The blog to start an epic series of posts

So I haven't had that much time to write. Been busy with my extremely active social life and cool happenings. Either that or working fulltime and going to the gym 3+ hours a day because I have nothing else to do. SO I've got quite a few things to write about and rather than make them into one huge long blog I will try to break them up for your selective reading pleasure.

First things. THANK YOU so much for all your comments, I really appreciate them and you all have great things to say. When I receive comments I want to write more blogs because I know I'm not just writing to the vacant web. I do wonder sometimes who is leaving me these comments though. Either way they are greatly appreciated.

I will do a quick thing this morning that follows on many of my past themes, has to do with recent life experiences as well as horrors that have occurred in Haiti.

FIRST PAT ROBERTSON - I cannot stand this man. If you don't know what I am referring to read this.
This man has said ridiculous things before but how offensive is this? How can a man blame his God for all the good in his life and for all the bad that happens to other people? Why would someone believe is such a God that they have to feel guilty for all their slight indiscretions, and never feel valuable enough? Also fear of being punished on a daily basis? (not saying all people follow this God the way Pat Robertson does) but mostly I am just astounded that there are still people in the world stupid enough to believe this shit. Where do these people come from? Who teaches them the logic they use to back up their beliefs? Do these people have no integrity or self esteem as a human? IT REALLY GETS ME GOING.

SECOND MORMONS - I was speaking with another intern here from Japan the other night. She told me about how she had seen Mormons in japan and they approached her to try to get her to go to coffee with them to talk about mormonism. She is a buddhist and replied, " I will go to coffee with you if you will spend half of the time letting me tell you about buddhism" (props to her) they declined and went on their way. 2 things about this. 1- She informed me that she perceived them as two, well dressed, cool, brave dudes who would go up and talk to strangers, she thought this was a tactic to get young japanese girls to follow them as the boldness to talk to strangers so profusely may be seen as attractive courageousness 2 - Are these mormons so afraid of even considering another belief system that they would refuse to even listen in return for her listening to them? That's cowardice and closed-mindedness if I've ever seen it.

THIRD ANTI-GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS - Dude, I mean come on. WHO argues against rights? As far as I know rights=good (now, I am not claiming the right to murder would be good) but you catch my drift. The thing that frustrates me most about it is it's people with a certain religious belief system that argue against it. It's never, I want to stop gay marriage because it causes global warming. It's always, well in this book that was written thousands of years ago, by multiple people I've never met claiming to received messages from a God that I have no proof exits, says that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. I don't know about you but I like to follow rules set for me by people who have lived in my time. In my time I have met far too many gay couples who love the hell out of each other to not let them marry. THE ONLY ARGUMENT IS A RELIGOUS ONE. In the United States there is supposedly a separation between Church and State! There are arguments that kids will be confused, or that they won't know what's going on. WHO FUCKING CARES? Do you suppose some kids were confused in the 50s when their black father couldn't marry their white mother? I bet kids were confused when they saw a black guy marrying a white chick too. When I was a kid I was confused when I first stumbled upon a video of people gettin' it on. Childhood is confusing. Let the kids be confused, that's kind of what childhood is about, being confused and figuring things out. I saw another argument that said "it might open up teens to experimentation" OH DEAR LORD. Teens experimenting? They've never done that before! Hopefully they will wear safety goggles! TEENS have been experimenting for centuries, if gay marriage is legalized, now they just won't have to feel as guilty and shameful when they do it. Whenever I see gay marriage turned down somewhere such rage is invoked in me. I'm not even gay just I really really hate stupidity.

OVERALL - I really just dislike anybody who subscribes to a religion that causes them to be blind to other ideas. When a religion claims to be absolute truth it is doing just that, new ideas are bad, ideas that aren't theres are bad. These ideas shouldn't even be pondered because it will be bad for you. Stay safe in your little box of I AM RIGHT AND HAVE NO NEED TO FURTHER LEARN ABOUT LIFE, ONLY HOW RIGHT I AM. To me, as I've stated before, to have the audacity to claim " I AM RIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG" about something you have no possible way of knowing is just sickeningly offensive to me. (just to make it clear, I don't dislike any sort of religion that follows a deity, only when they have the absolutist mentality, if they would just say "I'm pretty sure I'm right, but it wouldn't hurt to consider otherwise" They're fine with me.