I don't really relish the idea of eternal life. It sounds sort of boring to me. But then, I'm hard to please.
I'm good with living a few hundred years in this life. That's all I want. Yes, I know, that makes me a materialist, and that's badbadbad.
But I saw Syriana a couple nights ago, and I keep thinking of the
last wishes of the kid who blew up the LNG tanker:
The next life is the true life.
That mentality frightens me so much, because once you start thinking like that, anything and everything in this life -- including murder, rape, torture and genocide -- can be justified, provided it was done for the glory of God.
Also, I want to chime in in support of ita's statement of appreciation about Steph's input, and expand it to include others, especially JZ. Y'all have delicious spicy brains, and though I don't share the beliefs and understandings you espouse, I like hearing them, because I feel they're at least as well thought out as my own areligiousness, and they help me to understand you better, as well as help me to understand my own thoughts and beliefs on this subject.
It would be so much funnier if Word wanted to change it to Gamera.
Gamera is really neat. He is filled with turtle meat.
On a more serious note, much mental health-ma for Matt's dad.
My horoscope reads: Your fan club is growing -- in fact, you're so well liked and respected that you're praised for things you're only thinking of doing. Be honest about your actual accomplishments -- your modesty will win even more fans.
Well? Where the hell is my praise?
much mental health-ma for Matt's dad.
What FrankenBuddha said. I hope it can be solved quickly with as little pain as possible.
ALLYSON IS GREAT AND HAS FABULOUS HAIR!! AND ALSO SMART AND PRETTY AND FUNNY!!
Gamera is really neat. He is filled with turtle meat.
We love eating Gamera!
Of course now I'm also earwormed with
Barbara! Barabara!
from the mecha-Streisand/Robert Smothra episode of South Park.
I'm good with living a few hundred years in this life. That's all I want. Yes, I know, that makes me a materialist, and that's badbadbad.
Nah -- it just makes you Hob Gadling.
Like maybe God would give us a starship so me and Einstein and Ray Bradbury could travel from galaxy to galaxy...
Now there's a god I could get behind.
When Colbert asked him to actually name the commandments, I think he was only able to come up with 2 (maybe 3).
This was a turning point in the West Wing pilot! A bunch of religious televangelist/activist types being frumpy and pissy with Josh and Toby, complaining about the lack of 10 commandments in public places etc. etc., and one of the televangelists is using the 3rd commandment as the 1st, adn Toby keeps quietly correcting him, and suddenly President Sheen sweeps into the room, reciting the actual 1st in his stentorian glory.
It was kind of a foolish scene, because I don't know anybody with any religious education who can't recite the beginning at least of most of the famous phrases; and really, there are a lot of variations for how the commandments are phrased, so you can fudge it a lot as long as you get the concept right, and really really, what do you think comes first when defining the tenets of a religious system?
(I did think it was funny that Bartlet recites the Catholic variant of the 1st commandment, long before he is canonically described as Catholic; both because that's the version I know and because of all the version to annoy a group of fundamentalists, the Catholic version is probably it.)