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proximoceptionMedication change. Hard to think straight thoughts. Kind of a nice feeling. My head is very quiet. As though without what is distinct enough to be phrased there can be no "sound." Just water motions, colors.
The Young Pope seems well beyond me right now. Re. 1.4:
Is Greenland supposed to be a place where people enjoy life? The mysteries of which are assumed to have earthly and diverse causes - the "archipelago?" Whereas the church is a place for people too frightened to live their lives? The nun afraid of Sri Lanka and poverty and how God seems incompatible with it? Her sister's body (the sister of a sister) is imported into the Vatican, so the Church indulges the fear of its members in order to keep them shut in? Sending Gutierrez to New York suggests kicking out all the gay priests is about freeing them. Voiello's treatment of Esther is that of a parent of a child he's convinced will keep screwing up, so that suggests that the most liberal version of Catholicism is still a condescension, and one wishing to infantilize the flock so as to hold onto them all forever. To not sin is to remove oneself from temptation, so the handicapped boy is the ideal Catholic. This is not possible with the others, whose minds and feet keep them free. So the trick is to forgive them, but in a way where they pay the church back via services or repeated Hail Marys. Sin is the Church's fuel. They make the congregants sad about what they can't help doing, then tell them it's all right after all because they're just children, so long as they accept the gentle lecturing. Lenny is (presumably) trying to destroy the Church by acting like an inflexible parent. Since even Cromwell balked at his severity I think we're to understand that this isn't viable conservatism but really might destroy the Church - it suggests there is no place for anyone who cannot follow the strict and inhuman code required. So they'll leave. He's kicking them off a few at a time. Not letting people cry at funerals because it suggests they doubt God's will and his promise of Heaven is a good one; it recategorizes not just doubt as nonbelief but our religion-innocent instinctive responses. Since I am the sort of creature that sorrows, I must not really believe.
Lenny's interest in Esther, at least so far, seems more about how she wants a child, is therefore the image of the mother he wished he could have had. Maybe that's the source of his hatred for the Church, if he does hate it? It promises to be a parent for those who badly want one, but it's both too strict and too lenient, treats you not as something to admire and develop but as a hopeless case that must be kept in check? The "brother" Cardinal seems to have received, and to give, the healthier sort of love, which I guess is an admission that many individual priests are on a different page, are grass poking up between flagstones.
The Young Pope seems well beyond me right now. Re. 1.4:
Is Greenland supposed to be a place where people enjoy life? The mysteries of which are assumed to have earthly and diverse causes - the "archipelago?" Whereas the church is a place for people too frightened to live their lives? The nun afraid of Sri Lanka and poverty and how God seems incompatible with it? Her sister's body (the sister of a sister) is imported into the Vatican, so the Church indulges the fear of its members in order to keep them shut in? Sending Gutierrez to New York suggests kicking out all the gay priests is about freeing them. Voiello's treatment of Esther is that of a parent of a child he's convinced will keep screwing up, so that suggests that the most liberal version of Catholicism is still a condescension, and one wishing to infantilize the flock so as to hold onto them all forever. To not sin is to remove oneself from temptation, so the handicapped boy is the ideal Catholic. This is not possible with the others, whose minds and feet keep them free. So the trick is to forgive them, but in a way where they pay the church back via services or repeated Hail Marys. Sin is the Church's fuel. They make the congregants sad about what they can't help doing, then tell them it's all right after all because they're just children, so long as they accept the gentle lecturing. Lenny is (presumably) trying to destroy the Church by acting like an inflexible parent. Since even Cromwell balked at his severity I think we're to understand that this isn't viable conservatism but really might destroy the Church - it suggests there is no place for anyone who cannot follow the strict and inhuman code required. So they'll leave. He's kicking them off a few at a time. Not letting people cry at funerals because it suggests they doubt God's will and his promise of Heaven is a good one; it recategorizes not just doubt as nonbelief but our religion-innocent instinctive responses. Since I am the sort of creature that sorrows, I must not really believe.
Lenny's interest in Esther, at least so far, seems more about how she wants a child, is therefore the image of the mother he wished he could have had. Maybe that's the source of his hatred for the Church, if he does hate it? It promises to be a parent for those who badly want one, but it's both too strict and too lenient, treats you not as something to admire and develop but as a hopeless case that must be kept in check? The "brother" Cardinal seems to have received, and to give, the healthier sort of love, which I guess is an admission that many individual priests are on a different page, are grass poking up between flagstones.
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Date: 2017-02-05 05:44 am (UTC)Or deep as Kellyanne the TRUTH impales,
So distant the most embryonic stage
Of Pope's from aught of mine at twice his age.
Alack the day! Should I be thought so fond
As e'er to think to fathom that "beyond?"