OFFS.

I was lamenting Shakesville being on vacation (since I felt like blogging) and then I remembered I have my own blog!. LOL! How terrible is that? I wrote Expostulation for years before closing up shop to just write at Shakesville and I pretty much forgot about it. I haven't always been on blogger but that was convenient a couple years ago when I meant to pick it back up again (whoops! LOL).

ANYWAY! What put the bee in my bonnet: It's the End of the World as They Know It and Atheists Feel Fine. It's not a particularly interesting article, on the whole, but two things stood out:

But Camping’s acolytes may pale in comparison to the number of atheists and agnostics who are outraged — and perhaps a little amused — by the California radio evangelist’s predictions that Christians are about to be swept up to glory.

Outraged? Who is outraged? I don't know of anyone who is outraged--and believe me, I have quite a number of atheist connections across this here series of tubes. Everyone I know thinks it's damn funny because it's just so ridiculous. Even the people quoted in the article itself weren't outraged. Not even a little bit miffed--they all seemed to think it's one great joke. That outrage bit is just shit-stirring. Atheists! They must be pissed off by this stupid prediction!

But it was this which made me had to shake my head to get my eyes unstuck from the roll:

“Some of the things they’re doing is a fulfillment of prophesy,” she [Allison Warden, a Camping follower who, with the help of family and friends, built a website, wecanknow.com] said. “They’ve persecuted Christians in this way before. Believers can expect similar treatment.”

This is yet another reason we can't have nice things: mocking parties are persecution. The fringe evangelicals are being OPPRESSED! The idea that THIS is oppression is simply offensive on several levels.

I'd like to say I cannot believe some people actually quit their jobs (in this economy no less!) because they believe this crap but, well, from the Summit Lighthouse group to the extreme end of the extremists like the Heaven's Gate cult...it's not like it's unprecedented.

These people are not being oppressed. They are being taken in by a cult leader and/or are simply just being stupid.

I still remember

You would have been seven years old this year, Avery. If the sky is clear tonight, I shall look for your star. Love, Mama.

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll

Merry Christmas

W.T.PH.

So I was skimming the new Google themes for gmail. I saw the one called "phantasea" and thought, at first, that it was "placenta". < double take > But, hey, who doesn't want a a placenta as their background image?

And, "phantasea"? Seriously?

amusing

It's funny how quickly the short people start to feel better when they hear:

"Well, if you're too sick to go to school then you're too sick to run around and play in the house today. Staying home sick from school means resting in bed."

It's the new year!

If you celebrate Samhain, that is.



Blessed Samhain! Happy Halloween!

best.compliment.ever.

I received during a debate on Embryonic Stem Cell Research:

If I were into having sex with brains, I'd totally want to bang yours.