Sing your death song...

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

~ Chief Tecumseh

The G-spot

Seriously? I just hit the "next blog" button to see what juicy blog-ness this site had in store for the likes of me.

God. Jesus. God. Church. Heaven and Hell. God. God. Jesus. God. .. .. ...

I went through 15 or so, each one BAR NONE with a reference to God - including the one titled "The G-spot" which I thought was hilarious. And I don't mean the new-age spiritualist, pseudo-Christian, hippy-type God. I mean the fundamentalist American Bible-belt type God. Discussions about what there reverend had to say, what the next sermon should be, how grateful one should be to have Jesus in one's life and how fearful one should be that one might (God forbid) burn in hell for all eternity.

Granted, I didn't give them much time or even the philosophical and open mind I would hope my readers have when reading my stuff... but seriously. Where are all the hippies?

Let me give you an example. One blogger's under-title quote reads: "If any one saith, that Christ Jesus was given of God to men, as a redeemer in whom to trust, and not also as a legislator whom to obey; let him be anathema."

Its not that it offends me... I guess I just cant relate. Reading this just gave me the clear sign that I had nothing to learn there or, in fact, anything to lean into.

Click, another. Click, another. Click... and so on. That got me thinking...

Am I on the wrong bloggin' site or something?

If I should have a daughter...