Howdy folks its been a while, I’ve been way busier than I thought I would be, but I had to do a post about this because (I know its late) this has been nagging at me for a little while. Tis the season or at least Tis the day after the season and I went to see a local play about scrooge. It was an adaptation called The Gospel According to Scrooge so keep in mind if the things that I say sound a little weird its because this play was a little different. But I have 1 question, what exactly was Scrooge doing that was so wrong that everybody had to come screw with him?
The entire story rides on the premise that scrooge was this dick of epic proportions when in reality he was just a workaholic that hated Christmas. Whats so wrong with that, there’s no rule that you have to love Christmas and even the bible says that one of the only joys a man can have is enjoying what he does. So whats the problem here? If I’m not mistaken in the story Scrooge is some kind of banker or lender, granted that these are some of the most heartless people in the world, but everybody hates him because he wants to do his business and not be messed with. Also it seems like a really small community and it seemed like everybody wanted to be his friend. Here again Scrooge seems like a bastard because he doesn’t want to be their friend but if you take a second look, Scrooges nephew is very poor and in need of lots of help for Timmy. Just a part of the story focuses on Scrooge failing his nephew (I’ll concede that Scrooge is a pecker of epic proportions and there is nothing I wouldn’t do for my niece and nephew) but with this great and super friendly community why don’t they get together and help out little Timmy. Because like Scrooge their money is their money.
All in all Scrooge seemed like a rich old bastard that just wanted to keep to himself because he had lead a pretty hard life. Life kept kicking this guy down until he buckled down and got to work and defeated life. Its easy if you’ve never been poor to look at this guy and say why wont he take a day off but when you’re poor nobody gives you any hand outs, I don’t care what the politicians say. He made it, he got rich but it seemed like life wasn’t done kicking him in the head. From a human perspective being a dick is bad but in reality some people are better off being left alone.
The real moral of this story is nobody wants to be your friend when you’re poor but everybody wants to be your friend when your rich. Is it just me or does this story not really jive with the American Dream?
Its finally happening, Discovery news reports that they have identified a way above average chimp named Natasha. This chimp has outperformed all the other chimps on the test they administered but it wasn’t enough that she did better than everyone else she nearly aced every test. My question is what does this mean to the rest of the world?
If you’re a christian watching a genius monkey what goes through your mind? Anyone on the side of evolution is gonna think, logically I might add, that these types of things happen in the small window of time we have in the larger platform of evolution where the major change happens. But I would assume the average homosexual hating christian is going to think about every decision that they have ever made leading them up to the point of blindly not believing in evolution, then they’ll drag their knuckles over to a local bingo barn where, they obviously think about all things of the universe, and talk to Bubba and Hoss about this chimp. After a few of the lords beers they will get a message from their “god” spelled out in the alphabet soup they just vomited up in the parking lot and decide to go kill the chimp. But then again I’m just guessing that’s what happens in the middle of the country. (don’t forget I’m a christian too, I just like making fun of the stupid ones)
I just wonder what this means on a grander human scale. If there is a genius chimp that exists there will be a time that the super genius monkey will exist and at the rate humanity is devolving maybe there needs to be a new animal at the top of the food chain. But like any good human will do, we will be sure to kill the rise of the super genius chimps to make sure they wont use up all “our” resources and take all the low level jobs that no one but illegal immigrants want because only then will the immigration debate end. We will band together as stupid people and once again try and stop something mother earth has put into motion to destroy us that we believe is the work of the devil! GO HUMANS!
I’m not a very informed person as you can tell by my blog posts and T-shirt designs. But I saw something today that blew my hair back, Pakistan has blasphemy laws. Holy Crap! I thought we were past these times but, like any other American, I forgot there was a side of the globe that isn’t even close to getting past it.
I am the kind of person that just assumes everything is my fault so whenever something happens in the world I have to look at how I affected it or how it effects me. There is a Christian girl in Pakistan that is being held for allegations of burning a Quran (of which there is no proof). But before I could even pass judgments I first had to think that as a Christian this is how the word was spread all over the world. Sure it was spread organically but as soon as the Romans adopted it that’s when all hell broke loose. So now as a collective Christian community gathers together to pass judgment on something that just a few decades ago we were doing ourselves we remain oblivious to the hypocrisy of it all.
