Lazy. Sorry. PS. God, where did you go?

Okay, I'm a lazy fucking douchebag. I know. I haven't updated in forever. Guess what? This isn't an update. Life has been busy as hell, but it goes on.

As such, this is a repost of an entry concerning some of my thoughts on religion, written for another blog, long ago.

Enjoy. Hail Satan.

"I'll preface this by saying that I am an atheist. I have no interest in having faith myself, however, I am fascinated by the ability of others to accept or live by a system of religion. I consider myself fairly qualified to discuss this subject, having read the King James version of the Holy Bible, and the New Oxford Edition, both in their entirety, as well as a fair number of texts concerning theology, and faith, by scholars such as Wink, CS Lewis, etc.

I have a problem with religion. I'm specifically picking on Christianity here, I know, but that's simply because I know more about it than other faiths.

The biggest hypocrisy I see in following an indoctrinated religion is that they all ultimately are rooted in books written by men, and feature events and/or concepts that are intangible in the physical world. Also, it seems important to note that most religions that exist today are actually an amalgamated form of other faiths. The "Christ" myth has existed in the majority of pre-christian faiths (Ancient Egyptians had the resurrection of Osiris, the Greeks had their Christ in Apollo).

The necessity of an all emcompassing religion to explain terrible things occurring in the world, with almost no concrete basis can be traced back to the beginning of civilization. What I've never understood is how someone could sit there and say that Christianity is more "real" or "applicable" than, for instance, an "out of date" system like the Greek Mythologies, which I'm pretty sure most people write off as being unused. They serve the same purpose. They both contain elements of the supernatural, the likes of which haven't actually ever been seen by any practitioners of said faith, but rather are simply recounted by men, in a book.

Then you have the contradictions that are put forth in the Good Book. The old Testament basically sets life up so that I can do anything I want, beat my children, murder my wife, keep slaves, etc. and then justify it with a passage from the Bible (Leviticus for the most part). The majority of the first portion of the Bible sets forth ground-rules that read as a guide to surviving as a powerless unorganized group of twelve Jewish tribes struggling to even exist (ie. Not eating pork, which would have been hard to keep fresh, and healthy in the situation of the Israelites of Old Testament times)

I will admit that the New Testament offers some philosophical concepts that can be applied fairly well to co-exist with your fellow man, but it also seems to be so very contradictory to what the Old Testament, which was also placed in the Canon by the Ecumenical councils early on, seems to offer. It also seems worth noting that the ideas of compassion and fraternity offered by Christ in the Gospels specifically, are not exclusive to Christianity, but rather, most faiths.

My favorite contradiction? The Apocrypha. Why does it even exist? What mortal man is worthy of discrediting a book supposedly inspired by God? A politically minded one. That's who. What best benefits me, and my burgeoning new religion? These books that I(spoken from the perspective of the Ecumenical Councils) have chosen to include are the books that will keep me in power over the members of my organization (the soon to be church, Catholic specifically)

Religion is, in my opinion and experience, simply a sedative for the uneducated. If one cannot come to terms with the fact that the nature of humanity has resulted in horror, such as war or genocide, then it can simply be blamed on an invisible, intangible, unapproachable figure who encompasses all things evil (the "Devil"/"Satan"), because the believer has no understanding of the world around him. Religion has always existed solely to explain the inexplicable. In our modern age of realism and science, which can all be proved, in the physical world around us, I fail to see where there is room for a supernatural redeemer and creator, who also allows evil to exist, rooted so very deeply in his creation. If God is good, by definition, then why does the world work the way it does. If God made everything, and had the power to make it any way he wanted to, then why would he make it so living creatures would have to die for others to survive? Why would a benevolent creator allow his creation to run amuck as it has? This paradox, this inexplicable, often unaddressed, often suppressed question lies at the heart of my atheism. I see the God of Christianity as a Loki. A mischievous, naive, sadistic trickster, and as such, I prefer to live in a world where I accept what I see, and what can be explained without drawing on the improbable, or the imaginary.
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Fuck!

Life is weird, man.

Just when I thought I was set in my ways, I get hit in the fucking nose with the ultimate curveball, and I really don't mind.

In fact, it's pretty cool.

Who wants to give me 30-50 million dollars to write, produce, and direct the best western of the last 10 years?

Conservative Conundrum

I'll be the first to admit it... In highschool I did a lot of the things that I did just for the sake of being different.

A little background: I graduated from a 95% white, upper-middle/upper class Episcopalian Private school in Confederate Heritage Richmond, Virginia, in 2006. I was the kid with the long faggot scene kid hair, the black band hoodies, the buttons all over my bag, etc. I wore a baphomet pendant around my neck, and a pentagram for a belt buckle. I would spew anti-christian theosophy at every turn, and I took great comfort in making them squirm.

That said, as a ninth-grader, I knew more about the history of the Holy Bible than the ditz who taught my "Biblical Studies" (essentially a week spent reading the Gospel of Mark... and a month and a half watching "Jesus Christ Superstar" and other Andrew Lloyd Weber drivel)

I really enjoyed when the older teachers (many of whom have never been beyond the borders of the great state of Virginia) would ask what the sticker on my binder said ("Circle of Dead Children" in essentially indecipherable deathgrind logo style). I reveled in their discomfort.

Really, what can a 67 year old republican who wears a web belt depicting every variation of the stars and bars (for the uninitiated... the Confederate flag) say to a 17 year old brat essentially chewing up and spitting out every aspect of their 1950's delusion?

I'll be turning 20 in less than a month, and will more than likely be voting Republican in the next presidential election.

Fuck me.

Indepenetration?

In my personal opinion the "fine line" between exploitation/sexploitation cinema and pornography... should not, and realistically does not exist...

For instance, if one is going to watch a movie that falls into the sexploitation sub-genre, what is the appeal (to most)?

Naked bitches acting slutty. Duh.

If one is going to watch pornography, what is the appeal?

Naked bitches acting slutty. Also duh.

My point?

Porn and sexploitation are both the same thing, and I personally think that they both hold a significant place in the history of film, and even more so, in the history of societal moral evolution.

In other words, I really cannot understand the idea that pornography has some negative effect on anyone (except perhaps on the wife of a so called "porn addict")

I really don't know where I'm going with this...
I guess all I'm really saying is that anyone who has a problem with entertainment of any sort, whether it's violent video games, or videos of a woman deepthroating a horse, you should calm down. There are more important issues out there that you can hoot and holler about...

Parapsychotic Antimaterial Subliminal Abstractions!

Caricature of Wealth

I love seeing hardcore kids in public places, with their parents.

First Post

So uh, this is my new blog. Hopefully it will take off, but I never really know with these things.

Last night I almost did something that would have resulted in immediate termination from my place of employment. Fortunately I contained my emotions, and refrained from hopping the counter to choke a 5 year old.

If you take your kids out in public... they better not fuck up my store.