Who said this ?
The impetus given by Teilhard de Chardin exerted a wide influence [on the Council]. With daring vision it incorporated the historical movements of Christianity into the great cosmic process of evolution from Alpha to Omega: since the noogenesis, since the formation of consciousness in the event by which man became man, the process of evolution has continued to unfold as the building of the noosphere above the biosphere. That means evolution takes place now in the form of technical and scientific development in which, ultimately, matter and spirit, individual and society, will produce a comprehensive whole, a divine world. The Council’s ‘Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World’ took the cue; Teilhard’s slogan “Christianity means more progress, more technology,” became a stimulus in which the Council Fathers from rich and poor countries alike found a concrete hope . .
Anyone whose ear is still attuned to the speeches made during the last session of the Council knows how eager the Fathers were . . . to do something for mankind that would be concrete, visible, tangible. The feeling that now, at last, the world had to be, could be changed, improved and humanized—this feeling had taken hold of them in a way that was not to be resisted. After all the surprises that had emerged in the realm of theology proper, there reigned a feeling at once of euphoria and of frustration. Euphoria, because it seemed that nothing was impossible for this Council which had the strength to break with attitudes that had been deeply rooted for centuries; frustration, because all that had thus far been done did not count for mankind and only increased the longing for freedom, openness, for what was totally different.
A. Hans Kung
B. Jorge Bergolio
C. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
For each correct answer, Raider Fan will take two sips of cabernet.
For each incorrect answer, Raider Fan will take five sips of cabernet.
We at ABE Ministry consider this a win-win situation; vote early, vote often.
Scroll down for the correct answer, but don't cheat, unless you are a modernist; then, it doesn't count as cheating but it is merely a compassionate and surprising doctrinal development within morality that allows for spontaneity and ingenuity.
C is the correct answer.
Abe Ministry Ecumenical Efforts (1)
 | THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS NOSTRA AETATE PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER 28, 1965 Men expect from the various religions (There is now and has always been only one religion)answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men.. 2. From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This perception and recognition penetrates their lives with a profound religious sense. Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. (Pagan Heresy. Now, imagine a council writing about cannibalism and describing it as but a different diet) ) They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust.... She regards with sincere reverence (Why reverence a false faith ? Surely one can be respectful of others ensnared by Satan in false religions but, reverence for those false faiths... ) those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men... The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men. |
Raider Fan had just dropped some peyote and was looking forward to joining the drum circle inside a sweat lodge, having completed a fire walk two days
after a weekend at an EST Seminar training, when, suddenly, Raider Fan tripped over Rod McKuen and he fell at the feet of his Kundalini Yoga instructor, Ravi Davi Shitorshatki; I'm ok, you're ok; still my chakras are on the fritz and my gestalt is so gemeinschaft that I now refer to Hitler as Dolphie; and
after a few minutes of silence he smiled at me and said;
You are
anxious over nothing, grasshopper. Your troubles are not real and
that non-reality could be super glued to the wing of a midge and that
little bastid could still fly up into the sky so high you could not see it with your third eye. That'll be $50.00.
My Bishop thinks my ecumenical experiences have enriched my life and broadened my horizons but I wonder if I ought to have just stuck with being a citizen of the perfect society...
O, that's right. Our self-identifaction as a perfect society also received the sacramental of defenestration
http://tinyurl.com/okfxkey
Nevertheless, we at ABE Ministry think even Cardinal Newman would reject that as an authentic development
My Bishop thinks my ecumenical experiences have enriched my life and broadened my horizons but I wonder if I ought to have just stuck with being a citizen of the perfect society...
O, that's right. Our self-identifaction as a perfect society also received the sacramental of defenestration
http://tinyurl.com/okfxkey
Nevertheless, we at ABE Ministry think even Cardinal Newman would reject that as an authentic development
Seminal moments in lesbianism. Largest hip hickey ever
Some cultural anthropologists suggest the woman who gave the hickey was this woman
Do you say, Transgender? You do? STOP IT
Politics
and the English Language By George Orwell
Most
people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English
language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot
by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is
decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must
inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any
struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism,
like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to
aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that
language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for
our own purposes.
Now,
it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have
political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad
influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become
a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect
in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to
drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the
more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that
is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate
because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our
language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point
is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written
English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which
can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If
one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think
clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so
that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the
exclusive concern of professional writers.
