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Judas Iscariot – Friend Or Foe?
[News-and-Society:Religion]
A recent documentary on the Discovery channel references one of the Gnostic gospels found in the 20th century. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot. What do we really know about the man? -
Eco-Engineers on a Mission to Save the World
[News-and-Society:Environmental]
Engineers Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield are Planet Green’s eco-engineers and they are on a mission to fix the planet! Based in England, these two environmentally conscious problem solvers travel all over Europe to take on some of the most pressing environmental problems. -
The BOOM in Social Networking Software
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking]
The way the world communicates is changing every day. Social networking software is the driving force of both social and business communications. -
The Similarities in Religions
[News-and-Society:Religion]
There are many similarities among religions. In fact, all religions have peace and love at their cores and all religions suffer misrepresentation by the militant acts of extremists. -
How to Make Sure Everyone Has a Voice in Your Meetings
[Business:Management]
Being a group leader can be tough sometimes. Taking stock of your employees’ personality types can help you decide how best to conduct a meeting. -
The Link Between Self-Esteem and Learning
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem]
The human individual is born to learn. From the moment an infant begins to perceive his or her outer surroundings (and even before) she is experiencing stimuli, applying cognitive processes, and forming perceptions about her world. Humans have an intrinsic motivation to learn, grow, and evolve.
Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
In addition to the four famous versions by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the “gnostic gospels” that were all the rage after Da Vinci Code … Read More…
The Anarchist Jesus of the First Gospel
The same year that the USA dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, God decided to break the seal on several of these "lost" Gnostic gospels. … Read More…
Saturday Afternoon Book Review: Matt Edwards
The above statements approach a semi-gnostic gospel–that the physical is irrelevant or evil, and that the spiritual is what matters to God. … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby – Jordan Baker, Lesbian
While Nick Carraway is the only narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker -a secondary character- is an ocular witness and agent in the turbulent history of the Buchanan’s. Jordan is not only Nick’s main source of what happened back in Louisville, but also an agent provocateur in the lethal drama that involves Tom, Daisy, Myrtle, and Gatsby.
In chapter 1, when Nick visits his cousin Daisy Buchanan, he immediately perceives Jordan:
“The younger of the two was a stranger to me. She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall.”
As Nick focuses on her, he admits, “I enjoyed looking at her,” and immediately describes her:
‘She was a slender, small breasted girl with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.’
A wisp of a recollection crosses Nick’s mind, which at the end of the chapter becomes clear that Jordan Baker was a famous -but maliciously talked about- golf player. Later on Nick tells us that she had been involved in a golfing scandal, and eliminated from a golf tournament because of cheating. In the end, Nick admits that she was “incurably dishonest.”
At a party as Gatsby’s Nick comments:
“I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.”
By now Nick is shaping up Jordan Baker’s profile not as that of a flapper, nor that of a coy and delicate woman, or a flirt-but that of a lesbian. Given that in the early 20th century allusions to sexual orientation were taboo, Nick could not be expected to insinuate such a thing, much less to say it. And incidentally, it wasn’t until Truman Capote published Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 that a novel openly used the “L” word or others even worse: “Incidentally, she [Holly Golightly] said, “do you happen to know any nice lesbians?” “Of course people couldn’t help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself.”
However, the implications that J
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ordan is indeed a lesbian are all there.
Take the imagery: “erect carriage,” and “cadet.” Who can deny the tomboy description? In those years a young cadet could only be a male soldier apprentice. Jordan is male-like. A tomboy. And that ‘jauntiness about her movements,” can only signify that she’s unfeminine.
Yet Nick and Jordan become involved. This is difficult and sterile relationship which surely leads to a dead end. Nick -as I’ve commented elsewhere- is bisexual. And if Nick is bisexual and Jordan is a lesbian, all else in their relationship cannot be taken seriously, despite the fact that Jordan intimates they had a relationship. At the end in their partings -which were no sweet sorrows- she accuses Nick of “throwing her over.”
Jordan fits in the group, as she advances Fitzgerald’s theme of the decline of morality and the corruption of the American Dream. Besides being dishonest she’s careless and selfish. Not only does she drive in a reckless manner, but she expects others to get out of her way. No wonder she befriends the Buchanan’s.
“They’re a rotten crowd,” says Nick, and they were. Tom, Gatsby, Daisy, and Jordan were all Westerners-not New Yorkers.
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