Catholic concerns cont'd.

Catholic concerns about him slipping into a coma and leaving the church without a spiritual leader were bandied about no end and all of this public ruminating about the mortality of these two individuals leads one to wonder: When is a person no longer a human being? What qualifies humanity? When does our humanity begin, and end?

Never being at a loss for an opinion, allow me to share with you (briefly) my perspective. An entity becomes human when it is thrust into the light. A child is born. It engages and is engaged by the outside cosmos. Its first relationship is with mother, whose love is undeniable and of critical support.

That individual then may begin to take responsibility for its humanity after he* has been exposed to the vagaries of human life and hopefully adequately educated to determine between that which is right and wrong. So the presence of the moral mind helps to qualify the individual as uniquely human. The mechanism for free choice distinguishes the man from beast then and those choices begin to create the moral composite which may lead to an enlightening, the absolute emancipation and triumph of that individual or, as is mostly the situation, his death in darkness, unfinished in his growth, psychologically fastened to the state of juvenile thinking and anxiety (much affirmed by video games and modern adult amusements).

Hysteria and false sentimentality are earmarks of juvenile reactions.

Every day I am constructing my own ethereal house, no better nor less than that of any other individual equally concerned about his private spiritual environment. And it is from this environment that we each may then extend ourselves into the world with a gentle force but some insistence for truth and peace, and a craving for goodness.

When I am no longer connected with willpower or the mental capacity to the promise of living meaningfully, I am finished, and am certain my body will acknowledge this and allow me to change form. Scientific interference at this point is misguided. A natural approach to this dramatic occasion and then the challenge to cross that plain of existence between lives (be they human again or spiritual) would not be emboldened by artificial means.

And in earnest I pray for the peaceful migration of Karol and Terri’s souls.
*as a male author, I use male pronouns throughout for grammatical simplicity and to avoid the awful "he/she" nonsense.


And now for a dip into the eternal sea of confusion, that diabolical ocean of maya (get yer sewage suit on)...
GLOBAL POLITICS

This week, your favourite saint and mine, St George W Bush (patron saint of born again rednecks, & military prison guards & visionary of WMD’s), having failed to oust the earnest and dedicated Kofi Anan as leader of the United Nations, has appointed former Pentagonian Wolfowitz to the rather critical position of Leader of the World Bank. This being the same establishment that recently attempted to affix security to one of its loans as to be measured in the value of their water, including the rainwater which occasionally was witnessed falling on the starving heads of the borrowing South American country. This privatization of water rights has an ominous feel to it, and threatens to awaken the pyschopathic corporations as to their next asset management portfolio. The people in South America had to revolt against the World Bank to win back their right to capture rain water.