Guest Speakers & God

I went to a business conference for women and was irritated over the amount of woo. Why, why do people insist in flaunting their life style choice. I just wanted to raise my hand and say, "that's nice, but I would like to know more about the topic and not hear about your religious moral superiority over the rest of us. Because, in a sense it is implied their success couldn't have come about without God. It was God this and God that, if I wanted to hear about God, I would have gone to church. Don't they realize that at least 1 of 10 people at the conference are not religious and therefore, of lets say 100 women, 10 to (20 if of a different religion) did not appreciate the speaker(s) that pontificated at the conference.

This is my first all female conference (I am more comfortable around men), so I don't know if this is normal or not, and I won't know until I go to another one next year. The worst part of the day and a half conference was having to sit and listen to this type of "inspirational" speaking for an hour and a half several times, I really didn't learn anything new. Both speakers just talked about themselves, and it was incredibly boring (and I’m not easily bored) and made me mad. One speaker became a success off the coat tails of her family and the other woman gave her story of how she moved from one job to another and the only thing I learned from her is she went to college and was offered good jobs as she went along. Both made millions for their companies.

So, lesson learned? as usual it’s not what you know it’s who you know AND you have to have money to make money. I already knew that.

I am a worker bee and I think I am growing to accept it and actually appreciate my life as it is more and more every day. I don't really want that promotion do I?

Sex in the City

Wow,

The Helena school district office is in chaos this week. There are over 80 comments on the local paper article about sex education policy. The response is heavy on both sides for and against. Of course those against it are freaked about it and how it promotes homosexuality, blah blah blah.

Here is my comment.

Moral outrage? I find the old testament attitude towards sex outrageous and immoral.

Ask yourself why virginity was so important women were to be stoned to death for not being one on her wedding night.
It was the only way to ensure paternity of the first born.
It was not to protect the woman's virtue, but to satisfy the husband that his wife’s first born is really his. This is about property rights.
Of course the 2nd most important biblical decree after the fact, is to make lots of babies. Which to me seems very irresponsible in today's world.
So sex is for procreation only not recreation, therefore all sex not resulting in conception is bad.
This is the absolute morality a few think we need to return too. No thank you very much.

Politics & Co-Workers

Yes god thanx for Fox

During a few beers on the town with my new co-workers, politics popped up. We all should have not gone there. Let's just say one of them ended up calling us all effing idiots and that is when I announced very loudly the discussion was over. I am glad I do not have to work directly with these co-workers on a daily basis, but it will feel different working with the one who repeatly said they "didn't give a shit" about "them" (poor, minorities living on welfare) This person just proved to me that I am not over reacting to the right. They are negative, mean, and uncaring not compassionate, understanding nor happy. How can anyone with such anger and frustration really be happy. I must admit it is harder to be an optimist, but some of us need to be.  I guess I would rather be an effing idiot than a minion from the Dark Side

Gawd Awful

It s so sad to have someone in the family who even though means well pushes loved ones away. And I am not talking about myself. Their grandchildren are now old enough to notice the little comments slipped in occasionally are meant to make already painfully obvious points not welcome in my house. It's sad because they are missing out getting to know the kids. Their grandchildren can not talk openly with them without being judged. The kids were taken into town to buy them clothes, anything they wanted..... they picked out shirts and shorts, only to be insulted by loving grandparents on what they picked out. My daughter was almost in tears, how cruel.

They are oblivious to how they constantly hum and ha about every little thing going on around them. I struggle every day not to "go off on them"

Lucky for us, we only have to endure this once a year or so, they do not live nearby and only bless us with their holy presence occasionally. Another reason I don't complain, is grandma may not be around much longer, and that is why it is even sadder she has alienated herself with my 2 kids. They will not have fond memories of her. She is the perfect example of a person that has chosen the church over her own flesh and blood. Like it has been said before, they will be very lonely in heaven.

Comments uttered this time around -
"Nice girl (on t.v.) that is how christians behave" - in other words, grandma thinks you have to be a christian to be a good person.

"Should have disqualified those Koreans, after only one false start" grandma just dinged on Korean's even thought she knows our son's best friend is Korean.  I could go on but its time to go back to work.

Movie Review

"LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS" by Dan Merchant

What a bummer, another Christian documentary which started out pretending to be balanced, but halfway thru it bombs.

So Sad

By the way Dan, peeps are NOT CHRISTIAN you idiot. The Christians should be "offended", peeps are pagan. Spring, sex, frig like bunnies.....get it now

Instead, would Dan prefer a display in the state capital of a mounted, full size, life like Jesus on the Cross, 3-D dripping blood-the works- and see how well that goes over.

Then Dan goes off on people trying to change the name of St. Paul, it was a blatant attempt to equate American atheists to Soviet communists..... so old school, give me a break. What a clueless ass