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I’m not supposed to drive today I remember
I’m not supposed to drive today I remember. Once hired a guy checked
my driving record and found that for several years in a row, I had gotten
speeding tickets, or had some other event involving police and cars on that day. I think that tomorrow is my late fathers birthday, but still I search for whatever real anniversary trigger would create this personal trend.
The reading for the day is: No One has greater love than this, to lay
down one’s life for one’s friends.
I think that in one manner or another this is a shared religious tenet,
and a particularly significant reading in that regard. From what I can
tell, it is a tenet carried to extreme in the Islamic Culture of current
conflict in the Mid East.
It was carried to extremes in all the wars I can think of from the
Civil War to World War l and through ll and on and on day in a day out.
There is always a war going on, always secret little conflicts in which men die for their friends. Suicide in conflict, war, is not new. The style of suicide bombers in the Middle East, in Israel is new, but not that much, and different in style than the Kamikaze pilot or the rush across trenches to machine gun bullets in the attrition wars.
I love the African Proverb: “It is better to have an intelligent
enemy, than a stupid friend.” Friends are either inherited, or chosen, and there is always the time when your choices are complicated by friends who are wrong, or doing the wrong thing.
Certainly there are friends of friends on both sides of the Israeli
Palestinian conflict who suspect their friend of stupidity. The stupidity
is definable as counter productive to obvious long-term goals. Actions that are not practical, may appear practical, and be actually necessary, but only in the short term.
Over and over I have been thinking of what the Ching provided when I
last consulted through it about the wisdom of not carrying on to the bitter end of a conflict. I think it was one thing I at least learned not to do
from my first marriage. At some point any prospect of a win win solution is lost and it makes no difference whether or not you are right.
In the case of the conflict in the Middle East I believe that the
historical partiality of the United States condemns the United States to
failure in any real peace negotiations. I believe that this historical
bias hobbles real resolution that creates a Win Win resolution in a
complexity of international relationships.
The United States would be wiser to ask clearly for the help of the
United Nations in causing peace in the Middle East, than to continue to
think that Super Power status makes all things possible.
The Sexual Culture of the Catholic Church
Early, initial sexual experiences have great power in creating sexual
preferences and orientations. I knew a guy that had early as a young boy been passed around by priests who had sex with him. His orientation, I believe was dramatically influenced by this early experience. Whether or not he would have become gay regardless of these early events in his intimate life, clearly he was taken advantage of and abused. His innocence was violated.
I suspect that priests who have sex with young boys, themselves had sex with men when they were boys. My suspicions are founded in what I know of my own sexual life, and stories from others I have known who told me of their “First Times”, first experiences seem to somehow become consistent.
For instance girls that initially have sex with older men seem to gravitate to older men for the rest of their lives. Of course this is only part of the story. The model of mother and father have great influence, but the bottom line is that the healthy individual has been allowed to abandon innocence in exercise of their own free will. I believe that over time because of the culture of the Catholic Church, the unrealistic strictures concerning sex, specifically celibacy, the sexual culture of priests perpetuates unhealthy sexual trends within this group of men.
My experiences in the first grade attending a Catholic School, taught
by nuns also influences my attitudes towards celibacy as a requirement, for the nuns seemed way too wound up, violent and unhappy.
I recognize how difficult it must be for Catholics to contemplate what
the incidents of child molestation now in the news, brought to light, really mean.
Russell
Today I am very discouraged about Transcendia
The reading from the Bible encourages me to buck up and be bold.
I was blessed with a vision.
It is the same for me as for Peter and John, who were uneducated, common men.
Nancy Alex called me an "Auto Didactic", and I had to ask her what she really meant, though it didn’t sound like an insult.
I just wanted to make sure.
I started out to simply write to Beni Avini and ask him if he could get me in touch with Steven Emerson who I watched on C-span this afternoon. I found it interesting that Mr. Emerson was calling for a Reformation of Islam similar to the Protestant Reformation. It is like calling for Martin Luther to appear in some other religion, and though needed for world peace on the theological front, as he said, hard to cause from the outside.
The best ammunition I have come across is the fact that Mohammed edited the Koran, saying some passages were inspired by the devil.
As much as I liked Mr. Emerson’s take on reality, I do not think he has the theological ammunition that I have somehow come across.
Of course things aren’t going much my way either as far as I can tell.
John Loftin, who gave me ammunition in his history book, won’t answer my calls or invitations.
