Ray's Thought for the Day - Sodom and Gomorrah
Er. Is that one thought, or two?
Just about all this information contributory to my possibly bifurcated thought today derives from long conversations I have undertaken with my bosom companion, the Crumby Ovate. The twain of us have fretted quite a bit about Sodom and Gomorrah. Especially, Crumby fretted over Sodom and Gomorrah long before he came to the Parlor of the Goddess.
Crumby relates as follows, “Back when I was a wicked Christian, and even during the long years of Druid Training, I would get aggravated at work due to all the compromises I was having to make with the liars and gluttons. Then I would sometimes cry out, in the midst of my miserable labors, Sodom and Gomorrah. Yep. I would cry out loudly, Sodom and Gomorrah. Once in a while, my cries of despair would be answered, “Why dost they cry out so, of both Sodom and Gomorrah? Then would I also cry out, This place is just like Sodom and Gomorrah, cause all I ever get in these parts is a butt******’!”
The butt******’ Crumby references was, of course, not a literal reference to anal sex. Instead, his cry of despair refers allegorically to the human environment he found himself in, and all the wickedness he perceived on-going that was having a direct impact on Crumby. From the time Crumby was little, you may see, he was taught to equate Sodom and Gomorrah with human wickedness.
So Crumby, and me, Ray, began to fret upon the subtopic, Sodom and Gomorrah, together, in our spare time. Back on the date of the Julian, 11-16-2005, occurs one of Crumby’s missals, regarding Lot and Lot’s erection prism, an indication of just how long we have fretted over Sodom and Gomorrah, recently. For the nonce though, I shall limit my thought to the evidential record of wickedness in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, as described in King James' version of the Book of Genesis.
We first learn that the Lord was wroth with Sodom and, Gomorrah maybe, in Chapter 13. Abram and his nephew or brother, Lot, get into a range war and decide those parts aren’t big enough for the both of them. So Lot herds off toward Sodom and pitches his tent in those parts.
(Ch. 13. Vs. 13.) But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
Pretty soon a great many rustlers attack Sodom and Gomorrah and drive off all the livestock including all Lot’s livestock. Not only that, they kidnap Lot and a good many other Sodomites and Gommorahites, mostly ladies, maybe. Abram, upon hearing the news, sets out to recover all the stock and rescue his nephew or brother. Pretty soon Abram and his hired hands catch up with the rustlers and recover most of the stock and people, including Lot. Then Abram takes Lot on back to Sodom. The King of Sodom thanks Abram for recovering all the stock and people and offers all the stock to Abram as a reward. However, Abram says he doesn’t want anything except what his hired hands have already et up on the adventure. Lot settles back to a regular life in Sodom and Abram goes home.
The next we hear about Sodom and Gomorrah, Abram is chatting with three men, two of whom may actually be Angels, maybe, and the third man, may be the Lord, maybe.
(Ch. 18. Verses. 20 and 21). And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Off go two of the men/angels, to ascertain whatever, and the third man, the Lord, stays chatting with Abram.
The two men/angels arrive in Sodom to find Lot waiting for them at the gate. The two men/angels want to “abide in the street all night”, but Lot insists they come home with him. Pretty soon the entire male population and all the people of Sodom surround Lot’s house/tent demanding that the men/angels be sent out to them.
Lot engages the men/all the people of Sodom in conversation and entreats them to take his own two virgin daughters instead of the men/angels (Ch 19. Vs 8). But then in (Ch19. Vs 14) we learn that Lot was not entirely honest regarding the offering up of his twain virgin daughters to the mob. It turns out, they’re both married.
The above sums up all that King James knew of the nature of the specific wickedness of the Sodomites; to whit, Lot inferred that his daughters might do for the mob in lieu of the men/angels. But King James provides some additional information regarding the antics of both Lot and his brother/uncle Abram. According to King James, Abram pimped his wife, Sarai, twice. Once, to one or another of the pharaohs and another time to King Abimelech of Gerar. That’s right, Abram pimped his wife twice that King James knew about. Both times Abram resorted to that age old ploy, “Would you like to meet my sister?” Mercy! What’s more, Sarai
actually was, according to King James, Abram’s sister.
Lot, escaping the ruin of Sodom, and the ruin of the mysterious Gomorrah, fetched up in a cave with his twain widowed virgin daughters. The daughters, according to King James, lacking the strict oversight of their nameless mother, the pillar of salt, decided to get Lot drunk and then enjoy their daddy two nights in a row, one each night (Ch. 19. Verses. 29-36). Mercy!
My inference from all this is, Abram and Lot were both pimps. Also, as with most pimps, they were well-practiced liars. As to why the men/angels/Lord were all the time visiting with Abram and Lot, and the Lord was occasionally meeting with Sarai alone. Well, let’s not go there.
