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12th September 2018

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Was at a bar and they were showing Tombstone, and I left right when Curly Bill killed the Marshall and the boys realize they have to take the lead in pacifying the town they intended to retire to wealth in

Went across the street and the bartender was talking about Butch Cassidy while the jukebox played Pancho & Lefty

I took it as a sign, and I mean that literally. As I get older I’ve got much more spiritual, except I identify the thing I commune with and take prophecy from not as God but America

Which 2 things: first, this is why I take the Mormons and their prophecies seriously, because I suspect they were in contact with the same thing; second the clearest this sense comes through is when I’m alone riding a motorcycle long-distance over rural highways, which is a little ridiculous but exactly how you WOULD pray to America

Anyway my take is that sign was to remind me that frontier hellraisers settling down to be the cornerstone of the further frontier is absolutely an American tradition, and maybe that’s my calling uh, calling

I hope; I hope the proper interpretation isn’t that I’m specifically destined for the interior scrubland desert; the Oregon forest was really a comfort matching my Pennsylvania upbringing after LA. I suppose there’s that Germanic forest in the Mississippi Midwest and east Texas too though.

Tagged: ‘mericakontextmaschine does civic theology

  1. baconmancr reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  2. hooniversalist reblogged this from poipoipoi-2016 and added:
    Nebraska to Colorado via US 6 is something, I tell you hwat.
  3. poipoipoi-2016 reblogged this from sinesalvatorem and added:
    I recommend the Reno to Salt Lake drive at some point. I think the I-15/I-70 drive from Vegas to Denver is probably a...
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  5. sinesalvatorem reblogged this from nornagest and added:
    This is so incredibly aesthetic.Also, it makes perfect sense. I would guess that a lot of the psychological experience...
  6. rocketverliden reblogged this from iteratedextras and added:
    Okay, but have you considered Arizona, Konnie?
  7. iteratedextras reblogged this from rendakuenthusiast and added:
    This post is extremely KM, according to my intuitive assessment of him.(I, of course, walk a different path.)
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    I have nothing useful to say, but this post makes me want to ride a bald eagle while shooting guns into the air and...
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  12. shieldfoss reblogged this from argumate and added:
    Alaska?
  13. mmmmalo said: Civic theology is good term
  14. rendakuenthusiast reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I like a lot of what you have to say @kontextmaschine, but I do not share your gods
  15. thenormativesuperintendent said: The italics are all wrong because I’m crap at Tumblr.
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