"I can't help you, if you won't help yourself" - Amy

Is your attitude to life and love:

- no time to regret
- keep your dick wet
- stick with the same old safe bet?

Then maybe you're a neurotic XY person with a straggly beard who idolises a paedophile founder of a religion of hate. Oops, did I say that? Do you like contemplating someone dripping with blood nailed to a Roman crucifix, gagging to be the saviour of the world? Perhaps you prefer messianic types, descending mountains, slate in hand, with a penchant for burning bushes? Get a life!

Now I'm not saying I'm prejudiced, but if you don't fancy:

- a feminist & atheist world
- friendship, affection, laughter and love
- cheeky conversation
- public celebration of the erotic
- polyamoury
- sex and gender rebels
- radical trans [(F or M): → x]
- pan (affectional orientation, and Selene's lover)
- free market economics
- limited constitutional government
- freedom of expression
- great art & music

then kiss my beautiful arse and tune in elsewhere. Or leave a snappy comment, which I'll review before displaying.

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Which do you prefer:

"Silence! I kill you!" (Achmed the Dead Terrorist)

or

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. " (1st Amendment)

Nice wiki page on Supreme Court decisions interpreting freedom of speech clause. Nul points for guessing the URL:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Amen dment

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people .... " (William O. Douglas - The Court Years)

"Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." (James Wilson, one of Washington's original Supreme Court justices)

Sometimes I find life is radiant:

"My heart is like a singing bird, whose nest is in a watered shoot. Raise me a dias of silk and down, hang it with vair and purple dyes ... The birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me." (Christina Rossetti)

Sometimes my optimism knows no bounds:

"We must know, we will know." (David Hilbert)

"You are young, you're free, why don't you sleep with me?" (Sin with Sebastian)

"There is nothing better to do, nothing like giving all my love to you,
And when you undress me, you make my body sing." (Whigfield)

But sometimes I feel like this:

"So we are history, your shadow covers me.
The sky above ablaze that only lovers see." (Amy)

"Though I know that evening's empire
Has returned into sand, vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping" (Dylan)

What to say to ones friends? On the mobile? As s/he walks to your table? On the floor? Shopping together for coffee and panty liners?

"Someone who loves me, switch the radio on" (Pauline Black)

"Mirror in the bathroom please talk free,
The door is locked just you and me.
Cures you whisper make no sense,
Drift slowly into mental illness" (Dave Wakeling)

"I like to talk when I can show you my affection" (Debbie Harry)

"But when it comes down to fooling you,
Well now that's quite a different subject.
Dont let my glad expression,
Give you the wrong impression" (Dave Wakeling)

One day, soon I hope, we shall see we invent divinities, and finally dispose of the anti-human illusions of religion. As the Magician of Bayreuth has Wotan sing:

"For thus the god departs from you,
thus s/he kisses your godhead away."

Of course, I'm departing from Wagner's drama and words. But we can stop looking for the divine outside ourselves, stop fantasising we can be divinely good, and admire the masterpiece that is each of us. We can live with the confidence, beauty and sensuality of Brünnhilde.

How long ago did Feurbach write "The Essence of Christianity", 1841?

Monotheism, especially, is merely alienation from ones humanity. A grotesque, mistaken understanding of oneself, of ones radiant feelings and of what is life-affirming. Name a monotheism that has no fantastic and unearthly wishes, that does not reject sensuous existence? Believers do not possess dignity in themselves but acquire it through belief in a deity. Like grovelling servants aspiring to a higher social class, they do so by licking up to a master. Name a monotheism that isn't anti-feminist? Catholicism has Mary the mother of the-god-thing. That, however, is a crafty borrowing of Hera from Greco-Roman polytheism. But I am ranting.

What piece of work is s/he! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a goddess. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals! So much for the dithering Princess of Denmark. S/he liked having things both ways, but got no satisfaction. To her, everyone was the quintessence of dust. As for me, XX people delight me a lot. And gender rebels and trans and intersex. Sometimes even XY-SNC. By your smiling, do you seem also to say yes?

Here's a curiosity. It is a rare society that suppresses all public eroticism, or is anti-feminine in all public celebration. Fancy exploring claims that Islam retains some bold expressions of worship of XX creativity, viz adoration of the vagina? Check out this video. Ignore the commentator's anti-erotic prejudices. The suggestion is that these are pre-Islamic Arabic customs. www.truthtube.tv/play.php?vid= 727

My unqualified contempt for Sharia Law remains. As Wafa Sultan says: "The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam [is] also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force. "