babyHe makes his living writing science fiction. He founds a religion centrally themed around science fiction. It took me two seconds to deduce that Scientology is nothing more than a very large work of science fiction. A quick reading on wikipedia and you can see quotes from contemporaries stating how Hubbard created this ploy for monetary gain. Is everything you read true? No. But given that it is quite obvious without those quotes, and a cursory check on the matter reveals them says something significant.
I think someone needs to tell this to Tom Cruise, because I hear Katie Holmes is soon to be the vessel for Hubbard's cryogenic frozen sperm. It's mind numbing watching out of touch celebrities with obscene wealth expounding the virtues of that faith. Old women with 8 cats eating cheeto's all day? I expect this from. Middle aged men who read comic's all day and watch star wars all night as well. I Shouldn't be surprised though. Nearly every celebrity put on a pedestal by the masses is undeserving, minus a small minority. Unfortunately, there are even more members of the Church of Celebritology than there are Scientology.
Did you make any New Years resolutions last year? I did.
Did you make good on those promises to yourself? I didn't.
Could you have made good on those promises? I could have.
Can you do better next year? I could.
Will you? ...
Also, Phillies up 3-1 on Tampa. I hate Philadelphia sports. I dislike the teams and especially their abnoxious, despicable fans. These people cheer paralysis and throw batteries at Santa. Now they will likely get a WS Championship when Hamels takes the hill in game 5. Not that Tampa fans are great. They were nonexistent a month ago and they act worse then New York fans do. They are a great deal better than Philly fans however.
Anyways, I put on pandora.com to play some music, and it chose to give me Phil Collins, How I wish it would rain down. This made me very introspective for one reason or another. Phil Collins knew what he was doing when he was writing, and I'll leave it at that. Unfortunately it tried to follow this up with REO Speedwagon and the Eagles, which was very unappreciated.
Anywho, we are getting some big-time lightning right now. Thunderstorms may be one of my favorite things out there, if I do say so myself. I'm reading the book "The World Without Us" which deals in large part to how much we have been altering the planet and how nature will repair itself and to what extent. It is a very interesting read for anyone who is interested, and for those of you allergic to books, I do being the national geographic channel did a special along the same lines called population zero or something to that extent. It is just amazing what nature can do sometimes; how things evolve and adapt and correct for changes that occur. Nature, it seems, finds a way.
I got a new cell phone a couple days ago. It made sense for Lindsay and me to be on a family plan because, well, we are a family. Not that this is something new as a result of the marriage, we should have done this months ago; but we are lazy and we long to spend money that we don’t need to. We decided to go with T-Mobile, because Verizon decided not to give us the “new every two” option where you basically get a new phone every two years. They have awful customer service on the whole, so we decided lets try T-Mobile. We got Blackberry Pearls as phones, which officially makes me a sellout, or something close to it. You can do a lot of things with this phone, which surprises no one but me. I’m going to attempt to blog with it one day, although I’m sure you find it crappy enough from a computer. I’ve been emailing from this new device of mine, facebook constantly sends me messages, I placed a bet on centsports.com, checked baseball scores and done a host of other things. All in all, the phone gets good grades so far, the service is slightly above average. That’s the thing that Verizon does have; the service. It allows them to treat their customers like garbage as a result but we’ve seen a rise in the amount of people with T-Mobile lately, so hopefully they are on the rise. We’ll see I guess.
It is still weird to say Lindsay and I are married. It's new when I thought that maybe it wouldn't be because of our long history. I'll break it all down more (hopefully) in the next few days. Whoever was involved and reads this, thank you so much.
On another note, I was one foot out the door to work this morning when my 16 month old son starts calling :"dad, dad, dad." I look back and I say "yeah what's up?" The kid hands me my cell phone. I swear to god I was speechless. Not only would that have been the ultimate pain in the ass to have to go back and get my phone, putting off my work schedule all day, but the kid shows some big-time awareness. 16 months old people. Safe to say he is more than a little bit smarter than his father. If only the kid knew how to sleep now...
I like sports as much as the next guy, but one thing that is really starting to get on my nerves is the endless analysis by these overly serious schmucks on TV and radio. I can't watch ESPN anymore when they are breaking down some sports highlights and discussing these things like they are life and death issues. You know what I want to see? The damn scores, some highlights and news. I don't want sports to be serious. That is the beauty of the games, to not take things so seriously and to relax and enjoy things for what they are.
I also don't like hearing about the minutiae of these athletes’ lives. I don't want to know where they live or what they do in the off-season. I don't want to know their beliefs on certain topics, I want to see them perform at the highest level, and not attempt to be a politician, musician or philosopher. That is an entirely different topic unto itself, celebrities using their status as a platform for whichever cause they see fit. These people are more often than not performing their acts of charity as public relations work, or have such a weak knowledge of the issues that they soapbox about that it is laughable. Case in point Sheryl Crow trying to show people how to live "greener." She went around a few summers ago telling everyone how much better off the world would be if we only used one square of toilet paper each time we went to the bathroom. She would then proceed to load up the caravan of buses and head to the next stop on their massive tour. The world could definitely be more green, I agree with you 100% Sheryl. If only you and your celebrity brethren would just shut your mouth.
