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Has it always been this way?
18 November 2009
For the past few days I have been trying to figure out how to ask the question. I have been wanting to ask some folks who are older than me if the world has always been like it is now.
See I am only in my mid-40s so my memory really doesn’t go back too far. It seems to me, however, that society has shifted in it’s tastes and predilictions. Specifically, our society has become trashier. I realize that sex has been around for a real long time. I also understand that just about everyone participates in sexual activity. But now it seems that sex is everywhere. Everywhere! There seems to be nowhere that one can go to get away from it. Last night I watched a video by some artist called Lady Gaga. In this video she pranced around half-naked and in provocative poses. At a few points in the video her rear end is exposed. Our tv is full of shows telling the sexual tales of our celebrities and the stories of college students out on spring break. Advertising is full of innuendo and semi-clad people enticing you to purchase their wares with sex. Even our non-entertainment world seems to be innundated with trash talk. We’ve all told stories or heard stories about what someone found in someone’s bedroom or on their computer. When and why did our world become so sex-oriented? Has it always been like this? I seem to remember as a young man the world being a little cleaner. I admit that as a young man I had the usual adolescent attitudes towards sex, which mainly consisted of giggles and turning the most innocent comments into something dirty. Now I know that many of the old Marx Brother’s gags were of a sexual nature. Most of the old Moral Majority approved music was about things better left unsaid. But the difference was one of style. When Sinatra or Billie Holiday sang their “racy” songs sex sounded like a thing of beauty rather than a trashy disgusting act of perverts as most songs portray it today. Style. That is what the world is lacking today. We used to have well written and well acted movies driven by dialogue and plot. Today we have movies which consist if little more than a half-hour of some scantily clad girl draped over a motorcycle followed by 1 1/2 hours of either gratuitous carnage or gratuitous sex. Our literature has been reduced from classics like the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Tom Sawyer to People Magazine. We have gone from a nation of people with large vocabularies to a nation of people who are very proficient in profanity. What is sad is that our young people can talk at great length about the sex life of some celebrity but have no idea what I mean when I say count back change. I have no idea if this post makes any sense at all, but I ask you my elders- has it always been this way?Didn’t forget y’all…
17 November 2009
I want to write another part on why I hate religion. However I am not feel well. I will return tomorrow maybe.
Mi volas skribi alian parton. La temo estos denove pri mia malamo de religio. Sed, mi ne sentas bone. Eble mi revenos morgau.I Hate Religion!
16 November 2009
Some random thoughts to start everyone’s week.
I forgot to preach to you yesterday. Well to tell the truth I just didn’t feel like preaching at all yesterday. You see I have a small problem. It is not an uncommon problem but mine has kind of an odd twist. My problem is that I hate religion. No clever definitions here. If you name a religion then I have problems with it. But the odd twist is that I am addicted to religion. You name a religion and I will study it, begin to ruminate upon it, try convince myself of the validity of the creed and start hanging around with those that follow the creed. Even those who have the truth give me the willies because they have become all twisted off on odd tangents that have nothing to do with the truth. A lot of churches are more concerned today with Dave Ramsey’s financial teachings, the bizarre prosperity teachings of Joel O$teen, or the equally weird teachings of the Left Behind series than with the Great Commission and telling others about the grace of God. Religion has missed the point. God saved us and we are to love God and our neighbor (Deuteronomy 6:4), work for justice and walk humbly (Micah 6:8), and strive to lead a quiet life that shows others the grace of God (1 Thessalonians 4:10-11). This is where I personally run into trouble. I never set out to be a religious blogger. My thought is that anything I would ever say in a blog post has already been said and has been better said than I could ever say it. Yet for some strange reason I feel compelled to speak, even though all that I really have to say is love God, love your neighbor, work for justice and lead a quiet life. But religious folks talk. And talk. And talk some more. No one seems to be listening but everyone is talking. We as a people have figured out that we have run out of things to talk about so we have started studying the Greek and Hebrew so that we can have deeper things to talk about. The problem is that we have not even come close to understanding the simple stuff enough to even be bothering with the complicated stuff. What does it matter if our Lord returns on a Tuesday at 3:15 or at 3:17 when our families are crumbling and big corporations are raping the Third World? Like anything that involves people we (American Christians, I mean) have become self-absorbed and our religion reflects our true passion. I was in the grocery store the other day and noticed the new book by O$teen on the shelf. (As an aside- has anyone noticed how he looks like a caricature of a used car salesman in a Hanna-Barberra cartoon.) The title of this epic tome is “It’s YOUR Time.” Sorry dude, I really thinks that it is GOD’S time. He is running the show after all. This may offend all of my friends but Christianity is really simple to figure out. There is a God and He is in control. HE is in control, not you and not some devil. He sent his Son to die for us so that we could have a relationship with Him. He expects us to love Him and our neighbor and to lead quiet, decent lives. Anything more than that is fluff and the folks telling you this stuff are trying to sell you something.Do mi sidas che la komputilo denove…
15 November 2009
Eble mi devus iri al preghejo sed mi ne volas iri tien. La suno belighas hodiaue kaj mi volas ludi dum la tuttago. Preghejo multlaborighas. Laboro Dimancha ne plachas al mi. Maldiligentaj tagoj… nun tioj plachas al mi!
