Easter Week

See the land, her Easter keeping, 
Rises as her Maker rose. 
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, 
Burst at last from winter snows. 
Earth with heaven above rejoices; 
Fields and gardens hail the spring; 
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices, 
While the wild birds build and sing. 


You, to whom your Maker granted 
Powers to those sweet birds unknown, 
Use the craft by God implanted; 
Use the reason not your own. 
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices, 
Each his Easter tribute bring- 
Work of fingers, chant of voices, 
Like the birds who build and sing.

by: Joyce Kilmer

The Absurdity Of Human Kind.

Keep away from children and animals .

Matt Gone, an American, poses during the recent international tattoo conference in Venezuela.  Now beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, and beauty may be only skin deep, but ugly is ugly to the bone, and Matt is f**king ugly by anyone's measure.  

Easter Day by Oscar Wilde

The silver trumpets rang across the Dome:
The people knelt upon the ground with awe:
And borne upon the necks of men I saw,
Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome.
Priest-like, he wore a robe more white than foam,
And, king-like, swathed himself in royal red,
Three crowns of gold rose high upon his head:
In splendour and in light the Pope passed home.
My heart stole back across wide wastes of years
To One who wandered by a lonely sea,
And sought in vain for any place of rest:
'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest.
I, only I, must wander wearily,
And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.'


jpr: This is a redo but one of Oscar's best!

New Evidence

Shroud of Turin studies general date the cloth to between 1250 and 1390, in support of the idea that it is within the range of a LEONARDO hoax (1400-1500).  But recent tests in Italy, using update technology, argue that the cloth is much older than previous carbon dating suggests.  Recent studies hold for a date about the time of Jesus, with an error rate of 250 years either way.   Details have not yet been published. Nonetheless, its origin remains one of our great mysteries.

More Famous Quotes

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A wise man washes his hands after he pees. A wiser man doesn't pee on his hands.

- unknown

more on wisedom

But where can wisdom be found?
    Where does understanding dwell?
¹³ No mortal comprehends its worth;
    it cannot be found in the land of the living.
.....
Where then does wisdom come from?
    Where does understanding dwell?
²¹ It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,
    concealed even from the birds in the sky.
.....
“The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,
    and to shun evil is understanding.”

~scripture

jpr: one of my favorite topics since my divorce!

pre Billyianistic stuff

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed in the context of religious worship.

In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or "houses of heaven" dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus. He was the first to state that the ancient Mesopotamians practiced temple prostitution.

The bible tells of cult-prostitution, both male and female as common among religious sites, pagan as well as the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The righteous were always cleaning house as far back as Moses and Aaron.

No doubt the same call will come again as the problem will always be contemporary!