I've been listening to Hocus Pocus, by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a weird story, but then again the author always does weird stuff. There are some lines in the book that are really funny, or that really got to me. Here is one line he comes up with for one of the characters in the book....
When we passed a Pentacostal church, he said, "The mental giants in there believe that every word is true in a book put together by a bunch of preachers 300 years after the birth of Christ. I hope you won't be that dumb about words set in type when you grow up."
My thoughts exactly! Well, not exactly. But if I could put things into words as well as he could they would be my thoughts. Well, now that I think about it, they aren't really, because I don't think people that read the bible believe every word of it. No, that's not it either. I don't think that all those that admonish others to read and follow the bible believe everything in the bible. They only aver to it's authority as a way to control what others think.
In another scene in the book the main character has this to say about wealth...
Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were just poor people with money.
I get so frustrated when someone puts an idea into words that says it so perfectly. Why the fuck can't I do that? I've often wondered if people with money that discount those without realize they are being immature when they discount those without. I can't say anything though, I am smug about lazy people. This is irrational because I'm lazy as well, extremely lazy. Anyway, here's another I thought was interesting...
My body, as I understand it, is attempting to contain the TB germs inside me in little shells it builds around them. The shells are calcium, the most common element in the walls of many prisons, including Athena. This place is ringed by barbed wire. So was
Ok, there's one more I found...
I think any form of government, not just capitalism, is whatever the people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
How is it nobody says shit like this. It's the truth, but somehow one is being unpatriotic if you voice it. Either that, or too negative. I used to believe we would punish other countries like this, believed we went in, took over, then gave the country to the people, just as we do it here, or are supposed to be doing it. But if that were true, we would be all over
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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your wrong about the bible. I think you should read it. theres a lot that proves there is a God simply because of what is going on in the world today....and as for people that dont believe the whole thing, well thats hypocritical, because the bible says that the word of God is infallible, and not only that you cant accept som as trues and some as lies because then your making your own religion... I know several people that believe in the entire bible being tru, myself included. one thing you must remember is that no one is perfect. when the religious people were judging a prostitute, Jesus said that he who was without sin, cast the first stone... think about it. Before you judge another man, religious or sinner, judge your own rightousness and if you practice the very thing you protest, then you can not judge another man correctly. Were it not for the cross, my entire family would not be what we are today. both of my parents were involved in drugs, and alcohal, and my family was destined for divorce... but because we gave our lives to Jesus, i can say that ive never seen anything close to a broken home... give God and the bible a chance... its nothing like you think, if your genuine about it.
-Abigail-
I have read the bible, both as an adult and when it was shoved down my throat as a child. When someone tells me to 'read the bible and you will see the truth of it', I think about the countless others that would tell me the same thing. 'Read the Quran... Read the Book of Mormon...' or other such nonsense. There are some good things in the bible, there are some good ideas in the Quran, but I don't use them to attest to the validity of the whole work.
"One thing you must remember is that no one is perfect" Yes, I realize this. Men and women are imperfect, fallible, prone to mistakes and emotions. The bible was recorded by human beings. These two facts nobody, religeous or otherwise, would refute. So, there is no way one could reasonably attest to these facts and conclude that the bible is infallible. I judge the reasonableness of the bible because I practice reason.
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