Mr. Emerson calls for the support of moderate Muslims, and describes them as willing to disavow writings of the Koran that extremist dedicate themselves to.
Intellectual ammunition for that call is in my discovery that editing has already occurred for the Koran by its writer. Mr. Emerson also missed the fact that Jesus created the New Testament with his speech called The Sermon on the Mount.
Could be, he merely, missed the opportunity, to say so on the television, at the time.
The long and short of my letter being that I wanted Mr. Emerson to be aware of my point, that I’ve written about more than once.
I have thrown the I Ching now to the question, " What does God though the I Ching have to say to religious leaders of all faiths now?"
6 Conflict changing into 23 Splitting Apart are the answer.
I here condense bits from my reading as I read now.
– "Conflict develops when one feels himself to be in the right and runs into opposition.
-Conflict within weakens the power to conquer danger without. To carry on the conflict to the bitter end has evil effects even when one is in the right. In such a case one must turn to the Great Just and Impartial man for a resolution. Duties and rights are to be explained and coordinated from the beginning to remove the compulsions of conflict. In a struggle with a superior strength, retreat is no disgrace. To submit and change because right is no longer clearly on your side is a recognition of eternal law and brings good fortune. Turn over to the just and uncorrupted arbiter the power to decide the right things to be done quickly if one is in either in the right or the wrong. It is better to be right or moving in the right direction even if one has been wrong. Total loss is no better than total victory if they divide humanity. It is to the leaders that the responsible acts first fall if they are to increase their families.
Beware twice of the cunning, the deceivers and the pandering to secrets and lies that are the hallmark of cunning. All that the superior can do now is hold onto what is right, to keep the roof from falling in. Avoid acting when you know that neither thing you do will make anything better. The rulers of the world in all their positions of leadership are to simply bow to the will of their people and abandon their individual agendas.
The wisdom of the God is to be used for all. The stronger man loses as much as the weaker man when both carry the conflict to its bitter end, regardless of who is right. If both parties will turn to a Judge, Arbiter, who loves both impartially the three will all together come to a solution, resolution, that will advance all.
The resolution may simply be that conflicting parties pledge to not bother each other.
My logical thinking says that the United Nations must in a strong way affect separation of Israelis and Palestinians is characterized in the reading from the I Ching as a turn to a fair arbiter, before the conflict carried to the bitter end, creates a lose lose situation for all, instead of the win win resolution that is what a end to a war ought to be, and has been for the United States from the Revolution to the resolution of the Civil War.
DefiningTerrorism
This was in response to the European edition of the Wall Street Journal. by Benny Avni DefiningTerrorism-WSJ.htm
Dear Beni, Thank you for sending on your essay. I have learned some details from it and trust your facts.
Though there are now hundreds of my filings daily or near daily on The Refrigerator.net, I would very much appreciate it if you were to make some review.
Transcendia, and transcendian theory, the art of transcendia, the book of Russell are serious and mature works now. You are the most promient journalist I know, and are in a unique postition to help me, though God knows I have a true perception of fame, and have even said to Nancy Alex, my partner bride, our Union a gift to the world that I’m glad we aren’t that famous yet.
You know that if I am to pick I would rather be important than famous, and believe strongly in Ayn Rand’s view that the man is only worthy when his fame comes from the integrity of his work.
Certainly it offends me that I must have an army to be a nation or be allowed to speak. I believe that Transcendia if known to United Nations soldiers, there would be some good number that would want to join. There is idealism and practicality in the construction of Transcendia.
My mind has drifted now to reading William James and the Pragmatism Method. James came to the barometer that is my mind, out of the blue because I had read his story of George Fox maybe. I think one of those things that comes from going to church and living as well in the world now populated by ancestral thinkers, writers, scribes.
Though Grant is always my resonate hero, this thinker William James is a fine display of balanced living. Certainly for me now as I have studied the known life of the soul, and politics, and art to try and achieve a practical and idealistic solution to the overriding threat to the world our children will live with us in, and inherit.
James saying that his is not so much a "Philosophy" as a Method for thinking, is like the Iron structure of the Flaiton Building. Strength and Flexiblity in truth are superior Theologies, for all Philosophy knocks at the door of Theology.