Below is an ngram chart from Google which illustrates just how increasingly popular this insane word, transgender, has become and you, dear reader, are prolly saying this word now.
STOP IT!!!!
Do not let revolutionaries lead you around by your intellectual nose for they are determined to cultivate your mind so that a thousand revolutionary thoughts may bloom there.
O, and Raider Fan just cited this word, transgender, but you can access the ngarm charts and substitute any other revolutionary neologism you find irksome.
The point is, there is no such reality as, transgender; there are but two sexes - male and female.
PERIOD.
So, when it comes to you speaking the language of the revolutionaries;
STOP IT!!!!
Search in Google Books:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=transgender&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctransgender%3B%2Cc0
Raider Fan on Real Basil Pesto
When one travels to Italy - what, you haven't been? - one sees all manner of beauty from topography to churches to secular architecture;
In northern Italy one can see Poppies growing wild
and in small towns, one can see domesticated Poppies gathering for coffee and conversation.
Italy abounds with beautiful Churches and in every city and town one can go inside those consecrated holy spaces and see the most amasing and inspiring works of art that not only literally lifts your eyes towards Heaven, the art also lifts your soul as well
It would take too long to delve into the history of the beautiful Cathedral in Parma and the wonder-worker whose novel artistic designs caused such a great scandal (Later, the town grew-up and began to brag about him) but, come on, could Raider Fan miss an opportunity to photograph the statue of such a dandy?
The funner question to ponder is, did he really present like this or was he made to appear this way owing to his radical novelties in the decorative arts - painting - and the anger of the town towards he and his paintings ?
Spending time with the Bride discussing this over a bottle of the local wine made for a beautiful evening....
And because so many of these beautiful Churches were constructed prior to the universal solvent of Tradition, Ecumenism, baptising very damn thing, such scenes as this can be seen - one that made our guide wax apologetic owing to the truth depicted; those on His right side (of the Cross) Christian Catholics, are saved, whereas those on His left - the Messias-Deniers, The Jews, are condemned and humiliated.
Note the angel forcing the Pharisees head down...
But, even in Italy, a trad can not avoid walking into some handsome lil' Church where the locals had scrimped and saved to provide the money for some artisan to construct a High Altar worthy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass only to see some dumb ass table crammed into the sanctuary in front of the High Altar. An Altar represents Jesus Christ and a table represents a meal.
That's it.
A High Altar is Catholic and a dumb ass table is protestant; and there is no use in trying to tell Raider Fan any differently.
When in Italy, (it has been said that Italy is one gigantic vineyard) one drinks the local wine; and it is GREAT.
OK, actually, this is crazy good wine and small explosions of happiness almost immediately begin to occur in one's brain when one drinks it... Go ahead, try to drink this and not have a complete blast.
If you are in this region and do not drink this wine Raider Fan is convinced you will be sent to Hell; and rightly so.
OK, this too is great!!! One just can't get this sort of quality in America
Hell yes, you should visit a local winery and buy their product for cocktail hours on the deck with your Bride. Raider Fan loves him some Piemonte Region- NOTICE THERE IS NO "D"
And, even if you don't like wine, the Maitre will force you to drink it
But this post is supposed to be about Real Pesto so let's get at it
The Basil Pesto from the Ligurian Region of Italy is unlike anything you have had to eat in America and Genova Pesto sets the standard. The Basil Pesto one eats in America is too dense and it is way too loaded down with garlic and the Basil one buys in America is not like what is grown in the Ligurian Region.
So what to do?
Well, order your Basil Seeds from here
http://www.growitalian.com
and grow your own Basil.
Then follow this recipe. It may seem too precious a process but, trust Raider Fan, it is worth every single step and minute if you desire to eat Pesto as it is made in this fantastic region.
4 cups packed basil leaves (2 ounces)
1/3 cup pine nuts
1 garlic clove, green center stem removed if existing
1/2 cup EVOO. Raider Fan uses Corto EVOO from California if he has no real Italian EVOO around. Don't skimp on cheap EVOO, many examples of which are fake.
1/3 cup freshly grated Parm-Reggiano
1/3 cup grated Fiore Sardo (or aged Pecorino Toscano)..
