The Symbol Monger

"And so He did carry with him a great rifle, and with this rifle did He slay many zombies, and it was good." The Book Of Kickass, 17:49

And also with you. You love guns, you love Jesus - what's not to love?

"If they could handle things, they would be identical to the Buddha." -Yunmen

A nice brain in a jar.

"You people each have an invaluable jewel of your own, radiating light from your eyes shining on mountains, rivers, and land, radiating light from your ears taking in all beautiful and ugly sounds. Always radiating light day and night from your six senses, it is also called radiant concentration. You yourselves don't recognize it, but its reflection is in your physical body, supporting it inside and out, not letting it fall over" - Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching #595

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Did you know the placebo effect does not require ignorance? You can be told you've been given a placebo and, for a significant proportion of people, the placebo will still have a measurable subjective effect. With that in mind, why spend a fortune on a chunk of crystal when you can wear the crystal of your choice on your chest for a fraction of the cost, all while continuing to reap the rewards of its ostensibly magical capacities?!

Did you know the placebo effect does not require ignorance? You can be told you've been given a placebo and, for a significant proportion of people, the placebo will still have a measurable subjective effect. With that in mind, why spend a fortune on a chunk of crystal when you can wear the crystal of your choice on your chest for a fraction of the cost, all while continuing to reap the rewards of its ostensibly magical capacities?!

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Constrained by expectation, symbols use you. Free from convention, you use them. Can a trite t-shirt make a dent? Doubtful.

Hypothesis #2 re: Christ's resurrection. The science is out on this one...

Alt-History - or maybe actual history?! How does a man come back from the dead? The Bible is all Gandalf the Gray becoming Gandalf the White - but come on. Got to be more of a Monkey Paw type situation right? George Romero is a documentarian!

""Followers of the Way, if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward. whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go." -The Zen Teachings of Lin-Chi (Linji) #19

Santa has run afoul of the authorities.

Do your social media posts vacillate between descriptions of the personal benefits you've derived from your extensive meditation practice, reaffirming platitudes addressed to your followers, and vitriolic complaints about capitalism and the sorry state of western civilization? Well have I got the t-shirt for you!

The universal love of Jesus Christ and the destructive force of a high caliber firearm. You are so complicated!

Somethings speak for themselves - The US Constitution; The Bill Of Rights; A picture of a large tree; a gorilla puking its food into its hand and then eating it back up over and over again; and this incredible piece of artwork a computer totally did not summon from the depths of its mathematical nonsense soul.

Hey there fellow video gamers! You know who you are! Video gaming is really intense - like some of those experiences, wow! Look at this kid - he's really going through some stuff. Video games are just like real life and not a escape from reality! Actually, they're more real life than real life! HYPERREAL LIFE!

Look at that controller! It's so perfect! Colorful and visually satisfying! It so represents the thing you like to do! It's sick! Sick! You're sick! We're all sick!

He loved you very much. Rough hands, soft soul. PINK ONLY

Men wearing Men wearing Men. Scraggly men wearing scragglier men wearing scraggliest men. Men men men men men....

T-shirt within T-shirt is the new hot trend.

Wear your imagined self wearing your imagined self.

Behold the great function at work!