Jesus did not create S & M, that's a degrogatory statement against Jesus...unless the person who claimed such a statement can expound on it in depth and detail with proofs and experiences.
Otherwise they should keep such an accussation to themselves...... but do place it on a new thread, not on this one as it is devoid in my opinion.
Sigh. I believe in facing things head-on. My post was basically irrelevant, if we are having a logical argument with, like, assertions and 8.
Since I find the manner and substance of the statement "Jesus created sex" absolutely ridiculous, I don't believe it deserves a straightforward reply.
The "statement" was only partly mine. Mostly, it was lifted from the screenplay of A Clockwork Orange, with some reference to the book, as well. I'm not smart enough to make it up.
Since I'm using a persona, you can call me dodgy.
However, there was something serious behind the humor.
Those with imaginations can put themselves in the role of the Romans, or the role of Christ.
"Alex" is a psychopath (or whatever you choose to call someone who delights in tormenting others) who could
only understand Christ's suffering on the cross as something like a movie where the old vinny flows freely, and
he gets to do the torturing.
There is some eroticism in the art depicting images of Christ on the cross.
I'll do some research, if you like, and come up with good examples. I'm not qualified to speak about art history.
Madonna has been involved in controversy, apparently, by toying with such an idea.
Mel Gibson made a very popular, extraordinarily violent film (I haven't seen it) which glories in the old horrorshow. (horrorshow is bastardized Russian, meaning "good".) Mark Morris gave it the two-word review: "Steak tartar."
People in the Phillipines apparently have these weird gatherings where they get crucified for a while. I can only assume they enjoy it.
I'm not a masochist--
except on this forum--but I do subscribe to the view that pain and pleasure are not really opposites--except in some trivial sense.
As others here have pointed out, people choose to have all kinds of weird "peak experiences"--to quote Maslow--that involve pain of a sort. And lots of endorphins. Mmmm....endorphins....
As usual, my thinking may have been so clotted that the old humor was not flowing freely. My bad.
My (serious) position is that Jesus was and is very hard to nail down, once you scrape away the accretion of later writers, myth, etc. He may or may not have existed. I lean toward the view that he existed, and we simply can't know that much about him. Albert Schweitzer was of the opinion--and I'm just pulling this up from memory--that the only thing you could be relatively sure of was that he preached the coming of the end of the world, and it wasn't pretty at all. Not a nice, sexy Jesus.
I
yam qualified to speak to your statements about ratios, music and planets, and I think they are too preposterous--to the extent they mean anything at all--to be argued with.
Hope this clears up any confusion you might have about my post.
caleb