Mi lernas pri la #esperanto etikedo sur "Tuitero." Mi uzas ghin multe dum chi tio semajnfino. Mi rekontis kelkajn novajn amikojn per Esperanto. La relernajho de Esp-o amuzas min. Mi komprenas ke mia tuitoj, eble, ne estas bona. Shajnas al mi ke miaj novaj amikoj komprenas min. En alia novajhoj- La suno brilas chi tie hodiau! La vetero estis bela dum la tutsemajnfino! La temperaturo estis chirkau 70 gradoj (eble 20 centgradoj) kaj ni ne havas nubojn en la chielo. Estas tre bela!Jen mia vivo-
14 November 2009
Chio semajnfino mia edzino laboras je la domo. Shi purigas la domon. Shi purigas la vestojn. Shi demandas ke la filoj kunlaboristighas kun shi. Shi laboras pli je la domo ol je shia laborejo.
Mi? Vi demandas. Mi malaperas chio semajnfino.
The State Pepper of Texas
14 November 2009
This pathetic jalapeno plant is all that remains of this years gardern. Grass has now taken over the plot. This plant has been watered occasionally but is basicly ignored.
Jalapenyo peppers (sorry I don’t know how to do the fancy Spanish letter there) is the State Pepper of Texas. I very much prefer New Mexico Green Chiles to the jalapenyo myself.Pillow Talk- or What not to say during intimacy
13 November 2009
This post is intended for adults, you know me so use caution!
As some of you may know I believe that one of the more important things that any of us can do is to help out our fellow human beings as we journey through this little journey we call life. This post is in keeping with that mission. Hopefully you will find this post helpful. Today's topic is talking while in the throes of passion. This is a dangerous game for men to play but for some reason women like to play this game. Now I have no idea what goes on in a woman's mind during intimacy. I have been married for twenty years and have yet to come up with the answer to that question. But as a man I do have some insight into what goes on in a man's mind. First there is the prayer phase and the comes the "Goodie Mantra." These two phases intertwine and become one big phase. Every man alive whenever he is in the throes of passion, whether a good Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist heck even the atheists, says a massive THANK YOU to their Creator for the gifts they are about to receive. This is a universal. All men are grateful. The next phase is the Goodie Mantra. Now for those unfamiliar with chanting let me type this very slowly so that no one misses the subtleties involved here. The mantra goes "Oh goodie. Oh goodie. Oh goodie…" ad infinitum. Both the prayer and the mantra are repeated several times during the act. As a matter of fact they are repeated all through the act. Heck they are even said in the afterglow and cigarette phase. Sex is a very holy act. Women on the other hand like to do things a bit differently. They want to talk and, this being an emotional experience, men feel the need to respond. This is incredibly dangerous for the man who is in a deep spiritual trance comprising mostly of thanksgiving prayer and mantra chanting. Men need to be careful. Very careful. Very VERY careful. Here are some things that women have said during intimacy and the responses that the men have made. Let's see if you can see the errors that men have made. Situation #1 HER: Oh Darling, tell me how much do you love me?HIM: A whole crapload, Baby. Now the man was very direct, open and honest, which is a good thing and should satiate the woman's need. But saying "crap" during intimate moments is… well it ain't too kosher. I'd recommend to this fellow that he simply grunt in a passionate way. Situation #2 HER: Talk to me…
HIM: Well,… uh… baseball season starts tomorrow. Now the woman must realize that the man's brain is full of prayer and chanting and when there are two big things like that running through a guy's mind it is damn difficult for him to come up with a meaningful and appropriate topic of conversation. This one is not the guy's fault but I do recommend that he grunt in a passionate way so that he is still contributing something to the conversation. Situation #3 HER: If you were all that I ever had I would be satisfied.
HIM: Well that's a good thing because that's about all you're gonna get. This dumb sap should've remembered to put his brain in gear before he released the clutch! He needed to take just a brief second from his worshiping to come up with something worthy like grunting in a passionate way.
