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  1. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    . . . Ok. Let me rephrase that. Do you consider yourself more masculine than me? . . . I'm trying to gain a one up on you so far as our opinions concerning masculinity are concerned. :p John
  2. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    According to psychoanalysts (and I have Freud, and Norman O. Brown in mind) the newborn infant is "polymorphously perverse." Which is to say the baby is sexually attracted to anything and everything that brings it pleasure. The same child violently disdains anything that brings it anything but...
  3. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    Do you consider yourself mostly masculine? John
  4. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    The thread name pointed out that I would be taking a stab at mansplaining the metaphysics of masculinity. I can agree with your statement to the extent that we concede, with little difficulty, that masculinity is, for all men, a spectrum rather than an objective singularity. Once we concede...
  5. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    It wouldn't be original for me to point out that, at least for men, everything is a sublimation for sexual fulfillment, everything. I don't see that as profane, but natural (for men at least). So it's naturally natural to see even morality itself as a sublimation for sex so far as men...
  6. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    . . . I thought you were Catholic? Don't you see the Catholic doctrine seeping out of that statement? John
  7. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    What do you mean? Your statement could be taken as very much in line with the spirit of this thread? John
  8. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    . . . I beat you to the punch. Nevertheless, as @Secret Chief points out, the next paragraph would likely start with "circumcision" which, as those who've read more than just a smattering, or splattering, of these words around here would know, is like putting a "brake" on breaking the hymen so...
  9. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    . . . I love cats. Dogs too. But the latter are, like wives ( I have just one) too damn demanding. I have 16 cats. Which is like one big happy family. But there's a lot of litter and cleaning up to do. I wouldn't recommend having more than 8 or 9. :) John
  10. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    Two pussies? That I can understand (who has a pain-threshold for more than two wives). . . But two cats! . . . That's just uncivilized (says the mansplainer who has 16). [ . . . Cats, not wives.] John
  11. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    As the French philosopher Jacques Lacan points out, the phallus is, ironically, most invisible when it's engaged, so to say, in its most seminal act. It disappears into the womb it inseminates (and is thus invisible to the eye) when it's performing its most limpid (transparent) act; the phallus...
  12. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    Naturally you picked up on the gemetrial nuances that undergirded the less important semantic undertones. :) John
  13. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    Philo's implication that masculinity is essentially invisible (even meontological), ergo "spirit," lends itself to unifying anthropology, theology, philosophy, and religion, in a fundamental and powerful manner. Unfortunately, the truth of an invisible "masculinity" (invisibility being its most...
  14. John D. Brey

    Young women leaving religion more than young men.

    Thank you for a thoughtful response. John
  15. John D. Brey

    Young women leaving religion more than young men.

    Since you're a woman of faith, and since Judaism has practiced these things even more religiously than Christianity, how would you explain the genesis, nature, and historical proliferation, of the gender-dynamics you note above? Has there ever been in history a culture within which gender did...
  16. John D. Brey

    Sex and Catholicism

    And well it should be. The institution, its myths, and doctrinal secrets, are where the salvation of the world, and the erection (so to say) of the kingdom of God (the new world) find their power and prestige. Just as in Judaism, so too in Catholicism, the mindless and spiritless masses know...
  17. John D. Brey

    Sex and Catholicism

    . . . That would be the celibate priests, right? Their pals and their Cardinals. ;) John
  18. John D. Brey

    Sex and Catholicism

    There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with...
  19. John D. Brey

    Was There *Two* Women Created in the Garden of Eden?

    I would interpret the accurate elements of your exegesis a bit differently. In my exegesis, ha-adam (the first human) is created a female, with a sealed-womb, but already pregnant (like a latter-day virgin turned out to be). In Exodus 13:2, the Lord tells Moses to sanctify the firstborn who...
  20. John D. Brey

    The Religion of Politics.

    Descartes would say you think, thus, you are. I agree. John
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