tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post1100122886130171137..comments2023-06-06T04:11:58.204-07:00Comments on Samuel Scoville: Media is Message: not the messageSamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-19532220669483325092014-11-04T09:21:10.029-08:002014-11-04T09:21:10.029-08:00If more and more would acknowledge it --wretch li...If more and more would acknowledge it --wretch like me--rather than deny and cover (fig leaf a goodie): that would be some relief. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-43475105401661834472014-11-04T09:18:48.610-08:002014-11-04T09:18:48.610-08:00Sinners one and all. What a relief.Sinners one and all. What a relief.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-35331275978808333012014-11-04T09:14:56.642-08:002014-11-04T09:14:56.642-08:00Profane--literally temple-talk talked out side the...Profane--literally temple-talk talked out side the temple. Much profanity. Art- ertia - as opposed to inertia. Not so much art. Second wife for Bror regardless of , as you say, Jesus says not to. All of us original sinner sinning originally and also typically. But we love the sinner--hate the sin (I confess, often I prefer the sin to the sinner.)<br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-19678834905099664442014-11-04T09:11:41.083-08:002014-11-04T09:11:41.083-08:00Quote is from the letter to the Romans, including ...Quote is from the letter to the Romans, including what is in parenthesis.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-45048224939557582472014-11-04T09:10:13.110-08:002014-11-04T09:10:13.110-08:00I am packing to go to Arizona and New Mexico. I k...I am packing to go to Arizona and New Mexico. I knitted Bror's wife a purple scarf out of luxury yarn, half silk, half Merino sheep, in a light, fancy lace pattern. Purple is her favorite color. This sort of thing is the only kind of thing I know how to knit--art or profane? Or sisterhood.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-76921842046967447382014-11-04T09:07:44.248-08:002014-11-04T09:07:44.248-08:00Salvation - salved, safe; Damnation: damaged. (Y...Salvation - salved, safe; Damnation: damaged. (Your parentheticals don't make sense to me.)iSamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-34870747555014790222014-11-04T09:03:01.628-08:002014-11-04T09:03:01.628-08:00The Word Brings Salvation
…5For Moses writes that ...The Word Brings Salvation<br />…5For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness. 6But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: "DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?' (that is, to bring Christ down), 7or 'WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)."…<br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-72547089793067559432014-11-04T08:59:07.533-08:002014-11-04T08:59:07.533-08:00Some stupid things--those are what catch my wretch...Some stupid things--those are what catch my wretched mocking and scorn. You too, I'm sure--the shoddy and the shabby. If foreskin and poop help your worship and goe-man sin-bearing sense of forgiveness--turn it way up. Make a feast, festival, celebration. It might not resonate with other--both stupid and wise. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-63555322565713389572014-11-04T08:58:30.582-08:002014-11-04T08:58:30.582-08:00Our redemption is on his condescension, not in our...Our redemption is on his condescension, not in our swinging ourselves up. This is good news.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-11818627784899949742014-11-04T08:55:19.386-08:002014-11-04T08:55:19.386-08:00Whether or not God bore your sins in our human fle...Whether or not God bore your sins in our human flesh is the most profound thing to contemplate and respond to. That God lived and breathed, and pooped and had his foreskin cut and bled and died on the cross and rose, and thus became your brother and redeemer is not something you can parochialize, try as you may. It is offensive, that I admit, but only on one hand. Emerson can say what he wants. Like Plato, he sad some good things and some stupid things. All in play, but often wrong.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-90430652066948075372014-11-04T08:40:51.244-08:002014-11-04T08:40:51.244-08:00If some sect or denomination made a feast and spec...If some sect or denomination made a feast and special day and preached commemorative sermons out of Jesus Poop--to manifest who human God also is--lI'd probably mock and scorn somewhat--wretch like me. Emerson critiques the whole emphais on Jesus-the-man in his Divinity School address--but he was a drop-out Unitarian, so his point of view won't impace a good Lutheran or an Orthodox Presbyterian or a Rapture-Anticipating fundamentalist. We all defend the faith as we know it.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-27506889657657555552014-11-04T06:50:43.267-08:002014-11-04T06:50:43.267-08:00Offensive medium.Offensive medium.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-9788898832840383072014-11-04T06:28:54.796-08:002014-11-04T06:28:54.796-08:00Same way.Same way.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-62302363047732191792014-11-04T06:22:16.914-08:002014-11-04T06:22:16.914-08:00Does the baby laid in a manger wrapped in swaddlin...Does the baby laid in a manger wrapped in swaddling cloths and pooping his diaper bother you the some way?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-72856557631269871092014-11-04T02:26:56.739-08:002014-11-04T02:26:56.739-08:00God is good and God is great and we thank him for ...God is good and God is great and we thank him for this food. Amen (Thy will be done.) Mortify and tame. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-911417039289270942014-11-03T14:14:13.603-08:002014-11-03T14:14:13.603-08:00Why is the circumcision such a big deal to you? W...Why is the circumcision such a big deal to you? Why fight with Bror about it several years in a row? <br /><br />This appears to be the Anglican prayer highlighting the need to mortify and tame our lusts.