Deuteronomy 7:1-6

1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-

2 And when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.  Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles  and burn their idols in the fire.

6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

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Madonna-Whore Complex

In Freudian psychoanalysis, a Madonna-whore complex is a psychological complex that is said to develop in the human male.

da Vinci’s Madonna

According to Freudian psychology, this complex often develops when the sufferer is raised by a cold and distant mother. Such a man will often court women with qualities of his mother in adulthood, hoping to fulfil a need for intimacy unmet in childhood. Often, the wife of the sufferer is seen as mother to the husband – a ‘Madonna’ figure – and thus not a possible object of sexual attraction.

For this reason, in the mind of the sufferer, the feelings of love and sex – the physical act – cannot be mixed, and the man is reluctant to have sexual relations with his wife, for that, he thinks unconsciously, would be as incest.

He will reserve sexuality for ‘bad’ or ‘dirty’ women, and will not develop ‘normal’ feelings of love in these sexual relationships. This introduces a dilemma where men may feel unable to love any women who can satisfy them sexually and are unable to be sexually satisfied by any women who they can love.

Of Ceremonies and Respect

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

– Francis Bacon

Mating Anglerfish

‘The male deep-sea anglerfish is much smaller than the female and doesn’t have a lure. He’s interested in mating, not fishing. He uses his giant eyes to look for a suitable female, and his enormous nostrils to sniff out her pheromones. Having found her, he latches on to her with his teeth and then starts to disappear. Scales, bones, blood vessels all merge into those of the female. After a few weeks all that’s left of the male are the testes hanging of the female’s side, supplying her with sperm. Females have been found with eight testes attached to their sides.

In some species, if the male fails to find a female, then he will eventually turn into one himself and grow massively in size.’

– Lloyd. J., Mitchinson. J. 2007. The QI Book of Animals London, Great Britain: Faber and Faber (2009) p. 7

Quasi-Philosophical

“If a man flushed a toilet but there was no other man to witness it – did it really flush?”

– Tim Allen

A Way to Win

In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in France the gold medal in cricket was won by the British who beat the French in the tournament final.

The French team however consisted almost entirely of British embassy employees working in Paris at the time.

Test

“If your wife were a piece hockey equipment what would she be?

1. A goalie mask; wired and closed off.
2. A stick; long, rigid, and likes to hit things.
3. Elbow pads; soft, flexible, and a good housekeeper.
4. Jockstrap; gets in the way a lot but is basically supportive.”

– Tim Allen

Of Studies

“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

– Francis Bacon