i got a new ipod shuffle with my free stuff points from work. then i went and got a cassette adapter for my car, and now i have control over my listening pleasure.
my kids are going to vacation bible school this week. i wasn’t too keen on it, but daecon talked me into saying OK. pointed out that they are both intelligent children that will come to their own conclusions.
i remember when simon was not yet two and we were still living in an apartment, we use to take simon over to a park on whitlock avenue. its a very large and elaborate setup. walking along one of the catwalks, a lady with a skirt down to her ankles in 80 degree weather hands me a pamplet. i looked at the pamplet and sighed.
great… jesus crispies.
well.. i should also mention at the time daecon had long, frizzie blue hair. a black guy starts talking to him while he’s pushing simon in the swing, and i see daecon get into a amicable but animated conversation while the man held a piece of paper. it was obvious he was giving my husband a rather practiced speech. after i while i wander over that way and stand by daecon to listen just as the paper had been ripped and ended up on the ground in the shape of a cross. daecon as usual, was curt and well spoken on his views of such things. i remember the other man looking rather thoughtfull at his words and then he departed.
i then and still do hold to the opinion that whatever you believe in is your business and shouldn’t be pushed on others as long as you don’t murder people or their pets, or in any other way endanger other people and property. i don’t see why i shouldn’t extend that to my children. maybe when they get a year or two older i’ll start taking them to other places of worship. the jewish temples, the mosques, the buhdist monestary, the hindu temple, all within a short driving distance from here.
it was when i started studying all the other religions, and learned that their are a great number of similarities. i learned that people need something to believe in. having faith that there is someone or something larger out there that is taking an interest in one’s well-being. the ritual and ceremony that one goes through is very cleansing, and it centers. it gives people a framework on how to live their lives. (which might explain the reason a many number of people i know with worse than average social and psychological issues become rather involved in a religion)
well.. i think that’s enough rambling for the evening.
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