This article is a chapter from my recently published ebook with Amazon: “Titbits”

 

“From Toyboy To Playboy?”

More men than than most of us may assume fulfill either one of these categories. Some even fulfill both of them although the categories as such are ideological opposites: A ”toyboy” is supposed to be the sexual plaything of a powerful, elderly woman whereas the classic ”playboy” is a grown man consuming younger, attractive women as sex objects in a ”use them and leave them”-manner. That’s the reason why the general signal values of a ”toyboy” versus a ”playboy” stand for opposite dispositions and behaviors.

However, some individuals jump category over time like in the case of e.g. the Muslim prophet Muhammad. When he was in his early twenties he started out as the toyboy of the clever and very successful merchant Khadijah, who was in her forties and who had been widowed two or three times before she laid eyes on young Muhammad.

Over time he changed from toyboy to playboy when he turned into a sexual consumer of very young women like e.g. Aishah who became his third wife when she was just 6 years old.

It should be noted that just like the clever merchant Khadijah she too played an important part in the success of Muhammad’s teachings. This is a fact that has been overshadowed by the shock of the Western World at getting to know about the consummation of their marriage when she was just 9.

Without Khadijah there wouldn’t be any Islam today as she was instrumental in the very saving of and later propagation of Muhammad’s early teachings which are supposed to have been canalized by the angel Gabriel. As to the grown-up Aisha then she has been portrayed as a scholar, very well-versed in many important topics of the day as well as in the teachings of Islam. 

Cybele

However, long before there even was a Muhammad there were toyboys who stayed that way as nothing about them suggested that they turned into playboys. That said, one shouldn’t forget that toyboys might gain power over those they serve, as for instance one of the Mother Goddesses who were worshipped ages before Yahweh or Allah stepped onto the religious scenery. One of these numerous mother goddesses was Cybele who had a priesthood of eunuchs, i.e. her toyboys: Part of their serving her was self-castration.

Her beloved Attis, who seems to have fulfilled a double role as both her (abandoned) son and her shepherd lover also had castrated himself in order to serve her.

That means that to become a toyboy of an ancient mother goddess like e.g. Cybele you might have to cut off what might impregnate her. That wasn’t the case with ALL mother goddesses, but it was with her, and it sure is an interesting as well as quite thought-provoking historic fact ….

https://www.ajwa.london/product/khadijah-the-story-of-islams-first-lady/

  

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Aisha

 

https://answering-islam.org/Responses/Menj/zaynab.htm

 

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-worldreligions/chapter/the-prophet-muhammad/

 

https://www.theoi.com/Phrygios/Kybele.html

 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Playboy

 

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The CLAIM of Holiness

 

The Bible is supposed to be the holiest of anything holy with Christians. However, there are some grave problems with a book that is a patchwork of scriptures, written several hundred years after the eyewitnesses were part of the events. Also, it's a problem that it doesn't contain all the scriptures, as some were deemed "wrong" or "non-acceptable". Others weren't found until later, but one may assume that since they haven't been included when that happened they have been deemed "wrong" too. Strange? No, not really as The Bible has been turned into a useful tool for those in power, and why risk the usefulness by changing the tool? 

People have loved the old myths and legends for centuries, and some even still believe in them, no matter how crazy they are: They are the glue that keeps the Christian faith alive to some people.

The main difference between The Bible and The Koran is the claim that where one is a patchwork, the other isn't: The notion of holiness moves several nooks upwards when one claims that this book is the exact dictation by Allah through the angel Gabriel, and not a patchwork of scripts by people who weren't even eyewitnesses to e.g. the Crucifixion. By being represented as a dictation all of it becomes "The words of God": That sure is a claim that beats heaps of Christian claims!!!

The Bible is sneaky when it comes to its use as a political tool, because it's built on old myths and legends that can't be verified. The Koran, on the other hand, is like a sledge hammer as it's proposed to be the indisputable truth. Muhammad didn't have any witnesses to his talks with Gabriel so everything depends on his name as a prophet: Do we believe him, or don't we believe him? Christians don't accept him as a true prophet, and atheists or agnostics don't believe either of these worldwide faith systems, but they recognize the political use that has been made of them.

 

Breed Into POWER?

 

I often see statements, or just comments, from Muslims living in Western countries, where they were not born, now claiming that they will take over in a few years time by excessive breeding. Not being able to see any advantages or gains to the human race - especially women - on this planet from Islam that's a nigthmarish thought. However, it seems to be true that the number of Muslims in Europe has been growing steadily for quite some time. For instance the time period of mid-2010 to mid-2016 saw a rise of 1% point, namely from 3.8% to 4.9%: A population of 19.5 million grew to 25.8 million.

