Well, it’s been almost a full year and it’s just about time for Noel to snap and go to the dark side again! Will anyone be able to talk him back with reason or will he have to be put down like the dog he is? Guest starring: George W. Bush!
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Posts tagged Jesus Christ
ITC 3.6: IH8UALL (2005)
HACK № 44: Jaunts & Joints
Howdy Transients, welcome to the forty-fourth traversal of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, we are now at the point where the tangent meets the circle.
I don’t know what’s worse…knowing that you don’t have a summer vacation and that it’s all going to be work even through the summer OR being reminded every year that you have a whole life, a whole spectrum of experience that must CEASE in September and pushed to the bottom of the well until late-June.
I guess it’s a matter of personal actualization. There’s no reason why I can’t do all the healthy, spiritually invigorating “summer” habits the rest of the year round. It’s just a lot HARDER. Look, I don’t mind working for a living. I just don’t understand why it has to be so consuming. I don’t mean in a personal investment sense, I mean in the sheer number of hours we must spend thinking about nothing else–putting our entire lives on hold.
Anyway, here are some places I may frequent this summer because they’re close to where I familiar, and relatively cheap. I tried to keep the list short because it quickly started to get out of control. Perhaps other places will show up in another HACK.
For those of you that live in the Tri-State area, I recommend taking jaunts to check out these joints. If you live too far away, keep these places in mind if you’re ever in the area… READ MORE »
I Don’t Belong Here: Things I Learned From Batman
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I love Batman. In my personal pantheon he ranks somewhere on the level of Jesus Christ and Bugs Bunny. And there’s a lot of reasons for that. Mostly because Batman is awesome. Obviously. But the reason I am going to explore today is because of all the things I learned from Batman. Or at least as many as I can name off the top of my head.
I don’t mean necessarily in terms of the wit and wisdom of Bruce Wayne. I don’t mean like anything the character directly said, necessarily. I mean more in terms of all the interesting things I learned — life lessons, fascinating trivia, obscure authors — through my contact with Batman in various forms of media for the three+ decades of my life.
ITC 0.2: Hexagram 65 (2005)
As we again reach a season break, here is another brief and informative “FAQ” episode designed to introduce new readers to the series. Written by Doug Palermo and photoshopped by Noelie R. Void where prohibited.
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I Don’t Belong Here: Good Friday
Today is Good Friday. Unless you’re a particularly religious person, it’s probably not a really important holiday to you. Unlike Christmas which celebrates Jesus’s birth and Easter which celebrates his resurrection, Good Friday never really became a massive commercial secular success. Fifth-rate Catholic holidays like St. Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day have had much more luck crossing over into the mainstream. And why? I don’t know, but I suspect that it is because the holiday commemorating Jesus’s death isn’t one that people want to be reminded of. Unlike shopping, candy, unhealthy emotional attachments and binge drinking, the grisly execution of the savior is certainly not a cause the people want to be encouraged to spend money over:
V/O: Come on down to Crazy Gerard’s Hardware Outlet for our Good Friday sale! All lumber and nails, 25% off!
JESUS, ON CROSS: These savings…. are killing me!
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Letters From God: Jonah And The Really Big Smelly Fish
The use of The Holy Bible as a reference is absurd. I can rely on The Diary of Anne Frank more than The Holy Bible. At least her diary is a first person account of someone who had been labeled and ended up being sacrificed. The Holy Bible isn’t even Jesus writing anything down or a scribe documenting his life and the important lessons he wanted to teach. It’s a bunch of stories, lineage, and rules. Why should this compilation of SOME guys’ stories (not even all of them) form the basis of peoples’ beliefs? READ MORE »
I Don’t Belong Here: Digressions, 2004-2012
For the first time ever, here’s all the Digressions! Digressions #1, #2, and #3 were originally published in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Digressions #5 and #6 were originally published in Heroes And Hierophants. Digression #3 has never been published anywhere, and Digression #7 is brand spanking new! Whatever THAT means.
Digression #1: The Kingdom of Heaven and the nature of magic
Digression #2: Everything vs Nothing, Jesus, and Conway’s Game of Life
Digression #3: The Existence Of God and Crypto-Solipsism
Digression #4: Metaphorical evil and the EZ-Pass
Digression #5: December 21st, 2012
Digression #6: The Eye in the Triangle
Digression #7: People don’t believe what they believe they believe
