Pundits, Pollsters, and Jonathan Swift; Virginia Woolf and Jesus

October 30, 2015

Pundits, Pollsters, and Jonathan Swift; Virginia Woolf and Jesus

If you follow this blog at all, you’ll know that what The Ambiguities does is try to preserve . . . ambiguities, especially from those that try to explain them and, if not also explain them away, at least rub the shine off*: pundits, politicians, pollsters, and preachers; sociologists, psychologists, and scientismists; analysts, anal-ists, Laputans.

   Bill W., you asked me some time ago what I was trying to do with the blog, and all I could say then was “Read it.” Now, you can get off, if you must, with reading just the paragraph above.

Here is another story of Jesus,** particularly for my preacher friends about whom I have said more than once that they don’t know when to sit down (before they’ve rubbed all the shine off). This is an observation from below, not an accusation from on high.

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 * These are people that buy lottery tickets to scratch them.

** This Sunday’s gospel lesson from the Revised Common Lectionary, Mark 12:28-34.

For links to other stories from the TRV (Ted Riich Version) of the Hebrew, Baalist, and New Covenant Scriptures, click here.