Islam seems to be the the fastest-growing religion in Europe. According to the Pew Research Center, the European, Muslim population (excluding Turkey) was 30 million in 1990, and 44 million in 2010. How come? Well, as we are well aware Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers from e.g. Syria. However, Muslims of today harbor a belief in the "breeding into power-myth" that may play a role: They are proud of having a higher fertility than other Europeans which they see as the key to gain power in various European countries. Having refugee status allow them, and their families, to stay in Europe, breeding and claiming respect of their religion. Recently some of them have been clamoring for Sharia - or even a Caliphate - in their new, European countries.

The countries that have had this massive immigration by Muslims find that the Islamic newcomers have a lot of very young people of the child bearing age. When people start living longer, they tend to have fewer children, and it doesn't seem unlikely that Islamic populations will start shrinking. Some say this may happen around 2050, but it goes without saying that if breeding has its political perspective and is seen as a way to gain power then that prophecy will not be fulfilled.  
Right now (namely 2022) the global birth rate is 2.4 births per woman with a Muslim birthrate of 2.9. 

Jerusalem 1938

As Islam isn't only a religion, but an obligation to spread the word - and the policy - worldwide I think more and more refugees from The Middle East will find that the welcoming doors of Europe will be closed to them. As they clamor for Caliphates and Sharia, the population of the countries they have swarmed is getting more and more vocal in their protests against more Muslim immigrants. Islamization in Europe may inevitably lead to uproar.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2017-006320_EN.html

 

 

RelatedWhy is the religion of Islam spreading rapidly throughout the world? 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/report-sees-religions-growing-and-shifting-in-next-few-decades.html 

 

 

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Romanizing the Patriarchy

I haven't read this book, but the cover tells me it's a romance, which is a genre that doesn't count for much. Well, it's true that as literature it doesn't offer much, but as SOCIAL STUDIES it's a gold mine. Especially if one has some questions as to the fact that most women have been playing along in their own subjection for quite a long time. How come, and why haven't they waged war against the Patriarchy that demeans and robs them of so much?

Many years ago I got interested in this author, Barbara Cartland, not because of her standard as a writer, but because of her numerous books in the romance genre. It has been said that all of them are clones of each other: Read one, and you've read them all. I agree, up to a point, but as it is this very fact caught my attention, especially as this genre also was considered some kind of "narcotics" to young women who seemed to love them and others like them. That made me ask the question WHY???????

Well, my answer to my own question is: They are "Female Power Stories", confirming the readers in their beliefs in their own power WITHIN The Patriarchy they are born into. These beliefs are part of their upbringing, and they need them to fit into the patriarchal society. 

The point in this kind of books is that the main female character gains  power, status, money as well as a handsome husband by operating WITHIN THE PATRIARCHY. That's where the readers are, and they need confirmation in that being the best place for a woman: They don't want to see themselves as victims, but as conquerors and the novels do confirm them in the belief that women may win the gender war that has been going on since the start of The Patriarchy, 8-10,000 years back in time. 

They are well aware that men hold a muscular as well as social upperhand over women, but lo and behold, all of that may be put out of action by some penniless girl if only she is lovely enough to captivate him. In Cartland the poor, but somehow captivating girl, who isn't even a noble-woman, may become a Duchess if that extremely handsome Duke will notice her. Most often these noble heroes - the ultimate catches!!! - suffer from a heart that was broken by a sexy - i.e. "bad"!!! - woman, but that will be remedied by the lovely and virginal heroine. 

The Cartland novels and other romances are "teachings" in patriarchal womanhood as well as in its uses and advantages for women. In many ways it's like the silly American belief in the "Fortune" that will make them endure bad social conditions, exploitation, etc. in the hope that they shall win the LOTTO and thus be able to buy the gold toilet that's, to them, is the ultimate symbol of wealth and status.

 

I haven't read this book, but I take it that it's a romance about a beautiful, brave and alluring woman who enjoys the riches that her slaves have brought her and her family. She probably never thought of the injustice in making slaves of other people, and never for a second did she suspect that she herself was subjected to men. No, most likely she feels that she rules both slaves and men ....

And that's the crux of the matter: Women have their own, more or less hidden, ideologies that run parallel with the male ones that constitute the "general" ideologies of a Patriarchy. These alternate ways of reading certain situations or social settings tie them down, but many of them don't see it that way. 

