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Brisketexan

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    Edited by Brisketexan

    33 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    This is a very eloquent way of expanding out why you need a savior in the first place. If you are a Christian and believe in the God of the OT and Jesus Christ, then you understand that even as you try to be a righteous and blameless man, you will fall short. Our creator, Father God is perfect and just and will not tolereate sin, so for us to have an eternal reconcilation with him, we needed a redeemer (savior, intermediary, sacrifice, whatever).

    And Jesus paid it all, as the old hymn says.

    And the thing is....I really don't know if I go anywhere at all down that "savior/salvation" road at all.  In many...most?....all?...respects, I'm more of a universalist.  And the "Atman in search of the Brahman" thing is really spot on for that.  I am an essential part of the universe -- it is not complete without me.  I will always be part of the universe, for good or bad.  That cannot be changed.  Which I actually think is beautiful, and creates its own sense of obligation.  The story of the universe cannot be told without telling the story of me.  And as my chapter is written into that book, shouldn't it be a chapter for the good?  Wouldn't that be best?

    "Let me tell you the story of the story of the time this stardust spent as Brisketexan.  It was good.  This universe of ours was made a better place because of the time that stardust spent as Brisketexan."

    Or, maybe it will be "yeah....this stardust spent some time as Brisketexan.  Trust me, you really don't want to know about it.  Nothing good came of it, plus there was a time where he made Allsup's burritos fall into short supply.  So, let's talk about that stardust's next iteration -- worm food.  Man, those were some good worms."

    And to tie it back to the divine (and that Atman-Brahman), that means that the divinity of this universe is also in me.  What an amazing, profound, and beautiful thing.  The spark of creation, of life, is lit and burns within me.  What a fool I would be to squander it as it exists in the individual iteration we call Brisketexan.

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    Edited by Brisketexan

    19 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Simple rules, but extremely difficult to practice and impossible to put into practice at all times.

    I'm reminded of the old adage about Texas Hold 'Em Poker: "takes a minute to learn and a life time to master".

    Humans are inherently selfish, wicked people and so it's a daily effort and every morning it's imperative to pick up your cross. It's super similiar to the alcoholic who takes it one day at a time and with both the man serious about his faith and the man serious about his sobriety, daily habits that ground you in your positive goals (gratitude journals, prayers, meditations, devotionals, hitting your knees, whatever works for you) start when you wake up and being in a community of likeminded people are very helpful.

    Bozo said this once (and I attribute it to him, because it's damned good): when asked if he's a Christian, the right answer is "no, but I'm trying to be."

    To call on a point of reference that most of us will recognize, I think often of the last bit of Saving Private Ryan, as the old Ryan, remembering the sacrifice and loss that were necessary to get him to his old age, asks his family "tell me I've lived a good life."

    The way I see it, there are two types of people in this world: 1) those who ask that sort of question at the end of their life (and are never satisfied with the answer, because they know there's always something more/better that they could have done) and 2) those who really don't even give a fuck about that question.  I have told my wife more than once that one of the things that keeps me up at night is the knowledge that I've fallen short: I haven't done enough to help, I haven't been as kind as I could be, I haven't done as much good as I could have.  The answer of "you've done plenty" is unsatisfying, as you're acutely aware that you could have done more . . . and if you could have done more, then that means you haven't done enough.  Intellectually, I know that's not true.  Spiritually....well, spiritually speaking, I'm not very intellectual.  I'm a simple man.  If I gave someone my shoes, my question after the fact is "wait, why the fuck didn't I give him my socks, too?"

    And by the way, I am NOT posting this to make a point that I'm some good person - quite the opposite.  I fall short more epically and profoundly than I could ever be comfortable with.  I'm not shit.  And even though I say "but I'm trying to be" with respect to being a Christian . . . am I really?  Am I really trying?  Or am I another selfish lazy piece of shit?  Signs point to the POS option.

  3. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    JC comes along and gives people something very difficult to do, but so simple and straightforward you could fit the directions on a postcard, and his admirers spend the next 2000 years fucking it up.

    Needed to be in bold and large type.

    JC gave very simple laws.  But as an attorney, reading what "Christianity" has done to that reminds me of what happens to good laws when well-funded special interest lobbies get ahold of them.  The law ends up reading like this:

    A) It's against the law to poison people.

