MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR - ESPECIALLY WITH UR-SELF! what can i say? i am liberal - :)))SOULJA ~J~www.DivineIdeology.com Everything Is Male and Female In Nature      The Hindus teach us that it is the creative summary of both the male and female principle that collaborate to create the Divine essence of all that is. And so do the Taoists, who show us the feminine and the masculine principle that feed one another and make up the whole in the symbol of Yin/Yang. Tibetan Buddhist do the same with their most sacred objects, dorje and bell. The bell represents the feminine and the dorje is the male principal. No worship service is ever conducted without use of each, together, one held in each hand. The Gods and Goddesses personified in many traditions also have opposite sex consorts and cohorts who are considered "complements."     In fact, in many systems of belief, you cannot have one without the other. Just as you can't have day without the night, you can't have man without woman, or masculine without feminine. When we really understand that the Divine nature of all that is contains both the masculine and the feminine principles, it begins to make sense that men and women each contain those Divine principles; that the energy of the Goddess exists within all of us. From the highest place of knowing, we do not have to assign a gender to the divine and we do not have to put a name and face on energy so sacred. But in our lives as human beings, with human personalities and beliefs, I truly believe that considering both God and Goddess helps us identify the dual (and multifaceted) nature of divinity.