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Got to see some of the cool kids last week when I was in Denver. Always the hilight of my trips there. Thanks to all!

So check this out...

I'm not much of a social person, so whenever I take a flight anywhere I pretty much keep to myself unless it's absolutely necessary to acknowledge someone else, e.g. "you're in my seat". I always get a window seat and hop on the plane as soon as possible so I can Establish My Space and commence reading Popular Mechanics or staring out the window. Then of course once the ding goes off for reaching 10,000 feet, I pull out the laptop and watch a movie for the remainder of the flight.

But, backing up a little bit, while I'm hanging out in the terminal before the flight I do a fair amount of people watching. People always act differently in airports, it's kind of interesting. Plus you just get such a MIX of people in there. I also keep an eye out for hotties that might be on my plane. What!? Just being honest... Anyway, I'm always hoping I hit the airplane lottery and seat 14B (or whatever) will end up occupied by one of them. Never happens of course. Not that it would really matter, cuz I would never talk to them anyway. But you know, it's just one of those things you hope for. Okay, so maybe it's just me... But you got to admit, it's a million times better than Sweaty Pits Big Butt whom I usually get stuck with.

So back to my most recent flight, I got to the airport pretty late and couldn't really do my normal pre-flight routine, if you can call it that. So pretty much I got to the gate and got on the plane about 5 minutes later. I really wasn't in the people mood (surprise), so had my headphones on and headed directly to my seat. It was in the way back of the plane, so it was a good walk. And things didn't start out well...I had to acknowledge someone because they were sitting in the aisle seat already. But I got to my window and settled into my normal thing: read a magazine (this time it happened to be Popular Science) and listen to music till the door closes. Turn off music, keep reading. Wait for ding. Pull out laptop, watch that till landing ding. Go back to reading. Land. Turn on music. Get off the plane. I tell ya, if you want to avoid people, I've got it down!

Anyway, sometime during the remainder of the boarding, someone sat in the middle seat, but I wasn't really paying a lick of attention. Even less so than usual. I was doing good to even notice they sat down I guess. For whatever reason, I thought it was just some dude and stuck to the routine. I never even looked in that direction the entire flight except to decline my 1/2 cup of soda and .0001 oz bag of that stink-up-your-breath stuff they call a snack. So I flew in my own personal blissful solitude and enjoyed every minute of it. As much as you can sitting in coach anyway. Things were just fine until we landed and arrived at the gate.

Once we got there, I started paying just a little more attention so I knew when it was my turn to get in line to exit the plane and that's when I noticed the person next to me was kinda...curvy. On closer inspection, not only was my neighbor NOT a dude, my neighbor was a total fucking knockout.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG!

End of story.

Exciting huh?

Suck.

Ah Irony, You're Such an Interesting Character

So that pope guy gives a lecture on violence in religion where he quotes some medieval writings that pointed to the fact that Mohammed promoted violence.

In response comes this, from some extremist whackos:

"The Muslims take their religion very seriously and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet."

"Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment."

"I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."

And in other parts of the world:

A nun killed in protest.
Churches attacked.
Extremists vow war on "worshipers of the cross".
etc...etc...etc...


So. Now. Could someone please help me understand why what the pope had to say wasn't 100% accurate and still true today.......

I am really tired of all this over-sensitive religious bullshit. It happens with all of them, but this case finally really struck that last nerve with me. I mean, how often is Christianity, quite literally, shit on? How often do people like Madonna openly mock Catholisim? I don't see anyone saying that blasphemers and Madonna's must be executed.

You can go on and on about Islam being a peaceful religion. But, given all history, NO religion is peaceful. None. I know that that majority of Muslims do not agree with the violence, but I never see any drastic steps to distance themselves from those that have taken their religion and used it as a weapon. I'm not saying this is an easy thing to do, but something really needs to happen here if we're all to move forward. You never see the extremest sects distancing themself from the rest of Islam. They want everyone to believe they are all united as one. True leaders need to step forward and firmly and openly denounce things such as this.

You can tell me until you're blue in the face that a rattlesnake is calm and peaceful. But you'll never convince me that poking one with a stick is a good idea.

Religions should not be rattlesnakes. Lashing out is not a way to make people understand.


For the record, I pretty much feel that all religions can shove it. For all sorts of reasons, including all of the above. Find me one that isn't corrupt, crazy, hypocrytical, political or violent and maybe I'll listen.

1 Month

Been a month. No, I'm not dead. No, I'm not posting anything interesting today either.