    B) Exceptions to the prohibition in section A) are as follows:

      1) does not apply to poisoners named "Steve"

      2) does not apply if you really don't like the person you're poisoning

    .....

      947) does not apply to Bob Smith, of 123 Pecan Street, because he stroked me a big fat campaign check

     

    The rule is "love."  The exceptions to, and/or counter-textual definitions of what it means to "love," have swallowed the rule to the point that it's damned near the LAST thing "Christians" will do.

     

  4. This honestly sounds like very similar in format to the Midwest redneck bbqs my buddies and I throw.
    The main difference is ours have a lot more venison, and weird pickled shit.

    Low-rent/blue-collar/working class bbqs of most varieties are pretty damned good. Although a lotta you midwestern types need to get on board the seasoning/spice train.
  5. 1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

    But that raises a bigger issue: food in small or medium-sized Texas towns sucks ass.  Perhaps there was a time when there were restaurants in small towns that used fresh ingredients that were locally sourced in traditional recipes to come up with some fantastic shit.  But those days are in the past.  Now, it's much cheaper/easier to used canned or frozen ingredients, and everyone in small-town restaurants does.  And absolutely none of the recipes are any good when you use inferior ingredients.  

    I disagree with this as a blanket statement, but for one reason only: the advent of the "Taqueria Morelia #2" or somesuch in most every small town.  In what used to a be a DQ, Pizza Hut, or some other small building, every small town now has some sort of legit taqueria, serving real mexican food with real ingredients.  It's often the only decent place in town, demonstrated by the fact that even all the white farmers meet there for lunch.

    Otherwise, you're spot-on.

  6. 4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    If that was all there was to it, the dotard wouldn’t be President today. Try again. 

    I said I wasn't a genius.

    I didn't say that the world isn't full of an oversupply of cowardly fools.

  7. 34 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    I guess markets believe Trump and not China bc stocks up over the last two days.

    Or maybe the markets believe what most folks around here believe: it doesn't matter who's telling the whole truth right now, the most likely outcome is that Trump will cave and call it a victory.

  8. 18 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    The general problem with bullies. Once the bullying and bravado stop working the bag is pretty much empty. 

    10,000X this.  I can't tell you how many times I've told a client up against a "big bully" opposing party that their only task at this point was to just stand their ground.  Let the gorilla charge, beat his chest, and kick up dust.  We'll spend some time and money dealing with the mess, but all you have to do is stand your ground and not back down.  Because once the other side has run through the full repertoire of chest beating and such....they don't have anything substantive left.  And they rarely have a Plan B.  And that's when we go on the offensive.  And that's when the other side caves.

    I'm not exactly a genius advisor in this respect.  Anyone who has done the slightest bit of homework on the subject matter knows this play.

  9. 23 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    This is just fucking stupid.

    Man.  It seems like you've gotten inside information on the new slogan we'll be putting on all our coinage.  "IN GOD WE TRUST" isn't just passe, it's off-brand.  Be on the lookout for new quarters emblazoned with "THIS IS JUST FUCKING STUPID."

  10. I'm just glad that the US has leadership so bigly strong now that nobody in the world dares start a war, lest it upset the US, the most respected country in the world with the most respect its ever had.  Right?

    Jesus, just imagining how badly we'll botch the relatively limited role we'll have in this matter is going to be super fun.

  11. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm a bit surprised that McCallum actually scored higher than those other three high schools.  My kids loved the place, but I figured Anderson (at least) would be #2 in AISD behind LASA.

    Poorly kept secret: Anderson is a bit of a shitshow.

  12. 55 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Karoline, Brisket ordering lunch at P.F. Chang's doesn't count as "staff" negotiations.  

    FUCK YOU.  I don't eat that PF Changs shit.  I go to real-deal chinese joints.  The kinda places you can get chicken feet and stewed tripe and legit dumplings.

    In other words, I am 1,000 times more qualified -- and more likely to be successful -- in any trade negotiations with China than any fucking member of this current clownshow admin would be.

    We just keep repeatedly shooting ourselves in the dick, slapping another magazine in the gun when we burn through the previous mag, and begging China out loud "won't you stop me from doing this?"  China's response...

