Bedtime. Stories are done, songs are over. Time for lights out.
"No monsters." he says sternly, trying to reassure himself.
"No monsters." I agree.
"Ninja turtles fight monsters!" he says.
"Yes they do." Indeed.
Mom - "Are you a ninja turtle?"
"I'm not a ninja turtle, I'm Miles." he corrects.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
What there was.
What there was is still nothing. And so shall be the legacy of the earth.
I was talking to a religious friend of mine. We share a similarity in that neither of us follow politics.I leave the room when the words Palin, McCain, Obama, Clinton or Bush are mentioned, knowing that a long boring conversation full of nothing will ensue. I think the whole system is a waste, that no matter who ends up at the top, the whole system is so watered-down that nothing real will happen. I'll still have my job and my fast food and my cable modem. Doesn't matter who's in the white-house.
Strangely my religious friend's reasons aren't as far off from mine as I 1st thought. According to his beliefs man is unfit to lead man. They will try and fail, and once that time has passed, the proper leader will come down and make it apparent. We are smack dab in the middle of the time when we're trying to lead ourselves and it's failing miserably. That I can see. what I can't see is an end to that in our lifetime. Religuous people don' have a problem with that. They're cool suffering through, waiting for the afterlife for all to be made right.
I'd rather believe we were meant to do someting about it, not just sit around and lead a proper life and hope that I chose the right system to buy into for the afterlife. I think this life is all we got, and we shouldn't be complacent because we thing things will be better when we die.
This coming from the laziest mo-fo on the planet.
I'm not religous. I doubt I'll ever be confident enough to buy into any belief system. I am envious of anyone so convicted in any sytem that they can find solace. Politics and science are belief systems too, just have more numbers behind them. None of those appeal to me either. I quote the awesome 80's move "I don't belive in 'isms I just believe in me."
I was talking to a religious friend of mine. We share a similarity in that neither of us follow politics.I leave the room when the words Palin, McCain, Obama, Clinton or Bush are mentioned, knowing that a long boring conversation full of nothing will ensue. I think the whole system is a waste, that no matter who ends up at the top, the whole system is so watered-down that nothing real will happen. I'll still have my job and my fast food and my cable modem. Doesn't matter who's in the white-house.
Strangely my religious friend's reasons aren't as far off from mine as I 1st thought. According to his beliefs man is unfit to lead man. They will try and fail, and once that time has passed, the proper leader will come down and make it apparent. We are smack dab in the middle of the time when we're trying to lead ourselves and it's failing miserably. That I can see. what I can't see is an end to that in our lifetime. Religuous people don' have a problem with that. They're cool suffering through, waiting for the afterlife for all to be made right.
I'd rather believe we were meant to do someting about it, not just sit around and lead a proper life and hope that I chose the right system to buy into for the afterlife. I think this life is all we got, and we shouldn't be complacent because we thing things will be better when we die.
This coming from the laziest mo-fo on the planet.
I'm not religous. I doubt I'll ever be confident enough to buy into any belief system. I am envious of anyone so convicted in any sytem that they can find solace. Politics and science are belief systems too, just have more numbers behind them. None of those appeal to me either. I quote the awesome 80's move "I don't belive in 'isms I just believe in me."
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