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You have read some version of
1The
Way, a sneaky version of The Holy Bible that became available several
years ago. Now read about something honest, The Other Way.
In our culture, men are the accused exploiters. True or not
depends upon whom you see as being the providers, and recipients, in
normal relationships. Rodney Mudge worked to provide a fancy home and all
the amenities for his wife, Connie. She reciprocated by cooking his meals
and maintaining their home as a pleasure palace they could share, but
shared no interest in his intellectual pursuits. That left him open to
Tracy’s agile mind as she fed him insights about philosophical speculation
that concerned him enough to share with her. Forced to hide his new love
from Connie, he ponders but does not dare try to introduce them.
Bachelor Jon, his friend and confidant, loves an underaged
student named Sheila and feels threatened by her brutish father. Rod and
Tracy share sex; Jon and Sheila remain virginal while the four of them
gather at Tracy’s. Dean Wuther (their boss at a local college) gets wind
of their trysts at about the same time as Sheila’s dad. To make matters
worse, Tracy discovers she is pregnant. Sheila runs away to avoid her
father’s wrath after he threatens her. Connie starts getting baby supply
ads in her mailbox. She confronts Rod to learn what’s going on, but Rod
loses his job at the college, as does Jon, and Connie kicks Rod out from
their home.
Rod and Jon pool their resources to buy a country tavern
and hire the Bohunk Philosopher to run the bar. Daydreaming while driving,
Jon plunges his car into the Allegheny river and gets rescued by a group
of what he calls ‘hippies’, one of whom is homosexual, the other of whom
claims two women as his wives, all of whom live in a remote area with
little contact to the outside world. He spends a few days with them while
they gather up enough cash to take him into town and send him home to
puzzle over the things he has recently experienced.
Sheila, meantime, has come of age and located their tavern.
Jon dares to confront her father and claim her as his own. Rod marries
Tracy after divorcing Connie, and the Bohunk Philosopher admits to a con
he pulled off to land his job.
On November 7, 2002, Maury Povich aired a show about
polyamory where two men lived with 3 women in an illegal community
relationship. Women against the notion have nasty visions about females as
chattel, property being exploited by the men involved. This view, by all
reports from people actually involved, is far from correct. The view that
men become involved to satiate their lust also is very wrong. Lust
provides no foundation for erecting any kind of permanent relationship.
Those who cannot see beyond their own wild-but-stifled dreams will never
understand that. Realization might dawn for them after reading about the
characters in this book.
Read this review from R. Hill of Indiana: "If you are looking for a
novel that examines our beliefs in God and the Universe, you have come to
the right place. I found this book to be very thought producing. It's main
characters are well developed and you will find yourself involved in their
personal dilemmas. At times you will find yourself liking them, loving
them, or even hating them. It is easy to read and carries you swiftly from
page one to the end. After finishing this book, I am sure you will want to
return to examine the pages all over again! If you, like me, are looking
for ways to help you understand your own thoughts and views about God and
our reasons for being here, you will find it in this excellent novel by
Lloyd H. Whitling."
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| FOOTNOTES:
1: The Way, Tyndale House,
ISBN:
0-84237-820-0 (AKA "The Living Bible").
RETURN
*The Other
Way ISBN
0-595-22394-X The Complete Universe of Memes ISBN
0-595-24429-7 Reality 101 ISBN
0-595-21834-2
These books are
available through your distributor, or directly from the publisher at
http://iuniverse.com. It is
recommended that you continually stock and promote them because they
present a genuine philosophy that serves to support your right to operate
a store to provide adult information to mature individuals.
"To deny a right to the experience of pleasure
is immoral unless that denial can be justified by a valid presentation of
how pain will result from that experience in an amount that would render
the expected pleasure regrettable; or, if it can be shown that pain will
be induced in others innocent of any involvement. The role of science in
moral issues should be to test that, predict that, and find harmless ways
to demonstrate that."
— L. H. Whitling in the eBook,
Secular Morality —
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