Well, you WERE beautiful
Folks, I’m sorry, but when you skin is orange, I think it’s time to get out of the sun. Pick up video games or knitting or something that doesn’t require you to cook yourself.
Entries Tagged as 'Grrr'
And you shall pay the price
The wrath of God is poured out upon Tennessee for she has abandoned the perfect law of liberty and has worshiped tradition and stagnation.
So God has given her over to cold.
Good job, Douchbags!
Happy (late) Reformation Day!
Thanks to Cara for reminding me. <3 you, Hon.
Martin Luther’s Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
P.S. Halloween is geigh.
We’ll move on from here
Well, once again, rant day has come and, as in the old’n days, I have found myself completely unprepared. Nothing to write. However, I am a Blog Mad member. “What’s Blog Mad?” you ask. No you don’t, because you don’t care. So I’m not telling you. Suffice it to say, in the course of my membership there, I have found many many blogs worth reading. Some I read daily, others whenever I have absolutely nothing better to do.
While scouring the web for anything new to read that was not about Baseball, Iraq, kittens, Lebanon, or someone’s nasty breakfast, I came across a blog that every Christian should subscribe to. Cerulean Sanctum is a blog created by a man named Dan Edelen. Now, I have only briefly skimmed through Dan’s older posts; but I am utterly convinced that the man is a prophet.
That, however, is not the concern of this rant. Dan posted concerning the chopping and subsequent raping of the Bible. In his post, Chapter, Verse Blog, Dan goes on about the way cut and paste reading and wielding of the Bible causes a Rock, Paper, Scissors style circle of contradicting heresy. He then cites Pagan Christianity: The Origins of Our Modern Church Practices and The Untold Story of the New Testament Church in a short excerpt that everyone should read titled The Bible is not a Jigsaw Puzzle. The excerpt is basically the same sort of Atomic Mind Bomb that Dan’s post is, but from a different perspective.
Still, none of what I have said so far is what this rant is about. So I’ll, as our old friend Monty would say, “Get on with it!” Throughout history, well-meaning people have said and done things which were taken to the extreme by their followers and made into foundational principles which, in turn, were made into platforms for revolution and reformation. Those platforms were then taken by the followers of those first followers and were made absolute and sovereign law, designating all aspects of reality. These people even went so far as to use said platforms to redefine their own sources.
We can take a look at many examples. The Pentecostals, who took a movement to readmit truth into the church and made a church out of it or the Roman Catholics, who decided that order and purpose were best served cold with a side of stagnation and a tall glass of self righteousness on the rocks. Teachers spoke of the brotherhood of humanity prompting African Americans to a black supremacist since of brotherhood. One called Anointed spoke of perpetual forgiveness and the honor that is in martyrdom. His followers wasted no time in throwing themselves in the face of death and had to be reprimanded by one of their most popular leaders just be convinced to live. YHWH tells His people of His plan for them and they begin to worship the plan and ignore Him altogether.
What can we take from this? Stop basing your lives on wacked out philosophies! Sure, these philosophies are, for the most part, based on valid premises. Then take those premises! If I presented you with the best three course meal you ever had, you might like it. If I presented portions of the ingredients all blended together as one meal, you would gag at its very sight. So it is with the blasphemy spewing from the pulpit like vomit from a hung over freshman. And I do gag. Church, camp, TBN, friends, books, I don’t care.
The worst part is not that these heresies exist. It is not even that people believe them. That most of the western world believe them is not even the most sickening aspect. No. It is that these beliefs have engrained themselves so deeply in our culture and in our doctrines and in our philosophies that people actually consider the beliefs a part of themselves. Oh, they would not admit it. Nor do they even realize it. They have been brainwashed so completely that they consider an attack on these doctrines an attack on their very being.
So where are the few and the proud left? What can those who read the Bible with, at the risk of sounding cliché and New Age, an open mind do? Pretty much, we can complain. Complain and hope someone listens. We could try preaching the truth, but we live in a very majority rules culture. No one listens to the minority. After all, a prophet is not without honor but in His own country and among his own brethren.
Don’t forget to read Chapter, Verse Blog and The Bible is not a Jigsaw Puzzle. Bottom line, if you believe that the Bible is the word of God, either in part or in whole, you must read.