He knows the place of Theology as well. I can compare John Loftins book, The Big Picture to Varieties of Religious Experience and am glad to be able to combine their meaning in my mind. It is guidance I can get some from James, though I have talked to Loftin on the phone. (We invited Loftin, who coincidentally lives in Hillsbourgh to our wedding which was at St.Matthews Episcopal Church there, which is about 20 miles from Chapel Hill. We wanted him to come because it is the First Time I know Of that the Reading from the I Ching has been included in the official Episcopal Service. Record of the service and accepted placement was determined by the priests and Bishop, so we wanted him there since he wrote such a fine history of religions.)
It is Loftins history of Islam that provides the Transcendian, who is in conflict Theologically with the Koran, the produced culture of the Koran, an arguement that is like the battering ram that is aimed at the top of the wall, to shake it and eventually knock it over.
Now I move from the position that some thoughts, beliefs are better than others. This is why I would be for legalization of and regulation of drugs in Transcendia. The relationships between Drugs Terrorism, and worldwide injustice, hurts more people than it protects. It becomes more unethical to take the freedoms of people who use sell or grow drugs, than moral. The practical results are certifiably the source of great damage to the shared civilization, culture and society.
The facts of the story of Muhammad in his role as the writer of the Koran are that he threw out, revised his work, saying that he had realized that that particular passage was inspired by the Devil, Satan. Who is it, what writer at the very least will not be forced to agree that it is not possible that Muhammad might have added or revised further, commented or clarified what he had already written if he had lived longer?It is interesting to me that Jesus was not a writer.
One may go so far as to imply that Muhammad might have completely disavowed the entire book if he had lived longer, though in every book there is some truth that is to be used to the good if only the good is to recognize the enemy. Certainly in this time of Lent, I have an understanding of the internal Jhad, that one I suffer over cigarettes daily, one that would benefit from a long walk somewhere. We do not ask believers to stop the great struggles we share, only to join us in strong flexiblity.
There will come a time when there is a Service of Readings. I am sure that the Sermons simply there in a book, The I Ching, in the perfection of Changes and constants there in counterpoint and comment to even the Koran will used show ways to live that even if they do not completely wipe out what we know as the evidence of evil, the murder of innocents, civilians, a nationally sanctioned equivalent to gang war that every slum dweller lives with day in and day out so much so that international news is meaningless to them.
The Book of Russell is to bring the finished books together, those books with eternal life. So far I have found that the Bible and I Ching delight me and give me peace from which to operate. I am open to the idea of seeing what a combination of readings from both the I Ching and Koran and Bible all together in season would give both myself and any shared congragation in the way of wisdom.
James perfectly describes how it is that old truths and new truths may become integrated. If I test Transcendian theory against his description of how we hold onto as much of our prior, inherited near genetic "truths" as possible when faced with learned experienced truth that is contradictory to the prior truth, I know I could not write one single book of Theological perfection, one that would provide all the wisdom that God offers. My success is to have discovered a Method of using these books that come from a respect for the written word that has nothing to do with modern publishing motives.
There is a part of the history of Muhammad that has no place in my vision of Transcendia. Robbery of strangers, unbelievers or not, is not within Transcendian righteousness. As I have said in the past, I am aware that in the past persons with my goals, revolutionary, evolutionary change, robbed banks to finance their cause. Muhammed robbed caravans on the Silk Road.
It is fundamental that the invention of the airplane, this ship that esentially has no road to the point that the air is its road, is the barometer of our shared interests and hopes.
Business is a two edged sword. It is of two contradictory truths requiring a choice.
The obvious benefits to the world if the nation of Transcendia, a confederated network of culturally neutral airports, hence embracing all of the best of the Port Culture of Tolerance and mutually profitable trade, are illustrated in the importance of Import and Exports to all nations for the securtiy of their citizens.
Think simply of Women of Executive power who otherwise would not personally chose to do business in Islamic Countries where they are by sex supposed to cover themselves and submit to what anyone ought to perceive as unjust unequal status.
The network of Transcendian airports would do much to facilatate vital economic interactions between nations and cultures.
It is the national purpose of Transcendia that distinquishes it from the random nature of airports that exists today, and is its reason for realization as a specific national enitiy. It must take up where the United Nations has left off.
This cacophony of crisis has only one way of resolution, and that is dependent on a balance of power that diminishes the conflicts among mankind to the struggle to live within the imposed budget that is not determined at all by humanity, but by where we find ourselves, on a little planet that is rapidly becoming too small for our natures.
It is now the time for the United Nations, or an enitity of equivalent power to intervene in the overall conflicts of Nations. World Peace is to amphorious a concept apparently to have success, or by now we would be seeing television out to the United Nations as readily as we see C Span.
