AMBIGUITY, THY NAME

IS CHRIST!

no?

¹⁶ But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁷ Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

—KJV, Luke 18

What the Good Lord didn’t know was how His Good Words would be misinterpreted. (Obviously He thought He was speaking unequivocally enough.)

You and I of course being clever moderns, we know the difference. But I offer that somewhere out in this world, now, in the past, or in the future; it can be guaranteed that there were/are/will be Christians who torture their kids to ensure them a place in Jesus’s lap in Paradise.

 “So I said unto Ol’ Nick—’to spare the rod is to spoil the child’ and of course His damned followers took it all literally! Honestly, some people~!”

“Keep transmitting, Jeez—my best recruiter ever!”

Now look thee again at the second para in the quote—obviously intended to mean “in the manner of” (a little child) but more obviously: “if you didn’t ‘get the message’ when you were a kid there’s no hope for you.”

 

I THINK

that the Otago Daily Times (kiwi news outlet) is more ‘Christian’ than impartial. (And even worse, dedicated to the cause of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’ … as seen from the wannabe Controller’s point of view.)

Your quote:

“The God of the Bible is anything but domesticated. In the pages of these Judeo-Christian Scriptures, we learn that God is not like us. Our Creator is not made in our image, though we are made in God’s.”

Is somewhat dubious to say the least.

If we are allowed to query (which we’re not) we might just ask:

How the Hell would anyone know that we are made to look like God? And, if you made it this far, if you’re still a Christian—

if indeed we are mini (powerless too, don’t forget) replicas of God, then what the hell does God need a ‘toggle-and-two’ for?

Is there in fact a

Mrs God?

Oh~!

AND that helps explain how the virgin Mary conceived; ol’ God disguised Himself as a mini bunch of mendicant merchants and took advantage of an innocent unsullied* virgin* bride* whilst sheltering for the night … to make a temporary home for the seed He created fourteen billion years previously (so that the evolved monkeys would have something else to fight over). Possibly that also explains Him being nailed to a cross later; his wife (who would also be Him, no?) intervened to make sure He learned a lesson and wouldn’t do it again (vindictive bitch) …

DON’T YOU JUST LOVE

Abrahamic scriptures? Who the hell needs electronic puzzles or hallucinogens, hey?

“Argus!”

(Oops …)

“Yes, Mr Satan, Sir?”

“You called, Dog?”

Brrrrrr …

* Still? (That’s the trouble with living so far inland … no damned oysters handy.)

CUE DORIS

SINGING

QUE SERA, SERA

or

you can do the good Christian thing and toddle off to Ecclesiastes (KJV) where if patient you’ll find this bit—

“The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun. {1:10} Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. {1:11} [There is] no remembrance of former [things;] neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.”

—which might suggest that either

• the scribe thereof  went to the same school as Ouspensky
• or Ouspensky was personally inspired directly by God
• or The Scribe was into the concept of Eternal Recurrence

But I’m a fatalist myself

—even though the word ‘predetermined’ might be construed as suggestive of a ‘predeterminer’. (I prefer the word ‘inevitable’ which lacks that feeble connotation.)

AND AS ALL

rivers eventually return to source …

I KEEP THIS GUY AS A

PET …

Whenever I’m a bit down I call in there for a lift, and the Holy Spirit shining through his writings never lets me down.

HAVE A QUICKIE

beak at this wee sample and you’ll see what I mean—

Matthews’ gospel chapter 1
18-Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. 19-And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. 20-But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21-“She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
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Just watch what these people will do sklyjd to try to get out of what I’ve just said (and there’s plenty more) Don’t let em get away with it. As much as I’ve always liked Gabrielle and cared about her as a person, she couldn’t argue theology with a 2nd grade Sunday school student in a decent church. Neither could any of the rest of the regulars around here, no matter what they try to say about their so called credentials or anything else..

uplifted cheerfully from:  CLICKETH HERE

And be advised—

if you go there take a huge sandwich and big flask of hot coffee; it may be quite a while before you can bring yourself to break away.

The delight is hypnotic …

“Here, Lout—ya feelin’ a bit fruity?”

“Oooh … I likes … God duz great apples …”

 

FAMILY TIES

INTERESTING THAT

very little is made of Jesus’s family. Sure, He had a nominal earthly Dad (called Joseph) who stood in by earning a crust as a wood worker to feed the offspring of an absentee Sire—who was too busy sorting out the universe to slip His son’s family a few shekels towards the ol’ college fund.

SO, JC’S FAMILY

• Father, God. (End of discussion …)
• Mother, Mary (a virgin who stayed a virgin, apparently—a perpetual virgin) (which sort of complicates things if she gave birth to young Jeez using conventional means). Brrrr.

I think a good case could be made for His Dad being cuckolded by a guy/guys who convinced a naive country girl (Lawfully married, yet a virgin?) that they were emissaries from God Himself … and she should submit to them to ‘fulfil the prophecy’~? (Great line, if it works).

ANYWAY, MOVING ON

It could be that after God had done His bit, refreshed her virginity, and made her an Eternal Virgin He moved on; and let things in the Joseph household return to as normal as possible.

So what might that mean?

It did mean much more wildly enthusiastic earthly bonking than the religious Establishment admits if Jeezie’s brothers and sisters are any testimony. The Church goes silent on this subject but Big J wasn’t the only offspring of his ‘Virgin Mother’ and nominal father.

“So I really can call you ‘Bastard’?”                     “Why not? I call you it all the time!”

 

ETERNITY

In 

INVERCARGILL

 

a few years ago someone went around scribbling the same one word everywhere—

—why do people do such things? Couldn’t they just invest in a computer, get a blog, and post every da—       oops …

MOVING ON

Here’s one I snapped recently. Don’t let the foreshortened perspective fool you, those snowy hills are about twenty miles away and the others could be any distance. On a clear day, goes the ol’ song, you can see for everrrrrr …

For ever.

