Random Thoughts

1. I don't care how convinced I am that Revelation was a coded reference to Rome, I am not getting any microchips implanted anywhere in my body! 2. Too many people have been convinced by movies and literature that people who do evil are suave, intelligent, and cool. There is too much cognitive dissonance when buffoons are such successful purveyors of evil.  # Arendt 3. 3 months yesterday.

  1. If you are concerned with real old Biblical sin than to paraphrase Billy Graham's stump sermon-- every time you point a finger you should recognize that four are pointing back at you. If you aren't implicated in your own discourse then you aren't talking about sin you are talking about vice and it is a real short walk to naming the "other" as an inferior, vicious being.   2. God's love should be a constant irritant or you aren't paying close en ough attention. We actually don't get a free pass to hate anyone.  3. I don't think it is accidental that the word cat is found in the word catharsis.  4. I fear that I have too much in common with the Grandmother in a "Good Man is hard to find"

Random Thoughts, August 4th 1. Take it from me all you white folks who are angry about the Proctor and Gamble ad, they own everything. I learned this as a child when I was told they donate half their proceeds to the church of Satan. Have fun boycotting! (Powerful ad!--especially the Trayvon character that doesn't come home)  2. "All will be well!" --the challenge for a lapsed American evangelical is to hear this line anew without any sense that my own material success, health, or well- being is being guaranteed, and yet still fee l profoundly comforted. 3. Can't get "Lord, you have come to the lakeshore out of my head."

1. I realize that I conflate extroversion with moral virtue and superior character.  2. The 18 + hours I just spent cooking dried chickpeas in a crock pot leaves me uncertain about whether humans are actually meant to eat them.  3. Caturday?????? Adopt a Cat - Animal Welfare Just another WordPress site KWHUMANE.COM

1. Now that I know how easy it is to make a cheese sauce becoming a vegan is going to be very hard. 2. I ain't never, ever, never "going home to Rome" --the way power operated to cover-up of the priest abuse scandal (see the Netflix series "The Keepers" for the most recent reflection on this) mitigates against any theological attraction of "universalism." 3. Whoa! The trailer for Wrinkle in Time! Looks awesome.

1. Monopoly: the official board game of perdition.  2. Finds that being in positions of leadership exponentially increases ones use of metaphors drawn from sports (and that I am not immune to this practice.) 3. I laugh every time I hear a Canadian say Regina.