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| What is the rapture? The rapture is when you look outside and see people floating up into the air and you say, "Well, I'll be damned."
ahahahaha
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| JB, Abigail, please direct your faces into this book so that you may be within:
Rituals and Power: the roman imperial cult in asia minor
That is all. quart
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| Structure. Social structure. How might it generate violence? How might
it be violent? Who benefits from certain forms of structures? What are
those benefits? How are those benefits maintained? Who suffers from
those same forms?
Tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS have a
collective kill count in the millions. Why is it that the poor are the
vast majority of those killed?
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Fleas dream of buying
themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one
magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them--will rain down
in buckets. But good doesn't rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or
ever. Good luck doesn't even fall down in a fine drizzle, no matter how
hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if
they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year
with a change of brooms.
The nobodies: nobody's children, owners
of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like
rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, but could be.
Who don't speak languages, but dialects.
Who don't have religions, but superstitions.
Who don't create art, but handicrafts.
Who don't have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.
- Eduardo Galeano, "The Nobodies"
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The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in is
Termed violent by no one.
The storm that bends the bitch trees
Is held to be violent
But how about the storm
That bends the back of the roadworkers?
- Brecht, "On Violence"
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Zapatista leaders responding to the Mexican gov's offer of conditional pardon:
Why
do we have to be pardoned? Why are we going to be pardoned for? Of not
dying of hunger? Of not being silent in our misery? Of not humbly
accepting our historic role of being the despised and the outcast? . .
. Of having demonstrated to the rest of the country and the entire
world that human dignity still lives, even among some of the world's
poorest peoples? The Zapatista people also made some disturbing observations:
in
Chiapas, 14,500 people die a year, the highest death rate in the
country. What causes most of these deaths? Curable diseases:
respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, parasites, amalaria, scabies,
breakbone fever, tuberculosis, conjuctivitis, typhys, cholera, and
measles. While there are seven hotel rooms for every 1000 tourists, there are 0.3 hospital beds for every 1000 Chiapans.
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Dr.
Plarr was a good listener. He had been trained to listen. Most of his
middle-class patients were accustomed to spend at least ten minutes
explaining a simple attack of flu. It was only in the barrio of the
poor that he ever encountered suffering in silence, suffering which had
no vocabulary to explain a degree of pain, its position or its nature.
In those huts of mud or tin where the patient often lay without
covering on the dirt floor he had to make his own interpretation from
the shiver of the skin or a nervous shift of the eyes. - Graham Grene, The Honorary Consul | | |
| This isn't a serious post. Feel free to blog about the theological assumptions and insanities that you see though:
http://www.personalpromisebible.com/index.html
Try inserting "authoritative retrofitting" or "hunting frogs in a canoe by midnight."
But uh why is the direct, second person pronoun replaced with something that transforms the sentence into a third person sentence?
"Even
when redactional crossfitting
was dead in trespasses, God made redactional crossfitting
alive together with Christ (by grace redactional crossfitting
has been saved), and raised redactional crossfitting
up with Him and made
redactional crossfitting
to sit with Him in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:5-6)"
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| I did a writeup and posted it on TWeb. You can read it here.
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