Aping the Low Cultures

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change,
the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. 
Plato: The Republic

I’ll do anything to stay in the jungle/imitating plebes amidst ruins of higher culture/Beatnik as proto-hippie/world aims low/humankind’s rightful throne stolen by scheming simians/scat-singing glossolalia precursor to Pentecostal-Charismania/ghettoization of West/fallen ones inhabit non-human bodies in attempt to aquire atomic bomb/crucial turn towards slave culture/addled non-wisdom of the bear embraced/pantheresque voice of truth and reason ignored/Darwinist fallacies/marginalized monkey longs to become human/usurper exploits naivete of youth to install himself as Ape-king/beatnik-jazz as virus/rock and roll as symptomatic/transvestite charade revealed as deception

Pipe Tobacco Review

An old-school Scottish blend from 1560:

Upon first char, there is a slight room note of ash from the pyre of Jan Hus, followed 150 years later by a hint of St. Bartholomew Huguenot blood. With the relight there comes an initial powerful note of Highland Cùmhnantaich. I also noted a distinct sinister taste which was probably Bloody Mary around 1559. As you smoke further, Knox and his followers smash the Papist idols; lower in the highlands of the bowl, you can hear the Covenanters sigh under Catholic/Anglican oppression.
The Virginias are partially settled and colonized, while the Orientals and Latakia threaten the  shipping routes as they enlarge the Ottoman Empire. This tobacco burns unevenly but intensely, uniting the warring Scottish clans under the banner of Protestantism. Frequent relighting may be needed, due to massacres and state-sponsored persecution. Shattered stained class is glimpsed as the Reformed doctrines assert themselves and move south to inspire Cromwell‘s armies.
Deeper into the bowl, I caught a whiff of the bleeding head of Charles the First just before the Restoration.
The room note lingers well into the coming centuries and diffuses sovereign grace to all the Elect of God’s true church. This is a highly-recommended tobacco and best smoked in an Elizabethan churchwarden or a Calvinist bagpipe.

Presbyterian ages very well. I have some cellared from 1618 which has not only maintained but improved in flavor, with Popish tendencies greatly reduced.
Presbyterian Mixture is best enjoyed in the New World, since Anglican prelates may interfere with its enjoyment on the British side of the Atlantic.

 

 

Intellectually Challenged People

 

(…) now times have changed. The quaint theology of Paul is simply outdated for today. We have evolved to a much more sophisticated understanding of Jesus. All this talk of  Jesus’ virgin birth, his perfect life, his miracles, his prophecies, hIs death and resurrection which for nearly two thousand years served an ignorant, uncivilized world of intellectually challenged people has worn thin and it just doesn’t fly anymore in our sophisticated, secular world. And while we should, therefore, reject the old theology of Paul that we find in his New Testament writings, we can certainly embrace the spirit of Jesus and all He stood for back then. He can inspire us to sacrifice and noble living today.

Al Baker: Forget None of His Benefits