Philosophical & Theological Reflections On Satirical Images III: Webcam

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Bizarre Records

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When I was a teenager I had a German Shepherd-Husky dog named Rebel, nicknamed 'Jerkhead'. He was a very kind dog to children and most people but he had some interesting habits which involved going for runs.

My Mom and I brought him home when he was 1.5 years old. Soon my Dad had to have the backyard fence extended by several feet because Rebel could jump over it. Once Rebel could no longer jump over it he would dig under it.

Once out of the backyard he would look to do the following, or the following would occur:

Deliver a 'parcel' to a neighbour's yard.

(Yes he could have done that in our yard, but no, no, no, that would not be neighbourly, would it?)

(He was the Mr. Rogers of German Shepherd-Huskies.)

Attack a male canine.

Mate with a female canine.

Chase a feline. In particular a certain orange and white cat that my Mom also did not like that much. This cat liked to for some reason take swipes with his claws at both Rebel and my Mom.

The cat liked me though.

Have an automobile 'incident'. Once he decided to rest in the middle of the street right in front of an RCMP patrol car.



My deduction is that this is an example of employees going too far with late night humour.

However, I agree, I too will go with the salad.

I will go further, I will avoid McDonalds (for the most part).



On the bright side, a person can sit and tie his or her shoes without someone opening the door. Genius!

Religious Album Covers



I realize this album was likely done decades ago but there should be some common sense used when marketing an album that will be sold in both Christian and secular culture, which do overlap.

Romans 12:2 comes to mind:

English Standard Version

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

New American Standard Bible

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

The Christian, the follower of the Biblical God is not to be conformed to the world, as in the system of thinking in the world, but is to follow the will of God. However, this should not mean that the Christian necessarily develops and uses language such as in 'touched me' or 'touches me' in marketing which are understood in a spiritualized way in a certain Christian context, knowing full well that when marketed in a broader Christian and secular context will be ridiculed in a way that may produce more harm than good. I reason much thought (prayer) needs to be done on these matters.



Five Worst

Quote:

'Bruno Maltise is a Chicago-based Christian musician, so he probably does know something about hit men. I’m really hoping the man in this picture is some sort of hit man, because if it is a picture of Bruno himself, I don’t think many people would go to see his concerts, and there would certainly be very few groupies around to hang out with him after the show.'

If that is Bruno or other, he looks like either perhaps:

A) A person made up with a lot of makeup to look like a movie hitman. Probably the horror/mobster genre.

B) An actual person that has been involved in several dramatic, traumatic, life incidents that figured what the heck I might as well use it to market an album.



Let me guess, does he mean drunk via the Holy Spirit? More spiritualized language perhaps? Is that moonshine?



I have had this image on a previous archived post.

'Brilliant' evangelism work Barry!


Reformed Presbyterian Mr. Matt smoking his pipe with his freedom in the Lord as he sees it.



Reformed Presbyterian/Baptist Russ having no desire to ever smoke and wondering if Mr. Matt should be doing so, even though he has the freedom in Christ to do so.

Matt is smoking the pipe upside down some kind of Vancouver non-conforminity thing?

The Lord's Prayer as read in Cockney by Chucky

English Standard Version (ESV)

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Versions below

Please note: Chucky is reading the prayer. We are not praying. We are not being disrespectful. It is humorous religious literature.

From

This will not save as a hyper link and so here is the URL.

http://cippenhambaptistchurch.com/blog/2009/08/20/cockney-bible/

Here's the Lord's Prayer in Cockney: “Hello, Dad, up there in good ol’ Heaven, Your name is well great and holy, and we respect you, Guv. We hope we can all ‘ave a butcher’s at Heaven and be there as soon as possible: and we want to make you happy, Guv, and do what you want ‘ere on earth, just like what you do in Heaven. Guv, please give us some Uncle Fred, and enough grub and stuff to keep us going today, and we hope you’ll forgive us when we cock things up, just like we’re supposed to forgive them who annoy us and do dodgy stuff to us. There’s a lot of dodgy people around, Guv; please don’t let us get tempted to do bad things. Help keep us away from all the nasty, evil stuff, and keep that dodgy Satan away from us, ‘cos you’re much stronger than ‘im. Your the Boss, God, and will be for ever, innit? Cheers, Amen.

London photos from TrekEarth:

On a more serious note:

Matthew 6:9-13 English Standard Version (ESV)

9 Pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.[a]
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done,[b]
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,[c]
12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.[d]

Luke 11:2-4 English Standard Version (ESV)

2 And he said to them, “When you pray, say:

“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 Give us each day our daily bread,[a]
4 and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”

Luke 11:2-4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

2 And He said to them, “ When you pray, say:

‘[a]Father, hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come.

3 ‘Give us each day our [b]daily bread.

4 ‘And forgive us our sins,

For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

And lead us not into temptation.’”

Matthew 6:9-13 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

9 “ Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 ‘ Your kingdom come.

