Passions of Prometheus

I DON'T THINK that it is inconsequential that my heroes are men.... It is not because women are not as passionate, creative, or in any way undeserving that they don't make my short list of heroes. Rather, it is because I share with most men an inclination toward "Prometheanism". I don't know why it is not as prevalent in most women. Perhaps it is the hard wiring of centuries of birthing and caring for life (if I am allowed that stereotypical explanation). I do not think it is because women are morally superior to men, only that

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The Return of Christ Transcript

I find myself caught between seeing the Return of Christ as symbolic and seeing it as a literal historical occurrence. The ideas of time and history are so difficult to get our heads around. Time seems a human construct based on our awareness of mortality. Aging and progress seems like byproducts. I feel like our fear of the end of the world is analogous to the end of our personal lives. Lately there have been other ways to understand time in history -- that all that exists continues to exist and merely changes form. So when our bodies die we

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