If neither of those last two cheeses can be found, just use 2/3 cups Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese grated with a microplane so it rapidly melts into the pesto so not too much processing is required
1 Teaspoon flakey sea salt
Submerge Basil leaves in cold water for five minutes, drain and repeat for five minutes, drain and repeat for five minutes, drain and then submerge again for 15 minutes. (30 minutes total).
Yes, it really is necessary to do this to match as closely as possible what you would be blessed to eat in Liguria.
While the basil is soaking, drop the garlic and pine nuts into a blender and baptise it with 1/2 cup EVOO and blend until smooth and creamy.
Once the basil has completed soaking, drain it but do not go nuts, let some water stick to the leaves for processing.
In four stages, grab the basil and put it into the blender and pulse 5-6 times; once that is done, add the cheese and blend until it is absorbed.
This freezes beautifully and Raider Fan stores it in baggies in1/4 cup amounts.
Try it - this is as close to Heaven on earth one can get and the existence of Italian wine and Genova Basil Pesto is proof that God loves us.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
O, and if some store in America advertises a sale for real balsamic vinegar, forget it - such a product is made only in Modena (where the great Pavarotti * was born) and when you visit one of the few families there who do make it, you will NEVER forget the intoxicating smell inside that house.
If the bottle you are buying - no matter how expensive - does not have Tradizonale on the bottle, it means you are just buying a phony bottle of the real stuff manufactured in Modena by multinationals.
Real Balsamic Vinegar is unimaginably good; and to drip a few drops of it on fresh local
Parmigiano-Reggiano... Lord have mercy.
O, and get a load of what their 40 year old aged product sells for:
In northern Italy one can see Poppies growing wild
and in small towns, one can see domesticated Poppies gathering for coffee and conversation.
Italy abounds with beautiful Churches and in every city and town one can go inside those consecrated holy spaces and see the most amasing and inspiring works of art that not only literally lifts your eyes towards Heaven, the art also lifts your soul as well
It would take too long to delve into the history of the beautiful Cathedral in Parma and the wonder-worker whose novel artistic designs caused such a great scandal (Later, the town grew-up and began to brag about him) but, come on, could Raider Fan miss an opportunity to photograph the statue of such a dandy?
The funner question to ponder is, did he really present like this or was he made to appear this way owing to his radical novelties in the decorative arts - painting - and the anger of the town towards he and his paintings ?
Spending time with the Bride discussing this over a bottle of the local wine made for a beautiful evening....
And because so many of these beautiful Churches were constructed prior to the universal solvent of Tradition, Ecumenism, baptising very damn thing, such scenes as this can be seen - one that made our guide wax apologetic owing to the truth depicted; those on His right side (of the Cross) Christian Catholics, are saved, whereas those on His left - the Messias-Deniers, The Jews, are condemned and humiliated.
Note the angel forcing the Pharisees head down...
But, even in Italy, a trad can not avoid walking into some handsome lil' Church where the locals had scrimped and saved to provide the money for some artisan to construct a High Altar worthy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass only to see some dumb ass table crammed into the sanctuary in front of the High Altar. An Altar represents Jesus Christ and a table represents a meal.
That's it.
A High Altar is Catholic and a dumb ass table is protestant; and there is no use in trying to tell Raider Fan any differently.
When in Italy, (it has been said that Italy is one gigantic vineyard) one drinks the local wine; and it is GREAT.
OK, actually, this is crazy good wine and small explosions of happiness almost immediately begin to occur in one's brain when one drinks it... Go ahead, try to drink this and not have a complete blast.
If you are in this region and do not drink this wine Raider Fan is convinced you will be sent to Hell; and rightly so.
OK, this too is great!!! One just can't get this sort of quality in America
Hell yes, you should visit a local winery and buy their product for cocktail hours on the deck with your Bride. Raider Fan loves him some Piemonte Region- NOTICE THERE IS NO "D"
And, even if you don't like wine, the Maitre will force you to drink it
But this post is supposed to be about Real Pesto so let's get at it
The Basil Pesto from the Ligurian Region of Italy is unlike anything you have had to eat in America and Genova Pesto sets the standard. The Basil Pesto one eats in America is too dense and it is way too loaded down with garlic and the Basil one buys in America is not like what is grown in the Ligurian Region.
