Times like this....I'm actually quite glad to live in super proggie Oregon where I can
ROLL A HOOT!!!!!! and smoke that hoot, legally! Maybe one day, many eons from now, the "small government" Republican states will catch up ad "allow" their citizens to decide for themselves how to relax. Hahah
"The book purports to be addressed to seven churches on the mainland (now Turkey) warning them against laxity and compromise with Roman authority, Greek and gnostic philosophy, and with Christian schismatics. His message is bleakly fundamentalist; about being ready for the imminent end of the world. It is a brutal narrative for a brutalised community. Luther could find little of the Christ in it. But Gerd Luedemann tells us more about the historical background. "This had unpleasant aspects, and destroys once and for all the idea that circumstances in earliest Christianity were pure and ideal. Polemic between the two sides"[38] reached such a pitch that sometimes it is no longer even clear what the substantive or theological issues were ... Christians threatened to tear one another limb from limb, caught up in a mishmash of mutual misunderstanding, violence but also self-assertion.[39] It is this last phrase – self-assertion – that perfectly characterises John the Divine. The view he wished to impose upon others is that the old earth and the old heaven will soon pass away and a New Jerusalem will "descend" to enable the elect to dwell in God's real presence. God is working his purpose out precisely because, to ordinary human understanding, the very opposite seems to be happening. John lays bare, without a trace of sentiment, that people will only be prepared to leave vengeance to the Lord if they are certain that, when the Lord finally does come, vengeance is what he'll bring. Revelation is a story of how apparent delay and present weakness will only make the final judgment more emphatic. Revelation is, in Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza's view, a "vision of a just world". Some might argue that John seeks vindication rather than justice and at a cost of the entire universe going up in flames along the way."
Not too bad. Different for me. Thanks.
Older 'punk':
Crassholes: Big A little a lovely anti authoritarian message that cuts against current year progressive narrative. My how times have changed.
Protest Pop. Hey, used to listen to this religiously. Now, I just find their sincerity endearing and chalk it up to brainwashing:
Which would be fine if they did the same when A Democrat was in office but they don't. See: Obama's "Scandal free" presidency and Fast and Furious and how he met with Louis FUCKING Farrkhan and had that picture kept secret until after he left office. Worse, to this day had not been asked by the press to explain it apologize for meeting with the violent, racist, antisemitic leader of Nation of Islam!!
Confucius
Cato the Elder
John Locke
Edmund Burke
Goethe
Alexander Hamilton
Irving Babbitt
Whittaker Chambers
Eric Hoffer
Milton Fruedman
Ludwig Von Mises
Russell Kirk
Irving Kristol (?)
Barry Goldwater
William Buckley Jr
Norman Podhoretz