Michael Kindt's Blog, page 445
November 22, 2011
Oh, Michael, I received the book!
I forgot to tell you. And thanks for the card too. It was a nice and unexpected added touch.
I'm sure right now, most of the Michaels that follow me are thinking "I didn't send him a book. It must not be me.
It's Michael Kindt (you know him as early-onset-of-night). I ordered a signed copy of his book :)
Thanks, dude. Enjoy :)
Thanksgiving
My sister is throwing Thanksgiving this year. There will be turkey, of course. The problem is I don't eat meat these days, having passed from flexitarianism to total vegetarianism this fall.
I haven't eaten meat since September 2nd, and I don't miss it in the least.
She doesn't really know this about me, since when we talk I don't really mention myself. No one, really, in my family knows I'm a veg, in fact. Except for my son, that is.
I'm steeling myself for some Thanksgiving awkwardness.
November 21, 2011
"This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem. But the reality is that the deficit was..."
- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senate Budget Committee, Nov. 18, 2011 (via howtocope)
November 20, 2011
So religion, that's a tough subject, eh?
(I'm not Canadian).
Generally, I do like religious people if they're not dicks about it. I like people who are passionate about something, just in general. Some of the biggest dicks, and most religious, I've met have been atheists, with their big red "A" bigger than any cross or fish. Me, I'm professionally not sure. I may not believe in God but I'm certain I don't believe in atheism. I don't think it's possible for a human to be an atheist. Even Carl Sagan had a god: science and nature. Man is a religious being and must believe in something.
Anything.
This is nice for Sunday:
Jesus offered no teaching on homosexual or transsexual behavior, but did on marriage in general. That teaching was one of lifelong commitment. Human beings who are cisgendered are the most common and this teaching was expressed in terms of the most common sexual identity, with Jesus quoting the old Law he himself completed. It did not contain the assumption that those with other identities were in error. Jesus's universal message is and has always been one of love, forgiveness, and tolerance.
"Then he got up and left Galilee and went off to the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Again great crowds assembled to meet him, and again, according to his custom, he taught them. Then some Pharisees arrived to ask him this test-question. "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?"
Jesus replied by asking them, "What has Moses commanded you to do?"
"Moses allows men to write a divorce-notice and then to dismiss her," they said.
"Moses gave you that commandment," returned Jesus, "because you know so little of the meaning of love. But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'. So that in body they are no longer two people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together." (Mark 10 1-9, PHI)
other translations
So desperately do we need a religious left!
While I am not sure I agree with this interpretation, it is EXCELLENT food for thought and I think that people should consider it.
I agree that we need a religious left. I am not a conservative. I am a liberal-leaning moderate. I feel unwelcomed by the GOP because i disagree with their politics, and with politicizing religion. I am unwelcomed by the liberal side of things because I am not always "liberal". I am pro-life, and I am against total secularization of this country.
We need a more fluid political system. We need to include all people, be they religious or not, in every group. Religious people are people, just like all people.
akflsjkf;las /end rant xDD
This is nice for Sunday:
Jesus offered no teaching on homosexual or transsexual behavior, but did on marriage in general. That teaching was one of lifelong commitment. Human beings who are cisgendered are the most common and this teaching was expressed in terms of the most common sexual identity, with Jesus quoting the old Law he himself completed. It did not contain the assumption that those with other identities were in error. Jesus's universal message is and has always been one of love, forgiveness, and tolerance.
"Then he got up and left Galilee and went off to the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Again great crowds assembled to meet him, and again, according to his custom, he taught them. Then some Pharisees arrived to ask him this test-question. "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?"
Jesus replied by asking them, "What has Moses commanded you to do?"
"Moses allows men to write a divorce-notice and then to dismiss her," they said.
"Moses gave you that commandment," returned Jesus, "because you know so little of the meaning of love. But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'. So that in body they are no longer two people but one. That is why man must never separate what God has joined together." (Mark 10 1-9, PHI)
other translations
So desperately do we need a religious left!
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You give the most random, yet highly interesting, facts ever. Just sayin'.
And also what they suspect they might be sued for in the future :)
