Warring A Dead Body

I find it very strange that some people use the word "body" or "it" about someone who died. To me it's obvious that each individual keeps his/her identity even though they are dead. As it is I'm not blind to the possibility that this way of dehumanizing someone by changing the way they are described is a way of protecting oneself from the knowledge of one's own mortality. However, some, like e.g. Shayanna Sims, who took it upon herself to "teach the corpse of her husband's ex-girlfriend a lesson", clearly didn't see death as a safe haven for the deceased: The dead woman wasn't protected against her desires for revenge even in her casket at the funeral home. 

The beautiful Tabatha Lynch (to the right) had died of natural causes in 2015 at the age of 38, and Shayanna Sims hated her for (presumably) having an affair with her (ex-)husband, Montie Smith. They had been lovers in their teens before Montie Smith, even met her and he denied the allegations of the affair. Still, Shayanna Sims, went on a revenge spree, slashing the corpse, cutting her hair off, removing body parts and stealing her jewelry after cheating her way into her home. Dead or alive, she was "the enemy"!

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/woman-corpse-face-slash-america-17348604

https://www.newson6.com/story/63fd7b1b012b78736f5c4a0a/woman-back-in-jail-after-being-released-due-to-supreme-court-ruling

https://www.newson6.com/story/618c17266926630c3715cffe/tulsa-woman-convicted-of-desecrating-a-corpse-has-conviction-overturned-by-scotus-tribal-ruling

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/what-are-the-penalties-for-desecrating-the-dead/

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article146492954.html 

 

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/chat/20180913/281599536384013

 

 

The Woman Who Stopped Speaking

Adele Hugo (1830-1915) was the daughter of a very famous author who gave life to literary characters that are loved even today, Victor Hugo (1802-1885). He was very versatile as he wrote in several genres, but today he is best known for his novels, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables": 

One of his daughters, Adele, met a weird - and sad - fate when she decided to turn her back on the world, so to speak. Her father was famous for his special gift of communication through his works, but she stopped communicating altogether after experiencing an unhappy love affair.

In 1850 she was found in a miserable condition in New York and as she didn't seem to understand questions about her identity, her health, and so on she was hospitalized for amnesia. However, somehow it was found out that she was a daughter of Victor Hugo who had been seduced and then abandoned by the English soldier Albert Pinson. Alone in a foreign country with nothing to sustain herself with she, very understandably, was in shock. Also she, as a woman, felt humiliated which may be the reason why she decided never to communicate again after returning to France: She most likely didn't want to discuss what had happened, not even with her father. For 65 years she kept silent, never looking for another love.

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-english-lieutenants-frenchwoman-the-tragic-story-of-adele-hugo/ 

 

Wikipedia

 

 

Money And Fate

Now and then a treasure of age-old coins and jewels is found in the ground, both here in Denmark or somewhere else. Some of these treasures are very rich and the one who buried them in the ground must have set real store by them. Unfortunately, he or she didn't get the chance to retrieve it or to tell about it to someone he or she trusted which means that it will end up in a museum, not even as the first one of its kind, but as one out of several. 

I wonder what happened to the owners of the treasure. Did they perish, e.g. succumb to sickness or get killed in a war? The most likely scenario is full of some kind of violence, either by nature or by humans, something that disrupted the lives of these owners who buried the treasure in order to keep it safe. Anyway, what happened was that the owners buried the treasure in the belief that they would be saved from the catastropies that threatened them, but sadly enough they were mistaken.

 

 

The whole family may have lost their social status once and for all by not knowing where this treasure was hidden. Someone who had lived a life in leisure at the top of society may have ended at the bottom. Perhaps the master became a servant/slave and the mistress became a servant, slave or even prostitute. Oh yes, that happened many times in history as these upheavals dug deep into the social layers, century by century. The rich got poor and thus the master became the slave. We ourselves may be the children of someone who experienced something like this themselves and we may also be the parents of someone who is about to experience the same now or in the future.

 

A friend of one of my late friends was the great-great-grandson of a man who was out of a very wealthy family, but he himself lost most of his money and nobody seemed inclined to help him out because he was such a squandering guy that he seemed quite hopeless. As it is, it turned out that he had his special nest egg, i.e. a lottery ticket which he was sure would come out with a large sum. He set all his hopes to this lottery ticket and when he was disappointed in these hopes he shot himself. That's not only sad, it's stupid, even more sad and stupid than burying one's riches in the ground without telling someone about it. 

Whom Should A Christian Chose To Support?

