What is Healing? Really?! – An alternative view.

May 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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Subvert the Norm: Fate, Heaven & the End Times: Superstitions for Perverts

April 16, 2013 By 4 Comments

Here is my full talk on the Perversion of Belief in: Fate, Heaven & End Times

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Grab some popcorn,the crucifixion was for entertainment

December 28, 2012 By 3 Comments

It is in the crucifixion of the desert rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth that we come to discover the pleasure and pain of the spectacle. In psychoanalysis, the term to denote the experience of pleasure and pain is embodied in the French word, jouissance. A better direct translation would be: orgasm. Why do I make this [...]

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THE SHOE FETISH: THE EVIL OF ALTRUISM

October 6, 2012 By 4 Comments

there was a woman who had a shoe fetish. no matter what, she had to have shoes. couldn’t do without them. according to karl marx, the fetish is creating meaning or giving meaning to a meaningless object. trying to fill in a gap rather than allowing it to be. we live in a society built [...]

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On Cultural Necrophilia: A Christian Response

July 19, 2012 By 7 Comments
Little vampire by Ceskino Wikimedia Commons GNU License

Maybe it’s my age, but I take issue with the cultural necrophilia flooding the airwaves. I cringe to hear my son share his fascination with zombies. What is it about the dead, semi-dead or human predators that moves us so deeply? Whether it’s the vampire fetishes seen in Twilight or True Blood, the zombie apocalypse, realistic gaming [...]

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do christians (h)ate the world? OR (the european civil wars)

July 15, 2012 By 5 Comments

     Any notion that we do not belong to this earth, that Earth is a fallen universe, a prison for our soul striving to liberate itself from the material inertia, is dismissed as life­ denying alienation.  — Zizek Over the course of the last ten years, Hollywood has been producing plotline after plotline that [...]

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The Church Doesn’t Know How To Have Sex

January 17, 2012 By 10 Comments

Sex has become something bourgeois. Not that the proletariat ever experience sex mind you, but the real act is saved for those who can afford to talk about it. In high school sex is a sort of perverse social currency whereby someone’s acceptance is measure and defined by the quantity of partners they have experienced [...]

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