a chosen people and circumcised, God looks at the 'America
Nico Carlucci
Europeans do not know that a large number of Americans are circumcised. Some time ago I tried to explain this practice of anthropologists who blinded by the "universality of history" have come to not understand what I was saying. In them it was assumed that those who were baptized could not be circumcised. In reality, the people of the USA knows, experiences of both rites.
This makes the Americans once more "exceptional" since the two attitudes in the past and in different cultures, they even fought.
Here I will try to explain the reasons that accompany this sacred practice. I do not think the pseudo-scientific explanations that are given to justify the circumcision in the United States: penis reasons cleaning, removal from diseases and disorders.
This should open up even more eyes on the obviousness of culture and the implicit removal of the Sacred. Latter 'is decoded to not leave it in the coercion and subjugation of its rules.
A story "short"!
Nell 'antiquities were some tribes of North Africa that "affect" one's body. This is, for example, among the Egyptians who are affiliated to Ra, the Sun God, who had circumcised himself
In ancient Rome the Jews were circumcised called "Curtis" in order to emphasize the mutilation of their penises was going through the removal of the foreskin.
Israel, Israel sacrificed the male sexual organ par excellence, their "shoot flowered" by ratifying, thus, the covenant between God and his people "elected (Genesis, 17, 11-4).
Romans, conversely, that the body had done their "inalienable whole," were far from this "offer God "to which St. Peter's, for example, would not give up.
origins of Christianity, there was, in fact, a major dispute between Peter and Paul concerning circumcision and baptism. Which of the two rites would have "started" really Christian?
Paul won the greek-roman world and therefore no mutilation of the body, the water of baptism, which ended up making participant of public life, finally, women.
For Muslims, circumcision is an essential act of faith, suggested by Mohammed in the "Sunna, the sayings of the Prophet explaining the Koran. The origin of the ritual can be traced back, as with the Jews, for Abraham, who at 80 years autocirconcide.
Protestants and Jews in the name of 'America
But Americans are WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) that is baptized Christians yet their newborn is circumcised and is, thus, implicitly, society of Men. It 's still Protestantism, in fact, in its various denominations, to have a majority in the U.S. (51.3 percent) despite the extraordinary success of other religions. Wasps are in power and exercise it and encode in different sectors: industrial, economic, military, academic and social. Although the population in stars and stripes change color and is enhanced by new ethnic groups, the rules Yankee culture, ultimately, are still those of the founding fathers: "He who will introduce the principles of Christianity in public affairs will change the face of the world" (Benjamin Franklin, 1779). This happened yesterday, this happens today.
Bruce Springsteen sings during the presidential campaign this way: "It 's putting the best of human qualities - respect for others, honesty towards oneself, faith in our ideals - that we are born as a nation in the eyes of God' so that our soul as a nation and as individuals, occurs "-
America, while you become attached to its foundation myth, which still, weaves his political life to religious roots, Christian and Puritan. As shown
Jean-François Colosimo God forms the country's civil society through rituals, dogma and temples. It 's his symbolic vocabulary and a "spectacular" ("God is American teodemocrazia the United States", Milan, 2009, JacaBook).
But Protestantism, as we know, absolute, intersects with Judaism and becomes, well, into something else, different from Europe where he started and also from the same Judaism in the Middle East.
Jefferson refers to Israel just in his second inaugural speech and at the same time participant in Puritanism.
addition, to substantiate his candidacy, Barack Obama also called on the biblical story of the Jews from slavery output. From all this we can understand why the Americans are a people of circonsisi and baptized.
Americans, therefore, made by people outside the countries where they were born, settled into a new "promised land", land of abundance and blessing.
It 's a new model of ancient Israel and dominating the American consciousness, God's chosen people that is evoked when its President speaks also to justify the war. American people so that circumcised women are roughly a penis that is not.
The corn flakes Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) was a physician who made history as the inventor of corn flakes food from the famous brand that bears his name. He was a doctor, a native of Michigan who worked for many years in a sanatorium. Kellogg
belonged to the religion of the Seventh-Day Adventist, Protestant church and as Jews observe the Sabbath as a day of divine rest.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is for sexual abstinence and beyond, including alcohol and tobacco should be avoided.
Kellogg became hard supporter of the principles of his Church. Like others, believed that circumcision would prevent the reduce masturbation, he said, the sexual stimulation. Inventing cornflakes, Dr. Kellogg believed their practice to combat this "lonely" of American males who wore asthma, insomnia, to epilepsy. From
vegetarian nutritionist, added to the diet even paradoxically "penaut butter, peanut butter is widespread in American pop culture.
