And they cried in pain.

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Why? Because we heard the words not guilty. Actually, I could care less. The only question is whether the jury just let someone out they shouldn't have. We'll see how that works out. Or doesn't. Maybe Jacko, like O.J., will do us a favor and quietly fade out of the limelight into serious obscurity. And then we can blame his horrible music on Beethoven.

Actually, today started off rather interesting, as at three this morning, I was woken by a downpour outside my window. No thunder, just the rain was enough to wake me up. I took the fan out of the window and went back to bed.

I look on with great amusement at the SNAP - SNAil-based data transfer Protocol. Runs faster than Wi-Fly, but probably has a greater latency rate.

tinchen asked me as to whether I thought the future was coming too fast down the pipe, considering the widening rift between the progressives and the conservatives, bolstered at least in part by the religious conservatives running roughshod over many of the things that a progressive society prides itself on. Bush Jr. is damaging his ideology as well as his popularity to many, probably more internationally than locally, if the percentages are correct (which they are not - apathy reigns in the liberal camp of the United States). From that, though, I drew out two observations that I think are true - the future is coming, and that often times it is the liberal who adapts and the conservative who resists. If the march of the future is inexorable, then the conservative will lose. that's not to say they might have developed several excellent stalling tactics and anchored themselves in such a way that it becomes very difficult for the future to move them. But like a drop of water on a mountain, eventually the mountain will be worn down. That's my opinion, though, and nobody has to believe it except those that want to.

In a little amount of time, though, the Christian religion could return to its roots - as a cult. What's the difference? Only a matter of membership and purchasing power. Less than two millennia ago (right, we're talking cosmic scale here), the Christians were actively pursued as a dangerous cult. There's always a chance that it could return to that state.

There's still work to do, however. A whole lot of fucking work to do, I suspect. (hauntermooneyes alerted me to this angry_biscuit post. Incidentally, do welcome a few new faces to the journal. Apparently, my cool factor is sufficient that I get people friending me out of the blue. Or maybe they're just in it for the links.)

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About Chrisianity: It's so hard to talk about it, since there are so many flavours. I believe that the closest to what was could be tha Adventists, but I'm pretty sure that much details were cloaked up. And I'll never understand the concept of Apocrypha - you can read the privately. but they're not to be teached? Decide! Are they you bible, or not? I'm not with Dan Brown, here, but I don't think Jesus would find his teaching in any of the Christian sects that claim to be his pupils today.

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They erad Apocrypha so they can correct other people's "errors" in faith if they come across someone who believes in it. And, of course, depending on which flavor you subscribe to, some stuff is Apocrypha and some is not.

I do agree with the last part, though. If even half of what Jesus is reported to have said in that book is true, and it's faithful on all the important bits, then the puils didn't learn jack from their teacher as time went on. Or at least, the people claiming to be the pupils. There's a teaching about hypocrites, too.