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  Mike

  11 months ago

  Great post. I love the fast-food metaphor--fits perfectly.
  
  I had the tv on while I was editing conference pictures this weekend and an episode of Gossip Girl came on. In mere seconds the juvenile banter and smutty, sophomoric drama were too much to bear even as background noise.
  
  <abbr>Mikes last blog post..A New Day Part 3 on ... http://mikeensley.vox.com</abbr>
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  Randy

  11 months ago

  @Mike -
  Thanks Mike. It seems like the wall of noise is just getting louder and louder. It's hard for me to do anything, other than clean the house, with the hellivision on in the background.
  
  Gossip Girl boo ...
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  Mike

  11 months ago

  Great post. I love the fast-food metaphor--fits perfectly.
  I had the tv on while I was editing conference pictures this weekend and an episode of Gossip Girl came on. In mere seconds the juvenile banter and smutty, sophomoric drama were too much to bear even as background noise.
  <abbr>Mikes last blog post..A New Day Part 3 on ... http://mikeensley.vox.com</abbr>
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  Randy

  11 months ago

  @Mike -
  Thanks Mike. It seems like the wall of noise is just getting louder and louder. It's hard for me to do anything, other than clean the house, with the hellivision on in the background.
  Gossip Girl boo ...
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  normnovato

  6 months ago

  meant to be ??? - as in "meant to be transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife"?
  
  When was sex EVER "transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife"??? And when was it EVER "meant to be" anything at all - except whatever it meant to the specfic parties involved at that moment?
  
  When? 1487? 803? 1129? 923 B.C.? In some suburban "shotgun marriage" in 1953? In some crass petty vicious extortionate housewife in upper-class or lower-class anywhere at any time? Or only in your own imagination in 2008? Do your personal fictions in 2008 create meaning for all people at all times in all contexts?
  
  Maybe YOU should write a new gospel telling everybody what is true everywhere at all times?
  
  I don't see any mention of "meant to be transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife" in the current collection of frauds and forgeries and fables - maybe you should add all of your own, since you seem to know what is true for all people in all contexts everywhere...........
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  Randy

  6 months ago

  Maybe YOU should write a new gospel telling everybody what is true everywhere at all times?

  
  
  That would be so awesome. I really would love it if God commissioned me to write a Gospel. Maybe I could finally get on Oprah ...
  
  BUT, it would seem that cosmic project is complete.
  
  And, He probably didn't commission me to do that because He knew that I would try to turn it into some nano-technology that would force people to keep their pants on ... and would lead me to be on Oprah.
  
  Dude, chill. Not thinking that your rhetorical questions really want answers I will simply say that God Created both male and female. When those two come together as one, in the bonds of holy matrimony, it is an amazing reflection of God's love as expressed uniquely and together between a husband and wife.
  
  Sex was not intended to be a cheap thrill (no strip clubs or go-go dancers in the garden of Eden). It was not meant to be a imposed forced cultural expectation (usually presented as bad examples in the scriptures), false masculinity (King David *really* took liberties with his "leadership" at one point) or to use your description "crass" femininity (Delilah ... Jezebel.)
  
  Scripture is full of examples of relational beauty (the symbolic nature of Christ The Bridegroom with His Bride The Church ... Song of Solomon) and brokenness (soooOOOOoooo very many examples of that in the Bible.) That is where I derive my assertions from.
  
  I don't know everything but I do know that God never changes. His ways are not our ways and in my own very merely mortal way ... am cool with it. Plus, I am not the one who says that ... He did.
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  normnovato

  6 months ago

  meant to be ??? - as in "meant to be transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife"?
  
  
  When was sex EVER "transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife"??? And when was it EVER "meant to be" anything at all - except whatever it meant to the specfic parties involved at that moment?
  
  
  
  When? 1487? 803? 1129? 923 B.C.? In some suburban "shotgun marriage" in 1953? In some crass petty vicious extortionate housewife in upper-class or lower-class anywhere at any time? Or only in your own imagination in 2008? Do your personal fictions in 2008 create meaning for all people at all times in all contexts?
  
  
  
  Maybe YOU should write a new gospel telling everybody what is true everywhere at all times?
  
  
  
  I don't see any mention of "meant to be transcendent intimacy between a husband and wife" in the current collection of frauds and forgeries and fables - maybe you should add all of your own, since you seem to know what is true for all people in all contexts everywhere...........
  
  
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  Randy

  6 months ago

  Maybe YOU should write a new gospel telling everybody what is true everywhere at all times?

  
  
  
  That would be so awesome. I really would love it if God commissioned me to write a Gospel. Maybe I could finally get on Oprah ...
  
  
  
  BUT, it would seem that cosmic project is complete.
  
  
  
  And, He probably didn't commission me to do that because He knew that I would try to turn it into some nano-technology that would force people to keep their pants on ... and would lead me to be on Oprah.
  
  
  
  Dude, chill. Not thinking that your rhetorical questions really want answers I will simply say that God Created both male and female. When those two come together as one, in the bonds of holy matrimony, it is an amazing reflection of God's love as expressed uniquely and together between a husband and wife.
  
  
  
  Sex was not intended to be a cheap thrill (no strip clubs or go-go dancers in the garden of Eden). It was not meant to be a imposed forced cultural expectation (usually presented as bad examples in the scriptures), false masculinity (King David *really* took liberties with his "leadership" at one point) or to use your description "crass" femininity (Delilah ... Jezebel.)
  
  
  
  Scripture is full of examples of relational beauty (the symbolic nature of Christ The Bridegroom with His Bride The Church ... Song of Solomon) and brokenness (soooOOOOoooo very many examples of that in the Bible.) That is where I derive my assertions from.
  
  
  
  I don't know everything but I do know that God never changes. His ways are not our ways and in my own very merely mortal way ... am cool with it. Plus, I am not the one who says that ... He did.
  
  
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  Mark

  5 months ago

  You're nuts to think you have a right to tell others what sex "should" be.
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  Randy

  5 months ago

  Well... I do have a right to freedom of speech ... and others ask for my opinion or come to my blog on their own accord.
  
  You know ... like you did.
  
  People can do whatever they want but as long as it is an issue of public discussion I do have a "right" just like they have a "right" to express what we think sex "should" be. That's not nutty, it's called living in a democratic society that believes freedom includes and survives because of free speech.
  
  Thanks for coming by and commenting.
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  Mark

  5 months ago

  You're nuts to think you have a right to tell others what sex "should" be.
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  Randy

  5 months ago

  Well... I do have a right to freedom of speech ... and others ask for my opinion or come to my blog on their own accord.
  
  
  You know ... like you did.
  
  
  
  People can do whatever they want but as long as it is an issue of public discussion I do have a "right" just like they have a "right" to express what we think sex "should" be. That's not nutty, it's called living in a democratic society that believes freedom includes and survives because of free speech.
  
  
  
  Thanks for coming by and commenting.
  
  
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  adult toys

  5 months ago

  good outlook
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