- Question #1 – Can you masturbate without lusting (Job 31:1)
- I suppose, I mean, there was this one time I was just really bored and not really aroused at all.
- Question #2 – Can you masturbate in a way that builds oneness with your spouse, pulling you together more intimately through the act (Gen. 2:24)?
- Well, sure, I suppose you could, if you wanted to. Though if you're already having sex with no one except that one person for ten, twenty, forty years, why the hell would you want to? I would guess that married people who masturbate are seeking some level of personal distance from their spouses, and this is a perfectly good thing. If they fantasize about having sex with someone besides their spouse, well it's better than doing it for real, wouldn't you agree pastor?
- Question #3 – Can you masturbate without experiencing shame (Gen. 2:24)?
- Yes, very easily.
- Question #4 – Can you masturbate with a clear conscience (Titus 1:15)?
- See above answer. I mean it's exactly the same fucking question man. There's such a thing as rhetorical masturbation you know.
- Question #5 – Can you masturbate without capitulating to the cravings of your sinful desires and thoughts (Eph. 2:3)?
- What does that even mean? Capitulating? Indulgence is surrender? Pleasure is defeat? Your ideas of what's right and wrong about sex and pleasure seem more Roman than Christian. This idea that there is nothing in life that isn't a test of discipline, it's pretty fucked up. Jesus was a pretty fun-loving guy, you know. I never bought the idea that he never got his rocks off with Magdalene or whoever else.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Mark Driscoll on Proper Christian Masturbation
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
A Man Along No. 27th Asked me Where A Headshop was
This happens to me with an odd sort of regularity. He was from somewhere in Iowa. I directed him to Exotica at 27th and Randolph. Though I guess, now that I think of it, he probably could have found what he was looking for at the Arab hookah store on that very block.
"There's no place closer? Hemp shop, smoke shack, head shop? You know what I'm talking about."
Well yes, I do happen to be deep enough in the criminal bohemian revolutionary underground to know what a head shop is, but you'll still get all of us in trouble one day by assuming such things so freely.
In the end, he asked me if I had papers to spare, and I had to tell him no. Tragedy.
"There's no place closer? Hemp shop, smoke shack, head shop? You know what I'm talking about."
Well yes, I do happen to be deep enough in the criminal bohemian revolutionary underground to know what a head shop is, but you'll still get all of us in trouble one day by assuming such things so freely.
In the end, he asked me if I had papers to spare, and I had to tell him no. Tragedy.
College Football Top 10
Damn, after a dully routine first half of the season things got very real very quickly after the sun went down last night. And I'm afraid that circumstances force me to put the SEC undefeateds at 1&2. I abhor doing this as much as any civilized man would but right is right.
1. Alabama
2. L.S.U.
3. Stanford
4. Oklahoma State
5. Boise State
6. Clemson
7. Michigan State
8. Kansas State
9. Oregon
10 Wisconsin
Contenders: Virginia Tech, Arkansas, Houston
1. Alabama
2. L.S.U.
3. Stanford
4. Oklahoma State
5. Boise State
6. Clemson
7. Michigan State
8. Kansas State
9. Oregon
10 Wisconsin
Contenders: Virginia Tech, Arkansas, Houston
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Well Qudaffi is Dead Eh?
"We were serious about giving him a fair trial."
No. You weren't. Though I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, never mind.
I don't have much to say about the way he ended, because details on that still seem to be fuzzy several hours later. Only I would say that the way he did end was, well predictable, certainly more and more unavoidable for every day he continued fighting past the point of being hopelessly beaten.
I have been meaning to make some note of how Qaddafi's Libya in some ways mirrored a Yankee libertarians idea of paradise. You had a central government that, beyond the Great Man at it's center, was rather weak and poorly organized, highly aggressive and forceful towards internal criminals and outside enemies but otherwise doing next to nothing at all. And of course we hear again and again about how 'tribal' and fragmented Libya is. A poorly structured society is one where traditional power structures stay in place. The father rules his house as the clan leader rules the fathers as the tribe elders rule the clan leaders. And of course there's nothing like a government that is both authoritarian and inactive to promote social stagnation. you get the best of both tyranny and anarchy. A government that does nothing to promote industry, education, or infrastructure is one that provides no special reason for its people to move to cities, where social identities get all mish mashed and mingled and hierarchies invariably brake down. Yet by still vigorously assuring its power to punish and make war such a state does help to maintain the sense that dominance of another is the only meaningful form of human self-expression.
This, friends, is the world that the gun club conservative/libertarian wants. And if it seems like I've gone off on a tangent here, yes. But surely I'm not the only one who notices the parallels between Libya and Texas?
No. You weren't. Though I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, never mind.
I don't have much to say about the way he ended, because details on that still seem to be fuzzy several hours later. Only I would say that the way he did end was, well predictable, certainly more and more unavoidable for every day he continued fighting past the point of being hopelessly beaten.
I have been meaning to make some note of how Qaddafi's Libya in some ways mirrored a Yankee libertarians idea of paradise. You had a central government that, beyond the Great Man at it's center, was rather weak and poorly organized, highly aggressive and forceful towards internal criminals and outside enemies but otherwise doing next to nothing at all. And of course we hear again and again about how 'tribal' and fragmented Libya is. A poorly structured society is one where traditional power structures stay in place. The father rules his house as the clan leader rules the fathers as the tribe elders rule the clan leaders. And of course there's nothing like a government that is both authoritarian and inactive to promote social stagnation. you get the best of both tyranny and anarchy. A government that does nothing to promote industry, education, or infrastructure is one that provides no special reason for its people to move to cities, where social identities get all mish mashed and mingled and hierarchies invariably brake down. Yet by still vigorously assuring its power to punish and make war such a state does help to maintain the sense that dominance of another is the only meaningful form of human self-expression.
This, friends, is the world that the gun club conservative/libertarian wants. And if it seems like I've gone off on a tangent here, yes. But surely I'm not the only one who notices the parallels between Libya and Texas?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
I've Had a cold the Past Few days
Been medicating with herbal tea, Canadian Springs, Ed Wood movies, golden age pornography, and sleep. Mostly though I've been thinking of Halloween. I think this year might be the one I do Freddie Mercury, but only if it's reasonably warm. Otherwise, Lee Harvey Oswald, carrying around a pumpkin with the entire right half corner shredded off and the innards hanging out. Morbid is what the season is for man.
You've probably seen 'The Worst Witch'. I mean, if you're within twenty years of my own age and reading this the odds are more than half. I do have a fixation with Tim curry's big number, always wanted to see it covered live by some band with fat keyboard riffs and a flamboyent weepy orgasm guitarist like Dean Ween or Garry Shider. Though I fear that such a thing might just be too perfect for mortal life. I'm going to have some codeine and go back to bed now.
You've probably seen 'The Worst Witch'. I mean, if you're within twenty years of my own age and reading this the odds are more than half. I do have a fixation with Tim curry's big number, always wanted to see it covered live by some band with fat keyboard riffs and a flamboyent weepy orgasm guitarist like Dean Ween or Garry Shider. Though I fear that such a thing might just be too perfect for mortal life. I'm going to have some codeine and go back to bed now.
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