A long as it seems to be working

Countdown to Armageddon

Not-so-interesting article, but I do have one comment.

"Rockstar is the more mainstream, glam rock band that's more about partying then playing"

I hate to be the proverbial broken record and I have been saying this for year, but no one understands glam anymore.

Yeah, I know I wasn't there.

Test

Had some problems posting yesterday, we'll see if this one works.

Love and Hate in the reign of Nuclear Caesar

Man, I'm so full of myself.

Angst has set in almost 10 years later than it should have for me. But then, I always was a late bloomer.

It's alright, I'll get over it. But what I'm really here for right now is proclaim in sight of the entire internet that I am returning to this Blog. For what, I'm not entirely certain at this point. Hopefully fate will present a path for this outlet and if not, well I guess I can always lay my plans for world domination.

Word.

Better paid than Brian DePalma

Who's this guy on the pre-movie Coke commercial pretending he knows what to do with a Dobro? I'd like to chill with the world a while.I'm sure they want to chill with me.

{Oh shit, Thunderball is on} Coke ended the Cold War, let's see how it does with the War on Terror/The Conflict Against Extremism/Crusades '05

{Connery's about to whoop the cross-dressing Colonel} {Jetpack in T-minus 2 minutes} The irony bus left town and I wasn't on it.

I'd hate to be marginalized. Marginal is the new collar up.

{There it goes. That's a real Jetpack: NOT A SPECIAL EFFECT. I believe it uses a inert gas reaction, probably with Hydrogen Peroxide, to achieve thrust.}
Damn, Insomnia is a dope movie. It's so hard to find good endings these days.

{You don't believe me? Look it up}
{There were like 3 working prototypes. Only one survives. It's probably with the lost UFO hovercrafts built in the 50's-60's. Nobody knows what happened to them}
I don't really care for Pale Ale. It has too bitter of a taste for me.

My sister's rebuttal to my comment that a girl on the show House was going to bang her head on a diving board: "Come one, you know they won't do that. She's gonna have like edema in the brain or something and then hit her head on the board." Of course, we were both wrong. Well met Fox, well met.

Idolatry just isn't as fun as it used to be

And neither is Charton Heston.

What can happen in a month?

Eh, not that much this month, hence the lack of postage.

It occured to me while watching Jason and the Argonauts that my concept of what an Ancient Greek looked like must be vastly dfifferent from what an actual Ancient Greek looked like. The same applies to ancient Romans, ancient Jews, Egyptians. Just about the entirety of the Ancient World is British in my mind. Laurence Olivier is how I picture Zeus.

Its just funny.

Also, as for what can happen in a month. I did start Aikido. Thank God, cuz I really needed it.

Is there a correlation between Deus and Zeus? I wonder.

Never mess with space...or time

I have a masochistic fascination with spacetime. Why else would I read something with paragraphs that take me a week to digest. Yargh.

Think about this: If we had faster than light communication, we would get answers before we could even ask the questions. Just imagine the causality issues of that.

Jesus.

That's all I've got. Time and space are an illusion.

We are awash in an infinite array of alternate dimensions, but our consciousness chooses to follow only one causal chain. I know I've talked about this with some of you; I just had the pleasure tonight of coming across a quote by someone with the same idea. I would go and find out who it was from, but that's all the way upstairs. And by the time I got all the way up there and back, I would have aged faster than all the rest of you.

loss of irony

A quote from the BBC regarding the "cartoon protests" in Afghanistan.

"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.

I'm sorry, but does anyone else see a problem in masked gunmen showing up to protest a cartoon depicting Muslims as terrorists? I find it funny because it's so tragic. How can we ever hope to deal with these mindsets? Obviously provocation isn't the way to go.

Regardless, Theocracy is the greatest crime man has ever committed against religion. It would seem to me that this violence is not inherent to the Islamic religion but rather a product of hundreds of years of totalitarian theocracies. Theocracy killed Jesus, ran the Inquisition, burned witches at the stake, and fought both sides of the Crusades. Religion should be a personal thing that we share with each other. Not a government of our personal lives. Like Heschel said, 'an action is not moral because we feel obligated to do it, we feel obligated to do it because it is moral'. No man should feel that obligated murder is moral, and no religion should preach it.

Our country needs to view what is happening and realize that a nation under God is not the same a nation ruled by God. A nation ruled by "God" is a one of simple minds controlled by the delusional. Leave it to history to decide who were the true prophets and who were the wolves in sheep's clothing. Each man should take it upon himself to find God, not let another man find God for him. I compare our current leaders to President Lincoln, a religious man, who preferred to submit his actions to God's judgement rather than assume that because he's in power, God guides his actions directly. I thought we had passed on divine right a long time ago.