Saturday, November 7, 2015

The Banality of Facebook in Two Easy Lessons

The first 'trending' headline in Facebook news was regarding Kylie Jenner appearing in her underwear in a photograph on Instagram.  If she were actually hot, she would be somewhere men would go to see her ... but she must at least be aware we won't.

Kardashians and Jenners are not much interesting but, like Joan Rivers' plastic surgeon, we just wait because it's going to be hilarious when they hit their biggest nightmare:  Middle Age


The second 'trending' headline was Jennifer Lawrence kissed a girl.  Holy bouncing boobies, this is news fifty years after the sixties ... when everyone was kissing everybody.

We don't know what brought the Puritanical upheaval in the country but we doubt religion because Billy Joel sang 'Catholic girls start much too late' but that wasn't what I experienced in my life.

We don't consider evangelicals to be religious but we don't think they caused the upheaval as who would want to fuck them anyway.  I remember praying for a plane to crash when a born-again bubblehead tried to convert me while we circled around Atlanta.  We had been making some good time together and things were looking kind of swell ... but then she started spewing that rubbish and it finished any dreams of rampaging sex after landing ... so I was praying for the plane to crash just to make it stop.


Note:  we regard finding religion as an adult when one did not have such convictions previously as substantively different from someone who had religion, threw it away, and then decided, well, maybe I'm a believer after all ... and they have to tell their bubblehead story everywhere they go.  We have no respect for that kind of intellectual malleability.

They would say 'God be with you' all the time ... as if these arrogant bastards have that power.

My only thought was 'piss off.'


There was some hard-core for a while as I was hanging out with a crop of atheists on America Online where I was the Smogmonstr and it was cool to hang there because they were funny.  Typically, Christians who came there to battle didn't know much and they would slink away in shreds.

After a while, I decided this had less to do with spiritualism and more to do with being an asshole.

So I stopped.


All religions are compatible with what I believe but not necessarily the dogma.  The only dogma in my own belief is don't preach and that's why it pisses me off so much when evangelicals do it, quite apart from the obvious lack of knowledge in many of them.

Ben Carson is the case study just now and when he finally does wise up and get out of the Presidential race, we suspect he will ask his followers to go with him to Jamestown.

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