the self that i love is made up of all the things i`ve experienced added to my essential nature, and i recognise that everyone else is the same thing in a dynamic flow.

commerce and law binds us into servitude in a particularly insideous way. we think we are in loving trusting relationships unconditionally until the same commerce and law asserts thier dominion over our sovereignty.

in my recent seperation, i took strength in the fact that no law or act of commerce could effect the love my children and i share. i was grateful that my ex didn`t stoop to play that relationship for advantage and doesn`t interfere with my access to them, though the law allows, supports and advocates to her if she so wishes to deprive them of thier father.

the laws of this land are for the furtherance of the careers of lawyers and judges, and perpetuation of the excange of money for services that we don`t need.

a biblical scolar friend of mine likes to say that he sees gallows being built all along the major thouroughfares of our town soon when we all wake up and hang the bureaucrats.

he is a rebel like myself and we have to watch our tongues in a town full of bureaucrats.

we are all selling something all the time. parents sell children, wives sell husbands and so on.

only in our soveriegn state can we sell ourselves to the highest bidder in whatever marketplace we find ourselves.

i was healed by the kindness and true gnostic nature of two professional girls on new year`s eve. it was one of the most profound experiences i`ve ever had.

quite possibly the closest i`ve ever come to experiencing unconditional love from another person.

unless we can be true to our soveriegn nature we will always all be prostitutes.

Totally, but there’s also absolutely nothing wrong with prostitutes either!

but, the fact remains that men are conditioned to pay a woman`s way, even though she now is just as capable of doing so, if not more so.

if you go on date.ca or plenty of fish and sort for women 35 and older you will find where all the mortages are held. divorced women with the house.

lawyers feed on this behaviour and stir things up for fun and profit.

so who started the trend?

chicken or the egg.

when men and women independantly decide to stop the game then a new game will form. they always do. it is the nature of humans and games.

of course commerce will always be a factor tohugh and i can`t see the game changing much any time soon.

great writing tim, though i do have one thing to say about the institution of marriage;

legalised prostitution.

and i will explain. men and women exist outside of law. church and state have us believing we exist in this meta-physical place called a country, existing in “marriage”, “love” etc, and the reason why is about commerce.

we are innocent of this meta-reality until we try to get out from within it`s grasp.

allof our political and spiritual struggles are striving to escape from the grasp of law, whether political or otherwise.

shakespeare had some things to say about lawyers. he could have included priests as well.

unless we can be true to our soveriegn nature we will always all be prostitutes.

This song came into my head when reading this article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW2VSUkWnYQ
Cunninlyguists – Dance For Me

Mencken has done some interesting writing on the brothels of Baltimore in the early 1900s. Sorta related, here’s a piece by him on prostitution: http://www.fullbooks.com/In-Defense-of-Women3.html

we know you’re not trying to tear down civilization with your posts

I am, however, fully interested in throwing people who haven’t thought about this stuff before into a full-on internal tail-spin…

Incidentally, for the record, I totally “believe” in marriage as an institution as well. My purpose here is not to diminish it whatsoever.

We like you. We really, really like you and we know you’re not trying to tear down civilization with your posts. At this point your preaching to the choir anyway. But, we’ll save the above quote for when you run for political office so you can get some of the non-harlot, non-vagabond votes too.

This is the whole chapter;

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=6&chapter=6&version=9

Hebrews 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

In this chapter Rahab is final in a list that includes Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses. This chapter has some beautiful mentions of faith in a “another country” we yearn for;

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?b...ok_id=65&chapter=11&version=9

Don’t forget that Esther was groomed to be Queen by the palace eunuchs which led to the salvation of Israel.

Also, I totally agree with Brooke and cadaveo. Your writing is excellent and getting better every day. Reading what’s on the reasearch page only enhances reading your final essay.

I caught glimpses of you researching all this behind the scenes and clearly you spent a lot of time on it. I’ve been wondering what to expect, and you didn’t disappoint.

I will totally toss some bucks your way (just watch out for the antlers! wa wa wa).

Ya’ll continue to set the bar.

It’s not like they need to run out and find out who’s doing what, just all of a sudden.

Yeah, “they” are doing it right along with “them”.

BTW I had to leave these guys somewhere and here seemed like a good place.

http://istheday.blogspot.com/

Sex trafficking & political blackmail

This would be interesting. In Chicago, when homosexuality was illegal, blackmailers (usually Mafia/Police Dept.) would stage parties then call in police raids. Everyone was photographed and booked and then told how they could make it all go away. Then, you were owned from that point on.

The conspiracy theory about the world wide raids on child pornography that have happened over the last year is that they happened to remove the competition and were staged by much more powerful and well connected child pornographers.

Shit I ran out of time/energy to write about:

- Pimping, harems, sugar daddies, polygamy (w/ Joseph Smith & the Mormons)
- Charles Manson’s legal record as a pimp and how he used sex in his cult
- Legal rights (lack thereof) of mistresses and bastard children, concubines (also King Solomon’s many wives, the Queen of Sheba, David & Bathsheba)
- Modern pornography industry: although I feel like I unraveled its roots fairly well, but I wanted to come back and sweep through the Sexual Revolution, hippies and more on sex-positive Feminism.
- Sororities, convents, brothels
- Dance of the Seven Veils, Dance of the Bee
- Call girls, escorts, street-walkers, madams
- Sex trafficking & political blackmail
- Mata Hari, because she is awesome
- Bringing this all back to courtly/romantic troubadour devotional love tradition

May come back and expand this at some point, but this is a good start! What a humongous, fascinating and important topic… Would love to see other people expand on these subjects in greater depth with more solid research! Huzzah!