A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Edward de Bono Today, more than ever, institutionalism … [Read more...]
Is That A Gun In Your Pocket Or…..
May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
Youtube Video Link Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. Chris Rock A gun represents power. Safety. Protection. But even more than that, in America, it represents something far more valuable: A Right. The right to bear arms. The right to choose when I should/should not protect myself. The right to defend my property against someone else. The right to claim … [Read more...]
the (un)ethical christian
November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
when we define a christian in a positive sense; as in, a 'christian is someone who gives to the poor' what we do is marginalize someone who is unable to give to the poor. what we do is deny the essence of the person and impose a factory-like caricature upon those who might not fit that certain category. this method of defining another human denies the very ontological state of our being as beings. it transforms people into machinations of ideology. what occurs is that we use labels is the … [Read more...]
the god without a cross…
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
watch?v=dj1BuNmhjAY god doesn't need a cross. if s/he does, then god does not know how to have healthy relationships. think about this very simply. if someone requires something from another to then be able to define a relationship, then the person needs a stand-in. a proxy to fulfill some invisible criteria to feel secure about the nature of any relationship. but in its essence, that person is not having a relationship with the person, but actually with the stand-in itself, for all intene … [Read more...]
remembering 9/11 is a form of subliminal terrorism
September 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
A threshold (or limen), is the point of intensity at which the participant can just detect the presence of, or difference in, a stimulus. Stimuli with intensities below the threshold are considered not detectable (hence: sub-liminal). Stimuli at values close enough to a threshold will often be detectable some proportion of the time; therefore, a threshold is considered to be the point at which a stimulus, or change in a stimulus, is detected some proportion part of the time. There are two kinds … [Read more...]
if you think you’re free, then don’t read this…
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You're free to go. Am l ? And you ? Are you free? - (Instinct, Movie) if we equate freedom with choice, then we lose our ability to recognise that which actually enslaves us, and our choice-making both confirms and deepens our bondage, regardless of what we choose. - Baudrillard we wake up. but why do we wake up? is it our alarm clock that upsets our dreams? or a loud noise? maybe a disruptive dream or thought pervades our psyche. all we know, is we wake up … [Read more...]
the church are full of perverts.
July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The pervert claims direct access to some figure of the big Other (from God or history to the desire of his partner), so that, dispelling all the ambiguity of language, he is able to act directly as the instrument of the big Other's will. In this sense, both Osama bin Laden and President Bush, although politically opponents, share a pervert structure: they both act upon the presupposition that their acts are directly ordered and guided by the divine will. - Zizek "Can you discover God's hidden … [Read more...]
the (sex)ualized liberation of christianity…
July 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From my helpless beginning I am acted upon, the text and stage directions of gender are constantly rehearsed into me. I am taught mu part so completely that I begin to believe that it is no longer a play, but is in fact natural. For both Freud and Lacan, the child is at first ignorant of sexual difference and so cannot take up a sexual position "The use of either of these passages in this way is in fact odd and indeed rather comical, for there is a Rabbinical gloss on Genesis 1:27 which … [Read more...]
the fetishist shoe of the emergent church
May 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
By the way, the violence of justifiable revolution is not violence at all - Zizek Let's be naive for a second and assume that there is a black and white difference between the words emergent and emergence. Or what about the nuanced differences between progress and progressive? Is there a major difference? Are these words so distinctly separate that one must be chosen over the other? I would posit that the Emergent Church has become nothing more the fetishist shoe. What do I mean? Freud speaks … [Read more...]
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