So what to do?
Well, order your Basil Seeds from here
http://www.growitalian.com
and grow your own Basil.
Then follow this recipe. It may seem too precious a process but, trust Raider Fan, it is worth every single step and minute if you desire to eat Pesto as it is made in this fantastic region.
4 cups packed basil leaves (2 ounces)
1/3 cup pine nuts
1 garlic clove, green center stem removed if existing
1/2 cup EVOO. Raider Fan uses Corto EVOO from California if he has no real Italian EVOO around. Don't skimp on cheap EVOO, many examples of which are fake.
1/3 cup freshly grated Parm-Reggiano
1/3 cup grated Fiore Sardo (or aged Pecorino Toscano)..
If neither of those last two cheeses can be found, just use 2/3 cups Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese grated with a microplane so it rapidly melts into the pesto so not too much processing is required
1 Teaspoon flakey sea salt
Submerge Basil leaves in cold water for five minutes, drain and repeat for five minutes, drain and repeat for five minutes, drain and then submerge again for 15 minutes. (30 minutes total).
Yes, it really is necessary to do this to match as closely as possible what you would be blessed to eat in Liguria.
While the basil is soaking, drop the garlic and pine nuts into a blender and baptise it with 1/2 cup EVOO and blend until smooth and creamy.
Once the basil has completed soaking, drain it but do not go nuts, let some water stick to the leaves for processing.
In four stages, grab the basil and put it into the blender and pulse 5-6 times; once that is done, add the cheese and blend until it is absorbed.
This freezes beautifully and Raider Fan stores it in baggies in1/4 cup amounts.
Try it - this is as close to Heaven on earth one can get and the existence of Italian wine and Genova Basil Pesto is proof that God loves us.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
O, and if some store in America advertises a sale for real balsamic vinegar, forget it - such a product is made only in Modena (where the great Pavarotti * was born) and when you visit one of the few families there who do make it, you will NEVER forget the intoxicating smell inside that house.
If the bottle you are buying - no matter how expensive - does not have Tradizonale on the bottle, it means you are just buying a phony bottle of the real stuff manufactured in Modena by multinationals.
Real Balsamic Vinegar is unimaginably good; and to drip a few drops of it on fresh local
Parmigiano-Reggiano... Lord have mercy.
O, and get a load of what their 40 year old aged product sells for:
Raider Fan has this song as the ring tone on his phone. Pavarotti never fails to excite Raider Fan with either soaring joy or collapsing tears (sometimes both) and what a powerful and profound voice and note the way he looks to the audience for approval.
Did I sing that right; did I satisfy you?
He was never arrogant about his singing and he wanted to do his very best before whatever crowd he was singing.
They ain't making men like him anymore.
*
Finding shelter under the Papal TARP
When the going gets weird, the weird turn wiseass....
Reset the revolution?
Gimme Shelter
DEFINITION OF 'TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM - TARP
A
group of programs created and run by the
U.S.
Treasury to stabilize the country’s
financial
system, restore economic growth
and
prevent foreclosures in the wake of the
2008
financial crisis through purchasing troubled
companies’
assets and equity. The Troubled Asset
Relief
Program initially gave the Treasury
purchasing
power of $700 billion to buy illiquid
mortgage-backed
securities and other assets from
key
institutions in an attempt to restore liquidity to the
money markets. The fund was created
on
October 3, 2008 with the passage of
the
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
The
Dodd-Frank Act later reduced the $700
billion
authorization to $475 billion.+++++++++++++++++++
Does the recent Papal Praxis echo the TARP? Is there a Papal equivalent of identifying Toxic Assets and restoring them to the Prelature which has seen deaths and retirements of once famous toxic prelates; perhaps a Toxic Assets Repossessed by the Pope program was thought crucial to restore that which many feared had fallen to dangerously low levels of novel illiquidity during the reign of Pope Benedict XVI.
