Occasionally I will decree superlatives in food, music, movies or really whatever the fuck happens to scamper across my doorstep that day. I intend for this to become a regular feature at deniable plausibility.
Yessir! He's gonna be in the new "Silver Surfer" - Fantastic 4 movie. Maybe they'll show more skin!There's more?!?! :P
I asked a friend of mine who's like, sort of a real writer, for some input on this blog thingy...but, its like, hard, the journamalism stuff. He told me to think of my target audience? Ugh! I was thinking more upscale, like macy's. But, hes right about one thing: deniable plausibility totally lacks focus.
Rachael Ray and her climb up the food chain (ooh a pun!) came up over brunch Saturday ...which, btw I always thought was exclusively a Sunday thing, but anyway...Apparently not everyone likes Rachel's shut up and eat attitude and perkiness. I happen to be a fan and love her new talk show, though I always thought her $40/day show was BS! Who sits down and eats just an effin appetizer?
I consider myself to be a spiritual person. That being said, I have always had trouble meshing my strong belief in scientific principles (evolutionary biology for example, E=mc2!) with "faith" in an imaginary world in the sky that most organized religions require.This interview in Salon with religious historian, Elaine Pagels, about the Gospel of Judas however, nicely illustrates the contradictions of faith and science and what we can take from each. I have long thought Judas Iscariot (as well as Pontious Pilate and the Jews who condemned Jesus) got a comically bad rap from official roman catholicism...considering the integral role of the crucifixion in Christianity's narrative arc. DUH! Bitch had to die for the story to work...and someone had to turn his ass in!
Thus: (“betrayal” + martyrdom) resurrection=humanity's redemption.
Yes, the Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. So that's quite startling.
The villainous portrayal of Judas (as well as Mary Magdalene, but that's a different topic all together...don't get me started!) by historical catholicism is another example of its subject manipulation and continued wink/nod attitude toward antisemitism. I wonder if Christianity was poisoned, perhaps irreparably, by the exclusion of these “forgotten” gospels. It doesn’t all have to fit into a nice neat story, for Christ sake (hee hee). Different versions of the life of Jesus exist for specific reasons. Acknowledgment of this fact would help people like me accept its core understandings more fully. Don’t ask me to believe a contradiction without a possible explanation for the disconnect.
Anyways, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice said Judas & Jesus was best buds, so it must be true.
The U.S. government had been notably quiet on the subject from the beginning, but Bush voiced strong opinions Saturday.
"The Iranians must give back the hostages," he said. "They were innocent. They were doing nothing wrong. And they were summarily plucked out of water."
