scenes, themes, memes (moshpit perspectives) …

An extraordinarily busy work schedule was followed by the sudden death of a loved one, momentarily derailing my psychic state, putting me just this side of despondency for a moment. In the meanwhile, I eked out 47th place on the biblioblog list for the month of May—a month that had surprisingly far less traffic than when I made 49th place a couple of months back. I don't understand how any of this works, so I won't even pretend to. People seem to really get into blogging, though, competitively employing strategies, vying for position. Some people take it very seriously. From my perch on the periphery I look at the playful taunting and gibing and strutting going on at the beating heart of the phenomenon, and realize what a strange subculture of people I am blessed to be a part of, albeit if only tangentially. It's the closest I come to the sort of nerd impulse in a certain kind of personality which often results in Star-Trekkies, Dungeons and Dragons geeks, comic book fans. These are variants of the same impulse, really. This nerd-complex also reminds me of watching a moshpit from a distance. In the center of the throbbing mass of entranced dancing bodies, it feels like a battle for survival, but from the edge of the whirlpool, beyond the event horizon, it can be a beautiful and cathartic experience, a lesson in human behavior, even. Some people have never seen a moshpit. They can't even imagine such a thing as a potential source of beauty. I reckon that's cool. Some people are more esthetically sedate than others; some more savvy, We can't legislate taste. Right?

Anyway . . . Next up I will write some of the thoughts I've had while exploring Hebrews It suddenly occured to me a couple of weeks ago that that epistle is the main reason why Christians are so confused about the character of their Judaic inheritance. It will close out my recently started review of the New Testament in search of judaic content. I won't deal with any of the catholic epistles (they are all clearly forgeries) or with the Apocalypsis of Saint John the Divine (don't get me started), except to say that they add nothing anyway to my search.

soon …

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