Monday, 23 June 2014~

     Really feel a lot better today, after having had a moment where I was able to share a bit about my dilemma with the wifi.  So lame, but it is totally true.  I have been letting Kim Valadez, Marjolein, Gilda, and some other women at church know.  So, I know for a fact that some of them are saying a prayer for me.  Thank goodness!!

     Monday ~ 23 June 2014 / Intro to Religion class / 
ambivalence ~ Freud both loving & hating religion,while in Europe the 'ENLIGHTMENT" was happening.  All of the liberal arts were being discovered, such as philosophy, math, the reformation.  
You don't need to rely just on religion anymore.  People know that it is the best for them.  Freud is telling a "just so" story ~   we need EVIDENCE, REPEATABILITY, FALSIFIABILITY, 
"the study of religion" ~ Freud created a theory of Freud (there you have it)
we start out with this guilt, and society teaches us how to focus it ~ according to Freud
WISH fulfillment ~ comforts people!!
God is one cool Dad who gives us all the stuff we want & ask for, the wish fulfiller my Father!
eternal peace, EXPIATION OF GUILT !

IS A LEARNING PROCESS, THOUGH ~ WE SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR "SINS"

sorcery among the Songhay ~

FOLKLORE ~ cohersive, promising, fire & brimstone / demand. Fortune tellers, can make things happen (in a very objective way.)  These people actually get paid for their services.  Dancing.  Sacrifice ~ is another form of coercion like in Ramadan.    

How to deal with the river, uncontrollable.  Refering to women in a way, how to control women in general.  
RELIGION ~