Leaving home, again.

It's funny how just when you get your money situation under control, your personal life goes out the window. I'm looking for a new place to live right now, and the reasons for it make me very sad. My roommate and I no longer get along, and it pains me to realize this. I'm very disappointed, but I feel backed into a corner. I deserve better. I have three months. Three long months, but in fact a very short time. It shall be the end of an era for me, and I hope that you will all see a newer, better me come July 1.

I'm sorry.

Epiphany

Post-modern Jesus Christ

I was just about to grab a beer and get in the shower, when the Z Master sent this little jewel down the line. An alternative view of Jesus, if he drove a cab and smoked cheap cigars, just another immigrant with a twisted perspective and delusions of adequacy. Makes us all pine for the good 'ol days of religion, when it was fresh and new, when the lie wasn't so ripe and you could still get caught in the fervor, have a religious experience without being born-again. Nowadays, the thinking man has cat-like reflexes against anything resembling a deity, but back then, to get in on the ground-floor of a world-changing movement, that was the genesis of cool.

Jesus was just a kid with a tumor who heard voices and could guess your weight at the carnival. He had a secret club and a symbol, and pretty soon everyone wanted in. Add a quick dose of modern perspective and it all seems so passè. There hasn't been anything exciting since Luther lay down his hammer. (As an aside... does that hammer still exist? I should like to own it. And I also think that Luther needed a good editor. 95 theses? Its just excessive. Or perhaps it was for emphasis?)

What churches should have, however, is a Suggestion Box. But can you imagine?

Hindu : "I think the Vishnu needs more arms."
Jewish : "But really, what are we waiting for?"
Christan : "But, it really does look like a big 't'."
Islamic : "I like the new mullah but, he really isn't much to ululate about."

Just remember: Religion needs a god to exist, but a god does not need a religion.

Grim Fairy Tales for a Modern American Socialist Empire

Grim Fairy Tales for a Modern American Socialist Empire by Mike Rogers

Blasphemy! I think God is more of a DC guy.

Blasphemy

I've always considered God as more of a DC comics fan. I mean, look at Superman, he could have written that entire story himself.

Comes from the heavens. Where he is the son of a powerful leader that no one listens to anymore.
Super powers similar to Jesus. He brings Lois Lane back from the dead... very Jesus-esque.
Constantly saving the Earth. And he's the only one who can.
Lois Lane/Mary Magdalene. The divine's concubine.
Jimmy/Peter. Always messing something up, but heart in the right place.
And Starring Lex Luthor as the Devil. The Devil is always making himself into an Angel of Light. Or puts on a nice suit with diamond cufflinks.

However, Jesus's skin could be pierced. That's the main difference.

Joseph Cambpell would be with me on this one, I'm sure. Superman is a clear modern paralell to the story of Christ. With the "God of the Gaps" quickly disappearing, and Nietzsche famously wrote his/her obituary, our culture has evolved to address the need for the the hero epic with science - and science fiction.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 1949.