Merle,
Elderly (!) is one thing, but happily experienced is another.
I thank my lucky genes -- and my Chinos -- for keeping me intact. I am exactly
some 60 Earth years and a month old, plus some handful of days. "3C" in the
hexadecimal number system.
More than one way to Tango.
They keep adding "leap-seconds", though, so who knows HOW old, or experienced,
we, any of us, are. ;-)
Merle, I have nothing but gratitude toward Catholicism: I'm glad I was not born
a WASP. I loved all the messing around in the Church. No, not the illicit
sex, never saw THAT, but the attention on "Saints", Rituals, and especially the
High-Mass *incense*. ;-)
I was never a drug-user, don't get me wrong. Thank God.
I just liked that scent of frankincense and Myrrh. Now, I grow Frankincense
trees at my desert home in Arizona. And Bodhi Trees. And a second-generation
Moon Tree, from a parent which was grown from the seed of a Sycamore (London
Plane) tree which had gone to the Moon on Apollo 14. All in the family. I've
made paint-brush handles for my use in painting from the Moon Tree's sticks.
To inspire my Space-Art, ...or my woodworking.
Granted, I have Romantic appreciations, besides the fundamental Zen ones. This
is called Humanity. Neither one nor the other, but both are preferable,
please. Culture, and its neutral foundation.
Listen; priests not marrying is not my concern, and has to do with
property-rights. You want to get involved with that? I leave it to any brave
soul. Buddhists also went this way 500 years earlier (!), and counting... .
Except the modern Japanese, polluted by Protestantism after the Meiji
Restoration (call it a restoration).
Shakespeare was vulgar, yes! Or, somebody else of the same name. ;-)
Many blessings!,
Love, your bro'
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> joeÂ
> ..you are not that elderly..
>
> . ten is the age that one would think why this mumbo jumbo yabbero... from
> men in long white gowns and funny hats
> Â here we have the catholic priests being exposed for sexual practises on
> children...
> Â wicked wicked men..
> . that's how silly the catholic church is.
> ..you would have to be non sexual to operate on that level...it's a silly
> rule that the priests cannot marry..against the grain of  being human...
> Â where it is vulgar language or not.
> .it is the truth that sings through..how you say matters less..though it is
> good for it to be in poem form..
> .
> carry on... was shakespeare vulgar?
>
> Â enjoy life's treasures as they sit with you today..you are blessed!
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