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May. 29th, 2007 05:29 pm*pokes head out door*
*ie, glances over newspaper*
Nope. World still gibberingly insane.
*pulls head back inside*
*ie, glances over newspaper*
Nope. World still gibberingly insane.
*pulls head back inside*
May. 29th, 2007
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May. 29th, 2007 06:43 pmNothing kills your hurt/comfort buzz like actual pain. I mean, a couple of pretty mild minutes in the dentist's chair this morning, and I was exhausted.
Grumpy Old Religion
May. 29th, 2007 07:04 pmCatching up on podcasts. Tom Keneally is making me LOL in a "Spirit of Things" called "Grumpy Old Religion" - there's a transcript online, although his scratchy old voice is a great part of the humour:
"One of the things I like about Judaism is that God is someone you argue with, as in the Old Testament, you know, God is right there for Moses to argue with and for Abraham to argue with. And God, I notice, is treated by some Holocaust survivors I know as a sort of over-imaginative, brilliant nephew who has written the world like a turbulent screenplay, and who has to be reasoned with so much. An old Jewish bloke said to me 'When I went to Malthausen and there was that quarry cliff and the SS throwing people over it, I said, "God, this has gone far enough".'."
(Kenneally's mention of Jesus' association with outcasts moved me. I'm not sure why; it's not as though it was an unfamiliar concept. Anyway, I've been banging around in Mark this evening. What anarchy!)
"One of the things I like about Judaism is that God is someone you argue with, as in the Old Testament, you know, God is right there for Moses to argue with and for Abraham to argue with. And God, I notice, is treated by some Holocaust survivors I know as a sort of over-imaginative, brilliant nephew who has written the world like a turbulent screenplay, and who has to be reasoned with so much. An old Jewish bloke said to me 'When I went to Malthausen and there was that quarry cliff and the SS throwing people over it, I said, "God, this has gone far enough".'."
(Kenneally's mention of Jesus' association with outcasts moved me. I'm not sure why; it's not as though it was an unfamiliar concept. Anyway, I've been banging around in Mark this evening. What anarchy!)