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I whipped up a little something
Reblogging this masterwork of mine for pride month. Because of transgender
top (I do not know what this number will be) navies
British
american
Portuguese
germsan (this is a very funny joke
rusdian (this joke is even funnier
when I post on tumblr I sort of just make about ten or so posts in the middle of the night and the I set them to schedule post over the next month I wonder if it is easier to tell which ones I made latef
international proletarian navy (my friend Ken’s boat)
chinese (early 20th century) (more aura)
chinese (modern)
Polish (they had boats you put in rivers)
yours
mine
This one’s appropriate to be reblogged because it’s pride month and the navy (all of them) is full of GAY HOMOSEXUALS. Google the Newport Scandal, where FDR (at the time, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy) paid 13 sailors to have gay sex and write excruciatingly detailed reports (he and his underlings were reportedly quite disturbed by the level of thoroughness found in their daily reports) on said gay sex in order to uncover gays in the U.S. Navy. Turned out there were too many to catch.
I have to say, one of the silliest arguments anti-theist (explicitly stressing this is the community i am discussing, not all atheists or non-christians) people put in my comments is that they have read the bible ‘cover to cover’ and therefore understand it perfectly.
Meanwhile, there are people who spend their entire careers and entire lives analyzing the bible. There are so many different interpretations and understandings of literally every single verse, and while, yes, some denominations have more strict interpretations than others, many, if not most, take extreme joy in sharing and expressing their differences in interpretations. There is no ‘cover to cover’ understanding of the bible, full stop. Put a southern Baptist, an Episcopal, a Coptic orthodox, a Greek orthodox, a P'ent'ay, and a Lutheran in a room for a Bible study and your ‘cover to cover’ understanding will be vastly different than that of each person. Just doing a ‘cover to cover’ reading is, honestly, not helpful for any Christian, and will not ensure you ‘win’ an argument against the Christian existence. It ain’t the argument you think it is.
Every so often I’ll be driving past a Baptist or nondenominational evangelical church and something about it will tick me off for some reason. Maybe I don’t like their decor. Maybe someone pulled out from their parking lot in front of me. Perhaps they have a stupid name (it’s usually that). What I’ll do then is demand that my traveling partner get on their phone, find that church’s website, and scroll to the statement of beliefs section. I will then command them to read that bit out loud to me so I can find parts I don’t like and ruthlessly ridicule them, because (like most High Church Christians) making fun of evangelicals is my favorite pastime. But one time the other day, I caught one of those church in full-blown heresy! (Modalism, for the curious) It was INCREDIBLE! I was ECSTATIC! Not just “we’re so hip and cool and modern (but we don’t let women do things)” or “we’re cowards who don’t have any real stances other than “God is pretty neat”” like they usually do, but actual proper heresy! “Finally,” I thought to myself “I’m justified in my quixotic quest to discredit every nondenominational church I drive by! I have uncovered a den of vipers! If only the Saints could see me now, which they can!” It was one of the best feelings I’ve ever had in my life. Anyway my recommendation from this is that if you run a nondenominational evangelical church, put some heresy in your creed. It’ll make me super excited.
SPD Toaster post coming soon
watch out for this Thursday, it’ll be big news for the SPD merchandise fans of the world
Have I posted my H.P. Lovecraft apologia essay here yet? I feel like I might have but I can’t remember, and he was probably asexual so pride month really is the perfect time for me to do so if I haven’t. It’s rather good, if I say so myself. Which you’d all know if I’ve already posted it.
“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that
“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story
“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do
“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” yeah because they were hunted into extinction by the Ghostbusters. Those bastards need to be tried before the ICC
Pride month is great but the guy who does the graphic design for leaflets and manages the website and stuff at my church is gay, so he really gets into redoing all our branding. Now this would be fine, except for the fact that he’s also a colossal idiot. I mean genuinely just the biggest dunce. We all love him but I don’t know how he ties his shoes in the morning. So unfortunately all of the redone branding is absolutely disgustingly ugly. The colours are all slightly odd somehow, none of them match, nothing’s ever aligned with anything else, sometimes the dates on the calendar are wrong somehow (??? I once saw it go “May 23 May 24 June 25 June 26 etc.) and normally his worse impulses are kept in check by the rest of the staff, but they’re all straight so they don’t feel they can countermand him during Pride month. I can’t countermand him because I’m not on the payroll. It’s excruciating. I have several times tried to gently suggest we just swap out our logo with the Episcopal Church Approved Pride Design TM but he never listens. I can’t stand it.
Spider-Man 3
(I refer of course to Mr. Maguire’s depiction) is one of the finest movies ever. It’s genuinely up there in my top 20 movies, because the second act is hilarious. It’s monumentally stupid. There’s a plot where Green Goblin’s son realizes he’s Green Goblin’s son, (which he did at the beginning of the movie, but then he forgets, and then he realizes again) and instead of becoming an evil villain or anything he just becomes a professional ragebaiter. He kidnaps Mary Jane… in order to make her break up with Peter Parker before just letting her go free. He then invites Peter to a coffee shop on Jane Street to tell him (Parker) that he was cuckolding him the entire time they knew each other (a lie, but a very funny one) before ducking under the table to disappear from vision once Peter leaves the coffee shop and looks back in. Now, Peter Parker is so annoyed by this he shows up at Mr. Osborne’s penthouse apartment, breaks 14 units of glass, (I counted, they break something made of glass 14 separate times in that scene) calls him “Little Goblin Junior” and throws a grenade at him before leaving. It’s so bloody funny.
