Archive for September, 2008
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
I believe it is natural for Women to be the Dominant sex, and the fact that we all live in patriarchal (Male dominated) societies, means that we are going against our natural instincts. This is why we live in a world of conflict, chaos, violence, war,…
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
In the Christian Bible it states that “God made man in his own image”, but it would be more true to say that man created God in his image. Over the centuries we have created our Gods and Goddesses in human form, because we cannot understand or even im…
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
There are many stories about Kali in Hinduism which all seem to be different versions of the same story, suggesting that they came from a single source in the distant past. It appears that over thousands of years, the story was altered to fit in with t…
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Although it is not mentioned in the official Bible, there is a well known story that Mary Magdelene was a prostitute. Although there is no written proof of this in the Bible or in the Gnostic Gospels so it would be easy to dismiss this story. Yet it …
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
In eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism and the modern New-age movement, people are taught that they need to overcome their egos to become “enlightened”. Even in religions like Christianity have a similar concept, where to “enter the kingdom …
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
There is a fairly popular perception that feminism or Female Supremacy is all about “male bashing”, and it has to be admitted that in many feminist books this comes across very strongly, which leads people to think that the women’s movement is a male v…
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
On a superficial level it would seem that Sadomasochism and Mysticism are as far apart as you can get. Mysticism is suppose to be about getting away from desires of the flesh and Sadomasochism is about expressing these desires in an extreme way.Yet th…
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
The reason why patriarchy is so bad for all people is because it has separated love and power. Patriarchy likes to claim love is ‘weak’ or ‘unrealistic’, the result is that in a patriarchal society those who have power are unloving, and those …
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In 1886 a book called the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was published. It became a instant best-seller and is now a seen as a great book. For those who have not read it: It is a story of a Dr Jekyll, …
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Many people have attempted to interpret Revelation at the end of the Christian Bible. The problem with this vision is that it seems to show Jesus to be more like a avenging Jehovah God rather that the compassionate, tolerant and caring man that Jesus …
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
On Thursday 31 January 2002 at 9.00pm BBC Two transmitted a scientific TV program called Horizon. On this program the subject matter was archaeology and was called, “The Lost Pyramids of Caral”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/caral.shtmlNow…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In the present generation of young women there are many who wish to be “bad”. In the past a “bad girl” was simply a girl who had sex outside marriage. Then a generation ago a “bad girl” was someone who wanted a career rather than children, or made he…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
There is a story that the great German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche became insane when he saw a donkey being beaten by a man. On a superficial level this story sounds silly and is used by Nietzsche’s detractors to make him look foolish. Y…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Once upon a time there was in pre-historic times a golden age as written about by the Ancient Greeks, the Chinese Taoists and other Ancient cultures. Where people not only live in harmony with nature but also lived in harmony with each other. These a…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In the last four thousand years of recorded history it has been accepted world wide that our creator is a man, so much so, that many people today cannot imagine a Supreme Creator as anything but a male. In accepting the masculine nature of our Creator…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
FEMINISM’S HIDDEN AGENDABy Pamela SuffieldOn the surface, Feminism seems a simple enough movement. What does it want? Equality of opportunity for both women and men. A chance to choose, instead of being forced into the straitjacket of conventional role…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
FEELINGS by Pamela Suffield Truly patriarchal males see themselves as God. Strange but true. In a patriarchal system, the male god is merely a projection of society’s ideas about ideal masculinity, without any balance from what has been designated as …
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Many people see Femdom as some form of perversion; even people who practice Femdom see it this way. This is because Femdom is associated with kinky sex, and sadomasochism. Yet if we are to look at Femdom in a different way and bring love into this mix…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Margaret Thatcher was probably the most controversial Prime Ministers Britain ever had, not only because she was the first British Female leader, but because she was a paradox. Although she was a Women she certainly wasn’t a sister, she spoke up aga…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Women have moved from a state of virtual slavery in the 19th century, to near equality in the 21st century through the efforts of many heroic Women who were willing to challenge patriarchy. One such Woman was Mary Baker Eddy, who not only single-hande…
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Since the middle of the 19th century when Charles Darwin published his theories of evolution, science has believed that life evolved through the, “survival of the fittest”. That is to say; with different life-forms competing against each other and …
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
[Christabel Pankhurst] [Emmeline Pankhurst]At about the beginning of the 20th century many western democratic countries allowed women the vote. New Zealand had already led the way …
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The story of Inanna’s descent into the underworld, is an ancient Sumerian legend that seems to predict the rise of the patriarchal age and its later downfall.In this story, she is the Queen of Heaven, who wishes to visit her sister Ereshkigal the Godde…
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