> on the subject of communion....
>
> >>But another excellent example (if you buy the Amanita Muscara
> >>scholoarship) is the Christian Communion. Actions continue, but
> >>the meaning and purpose of the event is lost (and has been since
> >>at least the sixth century, when the Catholic Church officially
> >>recgonized the dogma of "Transubstitution").
>
> I was thinking about this a while ago... its pretty bizzarre. The whole
> thing may have started as a 'sharing of food' sortof thing... something
> that builds community, etc. Very bonding and 'democratic' (tho thats not
> the right word). Consider its current form; the involvement of the
> communicants (?) is reduced to kneeling meekly and having wafers put in
> their mouths (I don't believe they even have to CHEW)... All personal
> action is removed. Very disempowering.
> Metaphorically its something like "swallow everything".
> The original sharing food as a community idea has been replaced with a
> menes that mathaphorically increases the receptiveness of commincants to
> the religions meme complex.
> Or something...
>
>
Okay! Time for Communion! Assume the Lewinsky Position!
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