Friday, February 20, 2009
Introductions are in order.
Welcome, web, to the World of Ron. (Patent pending.) "I am"... those are dangerous words, I would wager. To say "I am" is to declare, and ambiguity and silence have always been a good safe haven in my bet. I've never been great with labels and such, so... If you really must know, I am of a semi-rare class of individual known for their looks (not good looks) because I am an identical twin. I am in the estimation of most a pretty rare bird. I have an affinity for the weird and "out there", and I'm not the easiest person to get to know or to read. If you knew any weird hipsters that you avoided in high school, I was one of those guys. I listened to better music than you did, I watched French films, I read Existentialist novels, and I generally thought you were a douche. Hell, the title of the blog comes from a Godard film. "Christianity- the death of language!" I loved the line so much, I had to use it. I suppose that clues you in that I'm not a Christian. I have nothing but good things to say about Christians that I know, but their belief system is as fucked as they come. Hard as they try, they just can't make it make sense to someone who's not already indoctrinated. But that will be for a later post. For now, I am an atheist, if you must put a label on it. I am an intellectual first and foremost, and it seemed to me to be the most tenable and agreeable opinion for a rational person. There will probably be a few posts on this blog dedicated to Christian bullshit, but for the most part, expect a variety of things. Music, movies, and criminally unknown things of all kinds. I hope you have a pleasant stay, first real post will be about one of the best bands ever out of Boston, Mission of Burma.
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I, an otherwise anonymous and random denizen of the internet, am quite offended by the above passage in your freshly minted blog-like entity. You've caused tremendous and likely irreversible psychological and emotional harm to me. I don't think I'll be able to get out of bed for weeks now, since this post is all I'm going to be thinking about, PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteI mean, people as self-descriptively intellectual and hip such as you just don't get these kinds of things wrong.
Why didn't my preacher tell me that Christianity killed language? I LIKED words. I liked them a lot. I ate them for breakfast sometimes. I just can't get a kick out of my Alpha-Bits when I know that my tri-omni trinitarian suzerain patron deity is single-handedly responsible for the destruction of all intelligible communication as we know it.
I hope this makes plenty of sense to you, you non-indoctrinated person, you. Of course, now that words are completely non-cognitive entities, I guess that's of little importance right now.
Jesus still loves you, though. And your mom.
Since words can no longer reach you, the abstract symbolism depicted within this song should explain this concept better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyb88tOZ3kU
Yowza. I completely screwed up that link up there. I know you won't understand a word I'm saying, but I'm sure Jesus will forgive me.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyb88tOZ3kU
hello
ReplyDeletei'm ttlly new to blogging but id like to thnk you for bringing atension to the existense of missions in burma. yes, it is true sum of us are from boston how did you know... your blog seems to b very popular so plz hlp spreade our mssage. where looking for a million dollars a year "Your dollars donated will help a man, woman or child to hear the grace of God and escape the falsehood of worshipping idols of gold, silver and stone." http://www.myanmarchristianmission.com/help.html
Wow. Spam and bullshit. I like.
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