Gay and Stoned

A posted a quote from a comic who said, “It all makes sense now. Gay marriage and marijuana are being legalized at the same time. Leviticus 20:13 says that if a man lays with another man, he should be stoned. We were just misinterpreting it.”

Ms. Aviv said, "See, thats what I was taught. The bible doesn't change, our understanding of it does, LOL."

Monk said, "Heh, we must grow into its wisdom."

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George Orwell

I finally decided to get a book of Orwell’s essay work, and I am glad I went full-hog and got the most comprehensive collection, coming in at over a thousand pages, that is put out by Everyman’s Library. I was afraid that a lot of these old essays would be too dated and obscure, but I find that I really enjoy Orwell’s critical perspective and writing voice, such that I am willing to follow him just about anywhere. This excerpt is from the introduction.

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Friends remember Blair as prickly, diffident, ill at ease with ordinary people. According to his brother-in-law, who took him to pubs in working-class districts of Leeds, he was a ‘skeleton at the feast’ and disliked his fellow men. Those who witnessed his bids to conform to working-class manners - sucking tea noisily from a saucer in the BBC canteen, for example - saw it as an embarrassing charade. George Orwell the writer, by contrast, is confident, relaxed, open, democratic. This is not to claim that his writing misrepresents his ‘true’ self. You could as easily argue that the true self was masked by shyness or awkwardness in life and came out in his writing. Either way, it reminds us how much art went into the writing, for all its natural appearance.

-- John Carey, Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy

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