Friday, April 13, 2001
Alright, I guess I am inspired by Trav. His post got me thinking, and so this one will probably be pretty long and go over a lot of things.
oh yeah, i think there are two types of drivers, utter fucking morons, and those people who don't drive enough to notice the other fucking morons. If you don't mind these morons, obviously you don't drive enough. I am in a class of my own, being the god I am ;) actually, I drove my parents to the airport this morning at about 4 AM, and driving was fine. It has restored my faith in highways and driving and the like, because there is actually a time where traffic is moving. who cares if there were only 5 other people on the road, traffic was acutally going, dammit.
Alright, platypii....... uhhh, i don't remember the question, but I am broke. so, platypii are different from mammals for a few reasons. They have no nipples or mammary glands, I think most other mammals have those. also, their legs go out, then down, like lizards legs do. their body temperature is lower than most mammals, uhhh, males have poison glands on their back legs i think, i don't think a lot of mammals have poison glands.
as for religion, trav was right on with a lot of things there. I agree with him on a lot. people who blindly choose one way or the other piss me off. i guess you could technically call me an agnostic, but i am seriously atheist. so yeah, crazyness and all. The bible will never cease to amaze me. how anyone can take anything from the bible as fact is beyond me. It has gone through so many translations by bored scribes through so many languages. who knows how many things vital to the divinity of god are merely the acts of flawed translations. take moses and the parting of the red sea. alright, bare with me here, i forget exactly which languages warped it, but i think in the translation from arameic to hebrew, or from hebrew to latin, one of those two, the translation of the words "red" and "reed" are nearly identical. also, there is a Reed Sea, that was much smaller and very shallow, covered in reeds, but still existed in the general area where this whole migration of the jews took place. think about this. there is a Reed Sea and a Red sea. the word for reed and red are nearly the same. Moses parts the red sea, displacing millions of gallons of water, making the jews walk down below the water line all the way across the bottom of the sea and back up, and the egyptian warriors in all this time could not catch the tired malnourished ex-slaves. not only that, but after all the jews are across the egyptians just happen to be in the middle of the sea and moses again displaces millions of gallons of water and the sea closes over the egyptians. or this. the Reed sea, aptly named because it is covered in reeds growing in the water. moses parts the reeds in the water, allowing his people to cross the sea, and the reeds close behind them, fooling the egyptians. somehow this version makes an infinite amount of sense to me when compared with the other version. another translation error. again, from arameic to hebrew, or hebrew to latin, something like that, the words for little girl and virgin are interchangable. so, some scribe sees this word, and writes down virgin mary instead of little girl mary. so poof! in the stroke of a pen, or reed, or whatever the hell he is using, he just created what is to become one of the foundations of the catholic/christian faith. haha, something i like to do, is take it beyond that. in that day, one of the only ways for little girls to survive was prostitution. so joseph stumbles across this prostitute and falls in love. wonder of wonders!!! she is pregnant and they have never had sex!!!!! dear lord, immaculate conception!!!! mary feigns innocence and says an angel came to her. over the years, the catholic church takes their artistic liberty, and writes in all sorts of chapters in the new testament referring to this nonesense. which brings me to another thing. we have no clue how bastardized the bible we see today is after the 800 some years between the fall or rome and the renaissance. i mean seriously, there was no organized education in european states, so the only people who could actually read latin were priests and monks. we also have seen just how insanely corrupt the catholic church managed to become. come on, we all read "everyman" in high school, a story whose moral is basically "give all your posessions and land to the church, and get rid of all free thinking and free will, and you will get a free pass into heaven." catholicism warped whatever shreds of dignity christianity had in their reign of terror during the dark ages. somehow, what we see as one of the darkest points in history also happened to be the rule of one of the most popular religions. did the church make any attempt to pull the world out of the dark ages? not really, they had a pretty damn good racket going on, why would they want to change. then, during the age of enlightenment, people finally start to realize what a sham the catholic church is and say fuck this, i am out. hence, we get protestantism. i have respect for the foundation protestantism was based on. basically, you think for yourself, and make your own faith. most people don't want to think about their religion, they want to be told what they should do so they can be good people. people look to religion for comfort, not an actual belief system. people make up their own belief systems from life exerience. one of the hardest things i see in life is when my parents lay down their tythe money ever month, like 20% of their annual salary is what my old church demands as a minimum. it is nuts. i just watch it and want to cry. do they actually believe that a new porsche for the pastor is what their god wants? i went through confirmation and saw they way my church operates. it scared the living shit out of me.
alright, i am kind of wandering here. back the bible. trav made a damn good point when he mentioned the differences in god between the old and new testament. i mean, fuck, go read exodus. that is a damn scary book. god is ordering genocide and destruction left and right. i mean, look at this - "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." -- Exodus 20:5. i mean, that is fucking scary. we have a jealous god who will destroy your family for generations if you disagree with him. holy shit, yeah, i want to practice this religion, sounds like fun. But then comes the new testament. Oh yeah, we were just kidding with all that death and killing stuff, here is how it really is. god is this fluffy being who loves you no matter what, so its all good. i don't know which scares me more, the vengeful god of the old testament, or the sappy god of the new testament. shit.
alright, i wanted to start in on all my warped versions of christianity that i believe are more accurate versions of what church really teaches, but i won't. i will save that for another day
oh yeah, i think there are two types of drivers, utter fucking morons, and those people who don't drive enough to notice the other fucking morons. If you don't mind these morons, obviously you don't drive enough. I am in a class of my own, being the god I am ;) actually, I drove my parents to the airport this morning at about 4 AM, and driving was fine. It has restored my faith in highways and driving and the like, because there is actually a time where traffic is moving. who cares if there were only 5 other people on the road, traffic was acutally going, dammit.