Eternity.

Have you never noticed how everything is related to ‘time’? The ancients certainly did. Some made good observations then goofed by explaining them—the science of the day being not up to the challenge they invoked gods. Gods are nice to have, very handy—even better if you can boil down the cast of thousands to just the one SuperGod.

The ancients would have been aghast if there were no good to match the evil all around them. Eventually we ended up with a wee section of the ‘Good Book’ devoted to matters temporal.

I LOVE ECCLESIASTES 

and despite the good words being twisted by knaves to make traps for fools, it rings my bell. In places the words of wise men of ages past still echo. The scribe thereof has, I think, peeped through the same portals as I—

“Mr Argus … Sir?”

“Yes, Little Virginia?”

“Through a glass darkly, Sir?”

“Could even be, Child—”

Ecclesiastes is time-based. The minds of the past studied time … and, I think, they concluded more or less the same as I:

That ‘Time’ is merely a mental artifice to help us make sense of the universe, and not only does it not exist but it’s rigidly fixed and nothing can change:

Perfect emptiness;

Yet therein something moves,

Following its own course …

 

Time is an illusion. Luckily for us, the illusion is perfect. AND—

I’m still waiting for some Bible banging buffoon to rationalise the apparent contradiction between our Free Will and God’s omniscience. A long wait …

 

CORRECTIONS &

AMENDMENTS

to the Holy Word — in light of practices, ancient, modern, and actual:

“Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, when a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of the most expensive ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table. When they saw this, the disciples were indignant. “Why this waste?” they said. “This could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

Quote source:  CLICKETH HERE

Fair enough too. But this above, all very well and sweet, is theory.

One simple tiny change can bring it from misleading wishful fiction into Reality; like so:

“Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, when a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of the most expensive ointment, and poured it on his head as he was at table. When they saw this, the disciples were indignant. “Why this waste?” they said. “This could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the Pope.” 

And that’s all it takes to convert Biblical BS into modern fact.

No?

 

 

 

IT’S GOOD FRIDAY!

HAH!

It’s good any day … boom boom!

NOW, ON RACISM

versus accuracy. Or, horrors, is it really scarcity of resources? You know, the enforcers running around ensuring that local labour gets first crack of the whip? Try this—

—photograph of Jesus of Nazareth. Taken by one of the very few actual time-travelling cameras. (If you’re pondering that guy’s smile of all sweet accord it’s because as God the Omniscient He alone of the locals knows what a camera is.)

But I think it’s a fake.

‘They’ did some exploration (of God’s earthly likeness) and came up with this

 

 

—as the most probable image of J of N and it’s not much like the blue-eyed Aryan type above. No? Unless, of course, science has it wrong and/or Big G was being a bit playful with the witnesses. (But anyone who can feed thousands of good folks with just a couple of buns and kippers won’t get it wrong.)

Bet that silly hat hurts.

It won’t catch on, you know … J of N as a fashion guru? He should stick to making toys out of wood for little kiddies … oh no, is He yet another Rolf Harris in lamb’s clothing?

“So I said to Argus: ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ —regardless of appearances.”

AND NOW

to go gobble my own lovely Hot Cross Buns …

A RECENT COMMENT

ON SOMEONE ELSE’S BLOG

made me update a bit:

topic: POPEMOBILE

Some damned atheist swine asked the obvious, to the effect—

“So beloved of God … why does the Pope need an armoured waggon?”“

We might add: “… and vigilant well-armed guards?”

(If not armed, are they ‘mobile martyrs’ ready to earn a no-questions-hotfoot-to-Heaven ticket by throwing themselves on grenades or absorbing bullets?)

I HAD TO ASK

and Mr Google as always came up trumps—

What do you get for the holy man who has everything? If he’s Pope Benedict XVI, you get him a new Mercedes-Benz Popemobile.

Based on the company’s midsize M-Class SUV, the new diamond-white Popemobile replaces an older Mercedes model that had served his holiness since 2002. The automaker has been providing popes their eponymous vehicles since 1930.

Mercedes says the new model has an upgraded dome for the Pope to ride in. It features easier access for the 85-year-old pontiff, larger bulletproof glass panels for better visibility and lights in the roof to illuminate the subject below. The throne inside the dome is embroidered with the coat of arms of the pontiff.

It rides a bit lower than the previous version, to make it easier to ship to the Pope’s destinations. The project took Mercedes about nine months to build, the company said.

 

To read from source: CLICK HERE

Oh wow, I’m truly impressed! Not with the understated ostentation of The Beast (and his transport) but with the wildly enthusiastic Nelson-eyed gullibility of the millions of Widow’s Miters who fund it.

Oops, “indignant rebuttal” alert … okaaaaay … … yes.

But money is fungible, no? (Now go say fifteen hundred Hail Argies and I’ll forgive you.)(Go on, off you go, shoo~!)

AND here’s the grand ultimate paradigm of humility and service standing with a justifiably pleased capitalist of the species. What is it with Popes and religiosi that even their blessed coats have to look like dresses?

NOW I’M AFRAID

I can’t spend any more time on this. I have to look up the reference I was going to finish with … something about a rich man squashing himself through the eye of a needle to enter Heaven. Don’t wait up …

 

“Hey Argus! It’s right here in The Bible, ya dum’ dog!”

 

 

 

REFLECTION &

ANALYSIS

?

Your quote:

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked ways; then I will forgive their wickedness and their sin.

sourced:

https://jamesthejustinstitution.org/2018/01/09/jesus-wanted-us-to-think-for-ourselves/

AND STILL

the gullible read but don’t understand their Bible/s?