Well, let's take a look at some recent appointments of Pope Francis and ask whether or not such Toxic Assets program is going to lead to a healthy state of the economy of salvation:
Archbishop
John Atcherley Dew (Communion for adulterers)
http://www.cruxnow.com/people/cardinal-john-atcherley-dew/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://www.cruxnow.com/people/cardinal-john-atcherley-dew/
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Archbishop
Blase Cupich (Communion for baby killers)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/chicagos-archbishop-cupich-communion-for-pro-abortion-politicians-is-a-good
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (Be nice. Don't say sodomite)
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pat-archbold/hard-sayings
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Now, get a load of this appointment:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/chicagos-archbishop-cupich-communion-for-pro-abortion-politicians-is-a-good
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (Be nice. Don't say sodomite)
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pat-archbold/hard-sayings
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Now, get a load of this appointment:
The Economy of Divine Salvation will not be stabilised following the repossession and strengthening of these toxic assets.
The Nuclear Family in Nevada
Is there anything more romantically and quintessentially American than a Mother and her Son in Nevada watching a mushroom cloud rise just before the sun goes down ?
Someday, Junior, our President will be able to kill millions of his enemies with just the push of a button. Now, would my little warrior like some mac and cheese?
Someday, Junior, our President will be able to kill millions of his enemies with just the push of a button. Now, would my little warrior like some mac and cheese?
Yankees and The Rebel Yell
We at ABE Ministry screech the Rebel Yell at the TV or Radio every time we hear any Yankee * - Yes, Virginia, Obama and Hilary are Yankees - telling us what to think or what to say.
Try it, it is emotionally cathartic and it lets family, friends, and neighbors know where you heart is - in the intellectual heart of Dixie, the last redoubt of American political liberty and, yes, it survives to this very day in men's memory.
Go to 2:00 to hear what a real Confederate soldier sounded like. Now, imagine hearing another 1000 like him charging across a field shrieking this:
Go to 2:50 to hear and learn the three cadence Rebel Yell
* The great Clyde Wilson on Yankees;
By Yankee I do not mean everybody from north of the Potomac and Ohio. Lots of them have always been good folks. I am using the term historically to designate that peculiar ethnic group descended from New Englanders, who can be easily recognized by their arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of congeniality, for ordering other people around. Puritans long ago abandoned anything that might be good in their religion but have never given up the notion that they are the chosen saints whose mission is to make America, and the world, into the perfection of their own image.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, raised a Northern Methodist in Chicago, is a museum-quality specimen of the Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing. Northern Methodism and Chicago were both, in their formative periods, hotbeds of abolitionist, high tariff Black Republicanism. The Yankee temperament, it should be noted, makes a neat fit with the Stalinism that was brought into the Deep North by later immigrants.
Sada Abe and sex organs in a sack, John & Yoko and acorns in a sack, marijuana, vacuous idiocy, and Vatican Two
Was it really 79 years ago to this day that Sada Abe was arrested for what she did to the man she was committing adultery with?
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Erotically asphyxiating her lover and then cutting off his penis and testicles
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: May 18, 1936
Date of arrest: 3 days after
Date of birth: May 28, 1905
Victim profile: Kichizo Ishida, 42 (her lover)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse on December 21, 1936. Sentenced to 6 years in prison. Sentence commuted on November 10, 1940. Released on May 17, 1941. Died after 1970
Sada Abe (阿部 定 Abe Sada, May 28, 1905 – after 1970) was a Japanese woman who is remembered for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida (石田 吉蔵 Ishida Kichizō), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overtones, and has since been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers...
Abe's encounter with the geisha world proved frustrating and disappointing. To become a true star among geisha required apprenticeship from childhood with years spent studying arts and music. Abe wound up a low-ranking geisha, in which her main duties were to provide sex. She worked for five years in this capacity, and eventually contracted syphilis. Since this meant she would be required to undergo regular examinations, like a legally licensed prostitute, Abe decided to enter that better-paying profession.
..."She was really strong, a real powerful one. Even though I am pretty jaded, she was enough to astound me. She wasn't satisfied unless we did it two, three, or four times a night. To her, it was unacceptable unless I had my hand on her private parts all night long... At first it was great, but after a couple of weeks I got a little exhausted." ..
On April 23, 1936 Abe and Ishida met for a pre-arranged sexual encounter at a teahouse, or machiai – the contemporary equivalent of a love hotel – in the Shibuya neighborhood. Planning only a short 'fling', the couple remained in bed for four days. *
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Erotically asphyxiating her lover and then cutting off his penis and testicles
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: May 18, 1936
Date of arrest: 3 days after
Date of birth: May 28, 1905
Victim profile: Kichizo Ishida, 42 (her lover)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse on December 21, 1936. Sentenced to 6 years in prison. Sentence commuted on November 10, 1940. Released on May 17, 1941. Died after 1970
Sada Abe (阿部 定 Abe Sada, May 28, 1905 – after 1970) was a Japanese woman who is remembered for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida (石田 吉蔵 Ishida Kichizō), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overtones, and has since been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers...
