Michael Kindt's Blog, page 118
July 1, 2015
How about we take down every flag?
“This special blanket tells the world what I believe or what group I belong to and I’m going to put it at the end of a really long stick and wave it in the air.”
Kinda stupid if you think about it.
June 29, 2015
I saw where a movie was coming out about Brian Wilson of the...
I saw where a movie was coming out about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. The subtitle calls him the “greatest American songwriter”, or some such shit.
Um, excuse me?
About Boswell and adelphopoiesis
brought up by factory-of-fuzz. In the 70s and 80s he researched what he believed were same sex unions occurring in the first and second century Christian Church. No surprise his work has been roundly criticized.
I’m on the fence myself. He makes some compelling points.
He is often criticized on his interpretive skills of Greek, but what I think a lot of people miss is the fact that homosexuality is a modern concept.
We are told by Boswell’s critics that what he’s interpreting as a same sex marriage is actually a sort of “blood brother” ceremony, a BFF confirmation before God.
Those critics may indeed be correct, but imagine living as a homosexual in a world that has yet to define homosexuality. These “blood brothers” didn’t even know they were gay, even though we all know they were.
Anyway, I won’t take a stand on his work. Like I said, he has been roundly criticized (Boswell himself was gay–they say he’s forcing his findings), but you can’t deny he makes you think.
And, really, isn’t that what we’re all here for?
factory-of-fuzz said about Donald Trump: Funnily enough, the ideal situation described in the...
factory-of-fuzz said about Donald Trump: Funnily enough, the ideal situation described in the (Christian) bible is absolute militant celibacy. Marriage is viewed as the easy and compromised way out. Also, Catholic Churches performed gay marriages for the first two centuries AD.
HHHH
Well, there’s nothing about true Christianity that is militant. Paul said that celibacy was the preference, but unattainable for most, thus marriage. The compromise can be found in scripture itself. The Shakers, a Christian sect, actually lived a celibate, communal life. Strangely, they died out haha. No such compromise with violence or war is found in the New Testament. The only way a Christian can go to war, ever, is if he turns his back on the teaching of his lord and savior.
Obviously, most Christians are incredibly shitty at it. Also, kudos on knowing about Boswell’s work. I’m impressed!
i find it interesting that you quote the king james in your sarcastic response to the christians. is this intentional because the king james is favored by conservative evangelicals? i guess i'm wobering if that was sarcasm too ha!
wobering?
Is that a word from the King James? There are many obscure and little-used words in the mighty King James (to some people).
I kid.
No. It’s the translation I read and prefer. I’ve spelled out my views about the Bible, in sarcastic tone of course, before here on tumblr. CLICK if’n you’re actually interested. Anywho…
June 28, 2015
Donald Trump, R-Dipshit, stated on Sunday that he is "for traditional marriage".
Which traditional marriage? The one where people of different races couldn’t marry each other or the one where a guy could have multiple wives (what a fucking nightmare)? These were all traditional at one time.
No, The Donald meant Fox News marriage, between one man and one woman. Only, The Donald has been married 3 times, so actually his tradition is one man and 3 different women at 3 different times. Like most people today, including a majority of declared Christians, he practices serial monogamy, which was expressly forbidden by Jesus. In fact, in the same paragraph in which Jesus pronounces marriage as being between a man and a woman, he says it’s forever. No divorce.
The Christian argument against same-sex marriage is utter bullshit. There are very few Christians, real Christians in this country. This has never been, even remotely, a Christian country. Jesus forbids violence and certainly war, expressly, and we’ve always been about war. Jesus forbids violence and war even when it’s justified, even in self-defense. We’ve always been about money and getting rich. We even stamp “in God we trust” on our mammon, probably the greatest Freudian slip in the history of mankind.
“Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Obviously, Christianity is a tall order. It was clearly not meant for the mass of humanity. We couldn’t hack it anyway. You think Buddhism is hard?
