Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in politics on 18 November 2008 - 21 חשון 5769
OT SURE About you, but any kind of Messianism scares me. I’ve been told that one way of reading the whole “beast rising from the sea” image is to see “the Antichrist” as rising from humanity - either as a sort of Zeitgeist, or else as an individual.
Either thought makes this image [...]
Posted in contemplation, politics, saints and days on 8 November 2008 - 11 חשון 5769
DVENT Is said to begin in the Western Church four Sundays before Christmas. (This year that’s the last Sunday in November - some years it’s the first Sunday of December.) It has not always been so, however: the older tradition of the Eastern Church makes Advent to begin on 15 November. It [...]
Posted in Progressive, politics on 8 November 2008 - 11 חשון 5769
IVEN ALL the progressive messianism surrounding the recent vote, I think the following liturgy-geek sentence is totally appropriate:
With 70 Days left until the inauguration, let’s try and keep Obamamass out of Obamadvent - even though the anticipation may be killing us.
Posted in Buffalo, politics, ramble on 7 November 2008 - 10 חשון 5769
ER HOST Had a spate of Retail Therapy this week. I purchased a couple of things on Amazon and, as always, I needed to break the $25 limit to get the free shipping.
I picked up a copy of the 2009 ECOlogical Calendar, always an incredibly beautiful celebration of God’s Earthly Cycles disguised as [...]
Posted in politics on 6 November 2008 - 9 חשון 5769
O LAST Night at the Housing Co-Op we had our weekly pot luck. For afters we had some tasty homemade cakes frosted in a way that many will recognise:
I took the cake and cut the first slice. As I passed it to my right I said, “This is my Obama, given for you.”
No [...]
Posted in teh internets on 5 November 2008 - 8 חשון 5769
NY ONE Else amused by the ideas offered in the opening line of the advert that the BBC chose to put next to its Election Coverage?
The Ad came from Liberty Mutual, btw.
Posted in politics on 4 November 2008 - 7 חשון 5769
S MANY Of my regular readers will no, I predicted we’d not even get to have an election this year - because I thought that the possibility of Obama winning would be too scary for certain parties. But then Obama caved on civil rights as vrs national security and I saw there’d be no [...]
Posted in politics on 22 October 2008 - 24 תשרי 5769
KAY, OKAY. I have to post this one - even though it breaks my promise to stay out of the presidential silliness. Complete with a quote from noted Revolutionary, Socialist, (and personal hero) James Connolly…
This takes on our ideas of race as much as our politics. For any white American who said he [...]
Posted in other geekery, other paths on 13 October 2008 - 15 תשרי 5769
EALITY SANDWICH Points out some disturbing astrological parallels between Obama and Lincoln. If you’ve been reading closely for, oh, the last 10 years, you know I think Lincoln may have freed the slaves (on paper, at least) but he enslaved the rest of us. Thus hearing that Obama has some kind of newage [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 3 September 2008 - 4 אלול 5768
NCE AGAIN We’ve reached that curious juncture in American Poltics where Christians on the Left and Christians on the Right are trying to make the other side into Canon Fodder, pardon the pun.
Palin is a pious, Christian who was baptised Roman Catholic and apostatised as a child. Now she speaks in tongues, thinks [...]
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