c.i. wrote-
Quote:A good defesne is a good offense; but to off-handedly claim that religious bias isn't the primary "leap in the dark," I'm not sure what is! Nice try, spendi, but your spinning your wheels.
Not at all.
There's a few thousand years of the evolution of Christianity during which the structures of life became adapted to belief systems being gradually refined by theologians. It was a gradual and tentative process comparable to inching along carefully in a thick mist and which resulted in the conquest of most of the earth. It was nothing like a leap in the dark.Every significant move was studied and debated and often fought over.
With all these structures in place, and one could see the effect of one of them on female modesty in my young lady in the pub sketch, it is a leap in the dark to throw them over in the space of a few years. If they are thrown over I'm quite sure my young lady would have performed her sinuous gyrations in a more up front manner.
But in such circumstances her friends would no doubt be emboldened to follow suit and after a few minutes of that sort of thing we would all become blase about it and it would cease to create interest and feminine mystique would evaporate.
Those sections of the community who seek to destroy feminine mystique, and I hardly think you will need me to say who they are, would obviously give support to the destruction of the process which created it and you would be left with nothing but the gratification of animal urges. As it is economically useful to apply mechanical methods to such base satisfactions one could easily envisage the destruction of marriage and courtship and, in the end, love itself and with that art.
I think confusion arises because we are in transition and the structures of the past live alongside portents of the future so, in a sense, we can have the best of both worlds for now. I think attacks on Christianity are thus a self indulgence which refuses to look at the situation which would come about if those attacks were successful and the "religious censorship" which restrained my young lady from going beyond certain limits was withdrawn.
One would certainly be in great difficulty attempting to restrain her with the scientific method. She was already exposing a proportion of her flesh a long way in advance of what a devout Islamic lady might do and strictures founded upon the scientific method are hardly likely to be sufficient, logically,to inhibit her pushing the envelope futher which she self-evidently had a mind to do.
At one point, to the cheers of the audience, she got astride a young seated male whose friend then proceeded to imitate a dog on the seat of her jeans which suggests a familiarity with the "double push" which those of you who have seen European TV will know the details of.
In the interests of research for the benefit of this thread I made a few enquiries and it turned out that all the ladies in the group were married and had children and were quite typical in every respect of those Mums one often sees collecting children from the school gates in their big cars.
They had been out since early evening celebrating something or other.
Of course,by the standards of the movers and shakers it was all quite respectable as one would expect in an ordinary local pub.
In my experience, which is quite eclectic, I have always found this type of lady to be somewhat disappointing in action whereas those ladies who evince a high order of feminine mystique and reticence generally shag like rattlesnakes once persuaded. (See Stendahl)
This may explain why these ladies were unaccompanied whereas those ladies in the pub who turned their back on the display were in the company of an attentive chap.
"All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to hoooooooooooowlllll!!! (Bob used to go down on one knee on that last word but now he's 65 he has to use another trick; a baleful glare.)
No!c.i. Your's is the leap in the dark.
