I think I'm going to try this.

I just stumbled upon it today. I think it would be good. I signed up and everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lVSKRlqTZM&feature=related

Of course, everything in this trailer is awesome, but the music is especially awesome.

If I see this quote, attributed to John Adams, copy/pasted from some ignorant geocites RRS dumb**** atheist blog one more time, I might get banned, the things I'll say will be so harsh.

The quote comes from a letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (another oft-quoted crusader for atheism, if you'll believe the formerly mentioned sources), dated April 19, 1817. Here's the quote in context, and you can also read an entire discussion between Adams and Jefferson, preserved in their letters.

Twenty times, in the course of my late Reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible Worlds, if there were no Religion in it." ! ! ! But in this exclamation I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without Religion this World would be Something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell. So far from believing in the total and universal depravity of human Nature; I believe there is no Individual totally depraved. The most abandoned Scoundrel that ever existed, never Yet Wholly extinguished his Conscience, and while Conscience remains there is some Religion. . . .

Explicitly stating that the world would be "a Hell" without religion isn't exactly a statement against religion.

As I said before, Thomas Jefferson is also often quoted wildy out of context. People assume that he was an atheist (or something similar) because he came up with the idea of Separation of Church and State. But in this exact same link and discussion, you see that he talks about the words of Jesus and considers "true religion" to be a unanimous deistic take on the teachings of Christ--he wrote a ****ing Bible consisting entirely of Jesus quotes.

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Here's the deal:

If you have not voted already, you will vote now.

When you vote, you will vote for Mario.

If you vote for other than Mario, I will raeg on you like noone has ever raegd before.

If you do not vote at all, I will still raeg if Mario loses, which he will if you do not vote (meaning you will be held personally responsible).

So stop reading this blog and go vote. Do not make me raeg. You wouldn't like me while I'm raeging.

I'm not sure why, but I am really loving the old TV show M*A*S*H. It just seems so well-done. The chicken scene from the movie/final episode was astoundingly moving. I wonder if that was controversial back when it first aired.

Hold onto these
Memories I grant you
The gifts of our lives
Lost in the sands of time
Deserts forever
Relentlessly barren
I crossed them all
In the blink of an eye
I command light and solar winds
To transport me
The deepest assurance
I speak with my mind
Caves of glass
Shatter before me
The wheels are in motion
Forever they turn
And are carved in the
great book of life

There in your room
Alone in the shadows
I smashed down the walls
And set you free

I carry the torch
That trembles the mountains
Seen visions of power
Beyond all belief
You close your eyes
I reach out and touch you
Reflections in pools
The deepest of dreams
Rumors of war
Rage in your heart now
The wheels are in motion
Together we turn them
Forever they're turning away

Come down with fire
I want to love you
want to take you into
my heart
We'll cruise the starways
And from the moment
that we touch our love
turns
into a crystalline dream
Fly where your dreams go
With open eyes it's the
dawn and you're alive
No time or space here
I walk in castles of gold
Our love turns into a
crystalline dream

Proof.

You found me here, waiting for your chance
You would reach inside and take all of me
You watch your lies smother me again
But now you can't

Don't even try
You're wasting time
Jump back I'll beat you down and turn around
I'm fighting my way through you
Push you away, I'll never break
Come back ill beat you down
It's over now
I'm turning my back on you

I turn around, there you are
A blink and a flash back to you again
You push me down tried to steal it all
This time I'm pushing back

Don't even try
You're wasting time
Jump back I'll beat you down, turn around
I'm fighting my way through you


Push you away, I'll never break
Come back I'll beat you down
It's over now
I'm turning my back on you

On you

Go ahead and try to stop me
Go ahead and try to stop me
Go ahead and try to stop me
Go ahead and try
Go ahead and try

Don't even try
You're wasting time
Jump back I'll beat you down and turn around
I'm fighting my way through you
Push you away, I'll never break
Come back I'll beat you down
It's over now
I'm turning my back on you

Whoa.

I just found out that C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley and JFK all died on November 22nd, 1963. Lewis died of a heart attack, Huxley died of cancer, and JFK was assassinated.

There was a book loosely related to the subject.

Freaky.