There was an interesting little tweet…
I’m still confused about what to call those things that people put on the Platform That Used To Be Known As Twitter now that Elon has achieved his life’s ambition and renamed something “X”. Should I be writing: “There was an interesting little X”? Mm, wouldn’t that sound like someone had put a kiss at the end of a message?
Anyway, here’s what Alexandra Marshall tweeted or x-ed or whatever you want to call it.
Now, I could have replied by telling her that I have no interest in her viewing habits. None. Not any of them. Zero. Interest. And I could have said that it’s the height of egocentricity that she thinks that anyone else would either.
Of course I didn’t for three reasons:
- I’m far too nice to try to upset her.
- She would have probably just ignored me, or replied with the fact that nobody’s interested in whether I’m interested her viewing habits or not… which is the sort of fair point that I could only answer by being a hypocrite.
- As Ronni Salt pointed out about Senator Ralph Babble, he’s only tweeting stupid things to get attention because that’s what keeps him in the public eye. Without any sort of profile, we’d forget who he was and he wouldn’t have any chance of being re-elected to the Senate or getting his own show on Sky After Dark like Bernardi and various other politicians who failed to make it in Canberra and now complain about people in Canberra being out of touch because they can no longer touch them… Anyway, I suspect @ellymelly fits into the same category so I decided not to amplify her voice by replying.
Of course, it’s sometimes hard to just let things lie when the person who made the comment is, in fact, either lying or misinformed.
I mean, take all this fuss about the Opening Ceremony and how Christians should be up in arms over the mocking of that famous painting of “The Last Supper”.
While it’s bad manners to mock someone else’s religion, I must say that it does seem like those who are suggesting that Christians are sick of turning the other cheek and should get really, really cross and start punishing people are overlooking one of the central tenets of their own faith which was about forgiveness and love and turning the other cheek. Ok, ok, that was said a couple of thousand years ago and Jesus probably didn’t know how decadent we’d become because nobody was decadent back in the days of the Roman Empire. (I’d mention Sodom and Gomorrah but one shouldn’t look back… Ha, ha there’s a good one for anyone who knows who Lot’s wife was!)
And I could point out that it does seem like some people are treating Da Vinci’s painting of “The Last Supper” as though it’s a holy relic. “This was the only photo taken at the time,” they seem to be suggesting, “and without this we wouldn’t have had proof that Jesus was European in appearance and those silly people who suggest that he was a brown-skinned refugee would have nothing to put them in their place!” Well, even if it were a photo, does not the Bible have the something about not worshipping graven images in the Ten Commandments, that holy document that some US states think should be mandatory in certain public institutions because nothing says freedom like compelling others to place your religious beliefs in a prominent place!
However, I think the most important point was the simple fact that the Opening Ceremony wasn’t anything to do with the Last Supper. It was actually all about Dionysus and celebrating some pagan festival or other. And if the pagans haven’t complained about it, why should the Christians and the politicians?
Yeah, I guess that would be the next thing to complain about. What’s an Ancient Greek festival got to do with the Olympics?
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