Unacceptable.

If you haven't seen this clip yet, here you go. "Jesus Camp" is a documentary that is critical of the camp featured in the documentary.

For a clue into my own religious background, there is really no better example. I was fortunate enough never to go to a camp of this magnitude of horror, but every practice (and more) you see in this video was a guaranteed mass occurrence at every church service I attended until I was 16. I had given up on it almost completely by 14, but until I was too large to be physically dragged or beaten until I went, I had to endure it.



Umm, yeah. As far as I'm concerned, this is child abuse. Parents are (allegedly) in charge of teaching their children to deal/cope with reality. These parents, however, think it's more important to emotionally manipulate and over-stimulate their children in order to feed them lies about their own humanity. How far out of touch with themselves will some of these children be in their teens? When one of the little girls has a pregnancy she is in no way ready to carry to term or raise, will she have the wherewithal to see that abortion is her best option, or will she even consider it since she prophesied as a child that abortion in America would be "NO MORE"? At least one of the kids on this tape or at this camp is a future homosexual, because we come from every walk of life. Will he be a danger to himself or others because he is in so much conflict that he boils with rage whenever he experiences something as natural as his own lust? At the very least, he will break a few hearts, because when you pray, the gay does not go away.

This saddens me because none of this is possible without completely denigrating and vilifying the very humanity of these children. Without shame, fear and guilt you cannot convince a confident, pleasure seeking, self-affirming being to believe these outrageous things. This saddens me because I love human beings. You will never hear me express the loathsome, thoughtless, and downright lazy sentiment "people are stupid". To do so would be as abominable as what you see in the above embed.

For anyone who feels that a term as indefinite as "stupidity" is sufficient to explain any human dilemma....
For anyone who has ever concluded that socialism doesn't work out because people aren't as good as the ideas of one man...
For anyone who has accepted that a woman's act brought about man's fall from grace...
For anyone who treats sex as a necessary evil...
For anyone who has ever lied to or assaulted a child because you didn't want to have to outsmart it ,and didn't think it could respond to clarity and consistency of direction...
For anyone who thinks that the earth would be better off without human activity because we disturb some kind of "balance"...
For anyone who believes that certain cultures just don't need "our kind of freedom", because protecting their culture is somehow more important than preserving the human beings suffocating within it ...
For anyone who tolerates the highly offensive idea of deity itself, that there is something higher than humanity which can enjoy the title without even fighting for it...

To condemn or otherwise degrade humanity or human nature is the worst evil anyone can commit, as it is no different than the vicious lie of orginal sin, which happens to be what makes everything in that disgusting video possible.

Oh girl. (mixed bag edition)

So does anyone wanna explain to me why the Hell her new album is entitled bidet?
You look amazing girl, but potty humor does Not suit you.




Oh girl, Ghent is SO gay!
How gay IS it??
Ghent is so gay, that instead of 21st street, the signs say 21th street! (I'm not making this up, If I had my camera i'd have proof right here where this disclaimer is)





So you've probably seen those VW commercials where a group of friends are riding around chit-chatting and whatnot, when suddenly they are rocked by an oncoming car they didn't see. My favorite has to be where the 4 guys are all talking about Viagra, but no one actually mentions what they're talking about. It just starts off with "So they say if it lasts for more than 4 hours, call 911.
It made me think of how far we've come in terms of "decency" on television, far enough that douche, tampons, condoms, and even as obscure a phenomenon as priapism are all fair game. I find the erectile dysfunction commercials especially hilarious, because it's not just innuendo on tv, it's Old People innuendo on tv.







Today I was walking and I saw a transient individual. he was looking at the ground as he walked, so he didn't see me. Suddenly, he broke out into some sort of Fred Astare shuffle, went heel-toe heel-toe, sashayed for 4 steps, and did a complete turn, at which point he was in a position to see me staring directly at him, slack jawed and a little humbled. He quickly collected himself, looked back at the ground, and went on his way.
You just never know, do you?

Whoooo Boy (Oh girl wouldn't touch this one)

The thing is, I would do most of these things for someone I loved, that's no big deal at all. This article is rooted, however, in the mentality that society depends on this specific code of interaction between men and women. It is not out of love, but duty that social mores like these are generated. This is why the question of a different kind of home is never asked. Maybe there are 2 incomes. (unheard of in 1955, unless of course you were poor----then it was a perfectly conceivable reality for you) Of course, the case of the stay-at-home dad was not even a fantasy back then, so we won't go there. Two mommies? Two daddies? absolutely not. (Even though gays and lesbians existed then as they do now, and made homes together) Is it really any wonder that there's a more than %50 divorce rate---look at the baggage every traditional marriage has to carry, with all of the duty talk and pre-fab constructions of married life, who's thinking clearly about whether marriage (and or children) is right for them, right then?
People pray to JESUS to save their marriages, as if he has ANYTHING to do with either spouse's shortcomings.

I watched an excellent documentary the other day titled Three of Hearts.
It's about, you guessed it, a menage a trois, but in the more traditional sense of the expression-- 3 people making a home together. 2 bisexual men in their late twenties with a 7 year relationship under their belts decide they would like to bring a woman into the mix. They date around for a bit and find Samantha, a gorgeous, 22 year old aspiring actress from Canada. These three lively spirits are all attracted to each other, and proceed to spend the next THIRTEEN years together--including several apartments in New York, a thriving day-spa they build from the ground up, 2 kids, and a dog. How is this possible, you ask? how can 3 people cohabitate romantically for more than a decade? Without revealing too much about the documentary, there's a simple principle at work. I'll give anyone who wants to a week to watch it (i got it randomly @ the Naro Expanded, it is fascinating) and I'll talk more about it next time.