End is Nigh: Man-girls, UFO's, and Deaf folk. Oh my!
So on Saturday, I went to Belleville to callbacks for a community theatre production of Rent.
That had been a fun experience. However, what I am about to relay for all to read in my journal entry, is about my journey to the callbacks. Particularly what took place at the Irvington bus terminal.
I reach the terminal around 4:23, via the 52 bus. I get off the bus just in time to see my connecting bus, the 13, drive away. So I'm a bit bummed, but I only have about a 20 minute wait (or so I thought) and decided to sit, listen to my classic i-pod nano, and chill.
I happen to sit directly in front of this zealous preacher in jeans, sneakers, and a light blue poncho type top, that went down to his ankles, and had strange white symbols on the front. The poncho looked more like a long rug that he cut a hole in the middle of and stuck his head through. I THINK he may have been wearing a black sweatshirt underneath. And he had a black beanie cap on his head. He looked...odd.
At first I thought to ignore him with my music. But even over the blast of the headphones I heard him utter the n-word, so I figured I should hear exactly what business a "holy man" had saying such a thing. So I pause my music, only to hear him go on about how white people are oppressing the black folk, and aren't we all tired of the white man calling us the ni993r, and aren't all the men tired of being called boy. And that back in the day, he wouldn't even be able to preach in the streets like he was, because he would be killed for even holding a bible. And as much as I commend him for knowing his history, I couldn't be bothered with hearing it. So I put my music back on.
Then a few minutes later I heard taking about Christianity AND Islam. So apparently he believes in a hybrid of the two. So then I started feeling a little bad for Judaism, and thought hey why can't they get in on this. But my thoughts were interrupted about talk of how going to church doesn't work alone, because black people work too hard, and women are wearing pants, looking like men, and talking back to them (to which my boyfriend said, "Oh yeah, cause a man is supposed to beat his woman and sleep around, and she's supposed to say nothing." *insert his eye rolls here* [did I mention I love my b/f?]).
Then he started talking about how he wasn't there to make friends, but to preach the word, and that he could care less about what we say about him, or think about him (which I thought was good, cause I was thinking up a storm. And most of that storm consisted of CRAZY clouds.) He then went on to say that black people will inherit the earth, and that the black people who follow Jayzus will have people of other races serving them, and not the other way around. But this made me a bit uncomfortable, because it just seemed like he wanted to start race wars, via religion. And I have always had a problem with two things: racism of any kind and using religion for a basis of warfare.
Oh and UFO's are real. They will come to take the righteous people away when the world ends, and destroy everyone else with lasers. You see, in the Book of Revelations, there is talk of whirlwind Chariots. Well the whirlwind is caused from the way the UFO's spin, naturally. That's right ladies and gentlemen, UFO's are not just from video games. The government just doesn't want you know about it. But if they didn't exist, then why would God make them??? Right... (O_o)'
Of course it was around this point that I stopped listening again. However, I heard him mention Obama, so I thought, "Oh jeez, he's getting political now, better tune in." I heard him talk about how Obama was not going to be able to save America and it's economy. Anyone who thought so was a fool, because you see, America is inherently doomed. It doesn't matter who the is President, this country will collapse, all the stores and businesses will close, and cities will be put on lock down. But those who believe in God will be saved from America's fall, and will be taken to a better place. And there the believers will live like kings. (Of course I was thinking, "Well how are you going to get the plane ticket out, cause you don't look like you're rolling in money?" But then I thought, "Heh, maybe the UFO's will drop a winning lottery ticket in front of his box house.")
One of the last things I heard him say was that a lot of people want Jesus to come back to earth. But what they don't understand is that Jesus will put people to deaf...
Yeah, that's right, he ULTRA stereotyped, and pronounced th as an f. And when that happened, I had reached my final straw. I turned up my music to try and drown him out, without blasting out my own ears. But then I heard nothing but my music, and when I looked back, he was gone. No where to be seen. And then I thought, "Huh. Maybe the UFO's got him."
I found about 99.8% of what he said to be offense and/or absolutely absurd. But I started to think about what the end of the world may be like. I pondered about what if, in fact, I live to see the day the world ends, and I look up into the sky, and there they are, the UFO's, and a laser shoots down, and blasts a person standing next to me. And I imagine that I will look at the burnt spot where a person used to be, back to the UFO, back to the spot, and then stare out into some vacant space only to say, "Heh. What do you know?"
I think I want to make a movie about this.
