Racing Turtles

thinking about ideas of ownership and dracula's castle. When does something become a threshold Dracula has to ask permission to cross? whose rules? i believe in squatter's rights i believe they should count... if dracula kidnapped me to his castle i would simply move into an abandonned wing and put up cardboard "this building has been SQUATTED" signs while he was out. maybe spraypaint a charming little anarchist A on the parapet while i'm at it. man comes home and has to ask permission to enter his own building part of which has lain empty for so long it started counting as abandonned property during a housing crisis (irresponsible). i say no.

it would literally be fine. During the day i'd go into other parts of the castle to steal antiques. at sunset i lock my doors and windows and put dracula furniture up for auction on catawiki while dracula and his brides pound on my door in anger. I'm not coming out. Im starting a small business.

like what is he going to do? call the police??? please. the locals hate you it's not happening. I live here now.

I just feel like if someone intends to steal my blood i should get to steal his everything else. it's only fair. oh you don't want me to sell your meemaw's medieval cabinet? whatever. cry about it. I'm the better parasite here survival of the fittest. shouldn't have invited me then. funny how bad that mistake feels isn't it. Do you think there might be anyone who regrets inviting you perhaps? hm. Is that statue roman, what do you think. sorry i can't really hear you through the door

This is a….novel take, in defense of capital punishment. 

Uh

I think a big part of the Evangelical take that Christ’s death on the cross redeemed us of our sins is that Evangelical’s are uncomfortable with a story where their central religious figure is condemned by the state and ultimately executed. They like the state and want its approval, and so they need to reimagine the story of the Gospels such that the state’s actions in executing Jesus and his death are not a tragedy cutting short a person’s life, but actually the fulfillment of it, the state doing its part in something even grander than itself. Even at the level of its basic theology, the Evangelical movement writes over the Gospels to praise the state

I think this gets things backwards. These people like the death penalty and want to keep it. They also believe that the only “right” reasoning begins in the Bible(and especially the Gospel[1]). So, that requires them to justify the death penalty through the Bible not so much because they believe in it as because they use it structurally in their lives. Their reasoning is not “The Crucifixion was good, and therefore everything that helped bring it about was good”(see how they’ve used it to vilify Jews for centuries), but rather “State-Murder is Good(so long as it upholds the hierarchies we prefer), Reasoning is only valid when it is founded in Biblical exegesis(and even then only so long as it confirms our priors), so The Bible MUST justify and require State-Murder.”

They aren’t arguing from the bible to the death-penalty: They’re arguing From the death penalty, TO the death penalty, USING the Bible.

[1]Or to put it another way: because they find their identity in it and use it to justify the hierarchies they construct and uphold. Or to be more explicit: they don’t care about its message so much as its content(the words on the page, not their meaning) and the social role they’ve given it(as a basis of authority and legitimacy).