w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:
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"Cos I've been standing at the station
In need of education in the rain
You made no preparation for my reputation once again
The sink is full of fishes, she's got dirty dishes on the brain
It was overflowing gently but it's all elementary my friend."

Oasis: "Some might say"
From the album: "(What's the story) Morning Glory"

in the eyes of the Lord." (And this from an atheist) as, in the minutes between the alarm sounding off and my actual rising time, I conducted a full-on exorcism.

"You want to fall from this ledge, and end the malevolence and maliciousness that you perpetrate on this world."

Then the attending priest offered the pocket of his hi-vis jacket for donations (when I'd done all the hard work?).

If these sober dreams of mine get any more life-like, I'm gonna start pitching the scripts at Hollywood producers, make my fortune and go back on the bottle.*

44 days to go.

* After I've bought the boat.

Labels: Boaty things, Religion

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"The cracks between the paving stones, look like rivers of flowing veins.
Strange people who know me peep from behind every window pane.
The girl I used to love lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by - she doesn't want to know me now."

The Who: "The real me"
From the album: "Quadrophenia"

Being a card-carrying atheist means that I'm very interested in religion.

No, seriously. Having no faith whatsoever means you can examine a set of beliefs, hold the tenets up to the light and without any prejudice or passion, check it over and see how it's supposed to fly.

According to fundamentalist christians, the Bible is "the literal word of God" (Their upper case 'G', not mine)

So, God created Adam, and using a spare rib, created Eve. And they had a son called Cain, then another, called Abel.

And Cain killed Abel and was cast out into the wilderness. Where he took a wife.

Whoa! Where did she spring from? Another spare rib, anyone?

Ah, say the FC's - obviously Adam and Eve had other children. Soooo, Cain married his sister, then? Great premise for a world-conquering religion...

To my knowledge, I've never met a Gideon. So next time I'm staying at a hotel, I'm going to hide the free Bible, ring down to Reception and report the omission, then hijack the person who comes up to supply another one and extort the truth from them about why they do this?

Just because I'm interested.

Labels: Religion

Being an atheist lapsed roman candle, I would never ('cos of the guilt) make light of others' religious beliefs.

But today, I passed a church called "Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel" and I wondered if they ever have 'relatively easy on the rules' dress-down days? Otherwise, who would be tempted to knock on their door and ask for a set of the qualifying conditions to take away? Just in case, y'know.

Missed marketing opportunity there, methinks.

Labels: Religion