Stupid Things from the Bible

We all know that the Bible is just a glorified children's colouring-book that got out of hand, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, took a couple of old fables and married them with the extrapolated imagination of burning bushes, virgin mothers and infinite fish and bread. The point that I am really driving at here is that the Bible is full of nonsense, a couple of lads wrote it, it's full of contradictions and it's full of concepts and crimes that many Christians today choose to omit. Here is a good one:


'Deuteronomy 23:2 says: A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the lord.'


So Bastards are exempt from the church for a couple of generations seems logical, so why didn't they keep this little saying.


 "You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword," says the LORD.  


Personally I think that one is a little harsh on Ethiopians, they do have some very good long distance runners. 


'You must destroy all the nations the LORD your God hands over to you.  Show them no mercy and do not worship their gods."


Also this one is a little bit much, seems to be a lot of excessive killing, even genocide being ordered in the bible. 


(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NAB)If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.


That book of Deuteronomy is pretty bad, rape doesn't even appear to be a crime against the woman but more against a man's property.


When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)


Thank the flying spaghetti monster they coped on here, I don't want them still upholding this garbage.

Finally, I will paraphrase this one, in Book 1 Genesis, God said, on the first day let there be light, on the fourth day he created the sun and the stars. Any questions? Where was the light coming from the first day. Ughhh!! I give up.

Alexander McQueen VS Matthew Barney

After looking into the fashion of Alexander McQueen I have noticed that there seems to be a strange similarity between his style and the cinematic vision of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. One of the most obvious examples of this is if we are to take a look at one of Barney's recurring characters and put that alongside one of McQueen's t-shirt concepts.

Although there are obviously more high-fashion examples of this similarity, it is interesting to see how even McQueen's "highstreet" clothing has the same attention towards a bizarre piece of cloth covering a man's mouth. 

Another strange similarity is that both parties used a model called Aimee Mullins. What makes Mullins unique is that she was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and, as a consequence of this, had both of her legs amputated at the knee. In the case of McQueen she modelled in his London show, on a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from solid ash, with integral boots. The following image is of these leg-boots that where hand carved for the House of McQueen.

3 years after her controversial debut into the fashion world she appeared as a cheetah women in Barney's Cremaster 3. At this point it is obvious that Barney was the one that was highly influenced by McQueen as he had a tendency to implement the McQueen aesthetic to his work. However, rather than merely being a copycat I think that his usage of this aesthetic is a clean cut homage to McQueen and only further serves to fuel the impact his fashion has had on the world around him. 

The image above displays how Barney presentation of Aimee Mullins clearly plays homage to McQueen in the sense that he has made unique prosthetic legs that function as an extension of the cheetah/woman hybrid that he was trying to manufacture. To cap off this fleeting look at the similarities between Barney and McQueen I have sourced the following video, which gives a heads up contrast of a McQueen fashion show against clips from Barney's Cremaster Cycle. Have a look and see how you feel about the apparent aesthetic similarities.