An Idiosyncratic Sociological Approach in the Stupidity of Handling Snakes in the Name of the Lord

Jamie Coots, Dead.

In the last 50,000 years since modern humans faced the soils of the planet; we are still a ritualistic, fearful species who can be dominated by fake promises of salvation and conquest of an evil that is not there, but rather that is more inherent of the egotistical human nature that keeps looking for the divine while it should focus more on the natural beauties of the cosmos.

But, in Middlesboro, KY the idea where dominating a primitive animal to the power of the prayer, is just ridicule to think about it. It's illogical unless the pastors know some snake handling as well lizard behaviors. Ritualism is just a bizarre concept when people analyze that their behaviors have no sense; at the end, any of the behaviors showed by humanity expose any sense; it's a negative but yet there is a point between common sense and being absorbed by your passions and lose your rationalism (if you were born with any.)

On February 15 of 2014 at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name when former main pastor Jamie Coots was holding a service and he was bitten by a rattlesnake, refusing medical assisting because of his beliefs based on the Bible; where on Mark 16: 17-18 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

What if the verse was regarded about any possible medical assistance, and not saying no.? Not being dumb enough, to say no to any assistance, because any miraculous healing is almost as real as Dorothy finding her back from Oz. How can people be so self-centered to not realize any danger.?  What to do all these irrational behaviors in the name of their God.?

It is almost impossible to find a concrete answer that doesn't borderline into fanaticism, where there are no promises of science but promises of faith; faith were more than an adjective, a word that becomes attached to the essence of the being because it's correlated within promises of salvation and contracts if you are an adherent you will be safe from the demons that surround your beliefs.

A tragedy as the one showed in The Full Gospel Tabernacle could be easily prevented, if the pastor would let the medical attention in; if maybe the divergent Pentecostal Holiness Movement died on the revivalist time on the 50's; if maybe people realize that in order to live to their beliefs, they don't need to risk their lives then maybe that tragedy as well as several others could be prevented.

The scenario, according to Cody Coots, Jamie Coots son; was that the church was having some financial withdraw due the lack of members, as he said - There wasn't too much energy in the services, and relatively snake-handling.- As well his father doing a series of ritual prayers and fasting in order to prepare for the revival services. But, Jamie Coots wasn't strange to tragedy as he was attacked in the past, surviving minor injuries but loosing the end of a finger on his right hand after being bitten by a rattlesnake circa 1998.

But the fatal blow send his father into a anaphylaxis shock that his family, friends and parishioners didn't recognize or didn't took in consideration based on their faith, even if the Middlesboro Hospital was less than a block away from Coots's house; the case gets complicated as one of the Coots's friends Cody Wynn blocked the paramedics way from entering the house. It could be interpreted as involuntary manslaughter as well Jamie Coots wife Linda signed the forms declining medical treatment.

The case ends in a strange note as Cody Coots heard the voice of God saying that his father was gone; as well Jamie Coots funeral where his son, spend the night on the cemetery handling snakes; could the divine signs and the reckless behavior could just mere signs of mania and hypomania to a psychotic disorder that is passed down within the XX chromosome.? Because it doesn't matter if you are a true believer as there is no absolute truth except that you are a human being no different from anyone else.

Carmen Carrera, Where Beauty Goes Beyond Any Binary System

Carmen

Gender does not exist in terms of beauty, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and yet beauty does not exist, is something that is not tangible, something that on a popular level magazines define, but yet the ideal of beauty on a pop level is far away from reality itself.

As far as contemporary pop culture can mention, magazines as Vogue, Glamour or Fashion can give a final outlook on what it is and what is out.- It is kind of a crude description, almost childish, but it also plays the game on how people will analyze other realities beyond theirs.

It's almost impossible to think how these kind of magazines, that sustain themselves on the body of their works and not the essence, can place the LGTBQ realities into a mainstream, specially towards topics such as gender identity, sexuality as well more positive image that reflect the different realities of femininity.

Beauty magazines, they never offer a small or big dose of reality, they perpetuate the stereotype that women come in only one package, that they are there to look pretty, and not do anything else; yet, the paradigm of beauty could be broken, towards the different perceptions on what woman are. Beauty can be such a shallow word, yet quite complex. It can go toward intellectuality and empowerment; it can be the whole meaning of individual existence; just making a person beautiful, by the way the person is.

