Sunday, April 22, 2007

Saturday night at the Waltham bars--'Satanists'(?), and a Google-logo-sweatshirt-MBA-guy

I wore a "Cesarani"quilt-type gray and navy blue suit and tie type jacket, a shades of green plad shirt, a blueish sleeveless sweater, khaki long pants, and (worn until I had been in the bar a few minutes), a "country gentleman" cowboyish/gangsterish type hat. I hit the bars on Saturday night April 21--I felt like, to hell with a super-hero like me trying to embellish his reputation by not hitting bars on saturday night alone. I had this feeling that being well-dressed at bars on saturday night embellishes one's reputation, even if one is alone.

When I parked this white chick in an SUV immediately parked behind me and too close to me. She was talking on her cell-phone while sitting in her parked car for a long time. It aroused suspicion in me, I tried to memorize her license plate number but forgot it eventually.

First I Went to Franco's on Moody St. Surprise surprise! Instead of their usual "wholesome" band and patronage, and instead of being crowded, it was on a scale of sparsely-populated slash medium-level-of-people-at-the-bar slash crowded, at medium level not crowded like last time. Seemed the lights were low. A band of clean shaven white guys and white guys wearing beard-mustache in black shirts was the band this time (noticeably pale-white not ruddy). I looked over behind me and this pale-white guy, clean shaven in his twenties for a long time gave the Satanist hand sign, little finger and index finger raised, other fingers down. This kid I know from Walthamwhose nickname is "Spanky"-I knew his sister and her boyfriend Billy before her boyfriend moved to Florida was there; I guess, from what I have seen and heard, that this "kid" "Spanky" (now in his late twenties or thirties) might have some Satanist tendencies, to go along with his Christian tendencies. I had a Franco's draft beer for $2.25, left a 50 cent tip, and began walking down Moody St figuring this was not my night at Franco's.

At the Skellig on Moody St., they had two stocky bartenders, one brown with a slight beard/mustache, the other bald and clean-shaven. I asked them the cover charge, they said $5, I skipped it.

I went into Jake's next door. There I had a beer for $3 and left a 50 cent tip. A band with a somewhat attractive sound, that had some gray-haired old people in it was playing, there was no cover charge. The bouncer afer he let me into the bar, followed me into the bar and asked me, about the traces of blood on my chin. I told him the truth, I drew blood while shaving. I had a $3 beer left a 50 cent tip and then left after I finished the beer.

Then I went to the "Mad Raven" on Main St. Waltham. The bouncer let me in. There I had a $3 beer and left a 50 cent tip.

At the Mad Raven I sat down at the empty seat at the bar. Most of the people at the bar were in groups of three or four, males mixed with females. There was this solitary guy sitting next to me, with a pale white angular face (not ruddy), clean-shaven, who wore glasses. He was about five feet nine inches tall, about medium build I guess ( with the big loose sweatshirt what can you tell about body build?). To tell you the truth he looked Jewish to me. He was wearing a dark blue or black sweatshirt that had a "Google" logo on it. He reminded me of my brother's Cambridge MA Jewish friend named 'Mark' who tolerates my non-Christian brother (I am a Christian of the type who remembers that most of Christ's words are not in the Bible) but not me--Mark thinks I am 'too hyper'--Mark is one of the few people on earth who tolerates my brother but not me.

I told this Google-sweatshirt guy at the 'Mad Raven' that I got ranked very high amongst other websites for certain searches on Google such as 'poetic prayers'. I told him I could email him links to these Google searches. He said he had been an intern for Google, and was a senior in Babson's MBA program. I told him about my grade school friend Danny Rudolph now dean of Stanford B-school. I told him about how at "Joe Sent Me" next door one time the bartender told me that he "did not feel comfortable serving me" and the bouncers escorted me out. He, Google-sweatshirt said he did not have a pen and needed the bartender to write down his email address. He said, "to tell you the truth, I think Joe Sent Me is a little better than this one". Then he lost interest in giving me his email address. He said he did not really need the links to the searches I ranked high on. Then he started telling the white female bartender about how he was going to be an intern at Yahoo. I told him about how I ranked high at Yahoo for certain searches. He just looked at me and said nothing. He seemed proud of the fact that unlike me, he did not pay for his drinks one by one, but instead paid for all the several drinks he had had at this bar all at once when he was finished. I did not try to push him into giving me the email address. I wished him a good night as I finished my beer and left.

All in all it was a strange feeling evening, the apparently at least somewhat 'Satanist' bar and crowd materializing at the usually wholesome Franco's, the Google/Yahoo intern who in the end decided he did not need the email I planned to send him. I felt like, dropping Rudolph's name does not get you anywhere with a Babson MBA. I was thinking, could name-dropping be like batting in baseball--the more attempts you make at it the better you do at it; or is it just a foolish way to attempt to navigate the world?

"To tell you the truth", I ended the evening thinking of how given the relatively populist nature of Christian doctrine compared to Jewish doctrine, Christians are unfairly, to the world's detriment, disadvantaged in terms of being executives in a sick corporate world. I ended the evening thinking yet once again, of how the credentialist emphasis on degrees, results in credentials undervaluing important criteria due to their emphasis on credentials. I ended up thinking of how there are these people with pale white faces, but King David of the Bible, to whom are attributed the wonderful "Psalms of David", was described as "ruddy". I ended the evening feeling discouraged over discrimination faced in society be even reasonable moderate Christians who realize that most of God's thoughts words and actions are not recorded in scripture. But out of three bars I went to all three let me in and served me. Previously at Roberts bar on Moody St. the bartender had also refused to serve me. To tell you the truth, I ended the evening thinking of how bartenders and personnel officers (like maybe this personnel officer at Bread & Circus slash Whole Foods named Bautista where I have not gotten a job so far though I applied) get rid of people who they think of as economic or social competition, and how society is incredibly incompetently naive re selfish conduct amongst creatures like bartenders, personnel officers, and credentialists.

