List You Must Consider Before Flaming Me

0) All of our words are only so much hot air. Jesus and Hillel were both in utter agreement that Love is the important thing and all the rest is commentary. Ultimately you should all come visit me and my family in the Rocky Mountains, have some good bread and baba ganoush and a nice bottle of burgundy with us and speak of life, the universe and love. And while we are at it we can have some good debates too.
0.5) Who do you have the biggest arguments with, total strangers or family members you love? The people you love the most of course! I therefore will take your diatribes as signs of an intimate bond of familial love on your part and you can view my snarky posts likewise. Despite our differences we were all created for a purpose and are all good medicine for each other. Rest assured this is said in the full sense of the word medicine meaning something that is basically a poison to shock your system into behaving. It either does that or kills you. This blog probably won't kill you though.
1) If you believe in a higher being then you surely believe that our relative intelligence on any given subject is counted as nothing when compared to that of said higher being. Therefore, relatively speaking, neither of us are so smart nor are we much smarter than the bug that has crawled up your posterior.
2) Death is not such a big deal. Once again, if you believe in the higher being specified in #1 above then an eternity in his(hers, its, whatever) universe makes our death not such a big deal.
3) Misunderstandings occur easily. Ask 10 people to interpret Paul and see how many shades of meaning you get. The poor man had it coming - a smart Jewish boy educated by the finest Rabbi's who grew up in Tarsus, spoke Greek, Hebrew and probably Aramaic, wrote in at least two of those languages and then gets translated into modern day languages of the world. His writing style is difficult and he was writing to people in his own milieu who presumably knew what he was talking about. Honest scholars confess their difficulty in understanding him and yet people have shed blood over their various interpretations of him. Let it be understood that I will miscommunicate and you will misread and, if we are patient wit each other, we can come to understanding if not necessarily agreement.





P.S. This list will be updated as I see new and unique ways in which my convoluted posts confuse people.