Easter Sunday and morning TV was terrible. On one channel a man is preaching that he knows Jesus rose from the dead because he had went to Israel and saw the tomb. It was empty. Another says Jesus was not recognized when he was first seen and mistaken for the gardener because everyone knew he was tortured and beaten so badly that it took a while for them to know who he was because he had no injuries. Then there are those who claim Jesus chose to keep his injuries in his resurrected body as a proof of who he really was. Old time preachers really got into this one a few years ago. I turned off the TV because nobody really knows. Now I can go about doing other things this Sunday.
Easter is a terrible time for sloppy thinking. Even just starting with the claim that Easter is somehow about Jesus and not Ishtar and estrous and bunny rabbits and baby chicks and eggs is an irrational nonstarter.
I watched a little bit of El Rapto de las Sabinas (The Rape of the Sabines), an old 1950s-era technicolor B-movie, dubbed into Spanish and beamed out of a 50,000-watt station on a hill in TJ), about the founding of Rome by the wolf-suckled brothers Romulus and Remus, and how their gang stole wives from the surrounding Sabine villages in order to create a viable, procreating population. Of course it's a pile of bullshit constructed around a grain of truth (Rome WAS founded by somebody in the hills of the Italian peninsula, and it did become the biggest city around), Just like the Easter story is bullshit piled on a grain of truth (there is a hill in Palestine where criminals or enemies of Rome were executed by crucifixion). I turned it off before they actually got down to the abductions. Bullshit is one thing, but I wasn't high enough to sit through a sanitized, 1950s version of the bullshit.
I am into a couple of series right now that I watch all the episodes by the seasons that they ran. Grimm is one and I just got into the second season. Passing them up today to figure out how I will fix my living room ceiling after the tree limb came in, plus working on a computer sound problem and restoring my older daughter's laptop. A week from now I should have it all done.