Once when I was walking outside of the 'Joe Sent Me Bar', after the incident in which the bartender would not serve me (for no reason I could see) and the bouncers escorted me out, this nice looking slim clean-shaven young white guy who was hanging out in front of 'Joe Sent Me', looked at me and said, "You've got a dorky bartender problem!". He had a nice voice too, with some warmth in it. In other words the bartender would not serve me because he is "dorky" and thinks of me as competition. Nevertheless, seems that every time there is a problem such as a bartender refusing to serve someone, or a personnel officer refusing to hire someone, or a supervisor not promoting someone, or a supervisor not hiring someone--seems every time such a thing happens, society blames the victim, society fails to use its mind to scratch even a little under the surface, and come up with any insight re how people like supervisors and bartenders trash people for selfish reasons.




@2007 David Virgil Hobbs

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Macho Elite Patriarchs Screwing Up Their Posterity

Looks like there exists in this world, an elite whose member individuals strongly emphasize the interests of their own selves as individuals and the interests of their own families. (Apparently:) These individuals from the elite strongly de-emphasize the interests of those outside of their own families. Their allegiance to the elite to which they belong is motivated out of an allegiance to the self and to their own families.

The leading individuals amongst the elite are often getting on in years and are all intelligent enough to know that there is a high probability that despite advances in medical technology, they will one day die.

Thus ultimately these individuals amongst the elite who pass on the bulk of their wealth to their posterity when they die, are when it comes to self-important conduct, ideologically grounded in service to their own posterity, service to the persons of the future who are their biological descendants.

Thus it becomes reasonable to ask, why do individuals amongst the elite do so many things that probably will end up damaging the quality of life of their posterity (by posterity I mean future biological descendants).

One would expect that a wise macho elite patriarch concerned for his grandchildren, would be wise enough to see that his grandchildren's lives will have not just a safety component and an economic component, but also psychological, social, and spiritual components.

How then is it that these "self-important" macho elite patriarchs, do things that will probably degrade the psychological, social, and spiritual quality of life for their kids, their grandkids, and their greatgrandkids?



@2007 David Virgil Hobbs

Monday, April 02, 2007

Palm Sunday shows historical Israelite Antipathy for Christ's Movement is Nonsense

A VERY GREAT MULTITUDE AS MATTHEW SAID, MANY PERSONS AS MARK SAID, AND THE MULTITUDE OF DISCIPLES AS LUKE SAID, SPREAD THEIR CLOTHES ON CHRIST'S ROAD as he approached Jerusalem.

MATTHEW, SAYS A GREAT MULTITUDE, MARK SAYS MANY-PEOPLE, JOHN SAYS MUCH PEOPLE, SPREAD BRANCHES ON CHRIST'S ROAD, BEFORE HIM AND AHEAD OF HIM, (LUKE DOES NOT MENTION BRANCHES) as Christ approached Jerusalem.

MATTHEW SAYS A VERY GREAT MULTITUDE PROCLAIMED CHRIST TO BE THE SON OF DAVID A BLESSED PROPHET. MARK SAYS MANY PERSONS PROCLAIMED CHRIST AND THE KINDGDOM OF CHRIST'S FATHER DAVID TO BE BLESSED. LUKE SAYS THE MULTITUDE OF DISCIPLES PROCLAIMED CHRIST TO BE THE LORD'S BLESSED KING.
JOHN SAYS MUCH PEOPLE PROCLAIMED CHRIST TO BE THE LORD'S BLESSED KING OF ISRAEL BECAUSE THEY HEARD THAT HE HAD RAISED LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD.


Thus what we have in composite, is what would seem to be the twelve closest disciples of christ, along with the secondary seventy, the "whole multitude of disciples", along with a very great multitude, doing things like strewing branches and clothes along the path of Christ on his approach to Jerusalem. The disciples proclaimed Christ to be the Lord's blessed king, the multitude proclaimed him to be a son of david, a blessed prophet, the king of Israel.


Thus we see a very extreme level of enthusiasm amongst very large numbers of the Israelite people for Christ. This enthusiasm came from not just the seventy closest disciples of Christ but from the multitudes, the masses. This enthusiasm is notable for the level of spiritual sophistication that was displayed amongst so many persons. Many persons of the modern era would simply stay indoors and watch TV re some non-Christian topic, if Christ was walking by on the road outside.


It would be interesting to think, what would the popularity of Christ ultimately have been amongst the Israelite people of the day, if Christ had not been executed by the elite Jewish Priests of the day working with the Roman occupying government.

Christ's movement amongst the Israelites was extremely loved amongst a very large number of Israelites outside of the disciples of Christ. It could be said that if Christ had been given the human right as a popular leader of the Israelites to not be executed, the history of the relationship between Israel and the movement that Christ led would have turned out completely differently.

It does not make sense that any kind of Israelite should say, that the Israelite antipathy for Christ's movement is wise good and natural, when the reality apparently is that the Israelites were deprived of a greatly beloved leader, who they as a people were, admirable, spiritually sophisticated enough to appreciate, because some elite Priests amongst the Israelites had him murdered.



@2007 David Virgil Hobbs
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