How come Osama never blows himself up? lead by example. Who ever thought the security and peace of the entire world would one day be threatened by a growing movement of radical assholeism..... awesome.
My personal DVD collection is now mostly made up of movies from the late '60s and '70s. Bullitt, Planet of the Apes, Dog Day Afternoon, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Serpico. Horror movies were on a par with Rosemary's Baby, Suspiria and Rod Serling's Night Gallery in those days, even cult classics like Superfly, Blacula and I Spit On Your Grave, while not Oscar material, were interesting in their own right. One of the few more modern movies I really liked was The Perfect Murder starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow but well-crafted movies like this one are now few and far between, the '60-'70 time period was truly the Second Golden Age of Movies. I recently watched The Skeleton Key starring Kate Hudson two times now, the second time while sober, and I still can't make heads or tails over the last quarter of the movie, this didn't happen in the old days.
LIFE has a certain set of unwritten rules like when Mom and Dad give you 50 bucks for your birthday you don't use it to go out and buy porn, you allocate funds if you have to. I think these little rules are important, they remind you of the larger moral order out there but we seem to have lost this sense. I mean, what's knocking over somebody for a Playstation 3 all about? Don't we have a culture anymore, where's our philosophy these days, all anyone seems to want to talk about is Kramer and Clay Aiken's hand. People who masturbate your mind
You have to really wonder about a movement whose members regularly blow themselves up but never question why their spiritual leaders don't. We Christians can at least say that Christ came down and suffered and died and so we can make more sense of human suffering than other faiths maybe but the whole Granny thing, Grandma blowing herself to smithereens, I mean at least the Cold War had some respectability. Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteIts the whole damn "Me" generation, z-man. Think about it, the philosophy of "I gotta get mine first" is diametrically opposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Those who say their is no culture war, the hell their ain't. Traditional values of giving being better than receiving is getting lost in the shuffle.
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ReplyDeleteAnd yet sometimes when you try to go outside of yourself and give your love to another you are spurned so I think selflessness is risky at times but the main point is are we right with God?
ReplyDeleteMaybe its not about spurning love as much as it is about feeling unworthy of that love.
ReplyDeleteI hate putting my heart upon a platter though and then having it thrown away. Even if the answer is no at least respect me for my offer, for opening myself up to ridicule. It's like with that butterfly picture that I sent the lady, I had the same picture enlarged and framed in my house for the decor but I just had to get rid of it, bad memories. I like to think of myself as an interesting character at least but others seem to find me annoying, I guess ya gotta follow the rules, man has to directly ask woman out and then face rejection, what a cultural formula though. I'll gladly be outside the mainstream on this one.
ReplyDeleteI find you interesting, but you do seem to have double standards. I mean, you admit you would reject a woman who was unattractive, how do you think that would make HER feel?
ReplyDeleteI'd at least come up with a respectful denial like I'm already attached or I would sooner say I was gay than say she was undesireable which, as you know, a woman said to me once (probably thought I was a player not someone who watches movies at home every night). I am also out of touch and not very much in tune with the current "rules" of society which keep changing anyway. I mean with all the real crime out there whoever thought an unwanted gift could put you away (not that it did but this is what I've been told). I am just ME but you're right Beth, I know I have double standards and am inconsistent but are any of us really all that consistent in the first place?
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