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Religion o' the day: The Raelian Movement

On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth.

The extra-terrestrial human being was a little over four feet tall, had long dark hair, almond shaped eyes, olive skin, and exuded harmony and humor. Rael recently described him by saying quite simply, "If he were to walk down a street in Japan, he would not even be noticed." In other words, they look like us, and we look like them. In fact, we were created "in their image" as explained in the Bible.

He told Rael that:

"We were the ones who designed all life on earth"
"You mistook us for gods"
"We were at the origin of your main religions"
"Now that you are mature enough to understand this, we would like to enter official contact through an embassy"

Well OK then. Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.

THE MESSAGES

The messages dictated to Rael explain that life on Earth is not the result of random evolution, nor the work of a supernatural 'God'. It is a deliberate creation, using DNA, by a scientifically advanced people who made human beings literally "in their image" -- what one can call "scientific creationism." References to these scientists and their work, as well as to their symbol of infinity, can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures. For example, in Genesis, the Biblical account of Creation, the word "Elohim" has been mistranslated as the singular word "God", but it is actually a plural word which means "those who came from the sky", and the singular is "Eloha" (also known as "Allah"). Indigenous cultures all over the world remember these "gods" who came from the sky, including natives of Africa (Dogon, Twa, etc.), America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

I just saw the new Ford Fiesta (new for us Americans, non-American folks) in the parking lot. It looks nice and it would be nice to know you're set in case you're chased by baddies in a black corvette or need to assault a beach.

Was cute yesterday and am blah today.

I bought a shoe organizer and took two bags of clothes to Salvation Army last night. Then I filled two more bags with clothes to donate and concluded that I own far too many T-shirts.

Tonight I need to empty out the dresser and figure out what to do with my clothes while I wait for the new dresser to arrive, put together the shoe rack, and assemble the TV stand which should arrive today.

Empanadas are yummy.

Apparently Johnny Depp went around ComicCon dressed as a squirrel: [link]

Good think Pete Wentz was in Asia.

This was also my first thought....

Went back to the hematologist for a check up. He told me the results of the lab I'd had six weeks ago-- basically, I was walking around with no and I mean NO iron in my blood. Of one of the counts, he said the upper end of normal was 200; I was at 4. I thought I heard him wrong, so I made him repeat it and he said, "Yes, FOUR."

And then on another one of the counts he said, "On this one, you were only marginally better, registering at 4% of normal."

On the upside it would make me really unattractive to vampires?

But I told him I was feeling MUCH better since I'd begun taking the iron which he definitely took as a positive. I had more blood drawn today and we'll see what that shows. Another blood draw and appt. in six weeks and hopefully, we'll be done, provided today's blood draw doesn't show anything funky.

Sheesh-- who knew?

The only thing that could have been better would have been Depp dressing up in an on-purpose-crappy Captain Jack Sparrow costume. "Oh yeah, right. Sure, HE thinks he's Johnny Depp. Poser."

Lots of iron~ma!

Barb, my mom went through misery with low CBC, and of all the treatments she got this year, she said that the shots she got to raise her hematocrits was the most effective.