with wrists and hearts intact.
I figured out why I'm not the hugest fan of "I'm Like A Lawyer Blah Blah Sex Joke (Sappy Title In Parenthesis)"--Babyface produced it! And thus it sounds like a catchy, bland R&B pop ballad from 1995. MY FAVOURITE KIND OF SONG. NOT. Plus, you know, sixteen hundred little over-produced digital Patricks singing in the background. Gah.
On the upside, there is very little shoddy bass playing, so I can't hate it completely.
We watched The Da Vinci Code last night, for the first time since we saw it at the cinema (the guy sitting in front of us stomped out while SirIanMcKellan was explaining how Jesus liked to pay for it! Awesome!), and it's strange, but it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being.
I've also discovered, the last few times I've spoken about Christianity with Actual Christians, that they have a tiny cognitive disconnect around some things. Mostly, that any statement given about, "Jesus was both god and man," or, "Jesus was the son of god, and that's what he was," is going to get these kinds of responses from me: "Um, no. How about just a man?" or, "Sure, yeah, but so is everybody else."
Because I don't think Jesus was any more special than, like, Gandhi, or Buddha, or--um. Socrates. He was pretty cool. He was a guerilla freedom fighter, or a king, or a teacher, or a philosopher, or maybe all of those things, but he wasn't a god. I mean, not inherently. He's a created god, we've made him a god (a god; one of many god-like personalities and archetypes). He didn't start out that way.
Whatever. It's too early to turn Neil Gaiman into Kierkegaard.
Bye.
On the upside, there is very little shoddy bass playing, so I can't hate it completely.
We watched The Da Vinci Code last night, for the first time since we saw it at the cinema (the guy sitting in front of us stomped out while SirIanMcKellan was explaining how Jesus liked to pay for it! Awesome!), and it's strange, but it wasn't as bad as I remembered it being.
I've also discovered, the last few times I've spoken about Christianity with Actual Christians, that they have a tiny cognitive disconnect around some things. Mostly, that any statement given about, "Jesus was both god and man," or, "Jesus was the son of god, and that's what he was," is going to get these kinds of responses from me: "Um, no. How about just a man?" or, "Sure, yeah, but so is everybody else."
Because I don't think Jesus was any more special than, like, Gandhi, or Buddha, or--um. Socrates. He was pretty cool. He was a guerilla freedom fighter, or a king, or a teacher, or a philosopher, or maybe all of those things, but he wasn't a god. I mean, not inherently. He's a created god, we've made him a god (a god; one of many god-like personalities and archetypes). He didn't start out that way.
Whatever. It's too early to turn Neil Gaiman into Kierkegaard.
Bye.