Folks, this is where we end up when we start deconstructing the very foundations; language, institutions, traditions… that stabilize civil society ~ “Nonsensicality” ~
From SeattlePi:
Photo: LINDSEY WASSON / SEATTLEPI.COM
A bubble floats past Babylonia Aivaz as she listens to the band play at her wedding to the warehouse at 10th Ave and Union St. on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. About 30 people attended Aivaz’s wedding, which she says is a gay marriage because the building is a woman. Aivaz, who was among the Occupy Seattle protesters who wanted to reclaim it as community space, is using the wedding to protest the demolition of the 107-year-old building. An apartment building will be built in its place.
When the building is torn down, will Babylonia (that name has a certain Biblical appropriateness don’t you think?*) claim widowhood? And sue the City of Seattle for the wrongful death of her “spouse?” Why not?
Everything is relative in our post-modern age. There is no longer any transcendent Truth, so morality has become just a personal preference; whatever works for you. Apparently, marrying a building is what works for Babylonia.
In the comments below this short article was the following comment:
Guess the irony escaped them. It’s OK for homosexuals to co-opt a word that used to mean happy and light-hearted for their movement. But a proponent of “corporate personhood” can’t co-opt that same word for her cause. Sounds like we’ve got some conflicting “realities” here.
It’s enough to make your head spin.
Another commenter had this to say:
Yes Gregory, that’s the problem with creeping relativity. Every step we take away from God’s Truth, makes it that much easier to take the next one. Pretty soon we’re totally unmoored from reality ~
“She’s a B R I CK… H O U S E!”
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Related:
Seattle woman ‘marries’ building in attempt to save it ~ @ NWCN.com, with video
Starbucks: Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage “Is Core to Who We Are and What We Value” ~ Wonder if marriage to inanimate objects is “core” to Seattle-based Starbucks is as well?
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*And on her forehead a name was written:
“MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH”
~ Revelation 17:5 ~
I have no comment or interest in the story, really, but the name Babylonia is a somewhat common name in the Assyrian community, as Babylon was a great city of Mesopotamia. Naming one’s child Babylonia, in the Assyrian community, is unrelated to “Biblical appropriateness,” and does more to honor one’s heritage.
I was considering it mainly from a Biblical perspective. Throughout scripture “Babylon” is symbolic of the confusion caused by godlessness, which seemed rather appropriate in this case.
Appreciate the info though.
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