I Like Porn

I called this “I like porn” probably because of the bloody brilliant shock value that can be attached to a phrase like that. Not to mention that everyone who will read this will probably say to someone somewhere that, “I once read somewhere someone saying ‘I like porn’ in a format which propagated the authentic Christian message.” Now this blog-concept isn’t in my list of skeleton ideas previously posted. That’s because I’m a sneaky ninja and you aren’t.
By the way I have altered the definition of the word porn because in our post-modern, echo-boomer, millennial mentality it’s cool to do that. Illicitly the word will now and forever mean the altercation of something that is, by generally permeating the is object with seductive and aesthetically pleasing stimulating characteristics.
I was sitting in a fast food restaurant and I looked at my friends and said that fast-food is the socially acceptable porn of everyday apathy. To pontificate, the desire for fast-food is the absence of a desire to eat in a manner that is healthy and/or financially intelligent. Fast-food will generally aid our ability to enjoy cardiac arrest, cardio and pulmonary shut-down, and the steady everyday decay of our neural-pathways and sensory receptors.

Again I will reiterate fast-food is the porn of everyday societal long-term suicide and I like it.

Divorce is the porn of marriage. Abuse is the porn of love. The road to hell is the porn of the path to heaven. Is the church in question the porn of Christianity?

A recent acquaintance suggested that Sunday morning Christianity or Sunday morning church could be described as spiritual masturbation. Dump your load (all the accumulated crap from the week and the guilt of the absence of a genuine relationship to God), feel good and move onto Monday morning real-life. I have in a previous setting suggested that in some cases church is much the idea of an incestuous relationship. Where we gather around each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and we love to pray, prophesy, speak in tongues, heal, word of knowledge and lay hands on each other. AND whoever is the best at it or has the highest quality and largest quantity of physical response wins honor, respect, leadership and is loved by all. Maybe this blog should have been entitled the sex of life contrasted to the sex of church. Either example; masturbation or incest are both horrific and belittling words for the concept of church which if church really is true, church really is the most important thing in this life and the next.
I think for a time as I said earlier that I like fast food but there will come a point when my heart stops, my lungs fail, my eyes dim, my ears deafen and something I can’t see will be eroding my livelihood from the very inners of my physical body. I’m sure in that moment I won’t like fast-food porn anymore. I think for a time I enjoyed the sex of church, the porn-moments, the heightened emotional moments… but as I theorize about it now, I feel as if the large abandonment of church is a result of this erotic display of ancient Christianity.

Again I will reiterate fast-food is the porn of everyday societal long-term suicide and I liked it – until I knew it would kill me.
Again I will reiterate single-serving-Sunday church is the porn of ancient Christianity and I liked it – until I knew it would kill me for eternity.

In the same way, the realization of fast-food as long-term suicide probably will not set in for most humans until it’s too late. The Bible reveals that Christianity is difficult to find and difficult to maintain. Difficult + difficult = ambitious, painful, ball-busting, intricate, immense, prohibitive, trying and challenging.

Don’t be so easily fooled by the injection of sex into spirituality resulting in Church-porn.

hugs and kisses,
DSW

Verbose Thoughts

I havent had the motivation to sit down and seriously consult my thoughts, idioms, phrases and journalling in order to create another blog. I will. But right now all you readers will have to settle for some of the skeleton ideas that I'm secretly revealing to you here. Here are some phrases I havent been able to shake from my head space:

"the retardation of church"
"the darkness in my skin"
"the concept of lost"
"the belief that things could get better"
"the widening disinterest in church especially found in church-lifers"
"the sheer idiocy of actually thinking we can make a narrow path wider"
"the disloyalty placating the common relationship"
"the deconstruction of the myth of the pastor"
"the implementation of the mind of Christ versus ask-God-everthing prayer"
"the evil absence of motivation for a possible future in Christians - especially leaders"
"the responsibility of church to humanity as in its relation to shift history towards Christ"

Dont be a vampiric assassin. Actually post on blogs you read... especially mine. Let this forum of concepts in the format of phrases be a place where we can develop them through discussion. Get your thoughts out there - I wrote some starters that can keep me busy for hours so embrace this chance to say whatever the heck you want to about some of these topics. Who knows you might even have a little by-accident and actually sound intelligent for a change.

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check out this article - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2112892,00.html

hugs and kisses,
DSW

Imagination Development

Recently I have been wondering about the phrase “delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.” Obviously when someone or anyone for that matter reads a phrase like that we immediately begin dreaming or imagining the possibilities of what it is that makes up the desires of our hearts. Consequently, I have always wondered at the staggering potential for just such a statement made by the Creator God. Desires is so inherently vague in its depiction of what we should want because most of the time what we want is sex, power, and materialism. What then does God who is so significantly Other to our world and our existing way of thinking, what does He actually mean.

C.S. Lewis writes; "Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

I toy with the idea that part of being a pastor and my role as leading people (however impossible that is) on a spiritual journey is that I am in fact in “imagination development.” Helping move one set of brain waves, mind matter, and head space to a position where they can see the finite dream transformed into the infinite and the mortal dream transformed into the eternal et cetera. Facilitating imagineering so that God can truly work on the most powerful sets of hopes for the future possible... with the promise that He will answer.

What do you think? What is this idea that God promises the idea of our hearts? Bible has another phrase; “the heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful.” You think C.S. Lewis is right? Do you think we more often than not drive after a dream that is second-best?

Hugs and kisses,
DSW