Now
In the current debate is also the view of those who are against this practice. Some people, for the first time in America, speaks about ablation of the foreskin, of mutilation, consideration of sacrifice of the male body, violence becomes "unjust" if he is the child having to suffer.
win, but those who insist that circumcision is used to clean the penis to prevent disease.
back to playing the rules of the Sacred, the coordinates that redraw the lines of the White Anglo Saxon Protestant "is now attacked from many sides, internally and externally, the last stock market crisis, the election of a black president, the 'desire to reform health care for all, the attack on the Twin Towers, the advance of China.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
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pruning and tying of vines
In winter, you begin to prune the screws and, in this period, completing the job with the ligature. We prune the plant to Guyot: are removed from the plant all the old branches except one, a year old, called "head of the fruit, the branch that will provide the bulk of production in the current year. The number gems left in the fruiting varies from plant to plant: in our Dolcetto vineyards to leave about 6 buds, 7 / 8 and 9 at the Barbera and Nebbiolo Brachet, head over to a fruit is left on the fundamental lives a spur from which will spring a branch that will be used next year as the head of a fruit reopening it the production cycle.
Returning to the binding, it is gently twist the branch that will give rise to the fruit, linking it to the wire, placed horizontally: it is a job that must be handmade and must be very careful not to break the branches that are bent. In the past the wicker was a string of plant-wide circulation (in Piedmont "Goreti"), made from willow - very tough plant that prefers moist soil -; were collected in winter, stored in a cool place and immersed in water before 'use to increase elasticity now have been replaced by metal and plastic ties, with the aid of a rapid binder.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Hazelnuts, not just work ....
Round and gentle .... the Piedmont Hazelnut flavor is a delicious fruit that grows in the hills of the Langhe hazelnut this is qualitatively superior to all others and is a jewel of the Piedmont tradition, known and appreciated throughout the world.
(More informations: http://www.nocciolapiemonte.it/ ).
The core, in reality Langa, has strong deep roots and the result is entered in the customs of the people of this territory, allowing the expression of the kitchen, influencing eating habits, even becoming an element of celebration, folklore and popular events.
The crux came to the point to be part of local culture to be enveloped in an aura of magic: the peasants believed that her bush was inhabited by fairies and elves (but of discourse "mask "we'll talk another time).
The guests are as attracted to the nuts we put out to dry in the barn: normal adults have never seen so many nuts all together and some people are hesitant to walk inside for fear of breaking them, while others asked if can help and, once they have a shovel in hand, they see the pile of nuts as a "challenge". Most children, however, will quickly become familiar with the "round and gentle" and immediately recognize the moment "fun" a lot fun (although, sometimes, to us to pick them up again ...).
Try it .....
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Sacra di San Michele
We visited the Sacra di San Michele few days ago, together with some friends from Varese; it has been a great experience! You can see the Shire from a distance, infact it rises on the top of a mountain, so you start enjoying the visit in advance... and when you reach the entrance the excitement is in the highest degree!!
The monument symbolising Piedmont region
We visited the Sacra di San Michele few days ago, together with some friends from Varese; it has been a great experience! You can see the Shire from a distance, infact it rises on the top of a mountain, so you start enjoying the visit in advance... and when you reach the entrance the excitement is in the highest degree!!
The Shrine of Saint Michael was born between 983 and 987 to meet with the demands and the culture of pilgrimage: it's one of the largest European religious Romanesque architectural complexes, the result of construction and enlargements made over a millennium. The three chapels, built in the rocks under the present basilica, show the dawn of the settlement; it's from them that the ancient monastery developed (XI c.).
The present three aisles basilica dates to the XII century. It lays on the primitive cells and on the basement built around the Grand Stairway of the Dead. The church's western spans and the buildings in the north of the complex date back to the Gothic period. The XII century was the period of its greatest splendour, it gave hospitality to pilgrims and aristocrats and was a fulcrum of a patrimony that spread all over Europe.
Entrance is the most superb portion of the Abbey. The façade (just a little over 135 feet) is decorated by a combination of colours and geometry, the straight lines of the iron-grey foundation and the greenish full curves of the church. The façade ends in the apse and in the gallery made by arches (the "viretti") which is one of the most beautiful Romanesque apsidal loggia in Italy.
