Posted by Declan on August 1, 2005, at 16:24:41
In reply to Re: objectification » Declan, posted by alexandra_k on July 30, 2005, at 21:18:31
Sometimes people wish to lose themselves and want what the person they love wants. It's not imposed, but a voluntary surrender.
But how much objectification? Most people don't want to be owned, but some do.
We humans sometimes want to merge with each other and not only physically. If your preferrence in real life is to leave behind yourself and become part of the other.......
That's the sort of thing that makes sexuality different to the rest of life, and gives us complicated feelings about it.Actually this could go on the faith board, because it seems like the same stuff. I really *don't* mean to be provocative but in the lovely words of the old anglican communion service....
'We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs from under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: grant us therefore gracious Lord, so as to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us.'What do you think of that? Strange and wonderful, eh?
Food for thought, I dunno if I've made myself clear.
Declan
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