Flashback, Christmas 2006—Christmas Greetings from Friend Tom

[Robin Landseadel]

Our pastor said that this week of Christmas would be a good time for  
us to
reach out to people who may not have Christ in their lives. That is  
why I am
writing this message to the group. I have read some of the messages in  
the
list and I am pretty sure that few, if any, of you have heard His  
message.
Is that right?

I have also read the rules about posting to this group, so I will  
mention
that my wife and I are reading two of Mr. Pynchon's books: Gravity  
Rainbow
(me) and Vineland (wife). My wife tried but found it too difficult to  
read
more than a dozen or so pages. She laid it down and said "Dumb book." I
apologize for offending you but i have to be honest if I am going to  
help
you save yourselves. I will continue to read the Gravity book.

Why am I posting this? I think it is relevant. Why? because I have heard
many negative things about lurkers and I don't want to be one. I am  
posting
this so you will know that I am a recipient of your messages. I am not a
lurker. I have one purpose, and I am open about it: To help you find  
Christ
and to bring Him into your lives.

Remember that He is watching you, and so am I. We love you. Merry  
Christmas.

 >From now on I will post messages that relate directly to Mr.  
Pynchon's work.
I will start with Gravity and move out from there.

That by way of introduction.

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I want to thank you all for responding. I think you all need to be  
saved,
but don't we all? We are all sinners in the eyes of God. But I have  
promised
to keep my posts on topic, which is Mr. Pynchon and his works. And if  
in the
process I can help some of you find your way to salvation, all the  
better.

I have studied this Pynchon phenomenon, as it is called, for several  
days
now, and I know a lot about it. I have also been listening to the  
dreaded
Howard Stern, and watching the Simpsons. Yes, I have done my homework  
and
will continue to do so regardless of how offensive it is to one's
sensibilities. I feel not unlike Daniel in the lion's den. I will work  
for
the Lord in the darkest corners.

Some of you, well probably all of you, are familiar with the sixteenth
season of the Simpsons (I found it on the google). Mr. Pynchon took it  
upon
himself to make one of his infrequent public appearances there, well, at
least his voice and as a cartoon character with a bag over his head. I  
mean,
can  you believe it, he is so afraid of exposure that his cartoon
representation had its/his face obscured. He needs help and we should  
all
pray for him.

But at least he was there. This is so very significant because the  
Simpsons
is actually a Christian work. And as for Howard Stern, well, as they  
say,
keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Mr. Stern, the
self-professed King of Media, is the worst, but I will not run from  
him. I
will confront his depravity and maybe, just maybe, I can help him and  
his
millions of satellite fans find The Way.

I have to read more. The Gravity book is not the easiest thing I've  
tried to
read, but I know I can do it because I have the Good Book as my guide. I
know that we all can find Christ in The Phychon Phenomenon, as Mr.  
Pynchon
himself has done when he appeared on the Simpsons.

Remember that the Lord loves you. He loves Mr. Pynchon for  
participating in
the Christian Simpsons show. we all wish you a Merry Christmas, even  
to Jews
(Christ was one!), Muslims, Buddhists, transcendentalistis, pantheists,
agnostics, atheists, communists and so on. We are all God's people.

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I want to wish the list nannies a Merry Christmas too. I thank you all  
for
allowing me to spread the Word at this wonderful time of year. I will  
read
the Gravity Rainbow (note: I understand now from responses not to call  
it
the Gravity book) and report back when I'm ready. You know, it's a  
pretty
long book and it's going to take time. Maybe around Easter when we  
celebrate
His rising from the dead, when we are all thankful for the coming of  
Spring.
I will pray for you all to see the light and be saved. Remember that God
loves you and watches over you even as you misinterpret Mr. Pynchon's
Christian message and languish in the corruptive programming from  
satellite
radio.

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