I don’t even need to mention “fix this damn door” or the bit where he’s walking down the street, everyone knows that already. Is it very good? Not particularly. Is it hilarious? Absolutely.
I really like Black Vultures. They’re such pretty birds, and so common in my area, which is lovely. They’re also very useful, in addition to being pretty. After all, though I am certain I benefit much from the pest control functions of most raptors, and the little birds make nice sounds oftentimes, that doesn’t have much of a direct bearing on my personal daily life, whilst these beauties ensure roads, which I drive on most nearly every day, are kept nice and clean. It’s wonderful that they do that too, since it means they stay in individual places that I often pass through, making it much easier to look at them. Turkey Vultures are the classics, of course, but they’re much less pleasing to look at. They’re also less aggressive than Black Vultures, which would be very concerning to me if I also enjoyed eating dead animals on the side of the road, but the aggression of Black Vultures mostly has the effect (for me) of ensuring there are more of them instead of other scavengers along the motorways, so I can look at them more :)
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
”As opposed to your celibate [X]” after someone says something along the lines of “Argh, I can’t find my fucking [X]”. It lands every time, which is remarkable because I use it at least once a week.
top (I do not know what this number will be) navies
British
american
Portuguese
germsan (this is a very funny joke
rusdian (this joke is even funnier
when I post on tumblr I sort of just make about ten or so posts in the middle of the night and the I set them to schedule post over the next month I wonder if it is easier to tell which ones I made latef
international proletarian navy (my friend Ken’s boat)
chinese (early 20th century) (more aura)
chinese (modern)
Polish (they had boats you put in rivers)
yours
mine
Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $599.99
Normally I detest “reblog if” posts with a burning passion but uh it is in fact ok for people to give me $599.99, or a larger or for that smaller amount of currency. I’ll break my rule this one time.
You know sometimes I introduce myself to people and we get around to talking politics and I say “Oh yeah, I’m Centre-Right, you know, only nationalizations of resources, infrastructure, sometimes strategically important sectors, a public option for healthcare, gay marriage, all that, nothing extreme though” and then the other person looks at me for a second and I realize I’ve been spending far too much time in horrendously radical internet leftist circles because the only time any of that has ever been considered Centre-Right was Postwar Consensus Period Britain and Gorbachev’s USSR. The moral of this story is go outside! Try and get more interaction with real human living people who are right there than internet friends! There’s nothing wrong with going on the lines and talking with people there and such, I’m doing it right now after all, but it’s important to get a sense of perspective. The world continues to turn, people are getting on with their lives, and if you can’t see what the lives of most people are like, then A. Yours probably won’t seem terribly fun, and B. You won’t be able to effect any sort of change in the world. One requires popular support, after all, and one attains popular support by knowing the people!
shoutout to Gustav Noske
He really was right about everything wasn’t he. Too bad nobody liked him. Because of all the murders.
I tell ya, by the standards of, you know, the median person, I’m pretty darn woke. By the standards of other woke people, I’m still rather woke! I can talk about Kyriarchy, or the lasting effects of imperialism on nations in the Sahel, or the particular struggles of transgender individuals (made easier by being, technically, one myself) all the live long day. But I tell ya, sometimes I doubt that, because I just saw a post from someone called a “Coiner” outlining what I’m pretty sure was a romantic orientation. Now, it was not one I’ve heard of before, (but as I am familiar with the English language, I’d imagine it had recently been “coined” by the posting individual) but neither in fact were nearly any of the words in the body text of that post. And I know microlabels! I can name a good 7/8ths of the ones depicted in that one Holy Roman Empire Coat of Arms but Queer image, you know the one, I can rattle off a host of other ones which I have the misfortune to belong to, but this Coiner chap had from what I can gather been making a microlabel based off of a different microlabel. (and it wouldn’t surprise me if that one in turn had emerged from the same process) And, you know, at some point, do you really need that much specificity? Surely there is a level at which a little tiny bit of generalizing is ok, no? The greatest theologians of history did a little tiny bit of generalizing, (read anything by St. Augustine, you can tell he got bored at points) and a label, fundamentally, tells other people about you, hence the name. You already know about you, being you and all. If nobody knows what the label you use means, such is its specificity, is it helpful? Sure, you could explain what it means, but then… why not just say “hey I feel these things and/or am this way” instead? Skip the middleman if it doesn’t help. You’re going to explain every time anyway, just get straight to that part!
Sometimes I think “oh, I’m going to draw something! Perhaps a self portrait! Perhaps even something else! This will be lovely.” And then I start doing that and I remember I lack all possible skills necessary for visual artistry from scratch. I can edit pictures till the cows come home, but give me a blank piece of paper and I have the remarkable ability to make unnerving non-Euclidean figures which bear only the trace resemblance to anything alive or in this world, but not in a cool way like a Nicholas Roerich painting or something along those lines.