The very concept of a “Christian nation” is ludicrous, if you read the Bible. Even a Christian majority is ridiculous. The only way Christians could become a majority in any country is if they totally compromised their values and ethics and became faux Christians, Christian in name only. That’s why you see so-called Christian countries going to war throughout history. Jesus expressly and in no uncertain terms teaches absolute pacifism and the only way to get around it so you can kill other people is by saying “Well, what he actually meant was….” and fill in whatever compromise allows you to drop bombs on Iraq or where ever.
Anyway, I guess what I’m trying to say is shut the fuck up with this traditional marriage shit already. You do you and let them do them. Oh, and please Donald, for the love of God, go the hell away finally.
“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
June 27, 2015
Today I woke up with a case of morning wood so severe my entire crotch was covered in termites.
Kind of afraid to go to bed now. It’s after ten and one can only read so many books, so I fired up the internet. I keep it disconnected behind the piano, so it’s a pain in the ass to turn on. It becomes an event.
“I’m going to go online! Woo hoo!”
My service ends on the first, so I only have a few more days of it anyway. I play this game with my internet provider, where I cancel my service and then a month later they offer some ridiculous deal to get me back. I used to pay nearly 40 bucks a month for wi-fi, now I’m down to around $15. Thinking about getting one of those wi-fi antennae and snagging it from one of the Starbucks across the street. The one over to the left actually has another Starbucks inside of it, located in the bathroom, so the signal should be pretty strong coming from that way. The one over to the right, however, is closer. I will have to experiment. Anyone have any experience with these antennae? Do they actually do what they say they do?
The idea of paying to be online is getting more and more comical. Corporations and government entities have a very keen interest in me, in all of us, being online. They should pay US, not us them. Prediction: free wi-fi for all within ten years, mandatory within twenty.
At the store today, I was following a woman who was pushing a stroller. She was talking on her cellphone to the child in the stroller, who had a cellphone of his own. I left them and stopped at the bananas, where an old man was bitching at the produce clerk because the bananas were 59 cents a pound.
“Wal-Mart has them for 55 cents a pound,” he griped. The poor produce clerk could only shrug his shoulders.
Near the bananas was a cooler display with $2.99 fruit cups. There were chunks of pineapple or watermelon or strawberry slices. Others. One was even mixed fruit. On the bottom of each cup was stamped “Product of China”. I tried to imagine an economic system whereby it would be cheaper to ship fruit cups halfway across globe on a giant ocean liner rather than produce them locally–or at least within 500 miles–and I could not.
I tell you, though, I will never feel guilty about my personal “carbon footprint” in such a world, no matter how many millionaire celebrities try to make me feel that way.
When I was done shopping, I went home, drew a cold bath, got in it, and had a nervous breakdown.
June 24, 2015
How about those bands that totally nail it the first time out?
Then…nuthin.
I guess this is about 1 hit wonders, to a degree.
The Marshall Tucker Band: country-rock. May not be your thing, which is cool.
But they only have two songs: Fire On The Mountain & Can’t You See.
And as a modern person, I downloaded everything they ever did just for them two songs. I have to wade through piles of shit, just for my two songs.
But I think about the band, the band who wrote that ONE song, then pfffft.
You gotta feel for em!
June 23, 2015
notquitefancy said about Dirty Martini: That is one very dirty martini.
$$$$Indeed! It was too...
notquitefancy said about Dirty Martini: That is one very dirty martini.
$$$$
Indeed! It was too dirty, though I think the lighting or angle makes it look worse than it is.
3 teaspoons of brine is perfect. I think I had twice as much in that one!
It is an acquired taste, which I acquired. I used gin, not vodka…wanted to be traditional.
It’s pretty much the antithesis of every contemporary American cocktail: It isn’t remotely sweet. It isn’t brightly colored. It’s biting, bracing, complex, multilayered, fascinating, and delicious.
