Metaphysic Storm

After completing my painting of Canal street with the billboard stating “Impossible is nothing”, I’ve been thinking about writing about the phrase. The ambiguous words have fascinated me because they can imply very different philosophies. “Nothing is Impossible” comes from the ADiDAS sports ads, which is simply a carpet motivational statement meaning next to nothing. A human being will never run as fast as a cheetah. The reason the statement caught my attention was because it’s very similar to where my philosophy originated from. My friend Jamie asked me what the opposite of a spoon was and the answer I deducted, no-spoon, was my first step down a path of thinking about zero. The opposite of anything is the lack of that thing (the empty set), noanything is pure zero and to ever have it is impossible. That, which at the time I didn’t recognize as the first law of thermodynamics, sent me thinking about nothing for quite some time. I was overwhelmed by the power the knowledge of zero had over me. I’ve yet to meet another atheist who made the switch to naturalism is such a manor.

After g00gling “nothing is impossible” for a quick briefing on the search returns, I ran into god. I wasn’t planing on writing about god but it seems as though his omnipresence is hard to escape. Nothing is impossible with god with quotes, returns 60 thousand results. I watched the first video which was from Facing the Giants, a Christian promotional movie who’s plot follows a boring but classic underdog story about American football. It earned an impressive 10 million for the minuscule budget is was made with. I believe the budget was due to the volunteer cast and the return must of been an act of god’s money managers. I watched the you-tube clip as the coach worked on convincing his team that it was god who helped them kick the giants asses because of all the petitioning they made to the lord. And that got me thinking about Reverend Hagee’s remarks about god sending Katrina to New Orleans because of the gay pride parade.

A few posts back I wrote, “god could not make a law that he could not brake.”, which is a refined version of the “could god make a mountain that he could not move?” question. It begs the argument about god as he is defined: the all powerful, all knowing, all loving creator of everything. I can completely understand why believers in god would think that he works through us and nature. There is a staggering amount of strange and mysterious things that happen down here on our little blue planet. And people who believe in an interactive god would naturally use their derivative skills to interpret the will of god. It’s frightening to watch Hagee as he condemns New Orleans, not directly for the fairly high percentage of homosexuals we have, but for the huge number of Christians that “allow” them to be here.

That got me thinking about a world in where god actually does work his intent. I’ve decided that if there is a god he has got to be a trickster. His personality is more akin to the definition of the devil. And I’m not only referring to “bad” things that happen in life. If we are to assume that we can derive gods will from acts on earth, than those acts should at least be somewhat clear. Otherwise he’s not communicating at all, he’s playing the fool. Hagee thinks that Hurricane Katrina was sent here on the day of the Gay pride parade as a sign that he disapproves of homosexuality. A completely rational stance for a person who derives there reason from nonsense. I think that the hurricane came because of warm gulf water and winds from western Africa.

The Christian writer Vox Populi recently asked atheists why they don’t believe in god. From his vast network of blogfoolafans he ascertained the following reasons: Argument from: Sub-optimal design, insufficient evidence, lack of scientific evidence, failure to be impressed by religion, inability to believe, unfamiliarity, material utility, post-trauma disorder, accident of circumstance, unconvincing arguments.

Apparently non of these anti-arguments are convincing to him. But to be fair he most likely doesn’t believe that hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans to punish the homosexuals. But why not? Why wouldn’t a living god punish those who he doesn’t like. Isn’t that why Jesus pleaded against his skillful persecuters, “They know not what they do”. Or is god so busy that he would rather let the devil do the work for him in the after world? That doesn’t sound like an all powerful or guiding god at all. This world would be much different if god were acting on it and that’s evidence based reason to believe that god does not exist or that he’s a trickster who likes fucking with our heads. Perhaps god doesn’t like the less intelligent because he makes his intent so difficult to deduct and his managers are trained to keep the flock from skeptical thought. If we lived in a world were he sent Hurricanes to San Fransisco and earth quakes to New Orleans when too many people get their gay on, I think far less people would find it impossible to have faith.

Nothing must be god’s MOA.

