Michael Kindt's Blog, page 411
February 10, 2012
Yesterday
I posted a picture of me wearing my robe. Remember how smoking hot I was? Well, actually I was just smoking (a corn cob pipe). I don't often post pictures of myself on here and will not start. It isn't like I'm a woman or anything. When the first artists began painting on the walls of their caves, they painted WOMEN, not dudes (who are hairy and lumpy).
There's a reason for this: women are beautiful.
But I wore that robe all day. Even when I was sleeping. I wrote all night in it, slept all day in it. Got up in the afternoon and ate in it, and went back to bed in it.
I'm still wearing it. Yes, I have showered, but I put it back on. Now I'm writing in it again. All I do is write, write, write. Shit pours out of me. I WANT some writer's block.
Please. Make it stop. Make the voice in my head shut the fuck up.
I'm talking to you, whiskey.
Today's agenda is to get a little drunk and not write anymore. I want to listen to music and sit there and look at the wall. I have a new Jimbo Mathus album to listen to. I want to watch a scary movie.
I want to be left alone by my own fucking head.
February 9, 2012
ARSENOKOITAI
is a Greek word that we don't really know the meaning of. It is very ambiguous, used very rarely, and its context tends to vary in ancient texts. It appears in the New Testament, where it's meaning has been adjusted to fit anti-gay views.
Even non-biased scholars have difficulty translating the word—pimp, they say it means, pedophile, masturbator, male prostitute, etc.
For the men who translated the New Testament into English, it was very important that the Bible be anti-gay, just like they were. Since the New Testament isn't anti-gay, the text had to be adjusted so that it was.
In the King James version, arsenokoitai is translated by the phrase "them that defile themselves with mankind". To the modern mind, this is still a bit vague. Mankind means all of humanity, unless you're a fourth-wave feminist, in which case it still means all of humanity and you're just being picky.
The Jerusalem Bible translates arsenokoitai as "those that are immoral with boys". The modern Catholic New American Bible provides a very good example of using pre-existing doctrine to adjust the meaning of the Bible, translating it as "practicing homosexuals." According to current Catholic theology, practicing homosexuals are sinful, while celibate ones are not. Thus, the translated word backs this up. Instead of saying "This is wrong because we say so," they can say "This is wrong because the Bible says so."
Isn't that convenient?
Here are a few more examples of how English Bibles translate the word arsenokoitai:
-"perverts" New International Version, New English Bible, & Revised English Bible.
-"sexual perverts" Today's English Version & Modern Language Bible.
-"men who lie with males," New World Translation.
(The New World Translation, by the way, is the Jehovah's Witness Bible. If you read it, you will be amazed at how well it backs up Jehovah's Witness beliefs).
So whenever some dipshit starts quoting the Bible to you, just remember that they aren't, in fact, quoting the Bible. They're simply quoting a translator's opinion.
Carry on.
apieceofmine replied to your photo: Good morning. Here is a picture of me wearing a…
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How many corn cob pipes do you have? Are they reusable?
I have four and, sure, they're reusable. I have heard that they will eventually burn through, but it hasn't happened to me. I only smoke like once a day, though.
Good morning. Here is a picture of me wearing a robe and smoking...
Good morning. Here is a picture of me wearing a robe and smoking a corn cob pipe. This was ten minutes ago, but it feels like five minutes ago, so close to my heart was the moment. Have a spectacular day. I'm going to bed finally. Peace.
February 8, 2012
LA COUNTY BANS FOOTBALL AND FRISBEE TOSSING ON BEACHESLOS...
LA COUNTY BANS FOOTBALL AND FRISBEE TOSSING ON BEACHES
LOS ANGELES — When you head down to the beach for a little summer fun, county officials want you to leave the pigskin and Frisbee at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to fines of $1,000 for anyone caught throwing a football or Frisbee on a beach in Los Angeles County.
The 37-page ordinance, passed on Tuesday, outlines the responsibilities of law enforcement and other public agencies in combating the rash of football- and Frisbee-tossing that tends to go on at beaches.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the ordinance will go a long way toward covering the shortfall in revenue Los Angeles County has been experiencing during the economic downturn. "We expect to collect between $250,000 and $500,000 in fine money each summer from this brilliant and much needed legislation."
If the ordinance successfully increases revenue as is expected, many other activities and behaviors could be outlawed to raise additional money—and not just on beaches.
"Fines as income," said Mayor Villarigosa. "Who'd a thought?"
Lawrence Hafetz, a lawyer for Los Angeles County, said he expects some criticism to come from the new ordinance. "But they shouldn't bother. We can easily and quickly commission a study that shows tossing a football or Frisbee is somehow dangerous and that someone, every million years or so, could be seriously injured. Therefore, the whole activity needs to be banned ASAP."
County board member Tom Allen said people shouldn't be surprised with the ordinance. "If you elect a group of people whose only job is to sit in a room thinking up new laws, eventually everything will be illegal. It's simple math. Anyway, people can still go to the beach and sit on a towel. For now."
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February 7, 2012
Michael Kindt likes Google.
*thumbs up*
Michael Kindt likes Google.
*thumbs up*
I was just digging around on Google and noticed a link to where I could "like" it on Facebook.
Seriously? Google needs to pander for Facebook likes? Come on, now. They are the Wal-Mart of search. People don't even search for things anymore, they google them. Are they sitting around their offices carved out of enormous solid gold blocks high fiving each other, "Yeah, boyyyyy, we got another Facebook like!"
Early Onset of Night: hookersorcake said: This signifies that the right understands the tide...
hookersorcake said: This signifies that the right understands the tide has turned on gay marriage. If they are to win a national election they can no longer be racist bible thumping homophobes.
I believe you're right. Pretty soon their archaic-ness will begin to look and sound…
Mike, the Reagan era never ended, we're living it again now. Don't you see this?
It's dying. Gay marriage wasn't even conceivable then. The Religious Right had much more power. Jerry Falwell helped shape policy, christ sake. But, yeah, we still got a long way to go…
hookersorcake said: ...
hookersorcake said: This signifies that the right understands the tide has turned on gay marriage. If they are to win a national election they can no longer be racist bible thumping homophobes.
I believe you're right. Pretty soon their archaic-ness will begin to look and sound almost comical, like demanding that men start wearing powdered wigs again or something.
"Doth ye not haveth big, shiny, buckles on thy shoes? HEATHEN! To the stake with thee where we shall burn thee like a troublesome woman!"
Imagine if they started insisting that the sun rotated around the earth again!
Yeah, the right is fucked. Everything they believe in is untrue, the poor pathetic bastards. Everyone's just starting to realize it now. I sort of remember the Reagan era. Scary times, it was. The Dark Ages, if you will.
Like most Republican politicians, Mitt Romney enjoys counting...
Like most Republican politicians, Mitt Romney enjoys counting his corporate bribe money and doing shots of neglected children's tears. Occasionally, to mix things up, he will try to kill a harmless dog by freezing it to death in a cage strapped to the roof of his gold-plated Mercedes-Benz.
Where he differs, however, is in his virginity.
Yes, he is "married with children"—and handsomely rewards the actors who play those roles, too—but that is simply his cover as he conducts research on this planet for the Big Giant Head.
His continuing mission? To seek out archaic human philosophies, to boldly propound them, and to lose the Presidential Election of 2012.
