Perceptions of a fool

[smokingboot]

This was always going to be an interesting quiz for me to take. I thank thomryng for it.

You scored as Pelagianism. You are a Pelagian. You reject ideas about man's fallen human nature and believe that as a result we are able to fully obey God. You are the first Briton to contribute significantly to Christian thought, but you're still excommunicated in 417. </td> Pelagianism 100% Chalcedon compliant 83% Monophysitism 67% Nestorianism 58% Monarchianism 50% Apollanarian 42% Modalism 33% Socinianism 33% Albigensianism 25% Donatism 17% Adoptionist 8% Gnosticism 8% Arianism 8% Docetism 0% Are you a heretic? created with QuizFarm.com

Well, quite. All that horrific rubbish about matter being corrupt...Let me tell you about an experience I may have had, had I chosen to take a tab some years ago on Halloween; determined that I was the ultimate screw-up and downright bloody evil, I decided to rip down all my shields and go seeking the inherent rottenness locked in the core of my soul. 'Bad Trip of the Universe!' I roared, 'Here I come!' And I threw open all the windows on a stormy night, ready to face thehorrorthehorror. I frowned at the rust black clouds and tried to see the face of the evil one there, and all that came to my mind were pantomime pictures, comedic sad-faced goats with badly drawn horns. When I tried to see angels, they were there too, but more convincing, cos I 'felt' them better. And when I said, 'Now be clouds,' they were all just clouds. There was nothing to fear except the bats in my belfry, stories to be invented, fear created and designed for no other reason than to be entertaining, sometimes taken too seriously.

Swooning on the bed, I observed a beautiful universe, wind like music you can touch, and trees, and lights as the night marched down the road with all or none of the unseelie behind it. 'Matter is Innocent!' I yelled, just before I passed out, a naked idiot on the floor, 'The Universe is Innocent!'

And let me assure you, tab or no tab, so it is. Check it out for yourself if you don't believe me.


PS. I woke up with what the doctor later diagnosed as pneumonia. The universe may be innocent but in England on a late October night, it's also bloody freezing.

PPS. Aren't you glad I'm finally writing about something that isn't food?

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Re: if everybody's dumped their stuff here

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

This is pretty. It probably can't be owned, any more than the moon can be stolen:-) Thank you for finding it.