Mark this in your calendars as the day you heard a perfectionist say something was absolutely perfect. Take, for instance, the fact that our necessarily outdoor ceremony came only an hour after some sprinkles - just in time for a cloud-painted, starlit sky - and not thirty minutes before an all-out deluge. The Indian buffet that we were certain would leave us gorging ourselves on naan, rice, and aloo dumm for weeks to come was completely ravaged by hungry old people who (literally) had imagined Indian food to be corn and turkey. And the tango we'd worked so hard to polish and keep completely under wraps until the right time turned out looking something like this:
Unfortunately these are the only pictures we have at the moment because only one person has sent us snapshots so far. There will be more in the weeks to come, but all of our "official" photography was done on good old-fashioned film.
There was a lot of this on our short getaway (to the Land Between the Lakes):
Occasionally, I even forgot we were in Kentucky. Then I reminded myself by doing something classy like this:
But, alas - and I'm not kidding this time - I have come to the conclusion that there are far better things to do in life than waste my youthful eyes on a computer screen... even if that computer screen happens to be littered with hot naked chicks. Maybe I'll spend more time finding some real-life ones. Plus, much as I hate to say it, that set of mine is just never gonna happen. If it does, however, you will be the first to know. But until then I'm going to retire Pastura... just before my next SG rent payment is due which gives us approximately two more weeks together.
Unfortunately these are the only pictures we have at the moment because only one person has sent us snapshots so far. There will be more in the weeks to come, but all of our "official" photography was done on good old-fashioned film.
There was a lot of this on our short getaway (to the Land Between the Lakes):
Occasionally, I even forgot we were in Kentucky. Then I reminded myself by doing something classy like this:
But, alas - and I'm not kidding this time - I have come to the conclusion that there are far better things to do in life than waste my youthful eyes on a computer screen... even if that computer screen happens to be littered with hot naked chicks. Maybe I'll spend more time finding some real-life ones. Plus, much as I hate to say it, that set of mine is just never gonna happen. If it does, however, you will be the first to know. But until then I'm going to retire Pastura... just before my next SG rent payment is due which gives us approximately two more weeks together.
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If I understand what you're getting at rightly, then I would say that 'Godliness' in people is when their actions are in harmony with the spirit behind all things, and when they're acting out of their own free will. 'Godlessness' is where people's actions follow their own arbitrary wants regardless of truth (or in ignorance of it), and again - out of their own free will. But the latter may feel their thoughts and wants (or desires) to be good and true, and inoffensive, because they are more easily satisfied by themselves, by the experience of their own seemingly self-enclosed nature, than by the truths outside themselves, those of the world at large and of other people, those that unite them with the world and others. They are lost in self-love. True love is the opposite - you give yourself to the world. Altruism.
When someone is compelled by desire to do something, they are free to choose to either do it or not. But that's not exactly the nature of free will. Such a person is actually unfree because they are compelled by the desire in the first place. You can't be free if something or someone is compelling you. True free will amounts to being able to control your wants, in light of wisdom, which concerns the spiritual world. Free will is when a person's desires match the will of the higher beings of the spiritual world who determine harmony in the universe - the earth going round the sun, the plants coming up every spring, beavers building their lodges, etc.. We humans are free; that means we can do what we like; that means we cause a lot of chaos because we're ignorant of the wisdom of the higher worlds (our 'rape' of the planet being, possibly, the prime example). But we're also free to seek this wisdom instead of spending our time gratifying our own personal wants, which are entirely worthless as far as the divinities are concerned.
As long as we're compelled by desires that originate only in ourselves and not in the divine, in true love, we are not genuinely free; we don't really have free will, no-matter how much we 'do what we want'. Hence religion. The effort to rise above the purely earthly.
But then, of course, a great many people claim to know the divine will and don't. Yer paw could be one of them, but maybe not.
Phew.