Twice in the past week I’ve thrown up all over myself at school. I realize that I live in a state owned by the Mormons, but for the loveoffuckinggod, is it too much to ask that they keep their fucking religion away from my education?
(Yes. It is too much to ask.)
I was sitting next to two nineteen-year-old boys talking about their mission calls…
“I go into the MTC (mission training center) one day after Obama goes into office.”
“You are a lucky man.”
“Yeah, I’m happy to be out of this country for two years while he’s in office.”
“No kidding. I pray I’ll be so lucky, to get a mission call out of country. I DO NOT TRUST THAT MAN.”
I would like to know what these fucking BABIES actually know about Obama, beyond what their parents and church leaders have frightened them with. It scares the shit out of me to be surrounded by a bunch of thoughtless lemmings.
Last night one of my classmates gave a presentation on death (which was relevant to class material – psychology through the years). I could tell the presenter worked very hard, but the tone in his voice made me cringe: it was the soft, spiritual tone that I am very familiar with; thanks to the 19 years of time I did in the cult that tries to pass as a religion.
He related an account of a friend whose father worked in the church educational system for his entire career; this man became close with many (modern day) prophets and apostles. When he was in the hospital dying from cancer, the prophet and apostles came to visit him. After one came to give him a blessing, he pulled the man’s adult daughter aside to comfort her. She asked the man of God why her father was dying of cancer. What did her kind-hearted father do to deserve this? He responded, “God has many ways of bringing his children home.”
Then I threw up all over my desk.
I fucking HATE that shit. No one likes going to funerals, no one wants to lose loved ones, but that is my least favorite things about funerals: the “he/she is in a better place” bullshit. FUCK THAT. Who’s to say they’re in a better place? I’d like for there to be something beyond this world, but who’s to fucking say if there is anything? Is this discussion appropriate in a public school?
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCK.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdJ4oVnujbA&hl=en&fs=1]
I don’t remember where I found this, but everyone should watch it, especially every single person who supported Prop 8.
You found the video from me, silly Pants.
I hate how whether a blessing works or not, it’s always God’s will. If they get better, it’s a miracle and the blessing worked; if they die, God needed them in heaven. Well then what’s the fucking point to blessings and prayers in general?
You know what? I’m glad that idiot is leaving the country for two years. We need fewer people like that.
Doh! Thanks and sorry.
My brain is all freaking fried.
“You know what? I’m glad that idiot is leaving the country for two years. We need fewer people like that.”
TEE HEE!
Maybe if you just got a blessing, these vomiting issues would be resolved
I would send that video to my parents, except they would probably agree it was a fantastic idea. Sigh.
My stepson is 22 and attending a Mormon university. He’s (supposedly) still a virgin, so as long as he confesses to the Bishop about his drinking and pot smoking, he’s still temple recommended. WTF?!
I watched that video in HORROR. These people are proponents of treating people like second class citizens AND allowing men to continue to batter women AND molest children! It makes perfect sense!
And I just vomitted on myself
Why are you making ME throw up now?!
Yes, people like these two boys are ignorant and annoying as hell. That is because they are fucking nineteen year olds! Every culture is going to have its lunatic fringe. You’ve just happened upon the creamy center.
As for the Prop. 8 passing, well, that’s what happens when you put things up for a vote–you find out how people really feel. I’m not saying that makes it right. Anyway, I really liked this article about the topic from Rolling Stone magazine: here. It’s only a matter of time, I predict.
I’ve never been able to get any of my homophobic acquaintances to explain to me how the institution seems to survive multiple marriages and divorces quite nicely, but ONE GAY MARRIAGE, and it would all be over.
I wish I could run away to Europe on someone else’s dime, too.
Can you just pretend to be missionary-ing, but just go sight-seeing instead? I ask for a friend.
Thanks for the video. That was awesome. I love how all you have to do is change one word to make a whole bunch of people look like the idiots they are.
OMFG! I would not do well in Utah. I think I would just be pissed all the time at how people are so blind and brainwashed. I would surely be in jail for punching people. If someone gave my husband a bullshit answer like that to explain why his sister died a slow painful death when she was 30 years old, he would have beat the shit out of them.
Hey, a guy I worked with who lived in Saratoga Springs was surprised to hear his 2nd grader say one night “I know what the Book of Mormon is”. Upon further investigation, it came out that the kid’s TEACHER was reading it to them in class.
You can bet my buddy was at the principal’s office the next day in a tizzy. The principal got why he was upset but when they called the teacher in SHE DIDN’T GET IT. Agh.
I totally fell for that video. Until the end. I guess I’m just cynical that way . . .
Great video. I get so pissed off at my sister for wanting to make sure that ‘them gays’ aren’t allowed to get married. She even posted the goddamn Proclamation to the Family on her blog. With her favorite parts bolded. Boo.
That makes me want to throw up now.
You are a million percent right about the brainwashed attitudes of the kids around here. Little robots who only think what they’ve been told to think their entire young lives. This extends to the adults too. Not a single original thought in their heads. Little pea-brains whirring away on such precious little information, which consists of lies and convoluted half-truths.
Sad thing is, I know people who are highly intelligent. Very thoughtful, insightful adults who are well-educated and engaging. People I call friends. Why do these people persist in letting old geezers uptown in their phallic high-rise do all their thinking for them? This is no way to live. Magical beings are NOT going to swoop down into your life and “make everything ok” regardless of how hard you pray for it. Why do intelligent people believe in nonsense?
You know what? When this life is over for me, I don’t want an “afterlife.” I don’t want to go to some place and continue to exist, knowing what I know and remembering what I was, no matter how pretty it is. I want my soul to fade into oblivion. I EARNED it. When I die, I’m DONE. I did my time, payed my dues, loved the good things, hated the bad things, learned what there was to learn, and lived my life. I’m FINISHED. When I’m gone, I want to be GONE. There is no life after death. There is only life during life, and death after death.
I just realized I’m babbling. Sorry.
I don’t think I could live there… When I see things like this, I must say… I’m happy to be Canadian…
I like the video very much because it used the words of Prop 8 supporters. Very clever.
The God thing is annoying. I don’t give a rat’s ass if they are in a “better place”. Not all of us believe in that garbage so it does me no good to think that way when a loved one is gone.
I love that video. Hahaha I love you
are you alive, or have finals consumed you?
Awesome, as absurd as Prop 8. Morons.