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Genesis 24:2-3 — Abraham says to his servant: “Put your hand under my thigh and I will make you swear by the Lord”. Sexuality as a bond, as an oath, as a promise, as that which you force unto others yet cannot bear to have forced unto you

#thoughts #scripture #nrsv

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#omid safi #radical love: teachings from the islamic mystical tradition #islamic mysticism #islam

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#isaiah 49 #the voice bible

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#georges bataille #blue of noon

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#mark aguhar #as published in glitch feminism: a manifesto by legacy russell

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Isaiah 46 + 49; The Crucifixion of Christ with the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and John the Apostle, F. Rosapina; Christ on the Way to Calvary, Titian; The Dead Christ with Two Angels, Palma il Giovane

#the voice bible #christianity #web weaving

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#psalm 26 #matthew 27 #bible: new revised standard version #desperation to please (the father/the patriarch) #coupled w resignation of action & refusal of guilt (paternal in nature) - the helplessness that comes w responsibility #purity as a pillar of holiness - what is more pure than that which gives or refuses life #i am innocent father i swear i am innocent; absolve me of myself

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#georges bataille #blue of noon #a propensity for that which is violent and all-consuming #(in that it consumes and is consumed)

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#don delillo #the body artist #sheer and fleet and scatter-bright

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#georges bataille #blue of noon #it always left this taste of corpses

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#caroline walker bynum #holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women #hadewijch #described the second extract as using orgasmic imagery + language

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#rachel fulton #“taste and see that the lord is sweet”: the flavor of god in the monastic west

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#rachel fulton #“taste and see that the lord is sweet”: the flavor of god in the monastic west #god: tender lover

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#maggie kilgour #from communion to cannibalism: an anatomy of metaphors of incorporation #this wrested a little giggle out of me

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#susan sontag #illness as metaphor #how can i make this about scully's cancer arc in the x-files and the (ab)use of virus to gestate alien life through consumption of humanity #what is living must eat -- even if it takes you with it

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#lars albinus #the house of hades: studies in ancient greek eschatology #how can i make this about rust and humus by lucas roussel #each death an apocalypse; molten and macroscopic

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#rabih alameddine #i the divine #leonard cohen #chelsea hotel no. 2 #things made beauteous through memory; self as seen through others #objectiv(e/ity) of ugliness