| A moment of silence for Jean Baudrillard... he died today. Some of you may know he was my favorite philosopher ever. "Things are not first there and then gradually exhausted; they vanish as they appear." "At any rate, we have all already been dead before living, and we came out of it alive. We were dead before and we shall be dead again after." --Baudrillard, "The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact" |
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| Uh oh, the gig is up. James Cameron found Jesus's dead body. Granted, there's a decent chance it's a hoax (like the James ossuary a couple years ago), or an error, but I don't suppose I expect it to have much effect on the Christian community even if there is some extremely good evidence backing it up. They are suprisingly good at burying their heads in the sand and ignoring anything that would suggest that what they believe is not actually true. If it turned out Jesus was an alien, and he came back on a starship today, made a well publicised entry into the earths atmosphere, and held a press conference where he explained scientifically how he performed his miracles and concluded that he was "just kidding" about all that God stuff he said 2000 years ago... well, I suspect most Christians would be more apt to believe he was Satan incarnate than to believe that their whole religion was founded on lies. |
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| "The surfeit of the social drives us out of the social.
The surfeit of
politics drives us out of politics.
The surfeit of reality drives us out of
reality."
"Sometimes irrational behaviour can even be superior to the
rational: so, for example, two boats on Lake Constance in dense fog are in less
danger of colliding if their pilots are drunk than if they are attempting to
master the situation."
"Tolerance, this peaceful coexistence of all cultures, all religions, of mores
and ideas, is more or less the equivalent of that degraded form of energy that
is heat (leaving aside the fact that, following its own 'humanitarian' logic, it
assumes, on occasion, entierely intolerant forms of intervention).
In a world
ruthlessly doomed to this principle, the irruption of intolerance will soon be
the only event. The automatic return of all forms of racism, integrism and
exclusion in reaction to this unconditional conviviality.
Whereby evil
ironically resurfaces."
-Baudrillard, "The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact"
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| Texas' State Constitution, Article 1 Section 4
"No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." Does anyone else see a problem with this? Like... oh... how it's ILLEGAL!? UNCONSTITUTIONAL!? (The Constitution says:) Article VI.
Clause 3
"... but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." Amendment I
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" |
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