February 4, 2009
· Filed under Movies, Unemployment, Work, family
For christmas I asked for gift cards to grocery stores and gas stations. Boring I know but its what I need. Instead I got gift cards to the movie theater.
I didn’t want to be ungrateful but I was really confused by the gift. I mean I like movies and all but even before the lay off I didn’t go see them that often. I mean have you seen the price of movie tickets?
Well today I used my movie gift card. I sat in a dark theater alone and forgot about the million things stressing me out right now. And I didn’t spend a bit of money. Ok well I guess I technically spent money on the gas it took to drive there but other than that not a dime was spent.
Sure when the lights came back up all my worries were waiting for me. But for that hour and half…it was nice.
In other news: I have a job interview on Friday. Please cross your fingers and think good thoughts for me. I really need this job.
November 3, 2008
· Filed under Movies, Religion, Think on it
I will preface this post by stating clearly I am not religious. I searched for a long time in vain for a religion I could connect with but have become content with being spiritual and not religious. After all religion…well that’s another thought for another post.
I recently went with SisterFriend to see Religulous. In it Bill Mahr goes to various religious locations and asks people simple questions in a very non-mocking manning.
(aside: I was disappointed by the non-mocking its the second movie I’ve gone to recently where I expected to be entertained by mocking and found none)
As part of his travels Mahr stopped at two places that depict dinosaurs and humans living together. One of the men explains (AND i’M PARAPHRASING) that this is because in the bible tells us that god created man and animal on the same day. If we don’t believe that the dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time we don’t believe the bible and will burn in hell. (ok I added the burn in hell part but it was SO implied) A guy at the second location while explaining something else (and to be honest I dont remember exactly what but I think it had to do with why god hasn’t taken out satan yet) explained that one of god’s days is like 10 thousand human days so we can’t expect god to act in accordance with our timeline (again PARAPHRASING).
So it took me very little time to piece together the following: God created man and animal on the same day, however since his days are like many many MANY human days dinosaurs and humans never shared the earth. Dinosaurs were created they died off and humans came to be. Oh and btw how do you know evolution isn’t one of the tools god used to bring humans into being?
See simple you can believe in god and the bible and still not deny science.
But what do I know? I’m not religious and am probably going to burn in hell because after all being a good person means nothing if you arn’t a good Christian, Muslim, Morman, Catholic, __fill in the blank__.
Oh and btw the ice analogy is fantabulous. Not fantabulous enough to convert me but still fantabulous!