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  13. Also, a study in contrasts, or alternatively titled: a study of the duality of Brisketexan.

    Yesterday was my birthday.  I celebrated in the following ways:

    - I road-tripped north because I had to be in court out of town.  Any birthday spent in a courtroom is a good day for a trial lawyer.  Seriously, good stuff.

    - I got a bit later start than I wanted, so my lunch needed to be quick.  So I stopped and had a meal of spicy tenders and red beans and rice at a roadside Popeyes . . . situated inside a truck stop . . . which was understaffed . . . and the Popeye's pisser was broken so I had to walk all the way back to the truck stop bathrooms to take a leak.  It was an A+ experience.  Of course they gave me extra tenders, because who the fuck can count at Popeyes?

    - on my way home, stopped to try to pick up a new firearm I had purchased and had shipped here.  Which is when the fact that DPS unilaterally changed my name on my TDL (they decided they needed to gringo-fy my middle name) finally caught up with me.  Federal databases have my name correctly (because, you know...that's my actual fucking name).  So, I need to bring in an ID with my actual legal name (my passport will do).  So, no birthday weapon for Brisket.

    - wife and I went to Red Ash for the first time.  The steak I had there was the best steak I've had in Austin.  Seriously, it was perfect in every way.  Perfectly cooked, well-seasoned, melt in your mouth tender aged beef.

    I figure this sequence belongs here because the anchor point was "birthday lunch at a truckstop Popeyes."  I may wear a tie to court, I may eat a fancy steak at dinner, but deep in my soul....I'm a truckstop Popeyes man, and always will be.

  14. 2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Leche quemada is the name of that type of candy.  And here's a blast from the past:

     

    r/Austin - a menu of a restaurant

     

    I would smash that Enchilada Dinner right here, right now.

    As I smashed many of them in the 1970s in SW Houston.

  15. Man, I have a lot of thoughts on this one, will try to tackle this weekend.  But to start, tip of the hat to OP for wrestling with this stuff.  Faith, morality, all of it....it's a journey, not someplace that you'll ever reach the end-point of and say "well, I've got this figured out and am doing everything right."  Just moving along that path with purpose and intention is the most important step.

  16. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    “We’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together,”

    ...says man whose administration has 1) characterized one of its largest trading partners as "America's 51st state" and repeatedly shit on that partner's sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation state, and 2) characterized its largest trading partner, a country with gleaming cities, manufacturing, and shipping, as "peasants."

    Yeah, I mean, wouldn't YOU want to sit down and work "happily and ideally" with that guy?

    Fart of the Deal indeed.

  17. 1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

    Trump's only "plan" is to strike a deal with whichever side stands to make him the most money.

    I mean....it's not even THAT well thought-out.  He thinks "I'm the mostest importantest person in the world, and my word is law.  So, people will do what I tell them to."  When he gets a response of "LOL....no", he doesn't have an alternate play.  There is no play here.  His only play is "In will impose a deal on you."  When the parties decline, there is no Plan B.

    The question is "Why won't an invader who won't accept anything less than total conquest, and an invaded country that will not surrender its sovereignty to an invader, just make a deal?"  The answer to the question is IN THE FUCKING QUESTION ITSELF.  

  18. 37 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    You should try an all day Italian party.

    I'll keep checking my mailbox for an invitation.

    But we DID learn about Italian eating the first time our son visited his Italian best buddy's family in Bologna.  He actually called us from the shitter -- "Oh my god I'm going to die.  I've already eaten mass quantities of the best food I've ever had in my life....and Gio just told me this is just the antipasti stuff.  The main meal hasn't even started!  What am I going to do?  I'm trying to shit to make room, I don't want to be rude."  To serve so much food to make my son cry uncle?  Well, that's a goddamned achievement right there.

  19. 7 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

    About 5 years ago I had a basal cell removed from my ear, but other wise have been scare-free. I’m fair skinned and fly airplanes for a living  so I’m in the “higher risk” category i suppose. I do get checked on the regular and have biopsies done on anything weird. Interestingly, around the time I had my cell removed, a friend on Facebook posted the same thing about her ear. But she’s Polynesian and not fair skinned. So I guess the moral is get anything unusual checked, high risk or not. 

    Blahblahblah, pics of polynesian friend.

    Dear lord, this place is slipping.

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