Just about all this information contributory to my possibly bifurcated thought today derives from long conversations I have undertaken with my bosom companion, the Crumby Ovate. The twain of us have fretted quite a bit about Sodom and Gomorrah. Especially, Crumby fretted over Sodom and Gomorrah long before he came to the Parlor of the Goddess.
Crumby relates as follows, “Back when I was a wicked Christian, and even during the long years of Druid Training, I would get aggravated at work due to all the compromises I was having to make with the liars and gluttons. Then I would sometimes cry out, in the midst of my miserable labors, Sodom and Gomorrah. Yep. I would cry out loudly, Sodom and Gomorrah. Once in a while, my cries of despair would be answered, “Why dost they cry out so, of both Sodom and Gomorrah? Then would I also cry out, This place is just like Sodom and Gomorrah, cause all I ever get in these parts is a butt******’!”
The butt******’ Crumby references was, of course, not a literal reference to anal sex. Instead, his cry of despair refers allegorically to the human environment he found himself in, and all the wickedness he perceived on-going that was having a direct impact on Crumby. From the time Crumby was little, you may see, he was taught to equate Sodom and Gomorrah with human wickedness.
So Crumby, and me, Ray, began to fret upon the subtopic, Sodom and Gomorrah, together, in our spare time. Back on the date of the Julian, 11-16-2005, occurs one of Crumby’s missals, regarding Lot and Lot’s erection prism, an indication of just how long we have fretted over Sodom and Gomorrah, recently. For the nonce though, I shall limit my thought to the evidential record of wickedness in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, as described in King James' version of the Book of Genesis.
We first learn that the Lord was wroth with Sodom and, Gomorrah maybe, in Chapter 13. Abram and his nephew or brother, Lot, get into a range war and decide those parts aren’t big enough for the both of them. So Lot herds off toward Sodom and pitches his tent in those parts.
(Ch. 13. Vs. 13.) But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
Pretty soon a great many rustlers attack Sodom and Gomorrah and drive off all the livestock including all Lot’s livestock. Not only that, they kidnap Lot and a good many other Sodomites and Gommorahites, mostly ladies, maybe. Abram, upon hearing the news, sets out to recover all the stock and rescue his nephew or brother. Pretty soon Abram and his hired hands catch up with the rustlers and recover most of the stock and people, including Lot. Then Abram takes Lot on back to Sodom. The King of Sodom thanks Abram for recovering all the stock and people and offers all the stock to Abram as a reward. However, Abram says he doesn’t want anything except what his hired hands have already et up on the adventure. Lot settles back to a regular life in Sodom and Abram goes home.
The next we hear about Sodom and Gomorrah, Abram is chatting with three men, two of whom may actually be Angels, maybe, and the third man, may be the Lord, maybe.
(Ch. 18. Verses. 20 and 21). And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Off go two of the men/angels, to ascertain whatever, and the third man, the Lord, stays chatting with Abram.
The two men/angels arrive in Sodom to find Lot waiting for them at the gate. The two men/angels want to “abide in the street all night”, but Lot insists they come home with him. Pretty soon the entire male population and all the people of Sodom surround Lot’s house/tent demanding that the men/angels be sent out to them.
Lot engages the men/all the people of Sodom in conversation and entreats them to take his own two virgin daughters instead of the men/angels (Ch 19. Vs 8). But then in (Ch19. Vs 14) we learn that Lot was not entirely honest regarding the offering up of his twain virgin daughters to the mob. It turns out, they’re both married.
The above sums up all that King James knew of the nature of the specific wickedness of the Sodomites; to whit, Lot inferred that his daughters might do for the mob in lieu of the men/angels. But King James provides some additional information regarding the antics of both Lot and his brother/uncle Abram. According to King James, Abram pimped his wife, Sarai, twice. Once, to one or another of the pharaohs and another time to King Abimelech of Gerar. That’s right, Abram pimped his wife twice that King James knew about. Both times Abram resorted to that age old ploy, “Would you like to meet my sister?” Mercy! What’s more, Sarai
actually was, according to King James, Abram’s sister.
Lot, escaping the ruin of Sodom, and the ruin of the mysterious Gomorrah, fetched up in a cave with his twain widowed virgin daughters. The daughters, according to King James, lacking the strict oversight of their nameless mother, the pillar of salt, decided to get Lot drunk and then enjoy their daddy two nights in a row, one each night (Ch. 19. Verses. 29-36). Mercy!
My inference from all this is, Abram and Lot were both pimps. Also, as with most pimps, they were well-practiced liars. As to why the men/angels/Lord were all the time visiting with Abram and Lot, and the Lord was occasionally meeting with Sarai alone. Well, let’s not go there.
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, October 08, 2006
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