We know now that in the face of the most terrible prospect, The Cold War was a victory. The Bi Polar Power Balance bought humanity time. Now the time is for that balance to be recreated in a manner that was obvious at the end of the First World War.
Aviation, and the place that aviation plays now as it has matured beyond what it was at the end of World War I, is no insignificant development.
Now it is that travel by plane, which is vital to the interactions mysterious but no less vital to our overall internationaly shared interests is contracted when the reverse is dramatically called for. The war that Terrorists have conducted on civilians has targeted our contemporary equivalent of the Silk Road that Muhammed and his followers sought to dominate.
We cannot afford to allow this contraction of airliner network safety and civility to further and further degenerate for this is the practical method inwhich humanity has hope of survival. And it is not even survival period that is enough.
There are two thing then now that I see and feel as vital to this time when the World is in real Crisis, not even particular, but diffuse as internationally measured by the health of international airports. One that this international confederation of airports I call Transcendia become a reality, by simply gaining the alliegance of the rank and file of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force, and two that a Television Channel covering the United Nations be created and become commonly available internationally.
That is for today.
Russell Scott Day
I’ve got this movie idea
I’ve got this movie idea. I may as well tell you about it as anything else because if nothing else it is about the ingredients of a good movie.
Part of it though has nothing to do with anything but my need for a workable site specific script, something that works where I am. The Director who told me that all great movies, or what you would identify as even distinct about American Movies, is that they are "A Quest". Pennabaker, the documentarian even says that musicians are basically available. This is something I first noticed when I was running the College Channel.
Chapel Hill has a pretty interesting music scene, so a film using bands and band personalities of the area works in a site specific sort of way.
The band, "Quest" for "Fame", or "Rise" and "Fall" sorts of stories have been and will be done, but I’m thinking of a film where the Quest is undertaken on the part of some thirteen year old kid, to become a Booking Agent Manager Producer.
I’m thinking that I’d need to run film tests to find the right kid, since some people are alot more watchable than others.
Earl Carter, a man who I owe much, told me that the rules were that you took your character and put them in progressively more difficult and dangerous positions that they had to get out of.
Youth is an inherent difficulty for everyone. Age has its difficulties as well, but they are unique each to the other.
At any rate in that scenario, the difficulty to overcome in the story of the individual quest is instantly obvious, and facilitates participation by a good number of bands.
It is a nice little idea in my opinion. It just needs a script, which is why I hardly care whether or not I write about it here.
I thought about it when we went to the dump today. The Orange County Chapel Hill Dump is one of the nicest Dumps I have ever been too. The DumpMasters wear orange.
They are not particularly high in the personality department, but they keep a nice dump. I’d like to go out there at night and light the methane vent pipes and take a picture.
Soon Nancy Alex and I will have the price that Xerox charges for one of their instant publishing machines. Transcendians are encouraged to print out onto paper the Transcendian writings. There are strange order forms in there that will likely not be used unless they lay around on paper.
I’d like to have the contract to print those things that finally had to be printed on some medium for use in outerspace when nothing else might be working. I suspect that certain information about the spacecraft ought to be on something better than paper made from wood, but I could be wrong.
What on the Moon or Mars would you make anything like paper from? I suppose mankind ought to at least leave operating instructions for aliens in case they can’t figure out how to turn on our computers when we are extinct.
The life of paper seems so fragile to me, I’ve lost three libraries in my life. My wife has many of the books I missed. She had one of her libraries blown out to sea from SouthPort, and said the insurance company gave her less to replace them because she admitted she had read them.
For her this gave them value, but to the insurance company it took it away. Ironic isn’t it?
The guys I’ve been working with have let me just listen to NPR all day for the past couple of days. From the information I’m getting there, I’d about say I’m more and more correct about the role the United Nations ought to play in the Middle East.
This is of course if there is no surfeit of corruption in a powerful United Nations. Certainly even in the manner I envision Transcendia, I cannot see how one nation can claim that region. Like every other nation, I suppose my people would want a part of it, but what else is there to do?
When? At what other time? Has it less been needed, that That The United Nations Peacekeeping Force be a Force?
For the United States there has come a time to even desire a greater power than itself.
I wish I understood the United Nations better actually.
I found the website somehow impenetrable.
I wonder how corrupt the United Nations is as it is right now?