Alright, platypii....... uhhh, i don't remember the question, but I am broke. so, platypii are different from mammals for a few reasons. They have no nipples or mammary glands, I think most other mammals have those. also, their legs go out, then down, like lizards legs do. their body temperature is lower than most mammals, uhhh, males have poison glands on their back legs i think, i don't think a lot of mammals have poison glands.
as for religion, trav was right on with a lot of things there. I agree with him on a lot. people who blindly choose one way or the other piss me off. i guess you could technically call me an agnostic, but i am seriously atheist. so yeah, crazyness and all. The bible will never cease to amaze me. how anyone can take anything from the bible as fact is beyond me. It has gone through so many translations by bored scribes through so many languages. who knows how many things vital to the divinity of god are merely the acts of flawed translations. take moses and the parting of the red sea. alright, bare with me here, i forget exactly which languages warped it, but i think in the translation from arameic to hebrew, or from hebrew to latin, one of those two, the translation of the words "red" and "reed" are nearly identical. also, there is a Reed Sea, that was much smaller and very shallow, covered in reeds, but still existed in the general area where this whole migration of the jews took place. think about this. there is a Reed Sea and a Red sea. the word for reed and red are nearly the same. Moses parts the red sea, displacing millions of gallons of water, making the jews walk down below the water line all the way across the bottom of the sea and back up, and the egyptian warriors in all this time could not catch the tired malnourished ex-slaves. not only that, but after all the jews are across the egyptians just happen to be in the middle of the sea and moses again displaces millions of gallons of water and the sea closes over the egyptians. or this. the Reed sea, aptly named because it is covered in reeds growing in the water. moses parts the reeds in the water, allowing his people to cross the sea, and the reeds close behind them, fooling the egyptians. somehow this version makes an infinite amount of sense to me when compared with the other version. another translation error. again, from arameic to hebrew, or hebrew to latin, something like that, the words for little girl and virgin are interchangable. so, some scribe sees this word, and writes down virgin mary instead of little girl mary. so poof! in the stroke of a pen, or reed, or whatever the hell he is using, he just created what is to become one of the foundations of the catholic/christian faith. haha, something i like to do, is take it beyond that. in that day, one of the only ways for little girls to survive was prostitution. so joseph stumbles across this prostitute and falls in love. wonder of wonders!!! she is pregnant and they have never had sex!!!!! dear lord, immaculate conception!!!! mary feigns innocence and says an angel came to her. over the years, the catholic church takes their artistic liberty, and writes in all sorts of chapters in the new testament referring to this nonesense. which brings me to another thing. we have no clue how bastardized the bible we see today is after the 800 some years between the fall or rome and the renaissance. i mean seriously, there was no organized education in european states, so the only people who could actually read latin were priests and monks. we also have seen just how insanely corrupt the catholic church managed to become. come on, we all read "everyman" in high school, a story whose moral is basically "give all your posessions and land to the church, and get rid of all free thinking and free will, and you will get a free pass into heaven." catholicism warped whatever shreds of dignity christianity had in their reign of terror during the dark ages. somehow, what we see as one of the darkest points in history also happened to be the rule of one of the most popular religions. did the church make any attempt to pull the world out of the dark ages? not really, they had a pretty damn good racket going on, why would they want to change. then, during the age of enlightenment, people finally start to realize what a sham the catholic church is and say fuck this, i am out. hence, we get protestantism. i have respect for the foundation protestantism was based on. basically, you think for yourself, and make your own faith. most people don't want to think about their religion, they want to be told what they should do so they can be good people. people look to religion for comfort, not an actual belief system. people make up their own belief systems from life exerience. one of the hardest things i see in life is when my parents lay down their tythe money ever month, like 20% of their annual salary is what my old church demands as a minimum. it is nuts. i just watch it and want to cry. do they actually believe that a new porsche for the pastor is what their god wants? i went through confirmation and saw they way my church operates. it scared the living shit out of me.
alright, i am kind of wandering here. back the bible. trav made a damn good point when he mentioned the differences in god between the old and new testament. i mean, fuck, go read exodus. that is a damn scary book. god is ordering genocide and destruction left and right. i mean, look at this - "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." -- Exodus 20:5. i mean, that is fucking scary. we have a jealous god who will destroy your family for generations if you disagree with him. holy shit, yeah, i want to practice this religion, sounds like fun. But then comes the new testament. Oh yeah, we were just kidding with all that death and killing stuff, here is how it really is. god is this fluffy being who loves you no matter what, so its all good. i don't know which scares me more, the vengeful god of the old testament, or the sappy god of the new testament. shit.
alright, i wanted to start in on all my warped versions of christianity that i believe are more accurate versions of what church really teaches, but i won't. i will save that for another day