Abe's encounter with the geisha world proved frustrating and disappointing. To become a true star among geisha required apprenticeship from childhood with years spent studying arts and music. Abe wound up a low-ranking geisha, in which her main duties were to provide sex. She worked for five years in this capacity, and eventually contracted syphilis. Since this meant she would be required to undergo regular examinations, like a legally licensed prostitute, Abe decided to enter that better-paying profession.
..."She was really strong, a real powerful one. Even though I am pretty jaded, she was enough to astound me. She wasn't satisfied unless we did it two, three, or four times a night. To her, it was unacceptable unless I had my hand on her private parts all night long... At first it was great, but after a couple of weeks I got a little exhausted." ..
Kasahara ended his testimony with an angry remark about Abe, "She is a slut and a whore. And as what she has done makes clear, she is a woman whom men should fear." ..
... Omiya met Abe in Tokyo, and, finding that she had contracted syphilis, paid for her stay in a hot springs resort in Kusatsu from November until January 1936. ..
Back in Tokyo, Abe began work as an apprentice at the Yoshidaya on February 1, 1936. The owner of this establishment, Kichizo Ishida, 42 at the time, had worked his way up in business, starting as an apprentice at an eel restaurant. He had opened the Yoshidaya in Tokyo's Nakano neighborhood in 1920. When Abe joined his restaurant, Ishida was known as a womanizer who did little in the way of running the restaurant, which was managed mostly by his wife...
On April 23, 1936 Abe and Ishida met for a pre-arranged sexual encounter at a teahouse, or machiai – the contemporary equivalent of a love hotel – in the Shibuya neighborhood. Planning only a short 'fling', the couple remained in bed for four days. *
They next moved their marathon love-making bout to the Ogu neighborhood. Ishida did not return to the restaurant until the morning of May 8, 1936. Of Ishida, Abe later said, "It is hard to say exactly what was so good about Ishida. But it was impossible to say anything bad about his looks, his attitude, his skill as a lover, the way he expressed his feelings. I had never met such a sexy man."
After they separated, Abe became agitated and began drinking excessively. She claimed that with Ishida she knew love for the first time in her life, and the thought that Ishida was back with his wife made her jealous. Over a week before the murder, Abe began considering the act.
On May 9, 1936, she attended a play in which a geisha attacks her lover with a large knife. After seeing this, Abe decided to threaten Ishida with a knife at their next meeting. On May 11, 1936, she pawned some of her clothing and used the money to buy some sushi and a kitchen knife. Abe later described meeting Ishida that night, "I pulled the kitchen knife out of my bag and threatened him as had been done in the play I had seen, saying, 'Kichi, you wore that kimono just to please one of your favorite customers. You bastard, I'll kill you for that.' Ishida was startled and drew away a little, but he seemed delighted with it all..."
"Abe Sada Incident"
Ishida and Abe returned to Ogu, where they remained until his death. During their love-making this time, Abe put the knife to the base of Ishida's penis, and said she would make sure he would never play around with another woman. Ishida laughed at this. Two nights into this bout of sex, Abe began choking Ishida, and he told her to continue, saying that this increased his pleasure. She had him do it to her as well.
On the evening of May 16, 1936, Abe used her obi sash to cut off Ishida's breathing during orgasm, and they both enjoyed it. They repeated this for two more hours. Once Abe stopped the strangulation, Ishida's face became distorted, and would not return to its normal appearance. Ishida took 30 tablets of a sedative called Calmotin to try to soothe his pain. According to Abe, as Ishida started to doze, he told her, "You'll put the cord around my neck and squeeze it again while I'm sleeping, won't you... If you start to strangle me, don't stop, because it is so painful afterward." Abe commented that she wondered if he had wanted her to kill him, but on reflection decided he must have been joking.