With that being said what the hell is a matter with you, its just a book. The consequences of burning a few measly pages out of this book can result in life in prison and/or execution (I guess life in prison is execution if you wait long enough). Its just a twist to see Christians persecuted, in America it’s the other way around bur its out of sheer stupidity. “Oh no, we have a black president with a bit of an odd name that sounds middle eastern, so lets tell everyone the Muslims are taking over!” I have literally heard people say that by the end of Obamas term they muslims will be chasing us in the streets. And yet we look at Pakistan with disgust when the Muslims hate Christians.
There needs to be a way to fight all the stupid in religion. The only thing that comes to mind is an I.Q. test before being allowed to talk in public, but even that wouldn’t be enough to stop all the rampant ignorance in this country much less the world. I want people to think about Pakistan when they say that America is a Christian nation. Its nowhere near as Christian as Pakistan is Muslim, holy crap when is the last time our government killed someone over taking the lords name in vain, if that ever happened the streets would be running red with blood. So before you jump on your Christian high horse and judge these people just think of a few things like the Salem witch trials, the Crusades, Catholic priests touching little boys, the murders of Muslim American citizens by Christian extremists, Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart, the murders of Gay American citizens by Christian extremists, and last but not least Hitler claimed to be Christian.
I just saw an awesome documentary on Netflix called The UFO Conspiracy. This movie was good with the usual cases to show that something weird is happening out there. That’s all well and good but the really cool part came later on in the doc. It presented an idea at the end that was something uncommon among ufo theories.
I have to be honest here before I go on, I freakin love ufo conspiracy not because I believe in aliens but its mostly out of pure fascination. I look at this type of stuff the way a child watches it. Do your remember watching Signs, you know the M. Night Shyamalan movie, the way they were watching the tv when they aliens were showing themselves, that’s how I watch all the documentaries about ufos. I just sit there with my mouth open completely hypnotized by the possibilities of UFOs.
Now that I’ve shared a little of my morbid fascination with UFOs let me tell you what this doc was about. Like I said before it was some pretty standard stuff through out the whole thing. But I think it was the last 15 minutes or so that just blew me away. I have seen some docs talk about like the Sumerians and the Bible and aliens but I have never heard anyone talk about aliens as demons themselves. Its very strange but still at the same time as a christian how powerful do you believe demons to be. It’s a very uncomfortable thought for a very comfortable christian, I know there are the groups that believe the devils do all kinds of stuff but that is not the point here. The thought that aliens are just demons for a new age, teaching that who cares about Jesus and a whole lot of new age type philosophy.
They liken the alien abduction phenomenon to haunted houses, not only do they all seem crazy to the regular person but all the strangeness around the houses are more than just a little similar. From the dreams to the strange noises and occurrences this doc was trippin me out by comparing the two, the thought had never even crossed my mind.
I say check this documentary out if only for the last half of it. Its made to blow the christian mind.
Is it just me or is this whole world going crazy? It must be because its an election year, time to bring out the scare tactics. The Los Angeles Times reported that Pope “what’s his face” (RIP Greg Giraldo) Bendict‘s butler is getting brought up on charges for stealing. Like I’ve said before in other posts that I am a christian and have been for a long time and I just don’t understand things like this. You’re the Pope right, to the catholics you’re the next best thing to Jesus. Jesus would forgive this guy and tell him to go on his way and sin no more, wouldn’t he?
My first question is, why does the Pope have a butler? This seems like the kind of guy that can move around and clean up after himself. Would Jesus have a butler, I think not. Jesus didn’t even have a house, but then again Jesus wouldn’t have been a Nazi either.
This guy (meaning the butler) leaked internal documents form the catholic church revealing all kinds of, lets just say, bad stuff. He’s trying to do what he believes to be a noble thing. Lets just put this into perspective. He worked with the Pope, the closest thing to an actual powerful monarch on this planet, and he probably got to talk to him and meet his friends. The Pope was his boss and maybe even his friend not to mention the whole infallible thing that the Catholics believe him to be. The Pope gives this guy his days off and vacation days. And to thank him you turn around and leak the secret things you were privileged enough to see. This tells me 1 thing, The Pope must be a giant butt hole behind closed doors.
The Pope is like a mafia boss and messing with him is going to bring this poor butler a whole world of hurt. Because when the Catholic church goes after somebody all you can do for them is pray…. Am I right Crusades.