The 1st of April
The 1st of April/2002
I think I was showing affinity for Australia when I declared April Fools the first Transcendian Holiday. It is a holiday for heartbreak, that part of life that feels like a joke, a joke you have cried about.
Australia has a Holiday for a defeat, Gallipoli.
It is what makes them like Southerners from the Confederacy.
Strange.
Well the point is that we’ve all got to be losers every now and then.
All day long I listened to the radio about world events which are Israel and the War on Terror.
We cut a shower and a bathtub out of a modular home because the owners want new bathing facilities.
All over the world people want better bathing facilities.
I hope they get them.
My heart was somewhere else.
I was surprised that I wanted to be home.
I had been home enough I thought.
I’m home now.
"Value your life."
Trends / Dictated Directions / The Meaning of April Fools
Trends / Dictated Directions / The Meaning of April Fools
Foolish in the Morning
Foolish at Night
Foolish Foolish Foolish
It just ain’t right.
I hate to admit it, but if I was a robot, I would not reprogram myself.
But then again this is a simple way for me to say I love my ancestor, and am glad I was made the way I was. Whatever it is in me that they don’t like, is likely something I ought to love, unless it is crippling in the way that it prevents me from achieving my destiny.
I do not necessarily get better information than anyone else, reading the New Yorker, or New York Times. It is funny how in the city you read the Post or Daily News to see pictures of people you really know.
I listen to the radio, NPR mostly, though I don’t send them money thinking that they should hire me and just having some sort of limits.
The excitement of the attacks, and its requirements has faded in emotional level to the same as the Cold War reality that I lived with day in and day out like everyone else. The War on Terrorism becomes the simple continuation of that mental landscape, and also I was warned when I read Classic Readings in International Relations, (must reading for Transcendians)
I am trying to understand the dictates of the trends that are my life both locally and globally. Locally things are fine, wonderful in fact. I’m not depressed. I hardly care what job I am doing I like Chapel Hill so much. If I could just fly into New York on a regular basis, things would be in fact, about perfect.
Since I miss the City.
I watched Death Trip Films by J Kern with Lydia Lunch and Karen Findley from 1985 yesterday I missed the city so much. The difference between Art and Entertainment became clear again since all the slick movies we see by accident, just there, are mostly just mere entertainment that it is often just a waste of our life’s time to watch.
Wasted time is what I most often feel the most shame and quilt over. I must have gotten depressed in Greensboro because so much of my time even well spent seemed wasted.
I’d need to be in New York to create The United Nations Channel, and bring that into the positive trend of the mental landscape that is C-Span. A couple of days ago I watched a panel of speakers hosted by Equity International with representatives of Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Knightsbridge International, The US Agency for International Development, and The Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
If I got every Transcendian to buy arms and declare they were our army I ought to get millions from Ross Wherry of the Agency for International Development. The sad thing is that is the way it works. -That is one very certain long-term trend that only emotion moving vision will triumph over. It would be a triumph then if the US Agency for International Development would give Transcendia just a little bit of aid. Seems like 50 million dollars would be equitable in light of what nations are getting these days.
Funny for me to remember that it costs often more than 50 million dollars to make a good movie.
Well with 50 million dollars I’d spend a quarter on securing airfields and seaplane facilities, a quarter on flight schools, and that would leave half for other required bits of civilization. I’d rather have no standing army, but just arm everyone with what they need in a dangerous world. I can see a highly developed non lethal program.
I’m trying to get some other writers for Transcendia.org, besides myself. In an ideal world print magazine editors would dip into Transcendia.org and buy articles as they need. I’ve suggested it to several editors, without success so far, but the realities of reading and publishing require continued real magazines and books for the simple way they operate in the world want desperately some Pilot writers, and some sociologist submariner astronaut poets, a filmmaker or two, and fiction.
A satellite linked computer book would have the advantage of language translation programs as well as pictograph for the illiterate. Soon I’ll get the price on the most perfect Xerox instant publishing machines that I plan to place in all the airport newsstands.
April Fools is the first Transcendian Holiday, and if nothing else you do as a Transcendian say the April Fools Day Poem out loud. The history of that holiday is one of love and sex and passion.
I made a real fool of myself by being way too idealistic. I ended up crying a good deal. It made me stronger I sometimes think, saying that having your heart broken and living through it is somehow necessary for becoming a man. Certainly how one handles heartbreak is one measure of how much one is a gentleman or a lady.
Other times I don’t think the experiences made me stronger at all, only a bit wiser.
