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What follows will be braindroppings I rattled off while sipping diet pepsi with out ice at the double eagle on a sunday night while Alice in Chains Unplugged album plays a little louder than it should be about the end of the world and other significant events the bible mention(s/ed) and is sort of a contuniation from the Holy week entries I wrote back in April that can be read <B><a href=http://errlwayne.livejournal.com/2009/04/05/>Here</b></a>, <b><a href=http://errlwayne.livejournal.com/2009/04/07/>Here</b></a>, <b><a href=http://errlwayne.livejournal.com/2009/04/09/>Here</b></a>, and <b><a href=http://errlwayne.livejournal.com/2009/04/11/>Here</B></a>. This all came about because I re-read them and figured nows as good a time as any to contemplate these big intense events.
I guess I could and should start at the begining, as in Genesis chapter one--and I'll do my best to remember all the points I can, there was a lot going on there after all. I guess there were some theologians who boiled down day one to some day in October six thousand years ago and that seems kind of hack-ish.
For one thing, six thousand years? Dinosaurs alone kind of throw that number off and then carbon dating toss that out the window. Some religious people like to point out the holes in carbon dating and I can't even pretend to talk like I know too much about either arguement but when a guy in a lab who got paid mega dollars through grants to find things out and keeps getting paid then he did something right and, that to me, says science wins. but then again, by that rationale, clergymen and women have made quite nice livings for themselves by talking people in to mailing them big fat checks--I hesitate to use the word "Swindle" but then you've got people like the Jimmy Swaggarts, the Pat Robertsons, the Jerry Falwells and the Jim Bakkers of the world who make the guys like Joel Osteens of the world look bad. It seems to me that a physists has a better grasp on things like the begining of the world, but from what little I've read about physics and astronmy, they only have an idea about the origins of the universe (a word that bothers me because I can never tell which is the proper word to use "Galaxy" or "Universe"... what's the diffrence?) So it's anyone's guess--solid faith or questionable facts, no one knows for sure and really... I sort of wonder why wonder at all? we're here, we're born, we eat hot dogs and apples, we experience Black Sabbath, we see E.T., we read <I>Catcher in the Rye</i>, we get laid, we get old and we die--everyone will experience those things.
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Black Sabbath
<small><I>one ninth of the garunteed existance of every human being after 1968</i></small></center>
We're in this mess--why contemplate how we got here? did we come from a cosmic blast or did God just turn the lights on? did we evolve from chimps or did God just make men? who cares? we have cars and coffee and ice hockey and playstation. we came from somewhere, but we're here now and I kind of fail to see the point in unearthing something that after all this time dosn't seem to want to be unearthed. like sure... <i>maybe</i> there's a bigfoot, but the world is a big place and there's plenty of places to hide. maybe the truth is out there, but it sure as s**t dosn't seem to want to be found.
I just wonder things like... what day of the week did the world start turning? was it a monday? what time? if there were VCRs in the Garden of Eden would they have all read "00:00:00 01/01/00 MONDAY" or something? I wonder what God was doing the night before. just chilling in his room thinking "y'know... I think tomorrow is the day i open up that big can gnarly of worms i've been saving". or maybe this entire existance is a kid's science fair project and we're all just very very small. I reckon the universe or galaxy has to end somewhere--like god just ran out or canvas and said to himself "******** it, there's no way they'll find out, I'm gonna turn on "Law and Order SVU"." Because I assume God is a huge Ice-T fan.
but that's philosopical and philisophy is for faggots. (heh)
I wonder the same thing about like... Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark, David Slaying Goliath and other big events. What day did all that happen? Like I bet Sodom and Gomorrah was annhiliated on Saturday night because this was back when everyone was either jewish or going to hell and since no one in either city went to temple, God got his annhiliation on Saturday night and decimated the cities in time to be home for the second episode of "Cops".
I got nothing on Noah's Ark but I figure David killed Goliath on a Thursday, thus setting in motion the tradition for the next 3000 years where people have three day weekends sometimes because after Goliath was killed, I imagine there was some partying. I mean, they were humans too and it was probably like the Lakers winning the playoffs.
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Celebrating LA Style
<small><i>June 16, 2009</small></i></center>
There's a host of other big events i could think hard about but i'm kind of hungry and in a second here i'm gonna order something yummy and greasy. I need more diet pepsi.
there. ahhh....
so. what else.
y'know I wonder what the prophets were like. Like Isiah. I wonder where he lived and what he did for a living. i'm sure a little reserch would go a long way, but i'd like to know how a prophet's community would've received him and treated him. i mean, i know in America we treat prophets--or at least, people who claim to be prophets like loons and they're either ignored or laughed at or burned in compounds or buried alive or soemthing.... or they get on TV and get big fat checks mailed to them. Like Daivd, when he wrote the psalms and all, did he just stick them somewhere safe in his apartment until he died or put them in a time capsule that read "don't open until the year 33 AD" (which no doubt inspired a lot of confusion so they could wait to be discovered by religious types who adopted them in to cannon. or did david jam out the pslams and rush them in to publication with Random House--a fitting place really. I wonder if he started a 'zine and published his stuff and encouraged other writers to send their stuff in.
And then the end of the world, skipping over a lot and going straight to the end with all the 'shroomed out descriptions of trumpets and seals. i reckon it'll happen eventually somehow. like, one day, we'll all wake up and the sky will be red and the soul tally for Heaven and Hell will be getting added up so there will be a winner and God will turn the lights off. I used to be intrested but now it's been years since I cracked a bible. it seems less and less likely it'll be something bibical and more and more like someone'll flip out and launch a nuke and set in to motion the end of humanity and i imagine then god'll hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and start over with notes so as to avoid the colossal blunders this time around like Kwame Kilpatrick, AIDS, guns and cheeseburgers. I imagine now is another rough draft god has in motion. I think this isn't the first time God has done this whole reality thing and it won't be the last. everything has gone through a big meat grinder a few times and turned in to something else. like at first, reality was a steak. the left overs were turned in to hamburgers and then the left overs were turned in to stew. like, i think god is real and i think jesus is too and has made two trips to earth per-existance, once to tell everyone how to live and the second time to be all "stupid ********, I done <i>told</i> you....!"
but that makes me wonder... what about all the people that've died? will they have avoided the horrifying end days by just dying? see, I've got them covered too. I think when a person dies, the end of the world happens for them and they see everything in their lives turn to liquid s**t and god's all "alright, lets see how you do with this. if you stay faithful, you can come up to the house and play Xbox anytime you want and if you don't, you be ********." but eventually God'll just go "Goddamn, I've had enough of those screwy ********" and give the four horsemen the green light.
Just thoughts.
what do you think?