tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post5570270893540665755..comments2024-03-01T23:41:02.240-05:00Comments on louie, louie: holy rocksbeth cioffolettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09300116274007165612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-2475135146013486922007-05-25T18:35:00.000-05:002007-05-25T18:35:00.000-05:00Someone (you?) said somewhere that when they went ...Someone (you?) said somewhere that when they went to Patmos they went to the cave where John supposedly wrote the apocalypse, and that there were indentations in the rock where john had slept, and where he had written. Or perhaps that was the tourist guide's spin on things.<BR/><BR/> Regardless, I don't necessarily think that spiritual enlightenment/ecstacy (whatever) is synonymous with incoherence (though it could be). But John must've been an interesting disciple - "the one Jesus loved". To me that sounds like a sensitive soul.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment, Barbara.beth cioffolettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300116274007165612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-46066108224973728672007-05-25T16:25:00.000-05:002007-05-25T16:25:00.000-05:00I read that poem and thought of John the Evangelis...I read that poem and thought of John the Evangelist, who, late in life, had the visions he translated into the Apocalypse on the isle of Patmos. He, too, was struck with fire and was consumed. I recall a homily once in which the priest commented on John's Epistles, how he (John) in his old age wasd "reduced" to babbling on and on about love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-57244574278806661882007-05-24T08:11:00.000-05:002007-05-24T08:11:00.000-05:00yep :-) Thanks for the Cupitt quote.yep :-) Thanks for the Cupitt quote.beth cioffolettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300116274007165612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-822894759353679437.post-19356647860751421302007-05-24T07:29:00.000-05:002007-05-24T07:29:00.000-05:00Talk of fire consuming itself in flame took me bac...Talk of fire consuming itself in flame took me back to Don Cupitt who writes ‘The sun sees no reason at all to apologise for making such an exhibition of itself all the time; it simply is its own outpouring self-expression.’ The sun also perfectly exemplifies the integrated state of both life and death. In its giving to our solar system it is at the same time dying and this activity, ‘is purely and only affirmative’. The sun is pure act!goodfornowthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18212019212659570626noreply@blogger.com