Bound to disappoint...

[erastes]

There's a film on at 2pm called "Sodom and Gomorrah."

I doubt it will be anything like my imagination.

Sadly

Comments

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Read the bible!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i think i already have - who's it by?

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

I've actually always wanted to know what they were doing in Gomorrah. I mean the bible is strangely reticent on the subject which implies it must have been disgraceful...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know what Sodomy is, but no-one dares mention what Gomorray is like.

I DEMAND TO KNOW

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Some bloke in a dress.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'd fermented the grape into the first Cava?

CAVA IS A SIN!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nah - I'm a recently converted pastafarian

[erastes.livejournal.com]

it definitely is the way I drink it.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

You're leaving out two other cities that were destroyed in that rain of fire--Admah and Zeboim (Deut 29:23). Nobody remembers them, though.

I can't find any serious discussion of what the people of Gomorrah did. Or the people of Admah or Zeboim, either. But there is a part of Isaiah where he addresses the kings of Israel as the leaders of Sodom and the leaders of Gomorrah, and tells them what they need to do to improve:

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

So I guess the original cities of the plains were doing a lot of cruel and unjust things to people who couldn't fight back--the oppressed, the orphaned, the widowed and the strangers.

I guess we didn't get a sin called Gomorrahy because we already have a word for cruelty.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Erastes' hierachy of needs (based on maslow's pyramid)

(starting from the top)

The world's finest cava
Excellent cava
Good cava
Adequate cava
Remaining cava

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

You've been touched by his noodly appendage.

GOOD FOR YOU!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oh dear. you know me too well

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've been touched by many noodly appendages - I think that still counts, right?

[venivincere]

Probably, but it's still likely to have skimpily dressed men in it. :-D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

it did! Stewart Grainger woefully miscast in a very short skirt!