pepper spray

Jesus would pepper spray me, Naked Pastor. To scald all my hate and righteous self-validating bias and belief, prejudice and conviction. How I scold and shake my finger and accuse! Used to have a Nana who would sit in a big overstuffed chair and say Tch! Tch! and O My! at all the pranks me and my bad-boy brother would play on each other. Pepper spray. Looked in the mirror this morning. Pepper spray. (The “hotness” of peppers, by the way, is measured in terms of “Scoville Units”) “Thy goodness must have edge to it, else it is none,” says Emerson.

cafepress.com would make a fairly useful source for t-shirts as long as you own the images, which since it’s your art, you do.

“Come to think of it, I have tons of images that would be great for tees, greeting cards, posters… you name it. I just don’t have the time.
Maybe I should partner with someone?! Peace!> (Jesus might could spray pepper spray all over this notion, as long as we’re asking who would Jesus Pepper Spray. No?)

Why not throw these images on zazzle.com or cafepress? I would certainly buy one, and then you don’t actually have to worry about ordering them etc because they are printed on demand from your “store”…

c’mon already with the whole ‘Naked merchandise’ branch of your empire!
You know it’s what Jesus would do
(free P+P to the UK?)

I’m covering up my old name, seeing as I’m trying to strip down to my fundamental nature–and seeing if I can get more action out of Naked Bastard: pepper-spray-able, accuse-able, blame-able, more to be censored than pitied. I will stand for ther reprehensible right under our gnosis, so the we don’t always have to scold bigots and bad-pastors and all the Bad Guys Out There. Hate the Ignorance. Love the ignorant. (There’s a T-Shirt logo right there for the select and chosen.)

(Or this):
I’m covering up my old name (Sam Scoville) , seeing as I’m trying to strip down to my fundamental nature–and seeing if I can get more action out of Naked Bastard: pepper-spray-able, accuse-able, blame-able, more to be censored than pitied. I will stand for the reprehensible right under our gnosis, so that we don’t always have to scold bigots and bad-pastors and all the Bad Guys Out There. Hate the Ignorance. Love the ignorant. (There’s a T-Shirt logo right there for the Elect and Chosen.

maybe Jesus would turn the nozzle toward himself because he just can’t take it anymore!

Pepper spray “is used in riot control, crowd control and personal self-defense, including defense against dogs and bears” (Wikipedia).

That got me back onto the topic of bear-baiting (“The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators” – Lord Macaulay) and the meaning of a phrase I hadn’t heard before (“a dog in the manger”).

Uh, how about…did Jesus pepper spray the unclean spirit in the Gadarene demoniac? “My name is Legion: for we are many” – the devils in the troubled man could be considered a crowd. (Mark 5)

http://bartleby.com/108/41/5.html

But, thank you – this all pushed me to locate a stirring passage I read yesterday online:

“Denial and postponement are especially true in the matter of our sins, those wounds that we somehow inflict upon ourselves and others. Repression of the truth is common. Admission and reform are rare. We project, we accuse, we complain, we evade, we distract ourselves. We are not as adept at confession.

‘In our own place and time, we have made a science of escape and sleep. Rather than live at that sharp edge of life, awake and alert, we pretend that we have no sin. There is nothing wrong with me, no change required of us. Others need the help. My coworkers, my friends and community, my family are to blame. “Evil empires,” “warlords” and “endless enemies” are the source of our problems. Bishops or feminists, conservatives or leftists, liberation theologians or curial despots are the favorite demons of choice.

‘We in the church are not especially noted for our willingness to confess our own sins and welcome repentance. At best, one part of the church will attack the other. But how uncommon it is to hear theologians acknowledge the sinfulness of the theologian—unless it is a theologian of the opposite persuasion. How scarce is the hierarchy’s confession of guilt. How unusual it is to hear the right wing warn us of conservatives’ sins. How rare is the liberal who admits the possible disorders of liberalism.’ (John Kavanaugh, S. J. of Saint Louis University)

http://www.liturgy.slu.edu/1AdvB112711/theword_encountered.html

How should we characterize Jesus driving the money changers out of the Temple? Did that cleansing involve the ancient equivalent of pepper spray? “Scouring” and “scourging” are conveniently near to each other in English!(Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, John 2)

How should we characterize a story, photograph or cartoon that finally flips a switch inside us, and forces us into conversion?

Is very tart Art pepper spray?

Almost great!!! Can we please just add one letter so that it starts with “Whom”? If we’re going to get a message out with a depiction of our Lord, we can at least do it with correct grammar–no need to give people an excuse for calling us stupid. Thanks!

What was it he was so whipped-off & pissed about, Fishon? That he would make such a disturbance?

“And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip [Melanchthon] and [Nicholas] Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.”

(guess who)”

Martin Luder.

That was his name before he change it to Luther.

He wanted his name to sound like the Greek word for freedom, ‘elutheria’.

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David – see this sweatshirt someone made using this same motif.

http://gawker.com/5864913/today-in-hot-holiday-styles-the-pepper+spray-cop-meets-baby-jesus-xmas-sweater

Yours is still the best.

Let’s do this business, partner. Except make sure we do not sell these in the Temple, lest we get whipped. I just did an e-commerce business dev and marketing strategy including site for a Down Syndrome Awareness Apparel Company. This would be a piece of cake to get going.