Your will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 ‘ Give us this day [a]our daily bread.

12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from [b] evil. [c][For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

August 24, 2012

More webcam experimenting for future work and blogging. This is an example of one of my custom email alerts I have made over the years. I find a loud email alert can be useful for getting me up if it is from Europe in the middle of the night (morning), for example.  Of course I have much less noisy alerts as well...

The Dark Knight Returns: The Dark Knight Rises Review

Manhattan (Google Images)

Sunday prior to viewing the third instalment of the Batman/Dark Knight Trilogy a good friend from church informed me he had viewed the film, that it was decent but he would not care to view it again. He thought it kind of 'cultic'.

Soon while viewing the movie my deduction was that this understanding would be the case because the Batman villains were from the same organization as in the first Dark Night Trilogy film which was 'Batman Begins' 2005. That being the organization of Ra's al Ghul whom supposedly died at the end of the 2005 film, but his criminal group survived.

Ra's al Ghul-Wiki

Ra's al Ghul is an international criminal whose goal is world domination through what he views as perfect environmental balance. In his view this could be best done by eliminating most of humanity perhaps through a biological weapon.

A leader with this type of worldview could be seen as a cultic type leader perhaps, and in one of the opening scenes in The Dark Knight Rises one of the group members appears to obey Bane and sacrifice his own life and go down with a hijacked airplane for the sake of appearances. Again that would seem cultic. There is also a twist near end of the film with a betrayal of supposed love that could be deemed cultic.

Philosophically, in fiction or reality such a radical, blinding political devotion to a cause is indeed in my mind, even without necessarily a notion of any divine or supernatural being, quite extreme and could be compared philosophically to religious devotion that is cultic, so my friend has a reasonable point.

Screenrant

Screenrant states:

'...we pick up eight years after the events of The Dark Knight and are re-introduced to a Gotham City where organized crime has been effectively curtailed – thanks to the strict mandates of the “Harvey Dent Act.”'

'...The Batman, is no longer needed (or wanted) on the streets.'

Time Review

From Time:

'The form of the storm is a creature called Bane, an immense hulk with an air of courtly menace and, to reduce his pain, a tubular mask that looks like a small creature from the original Alien permanently leeched onto his face. Long ago, Bane escaped from a deep Asian pit where tough men were left to wither and die. Now he is the muscle, and possibly the brains, of the League of Shadows from Batman Begins.'

In all honesty I was going to write an 'Alien' comment about Bane in this article but I see Time beat me to it. That part of his costume is a joke as DC and the film producers should have done better. It also looks like a mouth piece designed on a college campus by students as a prank, as if made for a fellow student when guzzling beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages. Not that I ever lived on a college campus but I have seen enough American and British television to make the deduction. The League of Shadows is the Ra's al Ghul organization.

Empire

Empire online states

'Eight years after Batman disappeared, blamed for murder, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is a wounded recluse, but Gotham is vibrant — until masked maniac Bane (Tom Hardy) decides it’s high time to bring the city down. Facing this new threat and mysterious cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), Wayne decides the Dark Knight must rise, once again.'

In the end potential nuclear annihilation of Gotham is the threat. Scientifically nuclear weapons are designed to cause when detonated an explosion in which nuclear fission (splitting) or nuclear fusion occurs, or combination of both. Oxford Dictionary of Science (2010: 567, 568, 572).

Now, I hope with the end of the Dark Night Trilogy, as this is not likely the end of Batman films as they have been financially successful, that there is not another 'origin' film five to ten years from now. Enough already.

The previous Spider-Man series just came out a few years ago and that was redone with a new origin film this year. I do think it is an improvement but I reason that superheroes like Batman (1930s) and Spider-Man (1960s) have been in the media and in culture (s) in comics, television, theatres and other long enough that the entire first film of a franchise, sometimes more than one franchise does not need to be dedicated to origins. Origins could be handled in five minutes, for example. To me it just strikes me as intellectually lazy to do origin films when the Western society, to some extent, knows the origins of two of the three most famous superheroes. Superman being the other. I see there is a new 'Man of Steel' film for 2013, it was previewed at the theatre. From the preview and some reading, it looks like another origin film.

Lazy.

As expected, I still prefer the DC Batman franchise to the new Marvel Spider-Man franchise. Although I do think Marvel's Iron Man and Avengers films do rival Batman for quality in regard to writing, special effects and action. In the 2010s, especially, with computers it is amazing what technology can produce on film and comic books can be largely duplicated which was not as true, at least in the 20th century. Batman films do tend to be more serious film making than their Spider-Man counterparts, sadly, yet both are still true enough to the comics although I admit with my limited comic collection and reading I am no expert. Just a casual observer.

Oxford Dictionary of Science, (2010), Sixth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.


Bane versus Batman round II (DC Comics)


The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)

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Batman with Star Wars and Jaws? (Google Images)