God, Cowboy Hats, Motorcycles
This whole religion thing – globally – has just gotten out
of hand.
I suppose I’m religious, at least I think maybe I am sort of a Christian. If I am, I can’t go for this six foot tall blue-eyed
guy a lot of Americans seem to find in the Bible. That’s just not possible, guys. Ask ANY anthropologist. Even supposedly, if he was fair haired and
tall and ruggedly handsome, how would he have fit in in an area where almost
everybody else was much shorter, dark skinned and had black hair – and almost
certainly brown eyes. He would have kind
of stood out and I can’t see the
general populace really trusting
somebody who, to them, must have looked as much like a space alien as anything else.
Also, I can’t following any kind of a God who goes around smiting
and destroying cities and demanding
stuff, like sacrifices.. WTF! If he’s
any kind of a God and he wants something he can just poof it into existence – right?
But the main thing here is why all this yammering in today’s world about it.
Also – why in American western
movies are the cowboys’ hats always so new. I’ve lived in Arizona and Colorado and all of
the hot western states. It’s HOT in the
summer and cold as fuck in the winter.
Any hat you might wear is going to get sweat stained, really really
sweat stained and dusty and if it ever rains, that kind of wool felt goes all
limp and weird looking – plus it’s hot as fuck.
Did I say that; wool felt like that is really hot to wear around in the summer. Straw is much better. Then in the winter your ears are just going
to totally freeze solid and break off.
Did Jesus wear a cowboy hat, and if he did was it always new looking? He did live in the desert … mostly. Right?
I own several cowboy hats, given as gifts and purchased. A good cowboy hat is tough! It might droop when it gets really wet, but
you just can’t wear it out. I’ve had one
for nearly fifty years and it’s still tough as nails. It’s sweat stained – well, just plain stained – all over, but it’s still
wearable. Now that is a cowboy hat a real cowboy would be seen wearing in a
real western.
So, I can see God
wearing a cowboy hat and it always looking new, but not Jesus or a real
cowboy. Now I don’t know much about
horses, but I don’t think you can ride them as flat out hard as cowboys are
always doing. Racing around. Then there they are out in that scrub desert
country and there’s no water and nothing but creosote scrub for the horse to
eat. ??
That’s gotta be why Jesus rode a mule, and slowly. Or was it a donkey? Donkeys can eat cactus, maybe even gravel.
I have a dog that will eat limp left over salad. Why wouldn’t a donkey … gravel … I guess
that’s stretching it.
The Cowboy Era
actually lasted only about twenty years, which is not nearly long enough to
wear out a real cowboy hat. It kind of reminds me of the Hippie Era, which only lasted, at most,
ten years. I know. I was there – I was, or tried to be, a
hippie. 1964 to about 1974. Before “Saturday Night Fever” and John
Travolta stomped, or danced, the shit out of Hippiness Cool. Now I see
all these teeny-bopper children trying to be Hippies. Dope and weed didn’t make a person a Hippie.
It was, in reality, more about being anti-establishment. With men and long hair and beards and women
not wearing bras. Wearing beards and
Dashiki shirts and Indian toe sandals that stained your feet brown. And being anti-war.
Can you imagine being anti-war
today? You’d be thrown out of the
country. Or, this country anyway. Americans are all into war now, not anti-war. Us hippies
had to be drafted into killing
people. Did everything we could to get
out of it, including becoming Canadians.
Now young people are volunteering
to do it? That’s a switch in general thinking. Everybody packing
guns. ??
!!! ??
Not like it was all good “in the old days”. It definitely wasn’t. The country was as divided, and very harshly so, as it is now. Just different hate going on. Of course, as hippies, we never wore cowboy hats. That was kind of a political demarcation. Mostly we wore bandanas. A lot of bandanas. Even the dogs wore bandanas. Now that I ride a motorcycle, I’m back to wearing bandanas, but I’m no longer seen as a hippie. Just an old gray bearded guy on a motorcycle. It’s kind of liberating, actually.
My motorcycle is like my old stained cowboy hat. It’s got 52,000 miles on it and I’ve never cleaned it – not once. I’m not really proud of that, but it does surprise me when people tell me “What a beautiful motorcycle.” Really. “What a cool cowboy hat.” Really.
I wonder if God cleans his (her – it’s) motorcycle.
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