A tangled Web

I've been pretty immersed in Tudor England for a while - it all began with reading those fantastic novels by Philippa Gregory - From the perspectives of the Yorks and then Tudors during the War of the Roses, through the wives of Henry VIII and now I'm up to The Virgin's Lover, about Elizabeth I and Lord Robert Dudley.

I've been watching the Tudors and am caught up in Jonathan Rhys Meyer's Henry VIII and right now, I'm sitting here watching Elizabeth - with the beguiling Cate Blanchett.

I am slowly recognising the royal lines - not for any important reason.. but its fascinating. The closest I have found my tree to the Tudors is that one of my Cooke predecessors was christened in a church in Lambeth, London. And in the Tudors, Katharine of Aragon visited a church in Lambeth. Yeah, a tenuous connection at best hahaha. I wonder what my ancestors were doing then? I think that strain was from Lincolnshire... what would they be doing in Lambeth? I wonder which side they were on?


If they were peasants (Cooks? Though, Smother still believes she is of blue blood.. and related to Captain Cook. She also thinks she was Cleopatra in a past life and I was her slave... yeah don't get me started.. but wouldn't it make more sense that she was MY slave, and is reaping the benefits now?) I wonder where or how they lived. The information is out there... I just need the time. Fascinating :)


I wonder what their religion was?.... as far as I know we are from Catholic stock... And if they chopped and changed to save THEIR heads?

Religion is crazy. I believe in Faith. I believe in God- one God (I think of it more as the universe) perceived hundreds of different ways - think the Elephant story. (You know, where men were blindfolded and all felt a different part of the Elephant - then came out and described what they'd seen)

In Christianity alone there a so many denominations - I don't even know if I could name them all.. Protestant, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican, does God really know what else? Where do the Pentacostal, the Christadelphians, the Evangelical fit in?

The Agnostic? The Athiests?

I don't believe we need the Church or priests to communicate with God. I had sex waaaay before marriage. I have bastard children. But I don't really believe God minds. The Universe is a wonderful mystical thing, and we will never understand everything - I love synchronicity, symbolism and the gamut of emotions our lives bring us. Of course I hate them at the time but that is what makes it so beautiful.

I don't know why we are here. I believe my soul chose this lifetime, for the joy of the lessons to be learnt and the experiences to be felt. We have a path, a journey.. a means to an end.. but we still have the illusion of choice. The Universe knows otherwise.

The macrocosm and the microcosm - seriously - cell structure and the solar system? How trippy is that? What about dreams? Deja vu? Intuition? 

I even have a theory on Adam and Eve that is explosive. It explains creationism and evolution. Its so obvious, I don't know why everyone doesn't see it the way I do. When I share this - I am met by bemused looks. Its logic, people!

We know the Bible was translated into many languages in such a way that fuelled and served the interests of those rich or powerful enough to command translations be made. Sure, there were honourable people who genuinely wanted to respect the 'word(s) of God'.. but I think Human nature is just as Hobbes said. We are greedy. Power is an aphrodesiac.




Adam and Eve were amoebas. Doesn't that make sense? Back then they had a limited view of science - human beings were the most basic form... Eve came from Adam - one amoeba splits into two.. and multiply. Now if the Jehovah's Witnesses who come to my door could just see that it negates any defensive reasoning about incest (for starters) maybe they would have more success with us heathans....