well, it wasn't an 'awakening' as such - but when my buzzer was 'buzzed' at 8.30 this morning i jumped up to answer it expecting it to be australia post with my cd's from chaos that had been despatched on friday - it's been a while since i ordered baby animals and marianne faithfull - they had to wait for their suppliers which means i've been waiting and hanging out to get my copy of 'il grande silenzio' and 'broken english' (yeah, an oldie but a goodie and i haven't haven't heard it for years - and hey, it was cheap!!)
wasn't i extremely disappointed to hear it was someone wanting to 'share' their 'bible passage of the day' with me!!! no thank you!!! hey, for all the years they've been knockin' on doors you would have thought the jehovah's witnesses would have had their 'quota of souls' by now - they believe only 144,000 will be going to 'heaven' - so isn't it time to leave the rest of us folk alone??!!!
to any religious 'door-knockers' - believe what you want, but don't come unsolicited to my home and try to 'get your foot in my door' (or your doctrine into my life) - i'm not interested in your patriarchal and misogynistic religion nor your male god - it's nothing but a man-made fabrication to justify subjugation...
my morality and ethics come from my belief in the equality and complementarity of all of nature - not in the subversion of people and the destruction of the natural world as practised by powerful and self-serving men in the guise of 'church and state' over the centuries...
