How Do You…
How do you explain God to someone who doesn’t believe ?
I must admit that I lean towards the agnostic, but atheists bother me more than the devout. If the Christian Bible is correct, then the devout has the advantage over the atheists, but if the Bible is wrong, then both are equal. Heh. Obviously, the devout hold the advantage.
This is why I don’t get the ANTI-God. And I type it that way cause that’s the way the non-believers tend to put it. They try like hell to couch it in “LOGIC”, but logic really dictates that you take no position at all. There simply is no way to know. This is why atheists are nuts and Christians are iffy. Atheists are taking a position based on absolutely nothing. NOTHING. There is no science, no theory, no suggestion that God does not exist. At least Christians are open minded.
I try always to have faith. I really do. The logical brain I was given dictates a need for evidence, but apparently faith is a requirement. Faith without evidence is hard for me. I like to think that there is some reason, some point to life. That we’re not just some accident. Mostly, I hope/pray that there is an afterlife. Death scares the shit out of me. I’m mostly fearless. I don’t scare easy, and I’ve risked my life often when I thought something needed doing. The thought of no longer existing scares the hell out of me and almost nothing scares me.
I have a hard time believing that I’m just some sort of happy accident. It seems odd to me that the very people that scoff at the lottery think that “we” “just happened”.
There’s the “money quote” btw. Atheists, or the “educated” laugh at the state lottery as “a tax for people that are bad at math”, yet think humanity “just happened”. Here’s the kicker …. folks win the lottery. Yep the odds are against any one person from winning, but the odds are just as for someone winning. The Left misses this as well as they miss God.
My understanding is that as long as I accept Jesus as having taken punishment for my sins that I am good/am golden/may as well be Jewish (Jews being the chosen people getting to opt out of the Jesus exception).
I’ve never been much of a church-going type, but I watched Passion of the Christ at the theater on the big screen …. I rate that as disturbing as watching Blackhawk Down at the theater on the big screen (which I did). I think the intent of both films was the same. To allow (as much as is possible) the viewer to witness the events portrayed. But what do you take from that? What are you supposed to take from it?
Flashback!
Who remembers this:
Yep, 1989, you old motherfucker.
I managed to find almost the whole album … enjoy (after the jump)
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People
I try to be a nice person, I really do. People make it awful hard sometimes.
People suck. Your average person is a decent enough fellow, but people … well, they suck.
The hardest part about getting along in society is trying to not treat a person like you’d treat people. As hard as it is sometimes, you have to treat every person as an individual. A completely new encounter.
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I’m not explaining this right at all. No matter how many people blow right past you when you hold a door for them, never expect the next person to do the same. That 1 in 100 is maybe going to say ‘Thank You’ (rare these days, I know), but more importantly that 1 in 100 might think, just somewhere in the back of his mind, ‘Not everyone’s a dick.’ No matter how shitty a day you’ve had, no matter how pissed off you are that the guy in line ahead of you has 35 items in the fucking express lane you truly have to give your best effort to not lump everyone you meet in with the assholes.
In a way, this is very much the same phenomena as racism. I mean, racism is essentially expecting every member of a race to behave in a certain way. It is just as easy, or hell, even easier, to expect ever person to act the same as every other asshole you’ve ran across today.
I can’t honestly suggest that you treat every individual you encounter in the course of your day equally as if you’ve not encountered any number of assholes before but in the interest of civility I ask that you try. I try. I don’t always succeed and I often find myself being someone else’s asshole but I do try. I suggest you do the same.
You should not read this as a plea to everyone to be a doormat. I’m suggesting no such thing. If some asshole knocks into you in his hurry to get who-gives-a-shit-where and you feel the need to say, “Hey, fuckstick, watch where you’re walking.” by all means, let loose. All I’m suggesting is to not be the first asshole.
When I was in the police academy (yeah, there’s a bit of personal history) we were taught to always let the other guy dictate your behavior. Essentially, this means that you approach every encounter at a normal human polite level of behavior and you leave it to the other guy to decide whether or not you’ll get nicer or turn into a complete dick that just beat him senseless.
This really turned into a whole lot more of a ramble than I first intended.
Why do enviro-weenies hate dogs ?
I’m sure everyone has heard the “eat your dog” thing making the rounds on the interwebs. It really isn’t the first time it has come up, not the eating them, but the “dogs are bad” thing. It really makes one wonder why the militant greenies hate dogs.
I know why they hate dogs. To them dogs are unnatural.
Girlie Drink of the Week
Well, we are rather late with booze, at least in my opinion, so I decided to post what I’m currently imbibing:
AQUATINI!! If that isn’t frou-frou, I don’t know what is!!!
One part Absolut Citron
One part DeKuyper Blue Pucker
One part Sweet and Sour Mix
Shake with ice, serve with a lemon twist. Oooooooh….PRETTY!!! And if I disappear, you’ll know ArmedGeek probably bumped me off due to this post 
No more Marlon Brando
To date, I’ve used a picture of Marlon Brando as my gravatar. Well, no more. I decided to use an image of myself as my gravatar. I admit, that my mustache is in a transitional period (growing back after a short trim due to a trimming fuck up), but fuck it.
Any other opinions you can kindly keep to yourself.
White Lightnin’
Well in North Carolina, way back in the hills
Me and my old pappy had a hand in a still
We brewed white lightnin’ ’til the sun went down
Then he’d fill him a jug and he’d pass it around
Mighty, mighty pleasin, pappy’s corn squeezin’
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin’
Well the “G” men, “T” men, revenuers, too
Searchin’ for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
But my pappy kept a-cookin’
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin’
Well I asked my old pappy why he called his brew
White lightnin’ ’stead of mountain dew
I took a little sip and right away I knew
As my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue
Lightnin’ started flashin’ and thunder started crashin’
Shhhoooh . . . white lightnin’
Well the “G” men, “T” men, revenuers, too
Searchin’ for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
but my pappy kept a-cookin’
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin’
Well a city slicker came and he said “I’m tough”
I think I wanna taste that powerful stuff
He took one g-g-glug and drank it right down
And I heard him a moaning as he hit the ground
Mighty, mighty pleasin, pappy’s corn squeezin’
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin’
Well the “G” men, “T” men, revenuers, too
Searchin’ for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
but my pappy kept a-cookin’
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin’…
Leaving Las Vegas
Is there a sadder movie ever made ? I mean the end is obviously dictated by the beginning. Two completely fucked up losers meeting at the bottom or near it.
The beauty of Leaving Las Vegas is … (i’ve typed this line at least a dozen times) ….
it simply is what it is.
Was there ever a movie made like this ? Really most movies are ripoffs of this that or the other …. is there another film like Leaving Las Vegas ?
Hoosiers
I’m into my third double Manhattan this morning and watching Hoosiers with Gene Hackman. I gotta say, when I think of my list of all time great actors, Gene Hackman is way up there near the top.
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