That I am watching El Mariachi with a beer, an apple and a mandolin.. The only good thing about watching movies in other languages, is that I can play music during them and not miss a thing.
Perhaps I am more open minded then I give myself credit for.. I mean, I listen to NPR, I read books with titles like "God is not great", I watch foreign films, I listen to world music and I even attempt to understand people who say that you should never trust the government, yet change their middle names to Hussein in order to support a political candidate.
Tomorrow after work, I must drive to Hartford to pick up my parents and sister. I do not mind the drive, as it gives me a good amount of thinking time and it will be nice to have clean clothes and hot water again.
Cool.. Today I mowed the lawn while smoking a cigar.. It was the last of the two I bought, and I felt it would be a nice ethnic accoutrement to my religious jewelery, my tank top and my body hair.. I had to throw it away halfway through the front lawn, as I didn't think it would go so well with the gasoline I was pouring into the lawn mower.
After this, I went to have lunch Serena Olsen during her lunch break. It is nice to catch up with old friends. I then stopped by my place of worship for the sake of a familial tragedy, because as Christopher Hitchens points out “those who offer false consolation are false friends.”
Well, I have not really read anything of interest lately, and I do not want to take that slippery slope into fan fiction.. I am greatly looking forward to supplementing my reading of Christopher Hitchens with more of a Chestertonian perspective.
I guess perspective is important in all things. Since my journey into Catholicism, I have really noticed one thing, and that is how different the perspective of a cultural Catholic is, verses one who actually believes. For the former, religion is just one of those obligations that you have to put up with at Christmas and Easter, whereas for the latter, everything else revolves around the obligation, which ceases to be an obligation but becomes the very reason for one's existence. To explain this to a non believer such as yourself is complicated and awkward. They are two different perspectives, which cannot be reconciled and therefor sometimes lead to anger from both sides.. One bible verse, which is so often held up by atheists as proof the the so called "Family Values" movement is not biblically based, as well as that several parts of the same gospels are contradictory, is the one where Jesus says some crazy stuff about him being a cause for division.. It seems to me that these different perspectives illustrate that crazy stuff perfectly.
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