Comments on: Can I spread the contents of my stocking on the coffee table before I flagellate myself? http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/12/25/can-i-spread-the-contents-of-my-stocking-on-the-coffee-table-before-i-flagellate-myself/ Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: MR. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/12/25/can-i-spread-the-contents-of-my-stocking-on-the-coffee-table-before-i-flagellate-myself/comment-page-1/#comment-97864 MR. Dings Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:40:14 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/12/25/can-i-spread-the-contents-of-my-stocking-on-the-coffee-table-before-i-flagellate-myself/#comment-97864 Il Papa got down on selfishness in his Urbi et Orbi homily. Can you imagine Joel runnin' that rap? It's indeed a downer, says the man in the mitred hat: Benedict said his Christmas message applied to "wherever an increasingly uncertain future is regarded with apprehension, even in affluent nations." Benedict spoke of violence and tensions in the Middle East, lamenting that "the horizon seems once again bleak for Israelis and Palestinians." He denounced what he called the "twisted logic of conflict and violence" and said he hoped dialogue and negotiation would prevail to find "just and lasting solutions to the conflicts troubling the region." Ahh, the Pope. How many divisions does he have? Il Papa got down on selfishness in his Urbi et Orbi homily. Can you imagine Joel runnin’ that rap? It’s indeed a downer, says the man in the mitred hat:

Benedict said his Christmas message applied to “wherever an increasingly uncertain future is regarded with apprehension, even in affluent nations.”

Benedict spoke of violence and tensions in the Middle East, lamenting that “the horizon seems once again bleak for Israelis and Palestinians.” He denounced what he called the “twisted logic of conflict and violence” and said he hoped dialogue and negotiation would prevail to find “just and lasting solutions to the conflicts troubling the region.”

Ahh, the Pope. How many divisions does he have?

]]> By: MR. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/12/25/can-i-spread-the-contents-of-my-stocking-on-the-coffee-table-before-i-flagellate-myself/comment-page-1/#comment-97845 MR. Dings Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:43:29 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2008/12/25/can-i-spread-the-contents-of-my-stocking-on-the-coffee-table-before-i-flagellate-myself/#comment-97845 The blood cult is nothing new, stemming from the bread/wine, eating the body, drinking the blood thing. And you know, even as a cradle Catholic, I think your friend has a valid point there. So did the early Romans. I kinda like to envision the last supper when friends got together with their political radical teacher and reformer and broke bread and sipped wine, and we're all still doing that in remembrance of him. But is what I kinda like the truth? Certainly the truth might defy reason, but, then again, so did the Dark Ages. An American Buddhist recently described Christianity as "dharma for Jews." I dunno either but I do know hate ain't great. The blood cult is nothing new, stemming from the bread/wine, eating the body, drinking the blood thing. And you know, even as a cradle Catholic, I think your friend has a valid point there. So did the early Romans. I kinda like to envision the last supper when friends got together with their political radical teacher and reformer and broke bread and sipped wine, and we’re all still doing that in remembrance of him. But is what I kinda like the truth? Certainly the truth might defy reason, but, then again, so did the Dark Ages.

An American Buddhist recently described Christianity as “dharma for Jews.”

I dunno either but I do know hate ain’t great.

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