"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Saturday, December 23, 2006
It's hard to boil a 10 hour Moot down to six or seven minutes, but this will give you a small taste of what Moot is like:
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Comments on "The Thinklings 2006 Christmas Mootumentary":
9. Quaid
- 12/25/2006 3:56 pm CST
OK,
Maybe I spoke too soon. Obviously, I appreciate De enough that I ask him to be a part of my "big day." Bird - he wasn't invited.
It's not that I didn't want to, though. I thought if I invited Bird I would have to invite Blo, too. I then got scared of trying to figure how to send an invitation to someone that doesn't exist. So I decided to forego the whole bit.
14. Bird
- 12/25/2006 10:55 pm CST
Thanks to all my fans. It's amazing, all I had to do was take a two-year vacation and do a little pukin' at Moot for peeps to start giving me some love.
By the way, Bill, thanks for editing me so thoroughly. I think a truly unedited "Bird" would not garner so much support.
So, to Andrew and Quaid, my homies! Rock on, dogs!
To Rod, the Perfect Thinkling ... you're still my fave!
To the Candian Chick, um, thanks for rubbing your white Xmas in our faces.
16. Brian in Fresno
- 12/25/2006 11:40 pm CST
Haven't quite decided which my favorite bit is. Could it be De refering to something that he bought for his stake as "what ever this is". Or Rod calling Blo a "Moot Waffler". I do have to take the word of Rod and De that the person poked and pushed is in fact Blo, but by just looking at him, I just don't think I would. There is the bit with Bird and Rod tilting their heads for a photo. That bit is pretty good. I would have to say though that my favorite is Rod proclaiming to the world that he is a theoblogin.
Great job on the video De! Thanks for a little insite into the rarafied atmosphere that is pure enough that Blo can materilize but only to those who believe in him.
17. stroke
- 12/26/2006 12:34 am CST
that's obviously smoke and mirrors. de "roger moore" roberts would have you believe i flipped the bird, as he would also have you believe that blo is real. neither are true. this is a blatant work of fiction.
if you could go all zapruder on it, you would see no bird is flipped (and all of blo's footage is cgi).
18. De
- 12/26/2006 10:17 am CST
"By the way, Bill, thanks for editing me so thoroughly. I think a truly unedited "Bird" would not garner so much support."
Oh man, there were so many good moments that ended up on the cutting room floor!
19. Brian in Fresno
- 12/26/2006 12:35 pm CST
I just wanted to say that many people may think that I misspelled stake in my earlier post. I didn't. I've had many steaks that were very difficult to tell from wood. In fact I would submit that Rod may well have never had a proper steak thus his reliance upon A-1 Steak sauce, which De quite rightly points out is Ketchup.
22. Ellen
- 12/26/2006 12:50 pm CST
Yes...the only thing that a really good steak needs is a very tiny bit of salt. (I don't think I have a favorite thinkling...)
24. De
- 12/26/2006 5:34 pm CST
I think no one mentioned it because the "roger moore" comment was just so inscrutable.
I, personally, was "Cool! I'm Roger Moore!". Then I began singing, in my best Carly Simon "Noooo body does it better. Makes me feel sad for the rest. Nobody does it half as good as De. Deeee you're the best!" and completely forgot about posting a comment.
On another note - it's clear that you are only flipping half birds, which is the physical equivalent of asterisking out half the letters in a cussword so that it doesn't offend anyone.
I had a little clip of you wielding a knife earlier in the night, before you conked out. But the dialog around that was not that good so it was left out of the final.
Maybe someday I'll release a "director's cut". :-)
25. Jared
- 12/26/2006 8:14 pm CST
Y'all are ridiculous (vis a vis A-1). Here's how I cook my steak:
I put it on the grill nekkid. When it's medium, I take it off and use a light amount of A-1 as a seasoning.
Here's how these other anti-A1'ers cook their steaks. First they soak them in some liquid of some kind for hours. Then they coat them in all manner of jarred seasonings that are all kinds of unnatural colors. Then they cook them until they are hard as surfboards. Then they put salt and pepper on them.
And then they act like I'm the one dilluting the steak experience.
Lame.
26. Ellen
- 12/26/2006 9:49 pm CST
Ok...first you show the steer a picture of a match. Then you butcher it and eat it. (I like mine rare).
I don't marinate or anything, just stick it over a fire and singe it a little bit.
27. Jared
- 12/26/2006 9:58 pm CST
I like to just walk through the pasture where the cattle are grazing and take random bites out of their flanks.
30. Brian in Fresno
- 12/27/2006 2:34 pm CST
I can only say that not being aware of how the other Thinklings butcher their wonderful steaks I will let you off the hook this time, Rod. There must be some punishment available that would fit this horrible crime against a good steak! Typically I don't season my steak at all. I might actually try a little A... nahhhh, I just can't bring myself to even say it.
That was awesome. It was a great moot!
