At night, only the brightest stars are visible in the city...
Where to begin? We went to see X-Men 3 Friday night. It was totally worth driving to and sitting in the shitty movie theatre; we both prefer the Malco theatre which is closer to our apartment and has better food, but it seems like all the movies we want to see play at the crappy Carmike. Anyway, I am currently stuck in God of War, can't figure out where to go after putting the "shield of hades" in the slot in a little room. I think I'm supposed to very quickly roll myself into a sliding door after activating a switch, but I suck at rolling, so I'm stuck for now.
I've been in one of my weird crappy moods again - generally just cranky and whiny. I can usually tell when these bad moods will happen, for those of you over the age of 12, I'm sure you know to what time of the month I am referring. I hate it when I get like this, it seems so pointless to be in a bad mood because my hormones have shifted; it's really getting on my nerves.
I've also been in one of my contemplative theological moods lately. I was thinking today when I took Keith to work about how many people actually go and eat out after church. We pass a moderate sized Lutheran Church on the way to his work, and the parking lot was packed this morning. My thoughts on the subject of religion concerned more the people and their beliefs rather than what the religion actually teaches. The "religious" (the ones who think church is a social event, i.e. 'bowling for jesus')who are always on about converting the heathens and spreading the word depend on those very people they preach against and want to convert. If it were not for those of us who do 'have' to work on Sunday, where would they get their precious after church social meal? Everything would be closed if everyone considered Sunday to be a day of rest and worship. Not only that, but if on the off chance that they (the "religious" again) actually succeeded in their goal of converting every single person on earth to their religion, nothing would get done on Sundays and the religion would eventually die out. They need us more than they realize. Imagine a tapioca world where everyone shared their religion, how exactly would Sundays and church services proceed after the GREAT MISSION was accomplished? Would it go something like, "God is good, yay God! We've converted every living soul on the planet, so yup, that's about it. Let's go eat, but wait, we can't because everyone is at church and all the businesses are closed. Shit! I mean Poo!" Once they succeed with their goal of mass conversion, they would have no one to preach against or target as the damned. And to beg the question, What's next? There really isn't too much to do after you have "successfully" oppressed, I mean converted, the world to your religion. Everyone will eventually get bored with the religion, since there isn't anyone to persecute anymore, and the religion will eventually die out. This has been the way with many religions in the past, then they resurface sometimes with a handful of followers, only to die out again. We are only in one stage of the life cycle religions go through. Who knows, maybe a few hundred years from now some anthropologists and archaeologists will be studying our culture and students in classrooms will find it amusing that many people from our times believed the things they did, much like how we do now at the old religions, as in those of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans. Then in another few centuries the religion will resurface with a handful of peritioners, only to complete the cycle again. My point? I'm not really sure, I just wanted to get some of these observations and things out there. If I have failed to offend anyone, then dammit. If I have offended anyone, then I have succeeded - and hopefully one of the reasons you are offended is because this makes you think. This was all in fun, but still I hate how in our p.c. society, we feel we have to explain when something is a joke so that no one really gets upset.
I've been in one of my weird crappy moods again - generally just cranky and whiny. I can usually tell when these bad moods will happen, for those of you over the age of 12, I'm sure you know to what time of the month I am referring. I hate it when I get like this, it seems so pointless to be in a bad mood because my hormones have shifted; it's really getting on my nerves.
I've also been in one of my contemplative theological moods lately. I was thinking today when I took Keith to work about how many people actually go and eat out after church. We pass a moderate sized Lutheran Church on the way to his work, and the parking lot was packed this morning. My thoughts on the subject of religion concerned more the people and their beliefs rather than what the religion actually teaches. The "religious" (the ones who think church is a social event, i.e. 'bowling for jesus')who are always on about converting the heathens and spreading the word depend on those very people they preach against and want to convert. If it were not for those of us who do 'have' to work on Sunday, where would they get their precious after church social meal? Everything would be closed if everyone considered Sunday to be a day of rest and worship. Not only that, but if on the off chance that they (the "religious" again) actually succeeded in their goal of converting every single person on earth to their religion, nothing would get done on Sundays and the religion would eventually die out. They need us more than they realize. Imagine a tapioca world where everyone shared their religion, how exactly would Sundays and church services proceed after the GREAT MISSION was accomplished? Would it go something like, "God is good, yay God! We've converted every living soul on the planet, so yup, that's about it. Let's go eat, but wait, we can't because everyone is at church and all the businesses are closed. Shit! I mean Poo!" Once they succeed with their goal of mass conversion, they would have no one to preach against or target as the damned. And to beg the question, What's next? There really isn't too much to do after you have "successfully" oppressed, I mean converted, the world to your religion. Everyone will eventually get bored with the religion, since there isn't anyone to persecute anymore, and the religion will eventually die out. This has been the way with many religions in the past, then they resurface sometimes with a handful of followers, only to die out again. We are only in one stage of the life cycle religions go through. Who knows, maybe a few hundred years from now some anthropologists and archaeologists will be studying our culture and students in classrooms will find it amusing that many people from our times believed the things they did, much like how we do now at the old religions, as in those of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans. Then in another few centuries the religion will resurface with a handful of peritioners, only to complete the cycle again. My point? I'm not really sure, I just wanted to get some of these observations and things out there. If I have failed to offend anyone, then dammit. If I have offended anyone, then I have succeeded - and hopefully one of the reasons you are offended is because this makes you think. This was all in fun, but still I hate how in our p.c. society, we feel we have to explain when something is a joke so that no one really gets upset.