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One thing that seriously annoys me, more than someone that is so hardcore about their religion that they feel everyone has to hear the word of [deity], are people that thank [deity] for their accomplishments. Or on the other side of the spectrum… people that blame [deity] for their lack of accomplishment (and either become to hate [deity] or just brush it off as some master plan).
Do people have no value in themselves or the work that they did to reach a set goal? Do they honestly think that they couldn’t have done it without a character from a book?
It annoys me because it is, in a way, taking any credit you take for an accomplishment (such as winning an Oscar) and making an attempt to shift it to someone else– no mater who that someone else is. It’s analogous to giving credit to your parents every time you make it to class on time, even if there has been no contact with them for several days. I do not go around thanking the sun every time I make it to class on time, nor do I blame the laws of physics when I get a poor grade on a writing assignment. I take full responsibility for my accomplishments or lack there of. I would feel like a jerk if I said “Oh, it wasn’t my doing… it was [deity]’s plan that let me do this.” But when people do thank [deity] for what they do… that is really what I hear. And then I can’t help but think that maybe we should skip the middle man and just go strait to [deity] with any credit we were going to give this person. If don’t feel that it was anything that you did to achieve some recognition for an accomplishment… then you don’t deserve the recognition.
Keep thy religion to thyself. You go and personally thank [deity] on your own time. Thanks.
George Carlin suffered a heart attack last night. This truly saddens me. George Carlin in my opinion is the best comedian of all time, or at the very least he is definitely up there. He changed the face of comedy with one of his famous stand ups – “7 words you can’t say on television.”
On a more personal side, George Carlin honestly changed my life. I have seen most, if not all, of his HBO specials and I can recite several of his speeches off the top of my head. He views on the world greatly changed mine to a much more laid back view. He also assisted in changing my view on religion– to which I personally want to thank him for. One of my favorite speeches is his “Religion is Bullshit” speech. Before seeing that for the first time, I was highly spectacle of religion but was completely foreign to the idea of not believing it, but seeing that speech, I started to really think and figure out exactly what I believe… which changed my life not only in the religion department, but just my own free thought on everything.
That said, I will truly miss George Carlin. I was always looking forward to actually go and see him live and every time I say I will do it next year. Each year I feared there wouldn’t be a next year because if you’ve seen him recently… he looked pretty old. I guess my chance to see him live is now gone.
R.I.P. George Carlin: May 12, 1937 ~ June 22, 2008
The world will never forget you.
Not yet. But very close.
I am basically disabled right now. My laptop is getting a new display. It had an issue where when the screen was being slightly warped, such as by opening or closing it from the right side caused a vertical, blue line to appear on the left side of the screen. I googled this problem and found other people that said it can get worse if it isn’t taken care of. Basically, it’s some sort of loose connection in such a way that when the display is kinda of warped, it causes that line.
They claim that I could have it back by Friday. I desperately hope so. They said they over night it from the apple store to Apple to get it fixed, and then they over-night it from where it is fixed to it’s destination… and I said to send it to my place of work, which tends to drastically increase the possibility that it WILL be over-night. But, it is always possible the repair could take a little longer and I may not have it until Monday or possibly later.
Until then, of course… I don’t have a computer, since my desktop is at home and I am living with my brother for the summer. I honestly feel dead without my laptop. I just sit in one place for hours with nothing to do. It is so hard to find something to keep myself occupied with. I’m using my brother’s crappy kitchen computer to write thing blog post.
So, seriously, I better have this thing back by Friday or I might actually die.
Update: I will have it back by Friday… so I might just live!
Sometimes it’s a challenge to pretend that someone is right or that you agree with them.
You know what I’m talking about? You know… when you’re in one of those situations where it would be inconvenient to disagree with someone… or when you might sound dumb for disagreeing because you’re probably the only one in a group that disagrees.
It’s really tough sometimes.
Hahaha! I’m going to Cedar Point tomorrow! I can’t wait! It’s gonna rock!
Update: It was awesome. I rode everything I wanted to ride except the Raptor… because it shut down after waiting an hour in line. The Dragster was closed all day… but in the last hour they decided to open it and I was lucky enough to be close enough to get a decent spot in line and I got my completely awesome ride on it! That ride rules!
And for people that haven’t gotten a chance to ride the Maverick… It is absolutely recommended. It is such a good ride. It was worth the approximate 1.5 hour wait.
And on the down side… I got horribly sun/wind burned.
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