And a Mherhy Cthulmhas to you!

merry cthulmhas lisa

Oy Santa!

Cthulhumas isn’t that a holiday inbred New Englanders celebrate like the Bush Family?

Hi Lisa interesting art and folklore.

The phallocentric, obviously pre-Christian fertility god also chased immoral young women, terrifying them with this long curling tongue while swatting them with a bundle of birch switches while St. Nick looked on approvingly.

Pagan Christmas rocks if we replace bad with liking sex it sounds like a party. But then the Christians came and they brought Sin and Guilt which actually made anything that was forbid even more bad. (Bad equals Sex)
Maybe the Christian faith won against the Pagans because being bad and guilt made things Kinky?
Could the Christians have created Kink?

Hi Suz TCU Blutodog and Elliot. Very nice day of friendship, beautiful weather on the Back Bay. The shorebirds were happy and the white pelicans with their yellow beaks were feeding. I got to row for 3 miles and later a two mile jog. No switches just sunshine and great ocean air to breathe. How was your day?

Sounds like a bummer. Praise blame was the way the 60s and 70s philosopher described it. It creeps into thought patterns.

Or as John Trudell wrote in “Hanging from the Cross:”

The trinity of the chain
guilt, sin and blame

The more Repressed Christian you are the more likely that if given the opportunity/power the more likely you are to indulge Dave Vitter cheats on his wife fine thats normal but Diapers? Thats Kink.
Larry Craig is how old and he is still picking up strangers not at bars but in bathrooms as long as he can’t be accepted for who he is he seems trapped in immature risky behavior juvenile behavior.
Governor Sanford is caught telling lies that a highschool boy would consider lame and likely to get you caught.
I think the more Holy you claim to be publicly the greater the kink factor in private.
I don’t think the sex is better its just if you deny yourself in public the thrill of lying and getting away with it comes into play.
Why deny yourself? Why risk mixing the thrill of getting away with it with sex unless you want to be corrupted?

I got that on my I tunes :)

Day was fine started with a troll and it was just to stupid to bother with on Christmas so I went back to sleep.:)

SD, the IBKC made it to the North Pole

Santa Claus and Jesus Christ debate the meaning of Christmas. Who wins?

Or as they say on Wall Street, on the Senate floor and in the Oval Office, Merry Chri$$$tma$$$.

I’m thinking with the snow the GOP will have a big Global Warming is false party on the weekend.
However the more hot it gets the more energy in the system/wind so cold fronts can travel faster further to cause snow in places they normally don’t.
So yes I expect freak snowstorms to bring snow places that don’t normally get it until the ice caps melt and we reach a new balance with nature.

Better off with Hanukkah

“”Maybe the Christian faith won against the Pagans because being bad and guilt made things Kinky?
Could the Christians have created Kink?”"

Not the first with Kink, but they sure found it a popular drawing card.

The catholic church of my childhood had 12 statues hanging along the walls depicting the various ways Jesus was tortured on the way to nailing him to a cross. Every Friday during lent we had to attend a long ceremony where the priest stood in front of and gazed at each statue in turn contemplating each particular torture.

Lots of similarities with BDSM practices, binding, whipping, blood letting, suspending, etc. including the fact that the whole thing with Jesus was voluntary also since he is said to have wanted to go through it to save us. and he could have smote them dead any time he didn’t like what was happening.

Religion, torture, animal and human sacrifices appear together too regularly for my taste.

Aloha, Suz…! Things seemed to have quieted down around here today…! Still all kevlar/nomex’ed up…? ;-)

CT! Mele Kalikimaka!

u betcha
also
folks are gonna wake up from their holiday dinner-induced comas soon and i don’t wanna get caught in my unawares

Santa Claus, passed out presents to good children, Krampus would either beat the bad ones with chains and sticks or drag them off to hell. The phallocentric, obviously pre-Christian fertility god also chased immoral young women, terrifying them with this long curling tongue while swatting them with a bundle of birch switches while St. Nick looked on approvingly.

I confess. I never heard of Krampus. The Santa Christmas story makes much more sense to me now. It parallels the theology of Jesus and The Devil. Or of Zoroastria and Mazda. Sinful man and the divine. Yin and Yang. Good and Evil.

Krampus is more of the crap that man created. He’s got a great phallus tongue, however.

Back atcha…! *g*

There is no Hawaiian word for ‘cthulmhas’…! I wonder why…? ;-)

To Paraphrase Dubya Bush:

Don’t forget Poland Cannibalism.

lol
I thought you said you didn’t want to get caught in your underwears.

dinner-induced comas
My ham’s resting as I type…! I hope to be in one before long…! ;-)

hehehehe i love using that phrase — most folks do the same thing you did ellie :)

Maybe the more repressed a society is about sex the more Authoritarian and kinky it gets? I should go back to school I think.

And don’t forget the Cthul Ketchu! Human brains just aren’t the same without that Old Timey Primevil Flavor

Ketchu should be Ketchup my bad

HP Lovecraft (the author, not the band) would approve, methinks, Mz. Derrick.

Heck, I bet the band would have approved!

Nice work, Lisa, Merry Merry!

Ia Shub Niggurath! Cthulu Aiee Aiee!

Hey there Cthulu….

The catholic church of my childhood had 12 statues hanging along the walls depicting the various ways Jesus was tortured on the way to nailing him to a cross

I never really understood this suffering as I was taught to. After all, Jesus was God. So he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that any suffering he endured would end in Paradise. The horror of the suffering mere mortals endure is that we can only have faith that it ends in Paradise. Big difference.

And what is the suffering of Christ next to the suffering of, say, the 20,000 children aged 5 years and younger who die from starvation every 24 hours on planet Earth. There are fewer more painfully protracted ways to die than starving to death.

Religion, alas, is just a way to rationalize things like this. A way to “explain” them.

Away, for example.

Yet what I wouldn’t give to believe, as I once did as a boy, in God.

Without God all the terrible ordeals of mankind are essentially meaningless and absurd.

How can things possibly be more unbearable than that?

Save me…please.

Joel said: Religion, torture, animal and human sacrifices appear together too regularly for my taste.

Then I said:

To Paraphrase Dubya Bush:
Don’t forget Poland Cannibalism.

Communion wafers represent the body of Christ. Wine is his blood. Chrismas Trees are Pagan. Why not Santa in the Catholic Church, too?

And while we’re at it Cthulhu and Krampus.

Ketchu should be Ketchup my bad.

And what is the suffering of Christ next to the suffering of, say, the 20,000 children aged 5 years and younger who die from starvation every 24 hours on planet Earth. There are fewer more painfully protracted ways to die than starving to death.

With the population exploding and resources fast running out, Religion tells the poor to make more babies. Religion should be handing out condoms.

eli up at the mothership

Nine years ago in Salzburg, Vienna, I bought, in a Christmas time farmers market, a krampus, head of cardboard and body of red peppers on shiskabob sticks. To buy it, I had to let my fellow travellers, proceed without me. That caused such complications that when we reunited I gave the krampus to one of them, a collector of Christmas items. He has since displayed this vile angry and now blackened monster at his Christmas party, a 40 years and counting event, as the true spirit of Christmas.

Thank you for explaining just how right he is.

Once again,,,,,,a truly remarkable Moyers’ program…Now, he is a treasure. Wonderful piece on dance, etc.

Clearly no myth, the legendary Krampus appears to be an early ancestor of Gene Simmons…