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Brisketexan

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  1. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me!"
  2. ABC affiliate here is a Tegna station, not Nexstar (although they will be merging soon, thanks to sucking up to the FCC by taking Jimmy off the air).
  3. Christianity is Surlyhorns? Surlyhorns is Christianity? Things are starting to make sense.
  4. Austin-area rain is more like this:
  5. And if the shooter uses a .50 cal, I presume the casings will say "NowThis."
  6. Hell, don't sleep on Jamaican meat pies/patties. We didn't eat here, but it was across the alley from a spot where we were having coffee near Seven Dials, so I took a pic of the menu.
  7. Wouldn't do me much good. She's got a pretty good repertoire herself. I mean, she's actually a member of a group called "Ministers who say 'fuck.'"
  8. I think you can just send them in to Things Remembered, and they'll do custom engraving for you.
  9. So, the current story is that a guy with an anti-ICE motive.....shot and killed innocent detainees. Do we live in a world where it's all bullshit? Where any would-be assassins are mostly completely terrible shots? Where nutbars purposefully give mixed messages for unknown reasons? Where nothing makes any fucking sense? All of the above? Everything is fucky, everything is shitty. That's what I'm going with until we get some contrary evidence.
  10. Also accurate. Although I dunno about how well it woulda worked out if Jesus was a China man. I mean, he'd have done all that profound stuff at the Last Supper, and then had to do it all over again a coupla hours later cuz he was hungry again.
  11. But it's gotta be to Christian Nationalist Jesus, and it has to be totally hollow and not followed by any meaningful action, for it to really count.
  12. Let's get this obvious outcome out there: If the shooter today had ANY involvement with, statements about, etc., that could POSSIBLY be used to paint him as a "leftist," those will be disseminated to the usual sources and amplified like a motherfucker. If the shooter was out to kill illegal invaders, and left a detailed note saying "I was trying to save America by killing dirty invaders," we won't ever hear about it. It will be buried deeper than Trump's dick in a 13 year old girl at an Epstein party.
  13. FUCK YES. Man, I loved old-school Timmy Chan's when I was a kid. That was a real family treat every now and then.
  14. Goddamn this getting old shit. I had the last two slices of Conan Savage for dinner last night (cold, wolfed down at my desk before I had to pop on to one of my two evening meetings that kept me working till 10:30). Then, at 3:00 a.m., woke up doubled over with cramps, and went and did volcanic and offensive stuff to my toilet that I'll probably have to apologize to it for later. Did that twice. Are you telling me that I can't eat thick crust cold jalapeno-loaded pizza at my desk for dinner anymore? Because F that.
  15. Gotdamn, that's a deep cut. I may have worn that CD out. It's a great one.
  16. Alternatively, you could reach the opposite conclusion based on the rigorous, data-centric basis of -- this is an exact quote -- "this is what I feel." Duh. Suck it, libtard.
  17. We all do. Or we all should, at least. I am pretty damned sure that on my deathbed, I'll be asking myself "did I do enough?", and I'm also pretty damned sure my answer will be "not nearly enough." I'm a failed Christian. And even though I know that we all are - the best people I know are - intellectually, that doesn't matter. It's actually a long conversation I had with my son when he was home this summer, because he holds himself to a higher standard and beats himself up more than I do. And I ended up having to be the voice of reason on the subject (which was a good exercise for me). Had to tell him to give himself some grace, and to realize that his small acts of kindness (which aren't small at all) MATTER. You don't have to "save the whole world." You can't. And you have to give yourself some grace, and breathing room for your own happiness and well-being. And I try to remember what I told him, and take it to heart myself. But I'm a tough grader. And by my grading, I suck, and fall way short of what I do for "the least of these."
  18. That....is some bullshit. Ekklessia does NOT mean "government structure." Ekklessia is a broad term, meaning gathering of people (generally for a communal/civic purpose). That was the call -- to create an assembly of people to live and spread the Word. Hell, that's one of the things I really liked about our church the first time I heard it: "the Church has left the building." THAT is pretty fucking accurate. For him to torture the use of the term, and say that what was called for was "build my government structure" is prooftexting bullshit, AND at odds with both the broad meaning of the word and the overall context. Did Jesus call for his followers to build a secular government? Is THAT the message of the gospels? Fuck no. I mean, nevermind that the "Christian Nation" these folks talk about always, 100% of the time, seems to skip over the most unambiguous and obvious teachings of, you know....Christ. You know, really hard to understand stuff, like in Matthew 25: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’" Our Christian Nationalists work tirelessly for a government that is in complete opposition to that call. They are Nationalists. But the "Christian" part is a cover they use to give their shitty cruelty the "legitimacy" and immunity from criticism of "sincerely held religious belief." Christianity - that is, the system of beliefs offered by Christ - has few greater enemies than American Christians.
  19. I’ve thought about this, and you know what? I bet Glen Powell can get the chicks.
  20. Original text/language is really cool, and I have realized, super important. When my wife preaches, she takes the time to do real exegesis of the scripture that’s the basis for that week’s sermon. And she does a good bit of it in the Greek, and will end up talking to me about what particular word was used, its unique meaning, and how that has a subtle effect on the interpretation of the text. It kinda blows me away. Or, she could be totally bullshiting me, because I can’t read koine Greek for shit.
  21. Well, the idea was born with one wackadoo preacher in the 1830s, then got traction with one wackadoo annotated bible in the early 1900s. And yeah, it’s not in the Bible. It’s dumb as shit. But that’s the brand for American Christianity these days. Dumb when it’s not being cruel, and cruel when it’s not being dumb, but often…both at the same time.
  22. Do we even know if He uses the Julian calendar? Maybe He has His eyes on Chinese new year. Or that tricky Mayan calendar.
  23. Was it set for GMT? Or at the international dateline? I never follow these things.
  24. So, I mean....realpolitik question. How are we supposed to engage with the nation state of Syria today? They have the leadership that they have. That leadership is not Assad. Will that be an improvement? Time will tell. But is disengagement preferable to engagement? Because those are the two options. International relations rarely offer clean and easy choices. Yet they require choices. Hell, I don't know what the right answer is, although I'd lean heavily towards "cautious engagement," with some simple carrots and sticks shown and used as needed.
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