the question of undergod upon review in federal court
The question of whether or not we worship Undergod broached recently in Federal Court, sore subject always here at HCE when it arises and all start going after it in public the way they will.
Tike's father, as reported, spoke aloud before assembled jurists of the highest and most public court, appalled he said he was was by references to said deity in standard school pledge of allegiance, wanting judgement from the court that Undergod be left unsaid in that public place.
Curious uproar ensues.
Following the Barry Family Standard in this, we here at HCE in the main defer the impolitic subject matter as a general rule, and as this question has pride of place, at least, among the sorest of subjects overall, do defer and store for later entry those conclusive and restorative remarks we might incline to offer.
Rare is the disturbing discussion of our owned religious tenets here at HCE, and rarer still the discussion of others'.
However, as a moderating word must be spoken, then on the age-old if admittedly self-ascribed religious authority of the Barry Family adopted here and there among us at HCE by default, we find ourselves virtually obligated to offer up these thoughts, for whatever calming effect they may provide.
The contentious First Commandment known to all contains within itself an insult, an insult to be known, owned and used by its initiates, the core testament of it expressed in this one willing statement, "I spurn your god." Words to that effect.
This is this is the brisk and direct and useful first priciple, brisk and direct and useful in establishing the groundrules for any further discussion of it at all, and we here at HCE who have the least regard for decorum in public discourse in theory or in practice, have no difficulty whatsoever in adopting its tone. We spurn your god in a most thoroughgoing and adamantine way, — we do here at HCE. Oh, we do, as is requested of us hereabouts. However disposed your deity, we say no.
As it remains the innate temperament of the Barry Family to adjust first the volume control rather than the course of any conversation, we here at HCE find our preferences to be eliptical, parenthetical, as quiet as the unlistened whisper itself in re religion, and appeal always for same from our neighbors on the court.
Unordered Standards
No given table can hold all the many adopted standards of the unordered list of things acknowledged by the Barry Family. Displaced unknowingly perhaps by some mischance of memory, lost regrettably to the near neighborhood of the assembler's searching paw, or excluded intentionally by some canny editorial manuever of its maker instead, the boundary of the unordered list, elusively unlistable itself, goes unmentioned in the usual run of representations of the Unordered Standards of the Barry Family.
Such is the case with the image above, which strives with its few robust elements to both symbolize the minimal toolkit of unordered standards deemed commonly necessary by the Barry Family and suggest at the same time by a certain opacity around its edges the necessarily incomplete nature of such entabling gestures.
The prominent book implies always in Barry Family iconography the proprietary founder's interest of that group in the coursings of the English language over time, an interest which has long expressed itself in such concentrates of literary leavings as found at hand in the Bogblog.
The ½–yardstick is of course the famously constant Chinese half-yard of wood mentioned in the Bogblog, long since taken to be 18 inches worth here at HCE, giving over the other half of the yard to whoever cares to share the measure.
The complex machinery of the nut and bolt stands here for all machineries of any complexity at all.
Fire, pragmatically referenced by the somewhat ill-lit representation of a small lighter to the right of the book, is a standard adopted by progenitors of the Barry Family in that vast immemorial time before the Discovery of the Barry Family itself. The pre-existence of the standard of fire was among the earliest and canniest of the discoveries of that era, great good its continuance did susbsequently, in the main.
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