About 2 a.m. on the morning of May 18, 1936, as Ishida was asleep, Abe wrapped her sash twice around his neck and strangled him to death. She later told police, "After I had killed Ishida I felt totally at ease, as though a heavy burden had been lifted from my shoulders, and I felt a sense of clarity." After lying with Ishida's body for a few hours, she next severed his genitalia with the kitchen knife, wrapped them in a magazine cover, and kept them until her arrest three days later. With the blood she wrote Sada, Kichi Futari-kiri ("Sada, Kichi together") on Ishida's left thigh, and on a bed sheet. She then carved 定 ("Sada", the character for her name) into his left arm. After putting on Ishida's underwear, she left the inn at about 8 a.m., telling the staff not to disturb Ishida. When asked why she had severed Ishida's genitalia, Abe replied, "Because I couldn't take his head or body with me. I wanted to take the part of him that brought back to me the most vivid memories."
http://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/abe-sada.htm
Now, a lot of people will read this and judge Sada as guilty but who are we to judge ?
What Sada did was part of her culture and who can say that your culture is better than...
* OK, we at ABE Ministry know that way of rationalising evil is complete and utter bull shit and so Raider Fan must confess he posted this story because it is so damn weird AND, it gives him the opportunity to post this vid - The Ballad of John and Yoko and its referent to when they spent a week in bed for peace (yes, homonym pun).
O, and the fifty acorns tied in a sack? John and Yoko mailed acorns to world leaders telling them to plant the acorns as a way to achieve peace.
No, seriously, they did that and one suspects the world leaders did not plant the acorns and, thus, No acorn planting, no peace; plant acorns know peace lives on as THE pluperfect peace slogan for all time.
Raider Fan's Dad hated it when he played this song- the reference to crucifying - but to be fair to Raider Fan, he was smoking marijuana back then, so, there's that...
See, if you were alive in the 1960s and were not stoned, you could not have possibly tolerated crap like this - the two John and Yoko Peace Ins - and the media actually covered this on the national news and while all of this was going on, we decided it was opportune to have an Ecumenical Council and open ourselves up to being influenced by the world which, it was claimed, had reached a level of admirable maturity...In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin. They say that our era, in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though they had learned nothing from history, which is, none the less, the teacher of life. They behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious liberty.
O, as it turned-out, having these two clowns in bed for a week and inviting Timothy Leary and other assorted whack-jobs over to sing this song did not result in peace.
http://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/abe-sada.htm
Now, a lot of people will read this and judge Sada as guilty but who are we to judge ?
What Sada did was part of her culture and who can say that your culture is better than...
* OK, we at ABE Ministry know that way of rationalising evil is complete and utter bull shit and so Raider Fan must confess he posted this story because it is so damn weird AND, it gives him the opportunity to post this vid - The Ballad of John and Yoko and its referent to when they spent a week in bed for peace (yes, homonym pun).
O, and the fifty acorns tied in a sack? John and Yoko mailed acorns to world leaders telling them to plant the acorns as a way to achieve peace.
No, seriously, they did that and one suspects the world leaders did not plant the acorns and, thus, No acorn planting, no peace; plant acorns know peace lives on as THE pluperfect peace slogan for all time.
Raider Fan's Dad hated it when he played this song- the reference to crucifying - but to be fair to Raider Fan, he was smoking marijuana back then, so, there's that...
See, if you were alive in the 1960s and were not stoned, you could not have possibly tolerated crap like this - the two John and Yoko Peace Ins - and the media actually covered this on the national news and while all of this was going on, we decided it was opportune to have an Ecumenical Council and open ourselves up to being influenced by the world which, it was claimed, had reached a level of admirable maturity...In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin. They say that our era, in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though they had learned nothing from history, which is, none the less, the teacher of life. They behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious liberty.
We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand.
In the present order of things, Divine Providence is leading us to a new order of human relations which, by men's own efforts and even beyond their very expectations, are directed toward the fulfillment of God's superior and inscrutable designs. And everything, even human differences, leads to the greater good of the Church.
They flew to Montreal on May 26 where they stayed in Rooms 1738, 1740, 1742 and 1744 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During their seven day stay, they invited Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, Allen Ginsberg and others, and all but Capp sang on the peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance", recorded by André Perry in the hotel room on June 1. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conducted interviews from the hotel room.[7] The event received mixed reaction from the American press.[8][9]