Neurocranial gray-stuff fodder
This is what usually happens when a massive category 5 hurricane materializes. I get tired of FOX and Geraldo's antics, switch over to CNN only to get the creeps from Wolf Blitzer's badly suppressed smirking, which causes me to flip the channel to MSNBC where I get repelled by Chris Matthews' crude antics blaming the hurricanes on George Bush and Halliburton, which in turn makes me try Fox yet again, which, because of Greta van Susteren, quickly induces me to check my TiVo's To Do list to see what programs I might have saved up. It is that bad!
I don't enjoy watching the news like I did before, unless there's another Act of God and/or Act of Man (translation: natural disaster or man-made disaster, i.e. terrorism/war/nuclear annihilation). It is like the media got the people hooked on their own adrenaline and hormonal juices which flow synchronously as bewildering events materialize and play out.
Whenever a calamity subsides and Natalee Holloway's mom comes back on TV, we are literally screaming for more serotonin-release induction by the media via the blunt tip of a catastrophe. Lately, it feels like either God or Man has been very eager to administer our "drug" - the need to witness historic events unfold in real-time on either Fox or CNN. That is REAL reality TV! Luckily, my TiVo has a season pass for Cops, saving up episodes for "rainy days" - when there isn't anything unfolding around the world that would be worthy for mention in the Third Testament. You see, the Old and New Testaments chronicled natural, man-made and God-made disasters for thousands of years up to like 100 AD. It is high time that we held a second Council of Nicaea, edit the Koran, add it as a book in the Third Testament, and add some snippets of the writings of Karol Wojtyla, Tenzin Gyatso (the Dalai Lama), and Deepak Chopra's writings. Mother Teresa and Dan Brown's writings should be included as well. Then bury copies of the neo-Bible in the Dead Sea for the next civilization(s) to discover. We would be perpetuating the cycle of time.
Oh yeah, you can't forget the Antichrist, it's important that we inform the people of the next epoch what happened with all the Antichrist stuff that's got some prophecy buffs all hyped up - whether if it happened, how it happened, or why it didn't happen, if that's the case. If the Messiah comes, then wonderful! I will immediately join Him in the blazing UFO-like spaceship that is supposedly supposed to come down from the clouds any day now. I can't wait to reach the Singularity and travel the cosmos. If the Antichrist fails to materialize in Jerusalem in order to declare himself as the deity known as God the Creator, or if there is actually someone who does that without any corresponding paranormal phenomena to validate his claim, then we have to rewrite history.
It'll be an important duty for this generation to warn the generations to come not to destroy themselves repeatedly in apocalyptic fervors and repeating history as we always seem to do all the time, at any given part of the world. Mark my words, if a couple years come and go without the harlot of the beast rising up to claim the identity of God, say, within a decade, then we will know it's high time to revise our general understanding of this world as a whole.
There is nothing to worry about (unless you aren't totally at peace with yourself), because if it literally happens as Hal Lindsey or Tim LaHaye has long said that it will, then we'll be passengers on Jesus' spaceship passing by the star Aldebaran near the Orion constellation, watching the beast devour the inhabitants of the Earth for the next thousand years via holodeck hook-up! Talk about the ultimate reality show! 'Course, you have to be Raptured first - provided you haven't pissed God off enough to make His heart eternally cold against you. The dogmatic Catholics, fundamentalist Muslims, and ultra-Orthodox Jews are gonna get it quite stiff, because of their rigid judgments towards others. As God often insists via the Bible, He will judge people based on how they judged others. "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven." (Luke 6:37)
As for sane TV programming, I highly recommend HBO's Rome, FX's Over There, USA's The 4400, Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Showtime's Bullsh*t!, and anything you might find playing on History Channel if you tune to it on a random basis. History Channel is akin to a Harvard education on TV, I'll have to say!
If you are particularly interested in the history of Israel (the land, not the so-called Church), prophecy, and the Jewish roots of Christianity, I recommend Zola Levitt, usually on ABC Family. Zola doesn't freak you out like Pat Robertson would, so both religious and secular people can alike enjoy this show.
If you want to kill some time surfing the web, this site is interesting, though it sure strains credibility at points. weatherwars.info
Uh, I was gonna talk about stuff of more concrete basis, such as my trip to Boston last weekend, update on my glove project, the upcoming vlogs and what's up with me in general, but I guess I got too carried away with blathering this time. So, I'm tabling these issues for further elaboration in the next post.
Till later, dudes and dudettes!