MAS Appeal [Happy Rant Day!]
Well, it’s rant day, so I figured I would give you all a rant. Such would seem to be a natural decision; no? My rant is in the form of a poem that I wrote earlier this week titled MAS Appeal. Enjoy
MAS Appeal
So many spines from which to unplug wires. So many batteries to amputate and hearts to reinsert. So many eyes to open. So many dead to awaken. Can it even be done?
She is uncharted territory. Yet the acid rains of popular doctrine have fallen on her, propagating blasphemous poison into her precious soil. She soaks up every bit. Her soil, soft and easily permeated. Her trees’ roots, willing to leave no mineral unsiphoned. Fortunately, it seems that her trees have not had enough exposure to clear weather, hot sun, sky free from the “protection” of thick dark clouds. Their roots have failed to take hold and their branches have failed to grow. This would seem to make light my job of administering the anecdote to lies. The only problem is that I am allergic to rain water. And in her world, it rains all day.
She is an untainted canvas. Burned by the light of those so high above her, darkened a bit, but still quite workable when faced with the brush of a skilled artist. There she stands high on her easel, taunting me, calling. She calls, “Come and make something. Draw something. Something. Anything.” Every aspect of me is dying to acquiesce, but it seems that she only exists to tease. I am to see her only in passing, to admire her simple elegant beauty, the potential she possesses to be a great work, only to return again when I have forgotten my zeal and to have my passions reignited, reawakening dreams which, I fear, will never be realized. For I am allergic to the sun. And there she stands, slowly but surely burning away.
The Cry of the Lame
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the Man is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- He has forbidden his Congressmen to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
- He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
- He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
- He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
- He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
- He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
- He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
- He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
- He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Patrols without the Consent of us.
- He has affected to render the Emergency and Armed Forces independent of and superior to the Civil power.
- He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
- For Quartering large bodies of armed Officers among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
- For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
- For transporting us interstate to be tried for pretended offences
- For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
- For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
- For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
- He has plundered our cities, ravaged our towns, burnt our neighborhoods, and destroyed the lives of our people.
- He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
- He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against Humans, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Terrorist Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our politician brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Man, and that all political connection between them and the State of Washington D.C., is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The Good, The Bad, and The Emo
Jerry Springer, Real World, Cops, the five o’clock news. What do all of these have in common? They prove to us that we are more interested in the negative than the positive. Whenever we can get our hands on a juicy piece of wrongdoing, we seize it and revel in the greatness our own righteousness beyond that of the wrongdoer.
Livejournal, Billboard Top 100, Freudianism, this. What do all of these have in common? They all prove to us that we feel a greater need to release (though communication) negative feelings toward a circumstance than positive.
Put them together and what do you get? One person thinking badly of Another person based on the word of a Third person. Third person feels no need to speak good of Another person, but only to congratulate that person on his or her well doing, if that. If One person does not have any information about Another person or as much as Third person, then One person will only know what Third person tells him/her. Since Third person likes to talk about the things Another person does wrong and One person takes interest in those bad things, One person is only left to see Another person in bad light.
Your child talks back to you: you chew him/her out.
Your child fails to talk back to you: nothing.
Your boyfriend cheats on you: you slash his tires.
Your boyfriend fails to cheat on you: nothing.
Your employee is late: you write him/her up.
Your employee is on time: nothing.
Do you remember those ten times when you were pissed off and that one person called and bothered you with a bunch of questions? Do you remember the tens of tens of times when you were pissed off and that one person did not call and bother you with a bunch of questions? I bet your answers are “Yes >:(” and “Well, now that you mention it…” respectively.
What is the person who hears you chew out your child, sees you slash the tires, finds the write up, or reads your blog about the annoying caller going to think? The same thing they think when you do nothing? I think not.
So, my advice to you is not to base your opinions of someone on the incomplete, inaccurate, one sided ramblings, rants, and complaints of one person.
In more applicable terms, if you think I am a jerk, you do not know the whole story.
Oh, and (on a similar note) stop telling your friends that they “don’t need him, anyway.” You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Tell the truth.
Oh, wait. It’s a blog.
Continue the emoness.
Wanna come and play poker?
Didn’t think so.
I win.