowledged that the sacred union of male and female, of Bride and Bridegroom,
once lay at the heart of the Christian message, embodied in the intimate relationship
of Jesus and Mary Magdalen?”
The most important overlooked message Christ sought to impart was His constant
affection and respect for Mary Magdalen. Emulating his example, Starbird suggests,
will allow us to reclaim this lost wisdom of sacred wholeness and harmony by
restoring “the Goddess in the Gospels to her rightful place at the side of Jesus.”
How can we picture this? Simple. The Mary Magdalen expert offers a way out of the
divine marriage debate with an image so compelling, it ought to grace the cover of
every catechism:
“Perhaps,” Starbird says, “we should picture them holding hands.”