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Intersexionality

  We are not in the wake of the sexual revolution.  It is over and done with.  It is in the dustbin of history. What we face today is a new move, not a postmodern move, nor a gender flexibility moment.  It is not the Left versus the Right, though that is where we find ourselves fighting.  We live in an age of Identity Crisis!!! That is because media and the mainstream everything are confusing the heck out of us. Luce Iragaray once wrote about The Sex that is Not One (meaning that there is a vapid-ness about being a woman)  One way to account for identity these days is to check yourself and see how much intersectionality you have(see Kimberly Crenshaw).  Even the church of Christianity, the church within the church, the remnant, is mesmerized by media.  Satan comes in the form of a serpent, snake, beast, dragon, or SCREEN.   Neil Postman had it right many decades ago when he described a society which is entertaining itself to death....

MOTHER POWER

Becca Rothfeld writes of the 2 feminisms in the following “There is a reason that we have abandoned some of the more maudlin products of the 70s, namely the mushy hippies claiming that our wombs put us in touch with the earth, and retained the more pessimistic Dworkin. What is femininity, at its core, but institutionalized disadvantage? And what is feminism, at its core, but the attempt to expose gender as a nightmarish farce? ” In the 80s, the feminism I saw was that which used deconstruction to lay waste constructs around and about characterizing women.  It seemed then that other groups were only slowly gaining ground around gender issues.  The movements of the 21 st century have speedily indoctrinated the general population to agree on so many points of view which all derive from a lust for political power, the kind of power that Michel Foucault world wonder at. 60s may have been the bedrock of the mother earth brand that the 70s pushed forward. 90s were, at least in the...

The Religious is Political

Penzias!!!   There once was a Christian worldview organization that would openly discuss political issues (for as it is said “the personal is political”) to a great extent: abortion, transgenderism, etc … (all of which Dennis Prager publicly discusses).  As the process of the 2020 election occurred, this worldview organization beg to tell its students not to pursue political discussion. This was queer, for such a shift to take place.  So the question here is about “the Religious is Political” When do we enter the political fray? As a good Lutheran, one would turn to the major religious text for protestant denominations, i.e. the Augsburg Confession. What did it say about the political? Section XVI states “it is right for Christians to hold civil office,” this is just the beginning of what is touched on in the Confession about Christian civil duties. Let no one convince you that the religious is not political, by quoting texts that subvert the idea.   One frank...

LGBTQ+, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts

Scientific American has identified a great lost discovery.  I sarcastically have to say, Wow!!! Identity might be more complex than binary. Duh!!!  Although I have thought this was the case since RD Laing's material in " Knots " his seminal work on how difficult it is to describe mental illness, identity, and crises. RD Laing told it like it is . . . ..  Scientific American gets fluffy in the article, which  I will quote at length. It will speak of data, analysis, and how suicidal are great among LGBTQ+ and BIPOC, because they are misunderstood by those that treat them and because identity is complex (go figure Scientific American). Laing wrote about identity and so-called mental illness (and here he is quite political).  Anyways, what he writes about is what he calls knots, tangles, impasses, fangles, disjunctions and binds.  These affect our thought and theory about what it means to be human ( sic ).  At the very bottom I am including a link to RD La...

Digital Twin

  Bernard Marr in Forbes writes about artificial intelligence as a method of how we can live eternally.   This idea has been around a while 1960’s perhaps and beyond.   The thought is that saving data about ourselves will preserve who we are and that this will allow us to live on. Now there is the addition of our knowledge, experience, personality and characteristics being saved on a terabyte of space.   Marr writes, that some scientists are “ attempting to preserve elements of our personality and minds so that, at least in some capacity, we can remain a part of the lives of those we leave behind “This technology has allowed supposed communication with some digital twin. Marr continues the line of thinking hence, “AI that will potentially allow anyone to converse and interact with the dead as if they were in the same room (or at least, as if they were on a video call with them)”   As we know CGI (compute generated imagery allows for the simulation of the phys...

WAKE-UP!!!

  WAKE-UP church, stop sleeping while in captivity in Babylon.   COME-OUT of Babylon, as the children of Yisrael where not shamed (Ps 22), but were saved by Adonai from the grip of Pharaoh, when Adonai rescued them from Egypt. The sacraments are intended to AWAKEN and confirm faith in us (Book of Concord, Augsburg Confession). When God calls you out, to wake-up, take and eat on the run, with the unleavened bread and wine.   Sometimes you can waste a large chunk of your life (corporately or singly) asleep in the dungeons of Babylon. You should have gotten out of Babylon sooner, or maybe you are still asleep in those dungeons. DO NOT FEAR supping from the cup with one another.   The stupidity is over, what’s next? Those Hell-bent on making socialism (even communism) a reality for this despotic government, God save us from the king! That piece of ___. Why not, just say it?   We will not cave, no matter what the consequences.   Stay conservative (live that dirt...

Must see video links

You have got to get this guy on your radar.  He is the epitome of an atheist who speaks eloquently.  He is the most famous atheist alive on the internet these days.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSdGr4K4qLg In the past few years he has become a PhD in neuroscience, which in and of itself does not make him a neuroscientist.   In the same way, a PhD does not make you a scholar, as some would tout themselves. I am not a scholar, though I know the works of many philospherss and theologians, and atheists.   Listen to Sammy, please. He also has discussions with Ben Shapiro, where we see a staunch Conservative kowtow and bend for this foolish man.   He who builds his house on the sand will slip into the ocean of stupidity.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUC8nRVyYY Fast forward through commercialism of Ben Shapiro’s video and hear Harris’ new use of fancy academic terms, that he uses to make him sound like a scholar and neurologist.