I went to Latin Mass this morning at Saint Patrick’s church of New Orleans. The priest spoke about the Corpus Cristy celebration and the beloved new Pope Ratzinger. He said that Catholics are starting to take to the street again, revitalizing and exhibiting their ‘rabbit like breeding’ on public property. I wonder if their demonstration in New Orleans will cause god to change his attitude about the city in accord with what the honorable Reverend Hagee knows about Katrina.

Hagee said, “All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it would was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other gay pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the Day of Judgment, and I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.”

The mass’s audio/video was creepy but the excellent quality of the air conditioning ruined the mode a bit. I would have preferred my dead language and blood talk to be accompanied with at least a little bit of Caribbean humidity. The priest said that in the Pope’s “Catholic home country of Germany” the Corpus Christi celebration was accompanied by the military, soldiers genuflecting and a 101 gun salute to the lord and savior. I don’t want to presume that Hitler used the feast known as the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ for his advantage, but I bet the probability is fairly high. He used whatever he could, including the hate the belief in divine riotousness can produce.

How dare Hagee associate Catholics with the Democracy of Germany during Dein Reich komme; and identify the True Church as the Great Whore of Babylon as found in his book “From Daniel to Doomsday”, which connected the Ancient Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church: “The evidence would point to Rome…It was Rome where Nero wrapped Christians in oily rags and hung them on lampposts, setting them ablaze to light his gardens. It was Rome that orchestrated the Crusades where Jews were slaughtered…It was Rome that orchestrated the Inquisitions throughout the known world where “heretics” were burned at the stake or pulled in half on torture racks because they were not Roman Catholic.” (pp. 10-11)

During the service I discovered that it was two boys first communion. I haven’t witnessed one of those since my own, 20 years ago. I must say that I was rather shocked at how the priest applied group pressure to the two boys. He said to them that if they eat the body and drink the blood of Christ, also know as bread and wine, that they would be given gifts far greater than any amount of gold or silver. In front of the entire church he pointed them out and asked if they promised to pursue a life in Christ. It sickened me to see a grown men manipulate young boys with the support of 8 altermen and a full congregation.

There must be something in the air.

The Sunday paper’s cover story revolves around twenty-three year old Katie Tutwiler. She was born in New Iberia and was “aggressively courted” by Jews in New Orleans to move here and pump up the community. She was given 1,000 dollars and a free membership to the private pool in uptown. There she’ll be meeting other young Jews.

Katie is only “nominally” Jewish but luckily she has the purity of blood. Her father was Episcopalian and mother a “nonobservant” Jew. She is shopping for a religious identity and describes herself as a religion “seeker”. She’s “in play”. Thus she qualifies for the “newcomers program”. That program has devoted $180K to recruit new Jews to New Orleans. The newcomers program is only one of the initiatives Jews here are executing. The “strategic plan” is a $24 million blueprint to inflate the Klan by getting some babies made.

Due to her sweet blood, the lucky lady is also eligible for Birthright, a free vacation to Israel, funded by the Israelis. The program promotes strong racial identity with this bullshit insanity. Her religious shopping does include the occasional Catholic Mass but I have high confidence that she’ll chose bagels and locks over vanilla wafers.

“The area’s Jewish leaders agree that the 35 percent or so of displaced New Orleans Jews include some of the community’s elder elite, including many of its most reliable donors. But sociologist Weil’s research found a good deal of residual prosperity: Working from income disclosures from 60 percent of 800 respondents to his survey, Weil estimated a mean family income of $180K annually” - The Times Picayune.

I hope that in the future my mouth catches up with my keyboard. Sad Rabbit.

I was shot from the Bunker with: “What do I think about Hagee withdrawing his endorsement of John and McCain denouncing John. Even though McCain fought for his endorsement in March; you will recall that Huckabee was also in the race at the time… Huckabee also fought for the endorsement but McCain won”

Unfortunately I didn’t remember who Huckabee was. I’m bad with names and have uncontrollable brain freezes when idiots run for office. Huckabee has stated in the past, “Politics are totally directed by worldview. That’s why when people say, ‘We ought to separate politics from religion,’ I say to separate the two is absolutely impossible”. Huckabee believes in biblical inerrancy, which is that the bible in its original form is totally without error. Obviously I have a permafrost problem.

