The pelvic thrust
As if life is not busy enough, now I have gone and volunteered to work back stage at the Regina Performing Arts Center for The Rocky Horror Show. Due to my religious and moral beliefs I should be offended and maybe even a little outraged by this show, but I love it. Maybe it is the sheer rebelion of it all, or the stark contrast to my own life style. It could be that I like the questions it raises about social and behavioural norms, or maybe on some level I just really want to put on a corset and stockings and go prancing about. . . but probably not! I don't really know why I like it so much, but I do get a kick out of those crazy songs! This show is so far removed from reality that we can joke and laugh about dark perversions and twisted views on relationships and sex. At the same time, what makes us believe that this is such a twisted and perverted look at things? Is it because of how we are raised in our "normal" 2.5 families or is it something deeper. We all long for love, to have that emptiness in our soul filled with joy and purpose. If not joy then something please because the emptiness is unbarable. It seems that we humans will go to any lengths to feel "love" and acceptance in whatever form we can find it. Drugs addicts, AAA, enron, warlords, slumlords, pimps and whores, the proof is all around us. There are people that take to fill the emptiness and people that give up to fill it. What sadness and shame, what kind of animals are we? This is very depressing. There must be something more. There must be something better. If you belive we were created by a loving God or spawned from the primordial soup, you must belive that there has to be a better answer then all of this. Is it friends, community, fellowship, world peace. The answer is out there and it is more then 52. In the parting words of Dr. Frank, "Don't dream it, BE it."
posted by pyroboy at 08:39
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Yes! BE IT. Be I--Identity T--True. "The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him (Jesus) take us over, the more truly ourselves we become." (C.S. Lewis)
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Steve Diehl
yes, i guess we all find meaning in very odd places. i wouldn't really expect to be taught the meaning of life at the rocky horror picture show, or even glimpse such insight. but it's the questions that matter more in these situations. sometimes it dawns a little darkly, and i see that all the things i'm chasing after for are really good and decent things, but i've just messed them up a little. it's a bit of the consumerist in me, i suppose. it doesn't feel like you'll find peace unless you feed the need. but then the need just gets bigger. maybe like a balloon. the more it inflates, the greater the pressure, the greater the need to let it all out. we feel like the bigger we get, that maybe the more in control we'll be. we'll be able to scare off the scary things. we'll be able to dominate the overwhelming parts of life. but all we get is puffed up, with a thin and stretchy skin, and a great big empty bubble for a heart. (i understand that an inflated balloon is a pretty sad analogy, but it kinda works. so just back off...)
ps- i like the blog, danny. atta be a blogger.
one word...or rather place/event
"BURNING MAN"
look it up my dear brother, you may find yourself shocked and yet see missions in a whole new and frightening way...
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