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| Here is the creed for the modern thinker. We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin. We believe everything is okay, as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to your best definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and after marriage. We believe in the therapy of sin. We believe that adultery is fun. We believe that sodomy is okay. We believe that taboos are taboo. We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence. We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO’s, and bent spoons. Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammad and ourselves. He was a good moral teacher, although we think basically his good morals were really bad. We believe that all religions are the basically the same, at least the ones we read were. They all believe in love and goodness. They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation. We believe that after death comes nothing because when you ask the dead what happens they say nothing. If death is not the end, and if the dead have lied, then it’s compulsively heaven for all except perhaps Hitler, Stalin and Chingis Khan. We believe in Masters and Johnson. What is selected is average, what’s average is normal, and what’s normal is good. We believe in total disarmament. We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed. Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure to follow. We believe that man is essentially good-it’s only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society; society’s the fault of condition; and conditions are the fault of society. We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him and reality will adapt accordingly; the universe will readjust and history will alter. We believe that there is no absolute truth, except the truth that there is no absolute truth. We believe in the rejection of creeds and the flowering of individual thought.
If Chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is His rainbow in the sky. And when you hear: “State of Emergency,” “Sniper Kills Ten,” “Troops on Rampage,” “Youths go Looting,” “Bomb Blasts School,” it is but the sound man worshipping his maker.
quote from Steve Turner, and English journalist | | |
| heres to our embarrassing moments:
so i just finished my last final, and im feeling great. i already sold the book (trust me, i didnt want that book any longer than i needed it), and my wallet was feeling good and healthy. i decide to go get food, and discover - much to my suprise - that all the food was real (not fake like it normally is....you have to go to berry to understand what im talking about.....just think real eggs, and chocolate chip pancakes). this adds to my happiness. last night i had grandiose plans of sleep after this final, but those plans have gone out the window; the adrenaline is pumping too high. i mean, im freaking done with finals, and hence school for the semester.
so i bring my food back to my room, turn my computer on, and begin to listen to music videos while eating my breakfast (which is all real, mind you). i have to put on my headphones because mike is still asleep, and i dont want to disturb him (if you know mike, you know he needs all the sleep he can get). so im listening to my music, but pretty soon my breakfast is forgotten about, and i start rocking out with the music. im talking hardcore, with head banging and hair flying and hands waving ridiculously...all while sitting down. i mean im into it; the music blaring in the headphones so loud i cant hear a thing, and me moving in all kinds of wierd directions, you would think i was possessed or something. thats when i feel it. you probably know the feeling: it makes your skin crawl and your hair stand on end. its the feeling you get when someone is watching you do something stupid. i immediately stop what im doing and look around. sure enough, mike is sitting on the edge of his bed staring at me with the funniest expression on his face.
i rip my headphones off, muttering something about being embarrassed, and mike just shakes his head and chuckles. the boy deserves an oscar for not rolling on the floor in laughter, cause i know i would have.
i put my headphones back on. finals are over. it was an acceptable jam session. | | |
| so ive got my own veritable derek post. this was actually an email conversation i am having with one of my non-christian friends. i would like to hear what some of you think.
yeah, i agree with that 100 percent. and what you said really got me to thinking about the way religious people - particularly christians - act in general. as christians we are supposed to live our lives as examples for everyone else...actually live what we preach. but so often we dont do that, especially in america. its too easy to treat christianity as fire insurance and then live like you want to the rest of the time. but christians that live like that i dont think are real christians, because they really dont exhibit the full on change in their lives that the bible shows will happen. ive been feeling bad about this myself, because cussing and drinking arent really things that a good christian does, and it sets a bad example for everyone that follows my life.
the two facedness so often seen in christians could stem from the fact that there is nothing holding christians accountable anymore. i was reading some statistics on christian leaders who look at porn, and it was quite disheartening. many christians - those in america particularly - have grown apathetic towards their duties as christians, and have thus become self centered, egotistical idiots who hold viewpoints about life that are not defendable on any front. yet they try to defend them anyway because they want to continue living in their comfortable, sinful lives. they dont want their eyes to be opened - or anyone to tell them that they are wrong - because that would mean that the world that they had built for themselves was all a farce.
no one wants to admit that they are wrong...that there is a higher power - God - who holds us accountable for our actions here on earth, and who will throw us in hell. so people just keep on living their lives like they want to, and actually purposefully blind themselves to the truth because they are not only scared of it, but they just want to keep living their lives the way that they want to. if they acknowledged God, they would have to change their ways, and they just dont want to do that.
now this problem could stem from the fact that when we raise our children, we raise them to value the things of the world. as children we were raised to value things that are expensive, to value the way expensive things were earned, and most importantly we were taught to emulate those who had what we wanted. now christain families are supposed to be different. the christian parents are supposed to teach their children to be different from the world. but alot of times parents do a bad job of that. they are either too busy to spend time with their kids, or they are just too blind to what is really going on in the world.
we have quickly become like the society that noah lived in. i firmly believe that if it wasnt for the few christains who truely centered their lives around God, God would just destroy everything and everyone here. and its become such a problem that there is pretty much nothing that can be done. if we tried to reach everyone in america with the Gospel, people would either shut their ears and run through the streets trying to escape the truth, or they would stare at us incredulously because they have seen the lives that the supposed "christians" have led, and they dont believe there is a problem.
but i dont think its time to give up yet. i think God will work things out for the best. just dont get caught in the crowd. i hope ive told you some things that will make you think a little harder about life. if you got more questions, email me
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| ok, you know what really ticks me off? the fact that the Deja Vu is always closed. for crying out loud six flags, just let me ride this freaking ride ONCE in my life. all ive wanted to do since ive been born was to ride this ride, and everytime i go to six flags, that stupid old man does his little dance and slaps me in the face and says, "no Deja Vu for you today, stupid boy." its like an advertisement conspiracy based on hope. they think, "we can build a ride at our park to draw people to the park, but then never open the ride and tick people off." well ive got news for them: i refuse to hope anymore. the Deja Vu will never be open, and ive accepted that. you might as well just tear it down now.
and thats another thing: i hate that advertisement persona...you know, the dancing old man. it makes a mockery of old people. they dont even have a real old man dancing, its some young girl in an old man suit. i mean, i love old people, and i hope to be one one day, but six flags obviously doesnt even respect our elderly enough to get an advertisement of real old people to have fun at their park. no. they go and hire fake old people because they dont want us as a socuety to realize that one day we will get old, thus losing our youth, and thus possibly loosing our ability to have fun. and that opens up a whole other can of worms about how our society doesnt want to grow old. but that is just too much for one post. so for now, grow up six flags; get a good advertisement, and either open the Deja Vu or tear it down. | | |
| I will be gone for a while pondering life. I may not return. | | |
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