John Hagee recently said of McCain’s denouncement, “I’m tired of these baseless attacks of fear; they have become a distraction in what should be a debate about important issues. I have therefore decided to withdrawal my endorsement of senator McCain and remove myself from any active role in the 2008 campaign.” But John stated that he had renounced, repudiated, Hagee’s comments and already rejected the endorsement. I’m still a little confused about the egg. In the past Hagee has said some controversial things, such as the holocaust’s point was to drive the Jews to Palestine and Catholicism is the great Ho. Who’s on first is still a mystery to those who care about Chickens.

What do I think about the endorsements/dénouements? I think presidential candidates should pass notes to the people they seek approval from. On that note should be the words “Do you like me, check yes or no.” Once the box is checked there’s no going back, the two are either enemies or officially BFF.

Voting because of an endorsement, which works or they wouldn’t do it, means that the voter doesn’t trust their own judgment about the candidate but trust the endorser’s judgment. Religious endorsements are so powerful because in the church people put blind faith in the “book of ultimate truth” and the interpreter of it. After all, if a person is going to trust a pastor to keep them from the fiery pits of eternal torture, a factless and baseless attack of fear, wouldn’t the sheeple trust the pastors choice for president? Celebrity endorsements slam me to the floor. Why anyone would care who an actor, a person trained in creating deception, votes for, is beyond my comprehension.

I actually think that Huckabee’s statement about the impossibility of separating government from religion is a far more of an outlandish statement than the realist ate prize the original Abrahamites got via the holocaust or the truth about the Catholic Church being the Biggest of Big Daddy’s pimps. Hagee obviously just doesn’t understand that Cui bono is not proof of anything but he does seem to understand how to use Protestant fear of Catholicism to fill pews and his pockets.

The blog bunker said, “This plays into the larger point of what this conversation was supposed to be, in that, should a candidates faith really matter… Why has religion exploded in the 08 elections?”

A person’s faith should matter because of what that faith will cause a person to do. Most American Christians have no problem understanding why a “radical” Muslim’s beliefs should matter, if that Man were to run for president. But Christians see their faith as important for politicians because they believe that Jesus invented the golden rule. Thus to be a good person you must be a least a “little” Christian. The golden rule existed long before Jesus stepped onto the stage and actually existed in a far more refined passive form from Confucius, “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others”

True followers of Christ should not vote, leaving those things to the heathens. And take god off of our means of trade. Jesus said, “Whose head is on this fucking coin?” The people who wouldn’t think for themselves answered, “The Imperadør’s.” Then Jesus said, “That’s right, gods omnipresence does not extend to metal. Give therefore to the Imperadør the things that are the Imperadør’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” -Matthew 22. Perhaps I’m confused; maybe Jesus was telling his flock to vote for atheists, god’s will doesn’t need votes.

If everyone were non pagans we’d all wear magic cloths made of daisies and trade in pebbles. We would live in beautiful secular anarchy with magic stores full of free shit. Everyone would have a food replicator from the Starship Enterprise. Jesus said, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them… “And why do you [even] worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ or ‘who should we vote for’ for the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” -Matthew 6

I wish I would have had a little breifing befor the interview.

Comments from The Tome of Communism
“It’s their world” Video of post K, posted by Lord Omar

Blogger Woozie said…
This is a classist, perhaps geopolitical, problem. Not a racial one. Broke white people elsewhere on the gulf coast, especially in Mississippi, got a whole bunch of nothing too. That’s a story you don’t hear.

I know and appreciate greatly they didn’t do this in the video, but way too many people make the post Katrina situation a racial problem when it simply is not. Great video.

Blogger Lord Omar said…
Certainly explains taking pot shots at rescue helicopters.

Blogger Woozie said…
Who took pot shots at rescue helicopters? Continue Reading »

I’ll be representing The Tome of Communism tomorrow at 5pm Eastern time on The Blog Bunker. The topic will center around “why everyone [is] focusing on candidates’ pastors and religious affiliations - isn’t religion supposed to be separate from politics.”

I know how dorky I sound on the radio because of the time I spent on Reading Radio in New Orleans. And stumbling on someone else’s words on an obscure channel in NOLA was one thing, messing up your own words on satellite is another altogether. I can only imagine that Satellite will crystallize my shortcomings. Tonight I’m going to pray to Marx and hope it helps me more than god guides this guy.