Philosophy
This whole Rapture thing strikes me as complete nonsense, but of course, I could be wrong. There really may be such a thing, and if you really believe it's real, then I'd ask you to put your money where your mouth is: if you truly believe that you will be taken from this material world, please be so kind as to donate all of your earthly possessions to worthy charities and projects that work on helping the poor and destitute. They'll need all the help they can get before things get truly apocalyptic...
And just remember, if you don't donate to the poor and sick, some jerk (probably a homosexual) is likely going to go through your stuff and rub it all over his gay body :) I don't imagine you'd like that, so don't let those queers get into your stuff. Donate it to the needy...
In the meantime, I plan on making the most out of this silliness. Tomorrow I will leave somewhere on a park or the pavement a pair of shoes, pants and a t-shirt in roughly the shape of a human being whose body was sucked by Jesus' celestial vacuum. For an added effect, I'll also leave an ice cream cone melting where my hand would have been... that should get a couple of gullible idiots wondering whether the shit is about to hit the fan for them. I hope there's thunder and lightning when this happens. That would be awesome.
Then I will dress up like Jesus, go to church, tell everyone this is finally my second-coming, and sign autographs for anyone who hasn't died of a heart attack... hopefully the padre will have a nice stock of wine and crackers for me, but I may have to decline on the pre-pubescent ass :)
Update: Here's the latest development in this all-too important story:
Figures...
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- Autographs
LilBro just got back from a conference in Orlando and, of course, brought the fam to spend some Disney time. One of the regular events at the park is getting autographs from the characters. Are these real autographs? Apparently, it does not matter who...
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In Famine, Affluence and Morality, Peter Singer argues that persons in affluent countries have a moral obligation to donate at least some of their income to organization designed to combat global famine. While most of us take donating to Oxfam to be...
- Take The Money, Donald Trump! Do It For The Children!
Apparently Donald Trump wants to help charities, but he won't donate the money without extorting President Obama to release documents that, let's face it, will not satisfy the birthers and their conspiracy theories. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert...
- Still Kicking, Sorry About The Confusion
For those of you who noticed and were concerned with a very personal post a few days ago, thank you for your posthumous words of kindness, but everything is all right. That was an entry I created a while ago to be automatically posted on Christmas, should...
- The Unluckiest (and Cutest) Man In The World
Hey dear readers, I won't be around for a couple of days, so there may be no entries until next week. In the meantime, though, you've got to get a load of this: Imagine that your name is Tsutomu Yamaguchi: you live in, let's say Japan around...
Philosophy
What to Do about the Rapture
This whole Rapture thing strikes me as complete nonsense, but of course, I could be wrong. There really may be such a thing, and if you really believe it's real, then I'd ask you to put your money where your mouth is: if you truly believe that you will be taken from this material world, please be so kind as to donate all of your earthly possessions to worthy charities and projects that work on helping the poor and destitute. They'll need all the help they can get before things get truly apocalyptic...And just remember, if you don't donate to the poor and sick, some jerk (probably a homosexual) is likely going to go through your stuff and rub it all over his gay body :) I don't imagine you'd like that, so don't let those queers get into your stuff. Donate it to the needy...
In the meantime, I plan on making the most out of this silliness. Tomorrow I will leave somewhere on a park or the pavement a pair of shoes, pants and a t-shirt in roughly the shape of a human being whose body was sucked by Jesus' celestial vacuum. For an added effect, I'll also leave an ice cream cone melting where my hand would have been... that should get a couple of gullible idiots wondering whether the shit is about to hit the fan for them. I hope there's thunder and lightning when this happens. That would be awesome.
Then I will dress up like Jesus, go to church, tell everyone this is finally my second-coming, and sign autographs for anyone who hasn't died of a heart attack... hopefully the padre will have a nice stock of wine and crackers for me, but I may have to decline on the pre-pubescent ass :)
Update: Here's the latest development in this all-too important story:
Figures...
.
- Autographs
LilBro just got back from a conference in Orlando and, of course, brought the fam to spend some Disney time. One of the regular events at the park is getting autographs from the characters. Are these real autographs? Apparently, it does not matter who...
- Let's Have A Toast For The Assholes
In Famine, Affluence and Morality, Peter Singer argues that persons in affluent countries have a moral obligation to donate at least some of their income to organization designed to combat global famine. While most of us take donating to Oxfam to be...
- Take The Money, Donald Trump! Do It For The Children!
Apparently Donald Trump wants to help charities, but he won't donate the money without extorting President Obama to release documents that, let's face it, will not satisfy the birthers and their conspiracy theories. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert...
- Still Kicking, Sorry About The Confusion
For those of you who noticed and were concerned with a very personal post a few days ago, thank you for your posthumous words of kindness, but everything is all right. That was an entry I created a while ago to be automatically posted on Christmas, should...
- The Unluckiest (and Cutest) Man In The World
Hey dear readers, I won't be around for a couple of days, so there may be no entries until next week. In the meantime, though, you've got to get a load of this: Imagine that your name is Tsutomu Yamaguchi: you live in, let's say Japan around...