15-03-2009, 10:32 PM
Our Father (who art English) Who art in (Chelsea) Heaven,
Hallowed be thy English name (not Da, Pere, Padre, Vater, Pa, Pop or other abominations).
Thy English Kingdom Come (past tense),
Thy English Will Be Done (obviously),
On Blighty Earth as it is in (beach towel holiday) Heaven.
Give us this day our Anglo-Saxon bread (the very best there is).
And forgive us our foreign trespasses (but you really need understand why we trespass, oh English Lord),
As we forgive them who trespass against us (but thankfully not very bloody often).
And lead us not into temptation (we are English after all),
But deliver us from Evil (if you really feel you must).
For Thine is the United Kingdom, the Power and the Blighty Glory,
For ever and ever (and a little longer in case of greed).
Amen.
PS, I’ve never understood Lord, why You require a single Egyptian word “Amen” to thrive in Your native language when “it will be so,” or “and so it will be” or “let it be donee” or any number of other English equivalents would do so much better.
What have the Egyptians ever done for us?
Hallowed be thy English name (not Da, Pere, Padre, Vater, Pa, Pop or other abominations).
Thy English Kingdom Come (past tense),
Thy English Will Be Done (obviously),
On Blighty Earth as it is in (beach towel holiday) Heaven.
Give us this day our Anglo-Saxon bread (the very best there is).
And forgive us our foreign trespasses (but you really need understand why we trespass, oh English Lord),
As we forgive them who trespass against us (but thankfully not very bloody often).
And lead us not into temptation (we are English after all),
But deliver us from Evil (if you really feel you must).
For Thine is the United Kingdom, the Power and the Blighty Glory,
For ever and ever (and a little longer in case of greed).
Amen.
PS, I’ve never understood Lord, why You require a single Egyptian word “Amen” to thrive in Your native language when “it will be so,” or “and so it will be” or “let it be donee” or any number of other English equivalents would do so much better.
What have the Egyptians ever done for us?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14