Lest Blood Be Shed

With all the fuss over the New Year, I almost forgot to post the top/funniest searches for December 2004 that reached my site. Most of them come at the end of the year with people looking for information on the tsunami. In fact my blog was featured on three different news blog aggregators because of my post on the tsunami!

First prize for searches in December 2004 goes to: "tsunami wmv" (sort of anti-climatic)
All in all I've had 133 different searches about the tsunami result in a visit to the site.

Here are some of the other (less dramatic) searches... and those people who like to call me names in their google searches are still going strong!

david delauro
john whelan
david delauro blog
.swf westminster confession
amendment that delt with teen smoking in bathroom
anti materialistic
anti-materialistic
berit blogspot
blog berit
blog maura rensselaer
christianity and homosexuallity
david delauro eats cat poo
david delauro eats fish eggs
david delauro eats spam
david delauro is fat
david delauro is not dead
david delauro is ugly
don't cry david delauro
emma delauro gay
equality and efficiency okun
ethical will hebrew genre
free headshaved movies
headshaved for women
headshaved models
headshaved woman
historectomy procedure
homosexual peoples
in islam is there homosexuallity in paradise
pride cometh
stephen baldwin heretic | heretical | false gospel -exorcist
tohu vabohu
verra la morte e avra' i tuoi occhi

I've been reading some feminist theologies lately and one of the concepts that seems to be prevalent is a redefining of what is erotic. In the Hetero-Patriarchal society in which we are immersed, social systems define erotic as something to be shunned and evil. It is the place of scank and lust. This is a direct result of the objectification inherent in a heterosexist and patriarchal paradigm. Women are objectified as sex toys designed to individualistic goals of gratification. Because of this take-over by the systemic structures of objectification feminist theologians have begun to redefine the erotic outside of this context to reclaim their place in experiencing eros. This redefinition removes all forms of objectification and examines the 'relational' nature of humanity. It speaks of mutual relationships where there is no power structure or hierarchy informing the interactions. Where each party in the community learns and grows from one another. This 'right relation' is defined as the erotic. The desire to be drawn together in right relation and mutuality and love. The theology begins when we see that God is in our desire for relation. God is 'the first love', 'the first desire', 'the first fundamental creative impulse of relation' and so we love 'other.' This redefinition moves away from the individualistic experiential trappings of most liberal and post-enlightenment conservative theologies and seeks to point to the encounter of God in (and as) the erotic.

Hmmmm, interesting... I think they're on to something