My war on Logic

I finally watched the movie SuperBad. A few of my friends had been stating how funny it was. I will say I found the movie amusing but i am not sure if I could qualify it as funny. I found old school and wedding crashers funny but I did not find Knocked Up funny. Maybe, I have hit that weird point in my life were I have finally became part of a genre of movie. My parents always talk about when music was music. I guess for me with my kids it will be when movies were movies. I never thought about it as a generalization thing until now.

Also back to the move Superbad. Even though the movie was okay in my book. It really did portray the teenage guy on his quest for a female companion well. I did like that you got to see it from both the horn dog and the romantic side of it. Each character did well to fit their roles. From what I remembered this movie is pretty accurate from the way of teenage feelings.

I would say the movie was good overall but if people have built it up for you then go in with lower expectations. I went in with really high expectations and found it alright.

I will say its weird that when I was a teenager i never understood half the crap I do now. The weirdest part about it is as a teenager I thought I knew everything. So I am wondering in 10 more years will I have the same view on my life from now. Also will you be able to remember these kinds of feeling at each age to really to be really empathetic to our kids? Or will our kids just assume we are trying to pretend like we understand? I will say that each generation is a lot different, I could never imagine that my parent grew up in the same environment as me. However I guess now seeing what being a teenager is like it is always somewhat similar, though I am still afraid of what the next generation of teenagers are going to be like. Hell people think myspace is a problem now. I can not imagine what the next 10-15 year will bring for the new youths of America. I will say things like that is what freaks me out about raising kids. Its a tough job and I have the highest respect for it. I just hope one day I can let some of my fears go and be a normal parent or at at least a parent at all.

Wow how pissed am I to find out that BSG will not be back till march. I thought at the end of last season they said it would be Jan. Now I am really pissed.

BSG fans if you have not see razor yet then dont read on:

I will say Razor was okay until the last 15 minutes where they truly linked it back to the show. I wish it was somewhat longer and I am slightly pissed for the way it ended. I totally understand how the show could leave you with such a point in order to bring it back the end of last season but I guess the question is do you believe them. I am being extremely vague since I do know a few people who do read this blog once in a blue moon who are not fully caught up. So I dont want to ruin it for them yet still talk to the people who are caught up.

I still love BSG and I got my parents to watch the miniseries this weekend. We started at 10:30om and I told them to let me know when they wanted to stop. It was almost 1:00 when I finally stopped it since they were so into it but I knew they also wanted to go to bed. So we ma y have two new BSG fans on our hands. Now I need to get my sister who I think will be easier and then after my brother who will be the hardest.

Please check out Christines post: I started making a comment and then realized it would be good to at least make a post on it,
I am not sure which point I am answering at which point though. I will say though the government(fyi Gov=US gov from now on in this post unless otherwise specified) at times has made a good separation. However the last two terms president has completely allowed himself to put both into the same and then based on that created religious wars. I am not a religious person at in the sense that my belief in god is deism. However I have a respect for people of any faith as long as they believe in it. My issue are more toward the organized part of religion. I want to at least answer Christine's blog.

1. I don't know much about Pentecostalism however I know its a form of fundamentalism. Pretty much I generalize these type of Christians in the same group. Essentially these are the people that believe the bible should be interpreted to the word. I am sure they are all different in their own way but they at times are so bible focussed that they forget Jesus main messsage which was to love your brothers. "Brothers" meaning your fellow persons. The issue I have is that this groups of christians are the leaders in the anti gay movements which I find ironic in the sense they they are so adamant about preaching gods love but they then can not accept all of gods creations. Unfortunatly they don't find it as ironic as I do and they just view it as a sin. In my view its just another great reason to realize how organized religions have butchered the idea of why the religion has started.

2.Church and state separation. I belief in this idea. I do believe that the moral constructs that religion provides should be includes the people representing the government offices. My issues are when they bring their religious beliefs into their law making. Bush original name the war in Afganistan after the 9-11 attack Operation Infinite Justice.
I had never even heard of it before but I had a teach who mentioned and then I found some sites that confirmed this. This was the name for the first two weeks of the war in Afganistan. The idea of even clarifying a war as infinite justice puts a huge religious aspect on it. Obviously they changed it before it became complete holy war based on the name. Not sure if I have a point except I do believe it a separation.

3. I guess my only response to three is that more people have been murder in the name of god or religion then any other reason ever. Based on that alone give me pause. The crusades caused christians and muslims to kill each other. though it was started by the christians so I guess any issues now might be pay back for the crusades. Either way I think they are both f'd up on their process of how it fits their beliefs. Other great killings based on god related issues:
Holocaust(6 million jews)
Crusades(muslims, jews, christians) I believe that is also in order of most killed though that is based on assumption not facts so feel free to post fact on deaths.
Going back I back I guess you could say during the roman empire there was a good amount of killings of Christians though I am also sure they were also killing jews at the time(Islam was not around then otherwise I sure they would have also been persecuted in some way.)
Prior to the point the only majoy Western religion that was around is judaism which was if your have ever read the old testment or seen the movie the "Ten Commandments" would understand that they were enslaved by the Egyptian empire for years. I know this is purely from a western religion point of view but unfortunately I have a very limited knowledge of eastern religions. I guess my main point is the fact that religions have been persecuting other religions for years. Because it puts people into the point that if someone is not comfortable with something different then they need to supress that difference. You still see it all the time in modern day with stereotypes. I am sure we have all been guilty of this in the past. Lets just try not to make the same mistakes in the future.

I have been taking this history class on medieval Europe. It is really awesome. One of the things that we have focused a lot on is the Church and its rise. I was reading a creed that was put out by the 4th Lateran Council in 1215. It stated that Mary was the ever virgin. I have heard this statement before that Mary and Joseph never had sex even after Jesus. By most standards I believe that a marriage is not valid until is has been consumated. Since Mary and Joseph never did then they really don't qualify as ever having been married. Based on that it makes Jesus a child out of wedlock. I believe in modern society we refer to these types of children as bastards. So in essence Jesus was a bastard. And now I am going to hell.

I was gtalking with an old work friend tonight and we got to talking about classes I was talking in school right now. He then brought up something that I had not heard about. Itunes now has a section called ITUNES U where you can download audio files for actual class lectures given certain schools. They cover a wide range of topics. So if your board and there was a class back in college you always wanted to take but didn't want to have to worry about the home then now is your chance. Also the best news of all is they are free.

Also after search I found this links to an actual class I took a little while back. It was a required class so techie's don't make fun of me. However for you non-tech folks who want to learn more about the wonderful world of Information Systems then I would recommend checking it out.

IT-201