Month: August 2018

Making my claim for the name.  Haven’t seen it anywhere else yet, and I’ve looked.

6 June 2006 —  Alt-Light Verse with William Norman Ewer (1924?)
How odd of God, to choose the Jews.
How odder still, that those He chose
Refuse to choose the Jew He used.

29 February 2016 — Peculiar Institutions

Disappointment: When expectation collides with reality.
Frustration: When desire collides with reality.
Marriage: When frustration colludes with disappointment.

What Management and Marriage have taught me:
If I explain what I mean, it means I think you’re stupid.
If I don’t it means I expected you to read my mind.

What Human Resources and Marriage have taught me:
No problem is so small, so trivial, and so insignificant,
that it can’t be blown completely out of proportion.

What Politics and Marriage have taught me:
Being right is the worst possible excuse.

I think I like to fight with Major Doma
because my Former Arch Nemeses won’t take my bait any more.

Ignorance and Wit — 9 October 2017
Your knowledge is revealed by your answers.
Your wisdom is revealed by your questions.
Your stupidity can be concealed by either.

18 October 2017 — Ethics are contextual and practical. 
Morality is absolute and therefore fantastic. Fantastic ideals make for worthy directions, but they are elusive destinations.

28 December 2017 — Fuck the Nazis!
They can’t have the Swastika; the Sacred Sun Sign is too cool for them.
And fuck American racists, too.
They can’t have the Confederate Cross;
The Battle Flag of Lee the Abolitionist is way too cool for them!

26 April 2018 — Donye’s Budding Bromance
is an oasis of hope for a sere and withered heart.
Amor vincit omnia?

22 May 2018 —  Theism is not indicted by the errors of theists,
it stands or falls on its own merits.
Objective morality is possible without mysticism,
just as objective Astronomy is possible without Horoscopes.

Americans are generally adept at heaping scorn on Shariah Law. We are horrified when innocent acts (like the doffing of a head scarf, or the quaffing of a cold brew) that injure or defraud none are treated as if they are affronts to a loving god. We are right to be dismayed at the prospect of twenty months in stir for the “crime” of exposing one’s head to the sky, but fail to heed Rabbi Yeshua’s admonition (Matthew 7:5) to first cast the beams from our own eyes before attending to motes in others’.

We should be offended by the harshness of Iranian Law. We should also be offended by the murder of Peter McWilliams. McWilliams died a painful and lingering death from non-Hodgkins lymphoma after he was denied access to medicinal cannabis by the occupation government. We should be offended by every otherwise peaceful productive pothead and prostitute squandering tax monies in stir.

Like the attendees to the Sermon on the Mount, we are much better at identifying the errors of others than our own.
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Rector Lawrence
Matthew 6:6 Ministries