That's good, that I didn't have to read the bible. i did pull it over
to my lazy boy and opened it up and tried to read a little bit, but it
was awfully slow going, there was no rush to get to any point.
What were we taught at Elsdon about the afterlife? The impression I
left with was that as long as you didn't do anything awfully terrible
once you died you would almost immediately go to heaven where one of the
big moments would be meeting up with those who went before you, and
after that it was pretty vague though probably churchy. Of course I
didn't pay a lot of attention to what was being said, so maybe that is
all stuff that I picked up from the common culture.
I'm sure you know that in Jesus's time there were all sorts of sects and
cults in the land and some of them I think had some idea of
immortality. John sounds like an essene doesn't he, hanging in the
desert and eating locusts and honey? Isn't he the guy who got his head
chopped off and put on a platter for Salome, was it? Odd thing for a
young hottie to want, but they didn't have Cadillacs back in that day.
I didn't say there weren't some Israelis in Egypt. I just said they
weren't all taken there en masse and then broke out en masse later.
This is the first I've heard of the late bronze age collapse. It was
all over wiki but the consensus seemed to be that there was no consensus
as to what caused it. I suppose if you want to fabricate an
explanation for something that probably never happened one theory is as
good as another. But haven't you ever heard of Occam's razor?
I don't know why none of those big shaving houses has never come up with
a razor named Occam's. Not only is your face smooth of fuzz, but your
mind is cleared of all those fuzzy thoughts also. Babes go for a guy
with a smooth face and an uncluttered mind.
Overrun by Mexicans, is that like them taking over? I don't see many
states with Mexican governors or senators or anything. And you do
realize that one of the big reasons that those guys were holed up in the
Alamo was that Mexico did not permit slavery and those guys wanted to
keep their slaves. And one of the results of that war and of the
Mexican American wars was that lots of Mexicans entered the country.
They didn't go anywhere, we moved the borders.
Maybe that rev Schact was kind of high churchy, i seem to remember that
she also introduced communion (grape juice communion, I'm not sure about
the wafers) to the church, which caused considerable muttering among
the brethren who thought this was awfully close to dressing up like the
whore of Babylon. I wonder what it was like being assigned to Elsdon
Methodist. I can't imagine it was a step up. There were some Lutherans
by 60th and Spaulding, but I can't think of any other protestant
churches in our neighborhood.
Saturday nights I watch a DVD and once it's over I smoke some dope and
watch it again. It's always much better the second time around. I am
not sure if it's because I am noticing details that went by me the first
time or if it's just because of the dope.
Along with watching the movie I get all these dope insights which I feel
a need to write down right then and there because they are very
insightful and important. The next morning when I am clearing away the
beer cans there is my list, and in the light of the morning those issues
are not as important as they were when I wrote them down.
Here's one from Saturday night. Why is God's morality necessarily
better than ours? This is something I've long wondered. God does all
these terrible things in the bible, and it's just kind of shrugged off
as God being God, or that goofy excuse that we cannot know the will of
God. Well if we cannot know His will how do we know that we are
pleasing Him when we give to the poor or refrain from fish on Friday?
Sure He's all powerful, but what does that have to do with Him being
good. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, they were all pretty powerful and nobody
anymore thinks they were good.
So I don't know, how about that?
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