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  1. John D. Brey

    Serrano's Christ.

    Where is the son? To light the way Along the path Of our dismay If you mix a drop of black ink in a pitcher of pure water, the water will be stained. If you mix a drop of pure water in a pitcher of black ink, it will disappear. If you drop a crucifix in a pitcher of urine, it becomes living...
  2. John D. Brey

    Serrano's Christ.

    Where Jung's collective unconscious is in the crosshairs of the examination of archetypal signs and symbols, urinating on the cross isn't merely some garden variety profane act, a silly slight of the cross or the one on it. On the contrary, it's part and parcel of a syzygy in the soul of the...
  3. John D. Brey

    Serrano's Christ.

    Andres Serrano's **** Christ generated a whole lot of negative attention from the world of would-be true believers. Naturally so, since the image pictures a crucifix submerged in urine. And yet, far from attempting to demonize Christ, Serrano (a practicing Catholic), is trying, in an artistic...
  4. John D. Brey

    Mansplaining the Metaphysics of Masculinity.

    Philo is both a Hellenized Jew, and also a highly respected metaphysician. I don't think there's anything misogynistic about his metaphysical claims. It's his Judaism that could be considered misogynistic in how they believe the female is an after-thought of God, a mere helper, rather than the...
  5. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    Danica Patrick did it for the love of her country Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. Danica Patrick worked her tail off for Donald J. Trump for free. While insufferable Hollywood types like Beyonce and Oprah were paid upwards of $1 million (!!!!!!) to speak at her rallies, Trump paid Danica Patrick...
  6. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    One of the weaknesses of a forum like this, where there's no face-to-face communication, is the fact that, as the language experts tell us, something like 75% of communicative clarity comes from non-verbal queues. If you said the statement above to my face, not only could I slug you in the face...
  7. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    I'm pretty sure the thank you from @Evangelicalhumanist was seething with sanctified sarcasm, and maybe yours more so. But it is interesting to see just how different our ways of thinking are. I remember when Pennsylvania's Senator, Fetterman, was speaking of how Trump voters in Pennsylvania...
  8. John D. Brey

    The Suffering Servant in Jewish Kabbalah.

    Her example is proof of the fallacy of inductive logic. And to say that, seems yawn-worthy. But it's far from it. The fundamental difference between Christian and Jewish theology centers around how the two ideologies are circumscribed by that most fundamental of all fallacies. Though probably no...
  9. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween, tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean, and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen! John Godfrey Saxe. John
  10. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    Absolutely. Except that I would rephrase it as believing something you know is true even though "objectively" speaking you can't, couldn't, know it's true. Subjective truth comes from the fact that you and I, every normal person, possesses the divine spirit, until they trade it in for belief in...
  11. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    As noted earlier in the thread, the courts weren't willing to entertain a case that would require a duly elected President of the United States, Joe Biden, to be removed from office. In other words, the cases were all thrown out because the courts were abiding by the fact that Joe Biden won the...
  12. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    I'm more interested in how our personal biases withstand incoming pressures against them than I am about the political issues causing the division in our dialogue. In other words, I can concede that you've made some fair-minded points concerning the argument of whether the election was stolen or...
  13. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    Trump didn't order Pence to overturn anything. He asked him not to sign off on the election until all the irregularities were dealt with. Some of Trump's actions were questionable. But they can be wholly understood and forgiven if the election was indeed stolen. There's four years of water...
  14. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    They were shocked he asked. They were boy scouts when he needed the kind of people the deep state has. They didn't try to find the votes. They were the kind of people who have no clue about the real world that Trump lives in and wins elections in. No one has implied where the majority of fakes...
  15. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    I think your final statement is very important in that it presupposes that the eisegetical proclivity to use what you already believe to be true as your prism for truth is an errant phenomenon (in other words, placing eisegesis above exegesis is thought to be an erroneous epistemological...
  16. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    Not Biden himself. It was the deep state working on his behalf. Say, for the sake of argument, proof came out that almost guaranteed the 2020 election was fraudulent, i.e., that millions of fake ballots were counted to put Biden over the top. What do you think the majority of Democrats would...
  17. John D. Brey

    US Capitol rioters await Trump pardons

    Karma's a m---erf---er. If Trump wasn't cheated out of the last election, he would have had a Democrat House and Senate, more impeachments, no Senate confirmations, no bills passed, and MAGA would have been seriously weakened. Because of the Democrat's dastardly deceit, Trump now has the...
  18. John D. Brey

    Just out of idle curiosity -- about the election...

    We know there are quite a lot of nevertrump conservatives. And we know Trump fired dozens of his own people (who stabbed him in the back before and after they were ousted). True leaders ruffle feathers. True leaders fire a grip of losers. Biden ruffled no feathers. He didn't fire a sole. Those...
  19. John D. Brey

    Just out of idle curiosity -- about the election...

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2020 presidential election saw the highest voter turnout of the 21st century with "66.8% of citizens 18 years and older voting." USA Today. Even allowing for another 4 million votes, 2020 had almost 10 million more votes than this election. It was an...
  20. John D. Brey

    Just out of idle curiosity -- about the election...

    The devil doesn't really have horns and a red epidermis. Most people the world over would vote for him were he to run. He's graceful, dignified, polite, fair, well-mannered, and refined. John the Baptist? Not so much. He's brash, rude, smelly, impolite, unrefined, etc. etc.. O generation of...
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