Sunday morning (923 hits)
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Submitted by spacemonkey (View user info) at 2008-02-07 12:51:27 EST
"God why do you have to be so damn religious?" she sighed as she tossed my copy of the gospel of Judas off the bed.
I looked at the small book. White veins raced up and down its well worn spine. I shrugged.
"I don't know. I'm not really evangelical if thats of any comfort to you."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I'm not militant about it. I don't push my beliefs on anyone."
"Like hell you aren't. Leaving this book on the bed where I'm sure to see it? Thats passive aggressive evangelicalism. Don't even try to tell me its not."
She looked down at me from the bed, despite the fact that I was standing. I sat next to her reclined body. "I just like talking about that sort of stuff. I don't know. Its not a need or anything. I don't even know if I believe it. Its just interesting."
She yawned.
"Have I ever told you about the siafu?"
"I'm not really interested in this stuff, babe" she murmured stretching lazily.
"No, its not anything religious, drivers ants."
She perked up almost imperceptibly, "Do tell..."
She loved learning about the natural world. It was one of her great advantages.
"They are these blind ants that travel only by pheromones. It's actually pretty cool to watch. They have the soldiers form a protective tunnel, and all the workers travel through it. Its like a river of ants.
"Anyway the pheromones from these ants attract the sausage-fly..."
"Huh. So, you're telling me that you want me to unzip your fly and grab your sausage right?" she had shifted so all her weight was on her side. It created the most beautiful silhouette. I had to admit that there was nothing more that I wanted than her suggestion.
"Uh...no use see the sausage-fly is attracted to the pheromones and when he reaches the ant river, he gets captured by the siafu. His wings are torn off and he is taken off to mate with the queen. He dies shortly after mating."
No one said anything for a while.
She finally broke the silence.
"Whats so great about this gospel of Judas anyway? I thought Judas was a traitor."
"Well that's the thing, he says that it was part of some grand scheme revealed only to him by Christ. The idea that...."
"I hate that term, chirst..." she snapped quickly.
"Huh? Oh thats another thing Jesus Christ...in Hebrew it would be Joshua Seth. It's just his name. It's come to mean something else, I guess. I don't know. It's not that hard to remove that guy from the title of 'christ' when you think hes just Josh Seth. I don't know he even seems kind of, cool..."
She sat up and leaned towards me. She was telling me to shut up.
Closer until she was almost touching me. I leaned in, and she quickly pulled away and flopped back down.
"I don't know. I remember the story of Sampson."
She sat up again.
"Yeah...well anyway the thing about this secret stuff that Jesus supposedly told Judas is its supposed to sort of be realized. Its not enough just to praise him or say he saved your life or anything. You have to somehow realize this secret knowledge about him. Its kind of interesting when you think about it in a bigger context of religion in general..."
"Mhm. Yeah." she was rubbing my freshly cut hair and her murmurs where more of a courtesy. "I hate your hair cut. It looks real stupid"
"Yeah well...I always get it cut too short...for some reason."
"Yeah you got sheered like a sheep." she pushed me down.
More silence.
After some time she took my hand in hers, lifted it to her mouth, and bit it. I just looked at her.
"Why do you just take that shit? Why are you so fucking passive all the time?"
"I don't know. Just kind of am. That didn't really hurt though."
She put my hand over her heart and looked at me.
"Liar"
"Would you like to pray with me?"
She looked at me, I met her gaze and said, "liar"
Minutes later she was chanting Gods name.
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-26 10:52:32 EST (#)
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Check out 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah' self-titled album.
Songs:
The Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth
In this Home On Ice
Submitted by matnotharry (user info) at 2008-02-10 07:24:07 EST (#)
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I liked it
Submitted by Progr3ss (user info) at 2008-02-09 22:04:41 EST (#)
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Proof read
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-02-08 20:37:34 EST (#)
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Submitted by deathmobile (user info) at 2008-02-08 11:20:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2008-02-08 10:01:15 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-02-08 06:58:03 EST (#)
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Ha, she thinks you're a nerd. You should totally cry out "Perhaps today IS a good day to die!" during sex.
Submitted by Bellebrown (user info) at 2008-02-08 06:55:42 EST (#)
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I like stuff like this... and I sometimes wonder, if it's true about Judas... maybe calling someone by that name is actually a compliment.
Submitted by HellRazer (user info) at 2008-02-08 06:36:40 EST (#)
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Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2008-02-08 02:01:36 EST (#)
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praise the dawning
Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2008-02-07 23:04:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-02-07 15:07:34 EST (#)
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+2 Front page.
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2008-02-07 14:32:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-02-07 14:09:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2008-02-07 14:07:37 EST (#)
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Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-02-07 14:04:57 EST (#)
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yeah but he was later reincarnated into l. ron hubbard who has returned as his holiness tom cruise.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-07 14:02:11 EST (#)
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EVERYONE KNOWS 'JESUS CHRIST' IS ARABIC FOR JOSEPH SMITH, THE LEADER OF THE MORMON FAITH.
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!
Submitted by Zampano (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:52:46 EST (#)
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I thought 'Jesus Christ' was the Greek for what is Anglicized as 'Joshua Messiah' and the Hebrew would be akin to 'Yeshua Masiah' or something along those lines. I forget the exact spellings.
At any rate, I liked it.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:52:00 EST (#)
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Seriously though, old-fashioned romanticist(s) like us unfortunately have a strong desire to think about or consider religion. It's adherent in our literary diet, and as a result we keep pulling ourselves back to it.
GIVE IN TO JESUS!
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:43:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:25:10 EST (#)
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I like sausage-fly pizza.
Submitted by NotSteve (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:15:31 EST (#)
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I just ordered that book. Is it good?
Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:14:25 EST (#)
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Yeah!
Submitted by Darth_Famine (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:00:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2008-02-07 13:00:46 EST (#)
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yep