The Other World

Praystation!
Xodus Box!
Hii!
I Am!

NeverQuest!
Medal of Homer!
Grand Theft Scratchy!
Shadow of the Colossal Donut!

HILARIOUS!!!

Well, it is unfair to jump on them like that. I mean, they've only been doing this for a few decades, after all. No one can make any important decision in that time. Except, of course, to decide who burns in hell and for which crime that has no victims, their sensitive ronheathery souls aside.

The saddest thing is that there are women there demonstrating to get their own rights taken away.

I know no words that would sufficiently describe my emotions towards this world. I see this world going worse and worse and wait for the authorities to see it, too. Then I realise that they do see it, and they allow it to happen. And then I realise there is absolutely nothing I can do to change that. I feel powerless.. completely out of control over the things that matter to me the most. Instead, the control is with the ones whose ideas of 'good' are the opposite of mine. The only thing left for me is to fight. A fight that is silent and insignificant and useless. The house always wins.

An assignment: write a causal analysis of any topic fitting to the requirements -> bring it to the class for another student to read and comment it for the second version
My topic: why is Intelligent Design not a science?

I ended up in a group of three which both read my text (the other didn't even have to). Neither of them had heard of Intelligent Design. Points to me for raising their awareness on this threat (okay, that choise of words makes me sound like Bush, the eternal child who still thinks there are evil men trying to get him). Speaking of which, Obama's official first day as the president of the United States soon to be dawning over there! Have to remember to watch the ceremony.

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Watched 'The Happening' last night. There are many ways to go but being run over by a huge apparently automatic lawn mower is pretty icky. A nice film, though. Don't know why it's categorised as science fiction, though. It doesn't bend the rules of nature any more than most films anyway. 'The Happening' has had bad reviews from critics. Mainly they concentrate on the things I really have no clue at all (like whether someone is acting well or not... my categories are: acting vs. even-I-can-see-there's-something-wrong-with-the-acting). But I'd say it was worth watching.

No, the title is not a reference to a Sandra Bullock film. Well, it actually is a movie but is labelled as thriller on the DVD although I must add that horror/zombie would be a more appropriate label.

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Anyway, I'm not going to go through the whole plot here since I can't explain it without completely ruining the twist. But the result is this: '28 days later' is one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Not only the visual part is astounding (seriously, a deserted London...!) but the plot is extremely good as well (which is exactly what horror films tend to lack). It fits almost perfectly to my world view according to which homo sapiens is the worst of all species in the animal kingdom due to our thirst to cause pain and suffering (both mental and physical) to our own kind not because of our instincts but for fun. '28 days later' also shows men for what they really are which is, of course, always a good thing for me.

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'28 days later' raised a question: why do we keep on living? Why not all just kill ourselves and stop reproducing (an idea I personally find very fascinating)? Why?

The sympathetic Jehova came back. She said she was bothered by not knowing the exact place of the bible where people's free will is stated (Moses's Fifth, chapter 5, the last two parts). She also thanked me for being so nice to her; I seized the opportunity to tell her I think she's sympathetic and that I also pity her for the illusion that preaching something that is fundamentally against her as a womyn (yes, it is also the singular form of the word... further implication when considering the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is very sad in my opinion.

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I saw Her at the gym last Sunday. It was the first time I'd seen Her in real life (dreams don't count) for several weeks... actually, probably nearly two months. I haven't been ranting about Her here for quite a while since I've been trying to convince myself to get over Her (and if I recall correctly I've said something similar here not long ago). As I was to find out very quickly, that is not the case. I'm nowhere near that state. What the hell's wrong with me? Seriously, what?

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The picture is from a nearby outdoors ice skating court. Every time I walk by there are always some people there, and I slow down and watch them enviously. I wish I could learn to ice skate in perfect privacy before going to a public place like that.

The religiously critical documentary 'Religulous' can be viewed for the time being here:
http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/02542/atheist/religulous-full-movie

It lasts for about an hour and a half so compared to Expelled!, the editors seem to be muc hmore qualified for the job. Or maybe not: Expelled lasts as long as Religulous, and yet I could not watch it through. The main message of the movie, Doubt, maintains through the film. There are, however, certain less glorifying moments when things are simplified but as said, they don't change the main point unlike a certain other film. Much more entertaining than Expelled! and also more coherent. Since the point is to encourage doubt, the film does not pursue to prove anything but the harm of religion both ao individual and societal level. This, in my opinion, it does achieve. The movie has received the status of 71 percent (= Fresh) on RottenTomatoes.com. Expelled!, on the other hand, has 10% (= wouldn't eat it).

There has been a lot of controversy conserning the interview tacktics of Bill Maher and the rest of the production team. Surprisingly enough, it's nearly the same tactique that was used by the Expelled! production team. Difference: Maher & co. can actually say it out loud without circling. The reasons are obvious for both sides: as Richard Dawkins said, he would have never accepted to be interviewed if he had known what the object of Expelled! was. Same thing for the yahoos.. ahem, religious activists. Difference: Dawkins is about scientific facts, religious activist go with the feeling. But there's no denying it: they both did a good job in deceiving, so in that sense they are both difficult to take seriously (althoug Religulous is supposed to be a satire so it isn't to be taken seriously).

Sister Rose Pacatte, F.S.P., of St. Anthony Messenger said the following: "With the exception of two Catholic priests and one or two others, Maher has found the most uninformed members of each religion... Though well-intentioned, these folks are either unable to articulate the reasons for their faith or offer absurd explanations." There's just one teeny-weeny problem with this statement. All religious activists debate who is the true believer (Animal Farm, anyone?). Therefore it's quite useless to say who is an "uninformed member" of a religion since all believe what they want to believe and take the pieces of religious writings that support that view or interpret the writings to the favour of their own views. From this point of view all religious people are "uninformed" since there is no universal 100-per-cent-of-the-members-agree-on-this norm!

Final rating: entertaining and educating (Did you know there is a gay muslim bar? Only in Amsterdam!) but not a very academic source of information. Fun to watch and made me laugh as much as while watching Grinch (that's supposed to be a compliment, not an analogy).

Just had a half an hour discussion with a Jehova. My toes are freezing but I actually didn't feel angry at all. It was a very sympathetic old woman, not pushy at all. She kept emphasising free will but I think she meant 'free will as long as it doesn't contradict the bible'. The weirdest argument was that the bible isn't self-contradictory. I kept giving examples and she debunked them (seriously, with part of 'thou shall not kill' and 'the punishment for doing thing X is death' is *not* contradictory?). But I did learn something new: according to the Jehova's people do not go to heaven but live on Earth that has been turned into paradise. But obviously only after God's assassins, Heaven's Angels, have done the dirty work for him and after Daddy Dearest has swept all evil from the world before JC returns to wake the chosen ones from their graves.

I probably sweared too much, though. Or at least I could have settled with 'very' type of words. But one thing remains: I do not want eternal life, not now, not ever. When I die, I want to really die, not cylon-die. I want perfect nothingness. No consciousness, no nothing. RAmen.

And found this: Subliminal messages in SpongeBob SquarePants

Veeeery subliminal... ;) And the person who put this up was apparently perfectly serious...

I have my very own midnight/morning party going on here in my bedroom: singing and dancing to Spice Girls (yeah, remember them?). Mel C rocks.

Night's the best part of the day. And now I'm getting tired so time to go to bed. Good morning, good afternoon and good night, y'all.