<br /><br />Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man: Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, we may in all things obey thy blessed will; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-11204429637802779962014-11-03T10:50:03.185-08:002014-11-03T10:50:03.185-08:00You and Bror can handle the foreskin on whatever d...You and Bror can handle the foreskin on whatever day suits, and conjure the fulfillment of prophecies. I mock, ridicule, scorn--and have been blocked by many, including you--and consider it a calling. With all the attractive going on in these areas, I don't mind being the antithesis and antagonist. "Abomination". any who use that word will probably get some mock from me. Feast of the Foreskin. <br />Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-84600300769692250262014-11-03T10:34:10.780-08:002014-11-03T10:34:10.780-08:00http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2010/12/t...http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joeljmiller/2010/12/the-circumcision-of-christ/<br /><br />If we can't handle a circumcision on the eighth day, how are we going to handle a crucifixion? Why do you mock Bror? He is an intelligent man given to humble work and he is one who has not blocked you on FB letting all that is unattractive in what you say stand without rubbing your face in the fact that unattractive things have come out of you.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-53625491780401474632014-11-03T10:24:26.202-08:002014-11-03T10:24:26.202-08:00"Educed", well done. One for the trophy..."Educed", well done. One for the trophy case.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-30731835225883224832014-11-03T10:22:31.362-08:002014-11-03T10:22:31.362-08:00Circumcision also reminds us that the Messiah was ...Circumcision also reminds us that the Messiah was to be born to a certain line, a line which had been expecting Him for centuries, keeping track of all the begats... This is a fulfillment of prophecies and shows us that revelations are something more than someone's sudden insights or musings. As Son of Hamas pointed out the other day: the "prophet" Mohammed did not actually prophecy anything, and the only witness to his flight to Jerusalem is the donkey he supposedly did it on. whom can we trust? Different messengers, different message, different means.<br /><br />Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-66013007369856980572014-11-03T10:18:08.100-08:002014-11-03T10:18:08.100-08:00Amuses. Not that beautiful --and if, as you say, m...Amuses. Not that beautiful --and if, as you say, many are offended, well--must be their lack of understanding and appreciation how it is Jesus's penis & foreskin might provide basis of the miracle of God's incarnation. I never found Bror (since the earlry accusation of abomination regarding Presbyterianism) attractive. Jealous wouldn't describe my Actually his attitude has been helpful in uncovering for what it is about denominational competition that seems pharisee-like. He's okay, I educed a "fuck" out of him at one point, pissed at my response to one of his posts. Foreskin celebration. Never practiced it in my good old man's various celebrations. Funny. Pardon my immaturity. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-66234821786172270472014-11-03T10:08:43.729-08:002014-11-03T10:08:43.729-08:00How does the commemoration of Christ's circumc...How does the commemoration of Christ's circumcision offend you? It is highlighted to celebrate that God became one of us, for us, that is how great his love is and how he is willing to walk with us, suffer with us for us. It is entirely a beautiful thing, though many are offended. This is where spirits part: does God love like that or not? We assert and believe he does and it is the source of greatest wonder and joy, as is the incarnation and all of Christmas. <br /><br />If you are jealous that I am visiting Bror, you might invite me, and Martin and I might come that way--in the flesh--some year. :) xoBrigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-27539932603543764632014-11-03T06:54:51.735-08:002014-11-03T06:54:51.735-08:00Does God's love worry about all the distinctio...Does God's love worry about all the distinctions of dogma and catechism and rite and ritual and forms of worship and works of repentance and contrition that we claim are not sufficient for salvation yet make a terrific deal of them anyway so as to separate ourselves from other denominations and religions, believers and True Believers, etc. Maybe Bror can help you with this . Last back and forth we had was prompted by the Feast of the Foreskin.<br /> <br /> Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-16407622757022726882014-11-03T06:48:44.816-08:002014-11-03T06:48:44.816-08:00anthropomorphizing is what we do. Knowing that we ...anthropomorphizing is what we do. Knowing that we do it isw one thing (iconographs). Not knowing that we do is idolatry. Mostly we are idolaters. A description, not a judgement. In fact we take ouir representations as if they were what they represent. Or images and characterization. as if they were what they imaged and characterized. God-- as grey bead, loving father, sense of humor etc. Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3729092211988393857.post-74042928350362581932014-11-03T06:47:28.652-08:002014-11-03T06:47:28.652-08:00Made in God's image. Augustine teaches us abo...Made in God's image. Augustine teaches us about love. We can't grasp the trinity, but we know that love takes more than one. In marital love there are soon more than two, and plenty of suffering each other in love. It is a good analogy, and will still teach it.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.com