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Hamlet53 · 01-07-2014, 07:01 AM

Zora Neale Hurston's 123rd Birthday

"Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood."

01-07-2014, 07:01 AM	#2287
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Zora Neale Hurston's 123rd Birthday "Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood." Last edited by Hamlet53; 01-07-2014 at 11:20 AM. Reason: Thanks Kennyc for keeping me in the correct century for her birth. :)