Take A Look, It's In A Book

So, in an expression of living irony: one of my friend’s websites that she does stuff for or linked to had this pledge icon that says you will try to dedicate at least part of your time and effort to the written word. I would love to put it on my blog page, but I spent so much time devoting myself to the written press that I never learned how to do such things.

A few of my friends got Kindles (amazon’s fake-book) for the holidays. Unlike the other fake-book (nook maybe?), they light up. And the lighting is bad for you before bed…so if you like reading before bed, use a real book. A different friend, who owns the latter or a version like it (it might be that only New Kindles are with the glowing having) pointed out that you can’t read in the sunlight if the thing lights up. Also, they work on magnets somehow (sorcery). What are they not?

BOOKS. They are not paper, they have no smell, I cannot annotate them in anyway (I seldom write in books—and people that dog ear pages should burn in the wrathful fires of the Almighty— but I leave shit in them like an army of mini-filing cabinets). Also, books never run out of power.

I understand that they are portable…like having an army of books and supposedly cheaper…

More importantly, they have video games on them—which is not reading.

AND FOR THE THIRD BLOG IN A ROW, I HAVE THE ARTICLE!

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/243264

So this is a good article with some ways to save the aforementioned written, corporeal things. But EW capitalism. I just don’t care. I used to amass books. And to date- the thing I have the most of is books and papers. I do love bookstores and want them to continue to be a staple within our society. I can’t afford books though nor do I want to own things. Is the solution a fake-book? FUCK THAT.

Has anyone heard of this institution, it’s called a library. Where you can: download books on the internet, buy used books, read and borrow books for free and they stage readings and activities. Some even have coffees for sale.

Here’s some library linguistics for you, but don’t worry, I’m staying mostly in English. Library comes from Libraria—or the predecessor Latin equivalent. It means book (libro) store (‘ia). It actually came into English from French…..Then we had Free Libraries, which were what we today, call libraries. They are book stores where the books are FREE.

With them, we can be one step closer to my socialist utopia and stay literate.

Jesus Doesn't Suck

Another Blog so soon?

AND you have the link to what you're talking about AGAIN?

I've been posessed clearly. And despite this man's best efforts, not by the Holy Ghost (sorry, still a jew because I LOVE religion and am indifferent to Jesus).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-trends&v=1IAhDGYlpqY

Firstly, this is a GREAT poem. It's great words and a great performance of those words.

Secondly, it's really really close.

Jesus clearly didn't intend for the subsequent churches to turn into douches and pervert his message to something worse than he was fighting in the first place (I wouldn't have liked the Pharisees either).

Jesus was a sketchy, anti-establishment hippy who probably just wanted to help people and eat pork.

In other news: Here's why Jesus was at least contexually wrong about pork

http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/87719/forbidden-food/ (an extra article? Here? WTF?)

The poem is right that the church has effed up extremo. Then he ends by saying he likes the church and the bible. Followed by a quote from Romans.

ROMANS? REALLY? Come on.

Romans is theoretically written by Paul—I say theoretically because who knows. My problem with Christianity is, not surprisingly, linguistic. You can't translate shit four times and expect to get close. There it is. Mishandling. Also, cherry picking. Read holistically please.

Anyway, Romans is dated at LEAST 20 years after Jesus kicked it. “dangled” is how the poet phrased it. Assuming that Jesus really communicated what he wanted to the apostles (I just re-read LAMB—do it—and it alludes to the fact that they might not have had the best communication-station. Then they watch their best friend, whom they believe to be the Messiah, get tortured and die...even if he DID rise from the dead (that makes him a zombie), he peaces out again right after that. I don't think the psychological state of any of Jesus' friends was in an appropriate place to decipher and spread effectively anything.

So if you read the New Testament, it is my understanding that there are copies where all of Jesus' attributed words are in red and it's like maybe ¼ of the book. Maybe. And remember: aramaic turns into greek which turns into latin, maybe back to greek, turns into German and/or English....then turns into other languages. It's just sloppy is all.

Jesus sucks less than the churches and most christians would lead us to believe. And Judaism's gotten better in most places since the Pharisees so maybe we're all coming around. Let's hope for that.

Share Some Tongue

In recent Blog news: I think strangers have found there way to this page. Welcome.

In recent my personal studies news:

WOAH Talmud, woah.

So my Hebrew book, Bet is for Bereishit, is based on Bible and prayer passages and offers little commentary discussions. This chapter's portion is the Tower of Babel story. Man gets a little crazy and decides that if they don't build a giant tower to the heavens, then they will get dispersed. G-d gets a little crazy and decides that if G-d doesn't disperse them (very Fate/Greek Fortune kind of crap that goes completely unmentioned), they will take over the Divine Realm.

The third of the selected commentaries compares this humanly fuck-up to Noah and it's nice because Noah's generation were douches and so G-d killed them, but the Babel kids worked together and were really nice to eachother (they just threatened a not-so-powerful Heavenly Hosts by being awesome) so they just get a little linguistically farkakt and booted out to hotzeplotz: much better than drowning.

The other two compare this foible to getting kicked out o' the Garden. This is where I would like to brake a little. That sounds way too much like Original Sin. That's not who we are. We're habitual sinners, oh yes, but we should not be DOOMED to sin. They are drawing this correlation because the wording in the story refers to them as Children of Adam. Aside from the fact that Children and Adam have other meanings in Hebrew. It also talks about their “first act” or how they “began to act”--the action being the tower of self-importance.

Why does the connection to Adam have to be sin? I know the Jewish instinct is to the sin and doom and gloom but maybe it should be to linguistics. It's been several generations between Adam and this tower business, and we still only have one language. Maybe the connection is that they are still speaking and living closely to how and where Adam was speaking and living. Except he stayed ground side. From there they started a different, not-Adam generation: the generation of where they were relocated to and how they spoke there. That's when people became different peoples and would to be a better identifier, be different children of_________. The nomenclature of the time was _____ son/maybedaughter of _____. From there people became ______, son of _____ from ______. Or just ______from ______.

And that's why cherry-picking and pessimism are bad.