Allow me to introduce myself...

[Da6s]

Needs pic without your hand on your face, for WOMPing.

Edit: It's old but it's one of the more recent sober face pics i have. I avoid camera's like an amish man.

[Choptop]

Is it me, or does he kind of look like a cross between Vex and Hoopla?

You know my parents?

[emerod]

    * Demographic info: 45. Naturalized Hoosier. Christian anarchist.
   * Professional Info: Editor. NO I will NOT edit your work of fiction or your PhD dissertation.
   * What you like to do in your free time: Pretend to play bass guitar; read philosophy that I don't understand; watch cats torment small animals.
   * What kind of topics / projects are you interested in? Conspiracy theories; apocalyptic rhetoric; theoretical physics; culture jamming; graphic design. I would like to start a profit-making enterprise that combines all of these things.
   * How did you find Eris and what did you to her once you found her? RAW and Adam Parfrey. I killed her.



AKA: Subcommander Guido.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

i work with a guy with your name 

[emerod]

i work with a guy with your name 

What a coincidence! I work with a Squid! Which office are you in?

[Cramulus]

   * Demographic info: 45. Naturalized Hoosier. Christian anarchist.
   * Professional Info: Editor. NO I will NOT edit your work of fiction or your PhD dissertation.
   * What you like to do in your free time: Pretend to play bass guitar; read philosophy that I don't understand; watch cats torment small animals.
   * What kind of topics / projects are you interested in? Conspiracy theories; apocalyptic rhetoric; theoretical physics; culture jamming; graphic design. I would like to start a profit-making enterprise that combines all of these things.
   * How did you find Eris and what did you to her once you found her? RAW and Adam Parfrey. I killed her.



AKA: Subcommander Guido.

Hey Emerod. What kind of editing do you do? Me, I do editorial stuff for a textbook publisher.

What kind of culture jamming are you into? Me, I'm a big fan of posters and subtle intrusions into pedestrian reality.

Do you think for-profit and culture-jamming are at odds?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

   * Demographic info: 45. Naturalized Hoosier. Christian anarchist.
   * Professional Info: Editor. NO I will NOT edit your work of fiction or your PhD dissertation.
   * What you like to do in your free time: Pretend to play bass guitar; read philosophy that I don't understand; watch cats torment small animals.
   * What kind of topics / projects are you interested in? Conspiracy theories; apocalyptic rhetoric; theoretical physics; culture jamming; graphic design. I would like to start a profit-making enterprise that combines all of these things.
   * How did you find Eris and what did you to her once you found her? RAW and Adam Parfrey. I killed her.



AKA: Subcommander Guido.

Heh.  I edited for pay back in the 90s.  Romance novels.  Don't ask.

Also, what precisely is a Christian Anarchist (Note to everyone else:  No, I'm not going to start the anarchy argument up again, I'm just curious.  So fuck off, you pack of Goddamn hyenas.)

[Whatever]

emerod looks a lot like Ned Flanders.


Just sayin!   

[LMNO]

Also, what precisely is a Christian Anarchist (Note to everyone else:  No, I'm not going to start the anarchy argument up again, I'm just curious.  So fuck off, you pack of Goddamn hyenas.)

You've got a good point.  Luke 20:25 doesn't say, "Tell Ceaser to shove it up his ass."

[Cain]

I'm going to intervene temporarily and say "Tolstoy".  This may or may not have a bearing on the current discussion.

Also I don't know about Luke 20:25 but there has been substanstial discussion on Romans 13 by Christian Anarchists.

[LMNO]

Ah.  I forgot about that.

One could make the argument that Romans 13 isn't anarchic so much as it is submitting to an even more powerful Authority.

[Cain]

I found a defense against Luke 20:25, actually

"Render unto Caesar..." in no way divides the exercise of authority into two realms....They were said in response to another matter: the payment of taxes, and the coin. The mark on the coin is that of Caesar; it is the mark of his property. Therefore give Caesar this money; it is his. It is not a question of legitimizing taxes! It means that Caesar, having created money, is its master. That's all. Let us not forget that money, for Jesus, is the domain of Mammon, a satanic domain!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also, what precisely is a Christian Anarchist (Note to everyone else:  No, I'm not going to start the anarchy argument up again, I'm just curious.  So fuck off, you pack of Goddamn hyenas.)

You've got a good point.  Luke 20:25 doesn't say, "Tell Ceaser to shove it up his ass."

Simon and Peter were pretty rowdy, though.  They didn't call Simon "The Zealot" for nothing, and Peter would totally pull a GITM and slice your ear off.  D/N/T.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I found a defense against Luke 20:25, actually

"Render unto Caesar..." in no way divides the exercise of authority into two realms....They were said in response to another matter: the payment of taxes, and the coin. The mark on the coin is that of Caesar; it is the mark of his property. Therefore give Caesar this money; it is his. It is not a question of legitimizing taxes! It means that Caesar, having created money, is its master. That's all. Let us not forget that money, for Jesus, is the domain of Mammon, a satanic domain!

Ellul was full of shit.  Jesus was pointing out that, for his purposes, taxes were of no concern...And that they were due Ceasar.  I've heard this argument before, mostly from Calvinists.

[Cain]

It seems to me very much a case of Law of Fivesing/Confirmation Bias to me as well, but so does 95% of attempted interaction between religion and political philosophy.