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[Wing Woo Gar]

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Wow! That’s a gorgeous view

 

[Gyakuto]

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I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

 

[drop bear]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

It makes its own quiet statement.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop

I see it more as a man making his stand against the absurd, saying to the cosmos 'here I am, and this is my knife'. Such a man is capable of anything, and the beauty of the landscape is incidental, though it serves to highlight the futility and heroism of his struggle.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Indeed, the artist's chosen name, drop bear, illustrates the banality of the absurd and the arbitrary nature of existence by means of a reference to antipodean fauna. He fights back, he mocks the absurd

 

[Prince_Alarming]

In a post foucaultian gesture of defiance, he questions the authority of nature to thwart him, underscoring his existential autonomy with a humble yet summative gesture

 

[Xue Sheng]

It makes its own quiet statement.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

In a post foucaultian gesture of defiance, he questions the authority of nature to thwart him, underscoring his existential autonomy with a humble yet summative gesture

Wow! Well said sir! You are made for the pulpit.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Wow! Well said sir! You are made for the pulpit.

That or the scaffold

 

[HighKick]

Well, dissertation is done, all criticisms and questions are over…. He got his PhD

HUGE congratulation. People who have never done just cannot appreciate the draining process.

 

[Buka]

I'm sick, but then you knew that anyway. What I mean is that I've pulled a sickie. Some of the people at the bible study group have some pretty shall we say old fashioned opinions, and I'm not good at dealing with that.

I’m curious. Wouldn’t people in a Bible study group naturally have old fashioned opinions?
It’s an old book.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Well...yeah, but you know what Jesus said about homosexuality? Absolutely nothing. And I refuse to believe that the son of God was either guilty of an oversight or intended Christians to persecute a certain group of people for no good reason.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I mean, I know a fair amount of gay folk and if they want to solemise their relationship in the eyes of the lord I see no reason why they shouldn't. Maybe it's because I don't particularly care what other people do with their genitals, I don't know

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Well...yeah, but you know what Jesus said about homosexuality? Absolutely nothing. And I refuse to believe that the son of God was either guilty of an oversight or intended Christians to persecute a certain group of people for no good reason.

It’s Old Testament bigotry and sexual violence to blame, supposedly revoked by the new covenant. Things like being stoned to death by your whole town for touching pig skin, or eating shellfish, or working on the Sabbath, etc.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Which, surely, is the kind of thing that the lord made himself flesh to prevent? I feel sure that christ had a more fulfilling aim in mind

 

[Xue Sheng]

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Which, surely, is the kind of thing that the lord made himself flesh to prevent? I feel sure that christ had a more fulfilling aim in mind

I don’t pretend to understand the motivations of others, whether they be deity or mortal. Christ would be so much more appealing if it weren’t for all the murder and misogyny perpetrated either directly, or at the behest of his father. Ah well, at least it makes for an exciting read, most especially because of the surprise ending. Now before you brand me heretic or blasphemer, I would submit that my version of God transcends gender or form, and certainly, at the very least, the most inspired ideas and scribblings of man.

 

[drop bear]

I’m curious. Wouldn’t people in a Bible study group naturally have old fashioned opinions?
It’s an old book.

There are bible groups that try really hard to be hip.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

There are bible groups that try really hard to be hip.

There were lots of these types of youth ministry clubs around when I was a kid. They always had some young minister that smelled of swindle or impropriety.

 

[Buka]

There are bible groups that try really hard to be hip.

And all the power to them. Being “hip” might be what the Bible was all about. But, not being a Biblical scholar, I wouldn’t know.

But if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and sheets like a duck, maybe it’s a duck.
I can see that. Sort of.