There is something else, beyond 0's and 1's, there are 2's, 3's and more numbers in the coordinate; there are different systems that are part of the same wavelength and reality planes. Beauty is just a mere word, beauty goes on attitude and with the essence of human being; yet, the conditioning we have as a specie that we are set on binary; at least on terms of westernized culture.

Probably we tend to mix the concepts of sexual identity, gender, and sexual orientation among with the social roles, that people expect to be. Identity syncretism could be a solution to help expand the definition of gender and identity, as well social roles. There could be non conformity towards social roles, but yet the idea of medium class people seeking understanding in a concept of Ardhanarishvara were a being is composed by two, and there is some form of adoration because the being is essentially a representation of the core of existence.

The beauty of humanity can go beyond an organ, chromosomes, gamets, social roles; beyond the binary system we have as humans; but, yet as humanity we define ourselves with the number two, while other species gender is just a mere word and sometimes it doesn't even exists. Such as the clown fish or the New Mexico whiptail. 

When Tampa Bay Times Fails Badly

As is known with this Era of Information, almost every person has a smartphone or a device that is capable to connect into public WI-FI if they don't have any data plan.

On the edition of February, 2nd of 2014, the Tampa Bay Times published a note toward after a student who faked an attack and file a fake police report created a Twitter panic. It's difficult to argue if the "reporter" who "worked" on the news actually went to the school to do his work; or, even a follow up to the situation because the Times reported the news as if it happened no longer than two days ago, when in reality happened on January 24th.

Now, with what was said on the previous paragraph, the story developed in less than a day, and the Times quoting only one source and not even placing any images or graphic towards the Twitter panic, but with a little research of any post at the Twitter Statistics of the last 10 days, no one placed a single Tweet. The school is not strange to these kind of scenarios as on 2012 there was some distress when an homemade acid bomb activated.

2012 Twits 

The problem with these kind of local news is that sometimes they go unnoticed, and much of the updates are towards electronic means; but yet, if there is some journalistic integrity around the bay area not only with the Times but with any news station, just to go outside and pick up the information on a proper way, instead of sitting on the computer and copy-paste everything else.

Towards the so called Twitter panic.? Take a look at this because there are none toward that issue with the exception of the news station that reported.

Flappy Bird: An Infatuation With an Aviary Digital Trend

Flappy Bird, The Descend of Madness

There is one point where you can realize, society as we know, if we don't get a momentary reward in the moment then we will lose our focus on any thing that we are doing; or, as one obscure communicational theory says - If the blog entry has more than 500 words the user will lost completely interest in less than 3 minutes -, is almost the same at the moment of writing an article on a newspaper.

Instant gratification has become part of who we are as a modern society that we have all the answers within around our thumbs, and games have to focus on that level. With the creation of Angry Birds on 2099, the world suddenly experience an infatuation with puzzle like/ side scrolling games, that have easy to characters to remember; but a certain amount of difficulty that players don't expect because of the tablets and phones capacities.

The game itself has a easy dynamic, where the player can catch really easy how to play it; as the player has only to tap the bird to fly up or down in order to go through a series of pipes in order to get the maximum score. Sounds easier to describe than to play but yet is almost impossible to go beyond certain score. It's almost as trying to break the record on Pac-Man only to find out that after level 256 there is nothing but only a bug.

The game itself taking all those frustrating aspects, offers a nice view on how an indie product generated world wide attention because of the difficulty, as well the frustration. It's almost a juxtaposition of feelings on a game can be a popular because it doesn't even offer a smooth game play, it's just a simple idea that can pull the worse out of anyone.

It's not difficult to agree with Jennifer Whiteshade of Amongtech.com that the game could surpass Candy Crush Saga because of the addictiveness level that Flappy Bird offers.

The creator Dong Nguyen of DotGear Studios has been experience some popularity as well some financial comfort, as it has reported by venturebeat.com would receive around US$600 mill from Zynga in order to acquire the rights of the game; but yet fame hasn't gone to Nguyen as when he speak to the gamers the only thing he can reply is "the game was to make you laugh," albeit that could be just a sadistic remark.