Okay, kiddoes!

I've been filling up my hard drive with video game remixes, all good and worth listening to. This is, however, after a day of treasure-hunting (two more letterboxes) and watching the Olympics. I finally got to see a field hockey game. Probably more Olympic-watching and mix-downloading tomorrow.

Now Hear This: The Monarchy Needs a Fool. It'd be a pretty good job, in my opinion.

Speaking of fools: A Map of the World, according to fools.

And something very foolish: Diet Coke floats. Regular Coke doesn't.

And then there's The Magnetic (ish) Man, someone who seems to have figured out how to attract all sorts of objects.

And yet, in all this foolishness, there's some sort of wisdom, right? Well, my sister and I had a conversation tonight, and she demonstrated that her head is definitely in the right place. Reprinted because there were some funny bits in there.

( Sis an' I talk about the joys of dating. Be aware - my sis can (and does) curse with the best )

Soh.

Today was as I promised, some Olympicness, some family time, some video game remix downloading. Tomorrow is work. Thus, less of the watching, perhaps less of the downloading, and no more family time. Oh, well.

This is not to be meant as a blanket statement, the following, but are some Christians taking the injunction "Go and teach all nations" a bit strangely when they continue to try and win converts in a markedly hostile area that has told them to go away many times? I mean, they have expounded upon the wonders of God and have been told, "Sorry, not interested." They've taught, it's just that they're not being believed. So why continue? What sort of drive (or justification) continues to have them come back for more, much to the aggravation of the people telling them to go away? Someone who I keep on my friends list was aggravated by the Church of Latter-Day Saints' apparent attitude of arrogant exclusivism and the attitude, "Either you join us or we make you miserable enough that you'll join us just to make it stop." Myself, while I find the people that hold signs outside our sporting events proclaiming our hell-boundedndess amusing, more because of what I would consider to be the futility of the exercise, I find the concept behind it aggravating.

I also find it irritating that in forums supposedly marked for extended, intelligent discussion that the same sorts of things appear. On a post wondering whether morality and religion are related, there are inevitably posts about how it would be much simpler if you just trusted God for everything. The same for a post about whether to "follow you heart" is sound advice. Another shows up in whether religious types are the cause of an atheistic swing. While some of the discussions that result are interesting, few of them contribute fruitful information to the discussion at hand. That's just not nice, and it makes me a bit annoyed at having to sift through it to find the on-topic material.

So if someone could give me insight into the psyche of such a person, I should be most interested to study it.

So, it's off to bed for me. I expect good responses upon my awakening, doggone it!