rubrics (I like that word), wrecking crews and hugfests

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> If that is what Mack says I would say way wrong as far as a Paul,  
> cynic connection. Paul was very pro authority, and constantly  
> emphasized his own authority: "All authorities are ordained by God".  
> He believed in a physical resurrection, and was in every important   
> way a Pharisee despite his conversion. Crossan argues that Jesus  
> was  a cynic but that the more literate Pharisees of his disciples  
> wrote the Gospels and shaped the religion.

You should read Mack, I could be garbling his message. To me it's a  
lot like modern day Christianists—to use Andrew Sullivan's useful term— 
adopting a popular religious myth to realize ends alien to the source.

> Gotta love them mindless pleasures.  But that alone never was enough  
> for many of us.

Perhaps, but they tend to slip up the lot of us, as they do Pynchon's  
characters.