jewel May 22nd, 2011
Didn’t some nut job insist that the Rapture was suppose to happen yesterday? The same nut job that insisted that it was suppose to happen 1994, too? Looks like he was wrong again. Is anyone really surprised by this? No? Me either.
What does bother me is that he actually managed to convince some people that his delusions were true. Sadly, there are always people willing to believe this stuff. These people gave him money. These people sold their possessions. I feel badly for them. For Harold Camping, however, I feel nothing but contempt.
So what were you doing when the Rapture was suppose to happen? I was in a car on my way to a friends graduation party; something worthy of celebration, I think.
jewel March 24th, 2010
Yet another reason to shun religion. Apparently, the principal at a Lutheran church’s elementary school didn’t think that women were an inferior species, or so it is alleged, so they voted to fire him. And of course women weren’t allowed to speak or vote at the hearing, because that would be tragic! What the hell?!?
I don’t know whether to be horrified that 76 men voted to fire Hartwig or hopeful that 74 voted to not fire him.
But hey – of course they didn’t leave women out entirely:
Women who wanted to ask questions were told to write them on a piece of paper and have a man read them aloud. But some, including Hartwig’s own daughter, said their questions were never read.
Not that it did any good.
“I actually passed three or four questions to a church council member and none of them were read,” said Emily Rae Hartwig. “I guess the way I felt about it, and the way many others felt, was that they were afraid of us (women). A lot of my dad’s supporters are women.”
What I don’t get is why there are even women that are members of that church. How low does your self esteem have to be to think it’s ok to be thought of as inferior and having no rights? Seriously.
jewel January 16th, 2010
Honestly, I don’t get it. Here we are, in the 21st century and there are still people talking about pacts with the devil to explain completely natural events!
Here’s Pat Robertson, of the 700 Club talking about the earthquake in Haiti:
The Haitians “were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever,” Robertson said on his broadcast Wednesday. “And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.’ True story. And so, the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ “
Seriously? He believes that? Aside from the complete and utter heartlessness of his “explanation”, it doesn’t really sound like his god is all that loving or big on forgiveness. Mr Robertson seems to be light on the compassion as well. Not that this really surprises me, mind you, since he and Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on”the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists…” rather than squarely where the blame really was, which was religion and politics.
jewel December 7th, 2008
Well, the Christmas season is now upon us. I am really not fond of the whole thing, to tell you the truth. Never have been. Even as a kid I didn’t really enjoy it. Being forced to hang out with the extended family I didn’t really know and had little in common with was excruciating and never fun. Also, I find that the level of expected cheerfulness goes into the absurd. And don’t even get me started on Christmas music. I’m not really a “bah-humbug” kind of person, I don’t go around telling people they shouldn’t celebrate it if they want, but when they ask me what I’m doing for the holiday’s or whatever, I don’t lie either. I just don’t get into it. Continue Reading »
jewel March 9th, 2008
Oh joy. I’m not a fan of this Daylight Saving Time thing. Aside from being skeptical that is saves any energy, I end up feeling short on sleep for the first several days of it. Right, we’re suppose to just go to sleep an hour earlier. Well. it works on paper, I guess. All I see, come Monday morning, is a whole bunch of people on the roads who are feeling more short on sleep than they usually are on Monday mornings. Everyone is on auto-pilot. DST is one thing I would rejoice in getting rid of.
edited — It’s “Daylight Saving Time”, not “Savings”. For some reason, it always comes out with the extra ‘s’. *sigh*
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