From the entrance, the church is reached through a large and steep stairway. After the first few steps, on the left there is a pilaster over 18 meters high (about 60 feet) which supports the church's floor; to the right the large greenish rock invades the front wall; some arches may be noticed, as well as tombs and wide niches which, until the recent restoration, containned the skeletons of some monks, hence the name of the Stairway of the Dead. The silence of the centuries dominates everything.
The door of the zodiac stands on the top of the steep Stairway of the Dead. Beautiful work by Maestro Nicolao, a famous sculptor during the twelfth century. It's made of pieces of marble.
The door of the zodiac stands on the top of the steep Stairway of the Dead. Beautiful work by Maestro Nicolao, a famous sculptor during the twelfth century. It's made of pieces of marble.
Going upwards, the jamb to the right shows the signs of the zodiac, while the jamb to the left, other constellations; there are slender and elegant columns, with capitals telling biblical stories (Cain and Abel, Samson and Delilah) or symbolic stories (women tearing each other's hair; women nourishing snakes, lions with a dragon's head and tail).
After a large terrace, is the artistic Romanesque doorway of grey and green stones: there are arches, cornes and string-cournes supported by semi-columns ending with flowery capitals. On the top, the dripstone ended with the head of a hooded monk and the head of a young man (now lost). on both sides, right and left, are the columns with three foiled arches, all that remains of the porch that used to protect the door. The door panels, dated 1826, are decorated with the arms of the Archangel St. Michael and with the devil represented as a snake with a human face.
For information contact the Rosminian Fathers: phone 0039011939130; fax 0039011939706
web site: http://www.sacradisanmichele.com/
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I Broke The Wireless Receiver For The Mouse
Snow in mid-March
Normalmente, al 10 di marzo, ci si alza al mattino e si ha already planned a series of works that can be done in the country: among all these, get a shovel about a meter of snow is not usual, at least not here in Langa ... Beppe remember something like that is over 20, but not so much space!
course, with the snow, lunch arrives a dish of polenta, which is eaten at home in many ways: some prefer it with milk, some with cheese or sausage and who, like me, in the end it has to eat a bit with the jam.
Snake And Angel Bites
Set-parloma you there and some
Checkout better than to sit with friends - perhaps with a glass of wine and a slice of salami - to talk without haste and freewheel?
's so that I feel when I go to my friend with me Boettger, aka Barbafiore, author of Piedmontese dialect poetry (including the collection entitled, precisely, Set-parloma you there a bit'): I sit on the chair, and while I am beard and hair, and no one runs behind us, we talk about everything that comes to mind ...
work, deadlines, busy schedule weekly, and the desire to force us to demonstrate a more hectic life in which we chase our time giving us a fleeting values, unaware of losing, little by little, the ability to appreciate the simplicity (and the therapeutic value!) of the moments spent together, sharing experiences and feelings, or just the pleasure of being together ... He sadly Barbafiore reason when, in his "Solitude" says
(tr.: I close more and more, with no one speaking, the more I avoid it ... and I pay to talk to the psychoanalyst.)
And 'This is what we would like to avoid! On the contrary, we wish to propose a space and opportunity to know each other a bit 'more telling of work, family, moments of celebration, plans, disappointments and achievements ...
The invitation is open to all, without exception, and the spirit is the same one that welcomed guests to stop off at our farm, Farm St. Euphemia!
's so that I feel when I go to my friend with me Boettger, aka Barbafiore, author of Piedmontese dialect poetry (including the collection entitled, precisely, Set-parloma you there a bit'): I sit on the chair, and while I am beard and hair, and no one runs behind us, we talk about everything that comes to mind ...
work, deadlines, busy schedule weekly, and the desire to force us to demonstrate a more hectic life in which we chase our time giving us a fleeting values, unaware of losing, little by little, the ability to appreciate the simplicity (and the therapeutic value!) of the moments spent together, sharing experiences and feelings, or just the pleasure of being together ... He sadly Barbafiore reason when, in his "Solitude" says
Ser Im always' d pi / with the parl nen / the other body to the shy ... / And pay to talk to the analyst.
(tr.: I close more and more, with no one speaking, the more I avoid it ... and I pay to talk to the psychoanalyst.)
And 'This is what we would like to avoid! On the contrary, we wish to propose a space and opportunity to know each other a bit 'more telling of work, family, moments of celebration, plans, disappointments and achievements ...
The invitation is open to all, without exception, and the spirit is the same one that welcomed guests to stop off at our farm, Farm St. Euphemia!
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