Celebrate April Fools with some party of forgiveness for yourself.
Imagine tribes of Right Brain and Left Brains segregated on Mars Until Alien Treats have a Computer bring them together to defeat the common threat.
Russell Scott Day
I can’t spell well
I can’t spell well.
Consider that a poem related to some meaning.
We went to see Laurie Anderson. She is tired and happiness is not a good name for her tour. I wished that Heather had been there with her to help her, but they would have needed me to direct and that is not in their concepts of themselves.
The West Side Highway is a miracle of motors that run at idle for so long without air that if they were airplanes they would blow up.
Right brain
Left brain
Taxes
the borders between Mexico
Canada, and someplace I live
Betray status under the lights of a lens.
Every friend you have that is a cop
will tell you the truth
They are like garbage men
Protect yourself.
Claim the right to protect yourself
Lawyers with no badges
Suits that sort of fit.
Carry the goals for your private parts
Early in the morning
Go hunting gathering and fooling around.
Save yourself from the television.
Write your own lies.
Also…
Short story that illustrates the solution.
Once my dog, and my friends dog, got into a fight.
I picked up both dogs, and held them face to face, unable to fight.
When I saw in their eyes a shared understanding of their predicament, I threw them apart, and they fought no more after landing.
Such is the only solution, and what it means is that the United Nations must step in and throw the dogs apart, and take over governance, of the region.
No other solution offers any hope really. In America now, it is the American Civil War, and its resolution that offers hope. What that resolution points to is a replication internationally of the states relationship to the federal government in the United Nations.
What is called "radical" is often only a practical solution that is too far from past beliefs. It is the philosophy of William James and the Method of Pragmatism that our leaders domestically, and internationally need to turn to now.
Russell Scott Day
There are several ways to do things among friends
There are several ways to do things among friends.
There is the quick and dirty method that is a swirl of wills and has an element of risk that tends to produce some damage, impotent and there is the safe method that employs the experienced in combination with the perfect tools.
In the case of the inexperienced who are coupled with the perfect tools, adiposity things will possibly be less dangerous, try but the combination is likely equal in danger.
Experienced people using fine tools lead by clearly defined vision will cause a greater experience for the inexperienced which is what we all are until we are dead which is the end of inexperience around here.
The website Transcendia.org has been inagurated and an application for citizenship in Transcendia is my next assignment. In the past only people I knew personally got Transcendian Passports.
Well I did send one to Clinton, but at least my brother-in-law knew him.
Mark4:1-20. "Let anyone with ears to hear listen!" Reading for the day.
Russell Scott Day /Founder of Transcendia
Radio Program about Pedophiles in the Clergy of the Catholic Church
Listened to a Radio Program about Pedophiles in the Clergy of the Catholic Church.
I end up thinking that the Catholics ought to become Episcopalians since Episcopalians are really repaired Catholics. Or better said, purchase a repair of Catholithism which was accomplished in 1523 or 36, sickness anyway a good long time ago.
I am saying this in relation to the empiracal evidence of sexual misconduct by similar groups organized in similar ways with similar rituals and even hymns.
These anguished testimonials best heard facelessly over the radio about sex between young boys and priests expose something that must be fixed because their history has perpetuated the sexual orientation within that culture, store the culture of the Catholic Church.
How it is that someone would become a pedophile has to be recognized as the pivotal question.
What is done, perpetuates what is done.
From my own sexual history, remembered development through both desire, innocent curiosity and its loss turned into knowledge respect awe and a pivot point of my life and its expression, I have the belief that within the culture of the Catholic Church, because Clergy in the past have created people like themselves though these sexual practices which are terrible because of their place as secrets that scar the psyche if not the soul.
A child must be able to share their sexual stories with their peers.
Overall there is a grind to having to keep secrets.
Parents or adults know that they are betraying their position when they burden children with secrets. Children have enough to do with keeping their own secrets and to put them through the twisted and lonely repetitive carriage of a secret that Clergy sexual abuse seems to be, is only to be diminished if its causes are removed from the culture as apparently they were in the Episcopal culture.
So what is it that I am saying?
I am saying that a structure has effects and that when you compare the Catholic Church with The Episcopal Church it would imply that if Catholicism wants to diminish the forces within its culture that in a physics like, cause and effect manner, clearly set the stage at the very least, for incidents of the betrayal of innocents, and innocence, the Episcopal stands on marriage of Priests are superior for the sexual culture of that denomination, over Catholicism.
Russell