A Worldwide Multiple Orgasm
If you want to give me shit because you think I'm doing something wrong, just get in line, and your complaint will be answered in the order it was received.
12/24
Just ignore the sadness.
Sadness is such an impotent word. Haha.
In Exodus, Book 4, God tells Moses that he and the Jews enslaved in Egypt are His people. Whose people then, are the Egyptians? Did God not create them, too? Maybe He meant that because the Egyptians did not claim Him, He would not claim them. Could God have been involved in some kind of power struggle with other beliefs, other gods; were He and Osiris waging an immortal political campaign for the souls of the people? There's something totalitarian about it, as if behind the scenes these divine spirits were performing Stalinist purges of their idealogical opponents.
The Old Testament God is not the loving God that so many people talk about today. I suppose Jesus Christ is the difference. With Jesus, God seems to promise to end His use of humanity as pawns in His holy power struggle. He put Jesus, His son, His love, on Earth, knowing Jesus's jeopardy here among us brutes, to show us that God's own flesh and blood was willing to endure the pain we all endure in this world He created. Where does the pain come from?
And what about God's choices for proving His existence to Moses and the Egyptians, turning Moses's staff into a serpent? The same form Satan used to deceive Adam and Eve! What's with that? Then He turns Moses' skin to leprosy. Aren't these pretty negative demonstrations of His power? Then He says He'll turn water to blood. He turns the Nile into a river of blood. Gruesome parlor tricks Then God says He made the deaf, and the dumb and the blind. Is this a good thing? I guess these are the things that get the attention of us brutes, since we were taking the flowers and the water and all those good things for granted, as if fear is more effective than say an act of beauty or pleasure. I don't know, maybe he should have tried a worldwide multiple orgasm or something, and then Pharoah might have been more receptive to His divinity.
And what's this about Zipporah circumcising her son to spite her husband? It's like a marking of your belief in the Hebrew God--a separation from the pagan state.
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First ever Christmas away from my father. It feels like a sin. I feel like part of an inevitable repeating of the past
12/24
Just ignore the sadness.
Sadness is such an impotent word. Haha.
In Exodus, Book 4, God tells Moses that he and the Jews enslaved in Egypt are His people. Whose people then, are the Egyptians? Did God not create them, too? Maybe He meant that because the Egyptians did not claim Him, He would not claim them. Could God have been involved in some kind of power struggle with other beliefs, other gods; were He and Osiris waging an immortal political campaign for the souls of the people? There's something totalitarian about it, as if behind the scenes these divine spirits were performing Stalinist purges of their idealogical opponents.
The Old Testament God is not the loving God that so many people talk about today. I suppose Jesus Christ is the difference. With Jesus, God seems to promise to end His use of humanity as pawns in His holy power struggle. He put Jesus, His son, His love, on Earth, knowing Jesus's jeopardy here among us brutes, to show us that God's own flesh and blood was willing to endure the pain we all endure in this world He created. Where does the pain come from?
And what about God's choices for proving His existence to Moses and the Egyptians, turning Moses's staff into a serpent? The same form Satan used to deceive Adam and Eve! What's with that? Then He turns Moses' skin to leprosy. Aren't these pretty negative demonstrations of His power? Then He says He'll turn water to blood. He turns the Nile into a river of blood. Gruesome parlor tricks Then God says He made the deaf, and the dumb and the blind. Is this a good thing? I guess these are the things that get the attention of us brutes, since we were taking the flowers and the water and all those good things for granted, as if fear is more effective than say an act of beauty or pleasure. I don't know, maybe he should have tried a worldwide multiple orgasm or something, and then Pharoah might have been more receptive to His divinity.
And what's this about Zipporah circumcising her son to spite her husband? It's like a marking of your belief in the Hebrew God--a separation from the pagan state.
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First ever Christmas away from my father. It feels like a sin. I feel like part of an inevitable repeating of the past
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