A beautiful picture of someone who - HOPEFULLY!!!! - is going to become a beautiful human when born

Recently I found one of my older notes from Facebook and it set my brain aflame: Someone - i.e. Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama - presumably made a very wise utterance about the obligations of Christians in 2018. In these days of American misogyny when women are left to die of gynaecological causes following new insane rules his words offer a new angle to the subject of Christianity that really is needed:

"“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe."

Well put, and as we know, The Bible tells Christians to offer help to "the poor", "the widows", "the orphans", and "the sick" who are people who have been born and live among us .... 

 

Yup, that we should ....

 

Fetus Hero

Well, the fetus, I'm thinking of, didn't know that he or she was born a hero. At the moment of his/her birth he/she just wanted to be alive. The irony is that this new, small Dane most probably wouldn't have had a life had he/she not been born a HERO.

It all started out with the birth of a very sick child who was in grave need of a bone marrow transplant. To succeed the donor should be closely related and very young - I suspect  that it also has something to do with stem cells, but I don't know for sure - and such a donor may best be designed by science if there isn't any which there wasn't in this case. 

I fully understand why the parents of the sick child wanted a cure, but it's a strange situation that child No. 2 is born as some kind of "spare part" of No. 1 and not for his/her own sake. It wouldn't cost the new child his/her life to have his/her bone marrow harvested, but still ....

"Born a hero"? Naaahhh, not without qualifying the word by adding "victim". He/She became a hero-victim ....

 

Bemoaning One's Youth

Live long enough and you too may end up bemoaning what's lost and which can never be retrieved: GONE IS GONE, and not even hard training, tough diets or weird medications can revive one's lost youth. 

However, some people think it's possible - at least up to a point - if one gets hold of stem cells as they are both for regeneration and renewal ....  

There are rumors about rich people harvesting fetus tissues to gain rejuvenating stem cells. Some of these rumors seem substantiated by facts, but even so they look like science fiction of the horror kind that's more than weird. For instance, it has been said that the lovers of a certain fashion designer purposely get pregnant by him to harvest aborted fetuses for him.

Slander? Maybe, and hopefully, yes! The very idea is utterly disgusting as it is some kind of vampyrism ....

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-marrow-transplant/in-depth/stem-cells/art-20048117

Insane Biblical Statements

 

 

Well, I suppose that most of his contemporaries didn't like something that logical - and evident ....

These days people are not all that much into the Biblical teachings - or are they???? On some of the websites I visit I often see people proclaiming a somewhat threadbare religious belief in the teachings of The Bible as well as a deep set fright of Hell. They are clinging to the belief they were brought up to honor as "the truth" out of fear of the presumably eternal torture of those hellish flames. Strangely enough they are not afraid of that old bully, called Yahweh. To me that's a proof that they have never read  The Bible.

Nonetheless this Biblical god who started out as the toyboy of the supreme god, namely the goddess Asherah, comes out as a socipath, and not the Santa-clone that he has been made out to be. For instance: Yahweh sent two she-bears to maul 42 boys for calling a man “baldy.” (2 Kings 2:23-24). Just like that? Yes, just like that ....

Why did Yahweh send a plague that killed a lot of people, not one time, but many times, actually over and over? For instance: Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:31-35 

As might be expected Yahweh don't like unruly children: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. - And: 2 Kings at 6:29: "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son." To be "righteous" in the Biblical sense of the word sure has some grim implications, and this is not the only time The Bible says something about parents eating their offspring: You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. (Leviticus 26:27-29) 

Not only murder, but cannibalism seems to be part of Yahweh's philosophy, as it's mentioned over and over, like e.g. here: 2 Kings 6:28-29; Jeremiah 19:1-9; Leviticus 26:27-29, etc., etc.. Murder sure comes easy to this ancient deity, like e.g. when he kills Onan for not getting his brother’s wife pregnant: Genesis 38:8-10. 

It goes on and on with killings of the innocent (e.g. babies or fetuses), but some details about Adam and Eve are interesting, even today as they mirror what we know about gods before this murder-deity attained supremacy. The legend is that Eve was created from one of Adam’s ribs, which is so very, very patriarchal = Man didn't come from woman (which he obviously did, coming out of her vagina!) but woman came from Adam's rib. 

Well, just as Yahweh was an old deity with roots in former religions so was Eve. She appears to be moulded on the ancient Sumerian goddess Ninti, the so-called "Lady of the Rib" also called "The Lady Who Gives Life". That figures and the more I think about it, the more interesting that part of it gets ....

I think that religious people of today have got into a habit of not READING what The Bible says. They just browse those parts of it that confirm their beliefs, and they never, never, never put it into a historical context which actually is where it belongs: