Religious beliefs are so powerful. The society can benefit from organized religions. I just wish they kept things in perspective and realized people do have different viewpoints and ways of life, and most of all held of on cramming their beliefs down other people's throat. It's a shame the religious figures abuse their power and waste opportunities in teaching tolerance. Oh well enough with my own preaching. If you follow the news of Ted Haggard, the ousted (and now "cured" of his homosexuality!!) evangelical leader, who advocated ban of gay rights but got busted for hiring a male hooker, here is an example of how one's faith can lead to such a ridiculous claim:
Gay therapy. Psychiatric view-religion: NYT article. (nothing cures an illness so effectively like denial.)
After reading that, I happened to see this really funny piece of satire from the Onion: Believe what you want, define your own happiness. (just stay the fuck out of my way!!!)
Friday, February 16, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
News can be weirder than fiction
There has been news about weird stories recently. Real lives are often stranger than fiction. The Anna Nicole Smith news is one. Her story/death and the deaths of people around her are just sad and seem like they are taken straight out of bad movies (and I am sure her story will become a TV movie.)
Another extremely creepy and almost intriguing news is the story of sex offenders who fooled a bunch of people in Arizona. One guy disguised himself as a 7th grader (I guess he looks young enough) and tried to lure boys into the house he shares with a few other sex offenders who operate as a team in deceiving the school by acting like his guardians. The background of how these creeps met are also weird. It sounds like they prey on other innocent boys AND on each other.
Best of all is the story of the bizarre love triangle of NASA space shuttle astronauts. The female NASA aerosapce engineer drove hundreds of miles in a diaper so she didn't have to take bathroom stops to harass another female captain vying for the same male astronaut. The more you read the story, the better it gets. It feels like some sick trashy drama written for really bad Hollywood production.
Another extremely creepy and almost intriguing news is the story of sex offenders who fooled a bunch of people in Arizona. One guy disguised himself as a 7th grader (I guess he looks young enough) and tried to lure boys into the house he shares with a few other sex offenders who operate as a team in deceiving the school by acting like his guardians. The background of how these creeps met are also weird. It sounds like they prey on other innocent boys AND on each other.
Best of all is the story of the bizarre love triangle of NASA space shuttle astronauts. The female NASA aerosapce engineer drove hundreds of miles in a diaper so she didn't have to take bathroom stops to harass another female captain vying for the same male astronaut. The more you read the story, the better it gets. It feels like some sick trashy drama written for really bad Hollywood production.
returning to blog...
Hello all,
Sorry for the long absence from my blog--The past few months have been eventful with my trip to Hawaii to celebrate my big 40th birthday which led to my illness that took me a month to recover. Since then it had been hectic and I just couldn't find time or energy to put any entry in my blog.
Now that things are back to almost normal--I will try to post regularly.
Sorry for the long absence from my blog--The past few months have been eventful with my trip to Hawaii to celebrate my big 40th birthday which led to my illness that took me a month to recover. Since then it had been hectic and I just couldn't find time or energy to put any entry in my blog.
Now that things are back to almost normal--I will try to post regularly.
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