What’s with this place?

Sorry, I couldn’t resist posting this. “Thou shalt run a brothel in my name.”

But, I digress…

And a hearty hello to you, too, ChuckA! RoadWarrior is a little over-the-top, since our trucks have been turned down to 63mph. We’ve now achieved “Camp Follower” status, although so many other companies have turned their trucks down, too, that we’ve become a huge clot in our interstate-arterial-system.

Oh, man, more digressing…sorry, KA.

I only made it halfway through “Jesus plus nothing”. Reading about the octopus arms reaching into the governments of dictators made me take a break that I’ve never returned from. Religion brings out the “spooky” in many people. But an opus-dei-like network in place across the world is something my mind recognizes as pure evil.

And just because some conspiracy-theories have been debunked does not mean that ALL are.

Machiavelli, anyone?

I’m not a hard-core conspiracy theorist, but I have often thought to myself that for one to assume history has transpired without any conspiracy is utterly naive. Like this shit for example.

Watching the amazingly cool, and highly intelligent, Sonia Sotomayor get drilled from some of the dumbest Repig asshole idiots, and knowing, all the while, that our Government is STILL literally RIDDLED with complete fucktards like Ensign, etc. is enough to make one literally puke.

Just thinking about what’s gone on since both Bush retards…WAIT!…make that Reagan…Carter?…(fill in the blank?)…and all the fundie-fuck minions, with their moronically insane and totally asinine “Prayer Breakfast” bullshit; not to mention little things like…oh-I-dunno…9/11 (under their “watch”), all the Wars, yada-yada…starts to make some of those Conspiracy fanatics sound…What!…sane?
AARGH!!!
By the way, Naomi…may I extend a friendly HI!?..
It’s always good to hear from you…you…ummm…
“Road Warrior”?

To muddy further the turgid waters that we can now easily walk upon it ourselves, how about Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America’s secret theocrats, by Jeff Sharlet (published in Harper’s in 2003)? The “nothing” he references is so toxically powerful, we could be sitting on a ticking time bomb.

This sort of thing is not the exception, it’s the rule. Christian theologians have jobs by making what was once a simple thing into the complex. This “emptiness” concept is one of those things from the Bible that doesn’t have much explanation, and historians and grammarians have a tough time finding places where this concept is used elsewhere to illumine what the Phillippians passage says. So, since proper exegesis is a dead end, enter eisegetical babble and voila, 30 more post-grad students have something to write their dissertations on, and people the likes of NT Wright can now publish 1,000 page books attempting to explain the concept.

Also, having been a graduate Biblical studies student at a seminary in a former life, anytime – and I mean ANYTIME – an author uses a Strong’s Concordance to define an ancient word for you, that person does not know his/her biblical languages well enough to do the gruntwork him/herself. Back in seminary we used to call it the “Wrong’s Concordance” because it over-simplifies to the point of error. That’s when I knew what you were quoting was mainstream Xian bullshit and not something academic. I will at least give the academics a chance to make their point, but if one uses a Strong’s Concordance to define a word and then hangs the entire dissertation/book or whatever on that concept or an attempt to explain it is naive.