I havn't read Punk Rock Jesus yet but I'm really excited about it for a couple of reasons. This might take me a bit to get there but hang with me I think it will be worth it.
I've mentioned before that when I was a kid my dad worked for McDonnell Douglas aircraft on the Mercury/Apollo programs among other things. I remember as a kid circa 1980 him telling me about being able to read a liscense plate from space using a satillite. What baffles me is that he was essentially describing Google Earth in 1980. So I alway wonder what technology is currently in government/military hands that will not trickle down to us for another 20 years. okay? so thats the background informing my thoughts here...
The other day my girlfriend and I were watching a really terrible reality TV show called, I kid you not, I CLONED MY DOG. There were 2 or 3 distraught pet owners who sent skin samples to some company in North Korea (not 100% on the country i just don't remember) and got back a clone of their puppy. So this thought floats around in my head for a while and i realized it has been, what? 18 years since Dolly the sheep was first cloned and now this is showing up on my TV?! huh. So in my mind this clearly means (and I'm beinging legitimate here I'm not poking fun or being a crazy conspiracy theorist) that some mad scientist is cloning people. If I am remebering this corrrectly and North Korea is the the hotbed of this technology I can easily imagine sombody cloning Kim Jung Il. This freaks me out because we live in an age were technology is improving so quickly i can't even imagine what qualifies as SCI FI anymore.
I recently read an article about advancements in prostetics allowing amputee soldiers to go back onto the battle field. Bionic Man, Iron-Man anyone?
So, the idea of someone taking a DNA sample from the schroud of Tourin and cloning a person and sticking that person on a Truman Show type reality TV program sounds facinating to me. This is exactly the sort of thing we as a culture are likely to do. How you feel about Jesus, or more particularly, how we all feel differently about Jesus is part of that social exploration I think.
We as humans i think always tend to invent things and then work out the moral implications later. The towel of Babel is the story of the invention of the brick. We can now build higher, faster, better, because of the BRICK! Let us build a tower to the heavens...
It doesn't matter what the technology is we almost inevtiably find a way to corrupted by it. I think this writer, and i've not read any of his stuff before, is really tuned in to how we as Americans operate. I wanna see where he goes with this.
What's with the negative connotation being placed on punk rock. Bands and Songs about DIY, independence, being true to yourself, following your heart, brotherhood and sisterhood, equality. Maybe the problem is your interpretation of punk rock...if your only punk rock experience is '77 punk then maybe you are looking in the wrong place. Look into Fugazi, Hot Water Music, Against Me! (among many others).
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That voyeuristic prick.
Someone call the president to get this all sorted out
Let's BURN EM!!!!!
I've mentioned before that when I was a kid my dad worked for McDonnell Douglas aircraft on the Mercury/Apollo programs among other things. I remember as a kid circa 1980 him telling me about being able to read a liscense plate from space using a satillite. What baffles me is that he was essentially describing Google Earth in 1980. So I alway wonder what technology is currently in government/military hands that will not trickle down to us for another 20 years. okay? so thats the background informing my thoughts here...
The other day my girlfriend and I were watching a really terrible reality TV show called, I kid you not, I CLONED MY DOG. There were 2 or 3 distraught pet owners who sent skin samples to some company in North Korea (not 100% on the country i just don't remember) and got back a clone of their puppy. So this thought floats around in my head for a while and i realized it has been, what? 18 years since Dolly the sheep was first cloned and now this is showing up on my TV?! huh. So in my mind this clearly means (and I'm beinging legitimate here I'm not poking fun or being a crazy conspiracy theorist) that some mad scientist is cloning people. If I am remebering this corrrectly and North Korea is the the hotbed of this technology I can easily imagine sombody cloning Kim Jung Il. This freaks me out because we live in an age were technology is improving so quickly i can't even imagine what qualifies as SCI FI anymore.
I recently read an article about advancements in prostetics allowing amputee soldiers to go back onto the battle field. Bionic Man, Iron-Man anyone?
So, the idea of someone taking a DNA sample from the schroud of Tourin and cloning a person and sticking that person on a Truman Show type reality TV program sounds facinating to me. This is exactly the sort of thing we as a culture are likely to do. How you feel about Jesus, or more particularly, how we all feel differently about Jesus is part of that social exploration I think.
We as humans i think always tend to invent things and then work out the moral implications later. The towel of Babel is the story of the invention of the brick. We can now build higher, faster, better, because of the BRICK! Let us build a tower to the heavens...
It doesn't matter what the technology is we almost inevtiably find a way to corrupted by it. I think this writer, and i've not read any of his stuff before, is really tuned in to how we as Americans operate. I wanna see where he goes with this.