What Time Does the Cafeteria Open?

I'm getting cabin fever.  I can tell I'm getting cabin fever because I'm starting to act like I did when I was in college.  Any time is a good time for a nap.  Even if you just woke up and brushed your teeth.  I lived for three days eating nothing but the pizza I ordered on Sunday.  I almost allowed myself to watch Friends on Lifetime.


What it comes down to is simple: men need structure.  Give us too much free time and we will become fat, lazy lummoxes watching tv reruns. 

It's not like I don't have work to do.  I still have my class materials to finish up.  But class doesn't start until January and I don't have anybody to check in on me and make sure I'm staying on task.  I know I'm not the only one with this problem.  And I know many women who procrastinate, too.  But nevertheless, there it is.

Some structure is necessary in my life or I start to drift.

Each Thing's Dying is Another's Birth

A notion as old as history itself.  There is no knowledge of God upon this Earth, but merely supposition.  We cannot know what is beyond our ability to know.  This has been the notion put forward by Bhudda, by Vishnu, even by the ancient Greeks.

Orthodoxy is the enemy of us all.

But, Mom......

According to Russell (and other soruces, but I'm too lazy to look any up right now), most of the early cultures had a strong female god, who generally was associated with birth and the Earth.  I guess there is a pretty direct line between these older faiths and Gaia. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

Male gods in many of these cultures are ascribed an inferior status and power.  I wonder how the shift from the females gods of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, etc., transformed into the fiercer, less nurturing, more punitive God of the Jews and the Abrahamic faiths that followed?

Consider my first loose thread.  I'll drop others along the way.  Hopefully, I'll manage to remember to come back and pick them all up.  If I don't, feel free to remind me.

I have been reading A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell and Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections.  Both books talk a lot about god.  I use the little "g" god because there are a lot of gods being discussed.  I'm not sure where I stand on all this, but be on the lookout for some god talk coming soon.