 

Burried Alive

Reggie and Carol Sumner

To commit a murder may take more than most of us can endure. However, some murderers are even too cowardly to COMMIT MURDER: They ARE killers, but they - sort of - don't kill. How is that possible? Well, being cowards they put the victim in a position that inevitably will kill him or her which I suppose may give the murderer the false impression that in reality they "didn't do anything".  

One of these murderous cowards is Tiffany Ann Cole (Born 1981) who has been found guilty in the kidnapping and murder of Reggie and Carol Sumner in July 2005. They died by being buried alive in a robbery to steal all their money. Tiffany Cole and her three male accomplices had dug their grave before kidnapping the couple which makes it clear that they knew what they were doing as it was planned. Cole was sentenced to death, but in 2023 her sentence was changed into a life sentence (which I for one find very strange).

This case is cruel and has some gruesome details that seem unparallelled, that is until one reads about the murder of the 9 years old Jessica Lunsford.

To lose one's life at nine years old is unfair, especially when it only happens to give a sentenced sex offender a sexual pleasure that wasn't given, but stolen. Jessica disappeared from her room in the middle of the night and there were no traces to follow. Everybody in her community went looking for her and it's a sad fact that she might have been found when the police came to the house where her abductor, John Couey, hid her in his cabin. At that time she was still alive, but she dared not make herself heard so the police went away without finding her.

When she was found it was in a grave, and it was obvious that she had been buried alive with a toy. Before that this disgusting pig had raped her several times which, frankly, is unbearable to think of even now, twenty years later.

The cowardice of Couey made him cruel and he murdered the child in a way he himself may have seen as less cruel, but which in reality was much worse than e.g. shooting her.

 

https://people.com/jessica-lunsford-murder-people-magazine-investigates-boogeyman-8734299 

 

https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/23/verdict-spares-tiffany-cole-death-in-jacksonville-buried-alive-case/70663608007/ 

 

https://www.cvsa1.com/solved-cases/jessica-lunsford-murder-case/ 

 

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Graves of Prostitutes

 

One might think that Death brings equality to people, no matter whom and what they were before they died, but no, that's not the case. For instance, Tudor England deemed it so very sinful to be a prostitute that the women who had made a living in that profession were excluded from "decent folks": No bone-mixing after death with those who may have been their customers in life!

In Crossbones they had their allotted spots with e.g. paupers and other "non-decent" citizens, and there they lay until 1853 when the churchyard was closed. Later on it was kind of "resurrected" as a memorial place for thoughts and regrets of people who had turned wiser. It has been estimated that it held at least 15,000 graves when it was closed.    

"It's all the women's fault ...." 

Crossbones is only one churchyard for prostitutes, paupers, etc. In some countries prostitutes have made their own graveyards and they themselves tend to them as the "decent" people don't want to have anything to do with them. 

 

https://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2012/03/closer-look-at-prostitutes-in-cemetery.html 

 

https://crossbones.org.uk/ 

 

https://livinglondonhistory.com/crossbones-the-fascinating-story-of-the-sex-workers-graveyard-on-the-southbank/ 

 

Wikidata: By Matt Brown - https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/15131959769/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69515739

 

 

Eternal Life of An AI-ghost

 

Jennifer Ann Crecente (1987-2006) was a lovely, young girl and high school pupil who met several problems when dating, including being murdered by ex-boyfriend Justin Crabbe. After her death e.g. a memorial grant was created in her name as well as legislation was passed in Texas in order to prevent teen dating violence. Actually an impressive legacy of a girl who tragically lost her life to a brute killing by a former boyfriend.

When the murderer was jailed and Jennifer's friends and family had had time to grieve one should imagine that that would be the end of the tragic case, but no, it wasn't: Without the consent of the family Jennifer was sort of resurrected as an AI-generated robot. October 2024 the father of Jennifer had a Google alert that the name and character of his murdered daughter had appeared online as if she had still been alive. There was a profile, a chatbot, etc., but there was no Jennifer as she was as dead as before.  

This "new, artificial Jennifer" whom one might chat with was created on Character.ai and they were forced to close it down. However, the shock of something like that will linger on which makes it obvious that this is a public area that needs to be restricted by laws as soon as possible.

REAL Jennifer 

Wu, Daniel (October 15, 2024). "His daughter was murdered. Then she reappeared as an AI chatbot". The Washington Post.

https://www.digit.in/news/general/ai-raises-dead-2006-murder-victim-recreated-as-chatbot-without-familys-consent.html

 

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/cltr/ai-daughter.html 

 

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