P.S.: The sad thing is that if he actually had an "End is Nigh" sign, I just may have taken him seriously.
That had been a fun experience. However, what I am about to relay for all to read in my journal entry, is about my journey to the callbacks. Particularly what took place at the Irvington bus terminal.
I reach the terminal around 4:23, via the 52 bus. I get off the bus just in time to see my connecting bus, the 13, drive away. So I'm a bit bummed, but I only have about a 20 minute wait (or so I thought) and decided to sit, listen to my classic i-pod nano, and chill.
I happen to sit directly in front of this zealous preacher in jeans, sneakers, and a light blue poncho type top, that went down to his ankles, and had strange white symbols on the front. The poncho looked more like a long rug that he cut a hole in the middle of and stuck his head through. I THINK he may have been wearing a black sweatshirt underneath. And he had a black beanie cap on his head. He looked...odd.
At first I thought to ignore him with my music. But even over the blast of the headphones I heard him utter the n-word, so I figured I should hear exactly what business a "holy man" had saying such a thing. So I pause my music, only to hear him go on about how white people are oppressing the black folk, and aren't we all tired of the white man calling us the ni993r, and aren't all the men tired of being called boy. And that back in the day, he wouldn't even be able to preach in the streets like he was, because he would be killed for even holding a bible. And as much as I commend him for knowing his history, I couldn't be bothered with hearing it. So I put my music back on.
Then a few minutes later I heard taking about Christianity AND Islam. So apparently he believes in a hybrid of the two. So then I started feeling a little bad for Judaism, and thought hey why can't they get in on this. But my thoughts were interrupted about talk of how going to church doesn't work alone, because black people work too hard, and women are wearing pants, looking like men, and talking back to them (to which my boyfriend said, "Oh yeah, cause a man is supposed to beat his woman and sleep around, and she's supposed to say nothing." *insert his eye rolls here* [did I mention I love my b/f?]).
Then he started talking about how he wasn't there to make friends, but to preach the word, and that he could care less about what we say about him, or think about him (which I thought was good, cause I was thinking up a storm. And most of that storm consisted of CRAZY clouds.) He then went on to say that black people will inherit the earth, and that the black people who follow Jayzus will have people of other races serving them, and not the other way around. But this made me a bit uncomfortable, because it just seemed like he wanted to start race wars, via religion. And I have always had a problem with two things: racism of any kind and using religion for a basis of warfare.
Oh and UFO's are real. They will come to take the righteous people away when the world ends, and destroy everyone else with lasers. You see, in the Book of Revelations, there is talk of whirlwind Chariots. Well the whirlwind is caused from the way the UFO's spin, naturally. That's right ladies and gentlemen, UFO's are not just from video games. The government just doesn't want you know about it. But if they didn't exist, then why would God make them??? Right... (O_o)'
Of course it was around this point that I stopped listening again. However, I heard him mention Obama, so I thought, "Oh jeez, he's getting political now, better tune in." I heard him talk about how Obama was not going to be able to save America and it's economy. Anyone who thought so was a fool, because you see, America is inherently doomed. It doesn't matter who the is President, this country will collapse, all the stores and businesses will close, and cities will be put on lock down. But those who believe in God will be saved from America's fall, and will be taken to a better place. And there the believers will live like kings. (Of course I was thinking, "Well how are you going to get the plane ticket out, cause you don't look like you're rolling in money?" But then I thought, "Heh, maybe the UFO's will drop a winning lottery ticket in front of his box house.")
One of the last things I heard him say was that a lot of people want Jesus to come back to earth. But what they don't understand is that Jesus will put people to deaf...
Yeah, that's right, he ULTRA stereotyped, and pronounced th as an f. And when that happened, I had reached my final straw. I turned up my music to try and drown him out, without blasting out my own ears. But then I heard nothing but my music, and when I looked back, he was gone. No where to be seen. And then I thought, "Huh. Maybe the UFO's got him."
I found about 99.8% of what he said to be offense and/or absolutely absurd. But I started to think about what the end of the world may be like. I pondered about what if, in fact, I live to see the day the world ends, and I look up into the sky, and there they are, the UFO's, and a laser shoots down, and blasts a person standing next to me. And I imagine that I will look at the burnt spot where a person used to be, back to the UFO, back to the spot, and then stare out into some vacant space only to say, "Heh. What do you know?"
I think I want to make a movie about this.
P.S.: The sad thing is that if he actually had an "End is Nigh" sign, I just may have taken him seriously.