Tuesday, June 21, 2011

I hate this guy

So …what’s up?

I have a paper due in like three days and I’m just taking the time out to procrastinate and write about what I want because it makes me happy. I would like to talk about a “friend” of mine who shall, for the purposes of anonymity, be kept anonymous. K? K. This “friend” has become a bit of a bother to me as of late. I hate everything about the kid. Those who know me need no name to know of whom I speak, but keep that to yourselves. Why is he such a fag? The way in which he lives is repulsive. His mannerisms and the way that he portrays himself is just... fucking awful. It’s one thing to be yourself. If he did that, great, more power to you, but he doesn’t. He tries to be who he thinks he should be. Well, I shouldn’t say that. You never know what people are trying to do without being them, so I should take that back. What he is trying to be is an artist. And I don’t mean like an artsy, gifted artist, I mean the “Hey look at me! I am sooooo creative” kind of artist.
What’s more is that we have know each other since I was in, I don’t know, seventh grade? Our friendship has always been a little rocky. He is what I would like to call “a douche”. He is the kind of guy that is as emotional as your craziest girlfriend. He gossips, he holds grudges, and he is one of the most ignorantly opinionated people I have ever met. I have also neglected to mention that I hate the way he has started to dress. This is going to piss you off and you don’t even know who I’m talking about. Lets start with when I met this joker. We were at some amusement park with a church youth trip. I see this new kid coming to meet up with my group in line for some roller coaster. He has bleach blond hair, an earring (I think. Might have come later.), and was wearing some kind of shitty christian band’s t-shirt. He was the late ‘90’s definition of a douchey kid. So after some time, I got to know him and we began to hang out at church and eventually with a christian youth program in the area. This guy was always trendy, but not in the way that you’d want people to say that you’re trendy (girls). Just thinking about him so much is making me quite angry. As years progressed, he tried to be the good christian kid, he tried to be the rebellious kid. He tried to date and “get some” for a long time. And I mean a long time. If I had a dollar for every time he told me a story about how he almost hooked up with some chick, I’d have like six dollars, but that’s beside the point.
What is the point is that he is a douchey hipster now. And I don’t mean the hipster that listens to shitty indie rock, I’m talking about the bandana-wearing, pipe-smoking, PBR-drinking, tie-die-shirt-having, bike-riding, “lost-in-my-deep-inner-thoughts” hipster douche that we would all like to push down a long flight of stairs; maybe one with a rancor at the bottom who could finally put an end to those sorority chick sunglasses he wears. He is trying to be a writer, writing a novel that’s supposed to “fuck with your mind” or some shit. Mother fucker couldn’t think himself out of a sticky situation against a fourth grade kid with Down Syndrome.
Now, hipsters, as they are known, are becoming a very large annoyance among more normal people. They are like new-age hippies, are they not? This guy, is changing who he is to fit a category of people. Like every stereotype about hipsters, he fits. The kicker is about his drug use. If you read his “novel” you might think that this guy had to have taken some hallucinogens in his short, pathetic existence, but you’d be wrong. Really wrong. The last time we spoke, we had a discussion of drugs. He asked me what I thought was the worst drug in existence. I thought for a second, and I said it was probably meth because of its addictiveness and because of how much it physically effects the user. After a minute or so, I changed my answer to what I consider to be one of the biggest scourges in modern society: crack cocaine. It’s discovery and sale has rocked inner cities and been one of the biggest setbacks for black America in the last 60 years, but that’s for another writing. The real story here is that his knowledge of drugs seemed to be taken directly from a D.A.R.E. seminar from 1996. He honestly thought that all of those scare tactics used by the government were true; the myths about addictions to heroin, meth, cocaine, pot, all of it. This guy has smoked pot like three times maybe. I’m not trying to put people who don’t do drugs down, I just can’t stand when people like him think that drugs are going to unlock some kind of a creative edge in writing. Not only that, but I’d just like to know where this kid got his information from and what causes him to be so certain of horribly flawed information.
I was going to get into something else entirely with this writing, but this will have to do for now. Can’t let these things get too long.

Truth

The intelligence of some is based upon test scores. Why should I be so different? What makes people think that I am so smart? Why am I so different from anyone else? I don’t think that anything I say is particularly significant. What makes it significant? If someone says something that sets my mind ablaze, I say that I think it is significant. Never have I said anything that made me think. Except for one thing. If God knows everything that has happened and will ever happen, then why was there a tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If God knew that man would fail, why would he place the temptation there? It makes no sense. If God created man to be perfect and set them apart, why would He set them up to fail.
It’s like when people are hired and then later the employer finds out about past activities and they are fired. Why give them a chance to fail before they are even given a chance? If man was meant to fail, then why was the original plot set? No one, according to the bible would have acted differently. The bible states that any man in the situation of Adam would have acted in the same way as he. So why put the temptation before him? Why not just create a utopia? Was it for some sick twisted game that God wanted to play? Why not make it perfect? Why not leave things so that no sin could ever be discovered so that everyone ever would be happy? If not for original sin all people would be satisfied. No one would go hungry. No one would be in need. God created sin. God created want.
There are people in this world that are set up to fail. People are born of broken homes that have no chance of survival but to become slaves and victims of society. Why are these people here? To create a pool for which for “righteous” people are to give? Ghettos exist. Destitution is rampant. Original sin effects all who survive. If God was so holy, how can such conditions exist? Why was there a Tree Of The Knowledge of Good and Evil? What purpose did it fulfill? If God knew that man would fail, why was the option available? Did God simply invent the idea of free will to make life interesting for himself? Would life be too boring to a God whose purpose was to babysit a society of robots, born to follow every whim that was mandated? Why?
No matter how many people or philosophers I ask, no one can give me any reason that makes any kind of sense. If a utopia is possible and the preferred option, why is there sin? Why is there suffering? Why isn’t everything in life easy and free? Why isn’t existence a right? Why do people have to contribute? To discourage laziness? That’s bullshit. Why do people need to feed to live? Feeding seems to me the only reason to work. To provide shelter and food are the only necessary means to living. God could have easily provided these things to everyone. Why would he place an obstacle in the way of humanity? The only reason I can think of is to create a world that is more interesting. A world were people are given a choice of what can and connot be done. A world of possibility and impossibility. It makes no sense for God to create an imperfect world.
I don’t understand. People suffer every day. And we as Christians are led to believe that these things are occurring because of man’s imperfection. Why is there imperfection? Fuck it. I’m drunk and tired. This message goes out to all who are confused. Do not let the ways of man distort your reality. Only a wise man can distinguish the motives of a higher power. I am obviously not one of those men. If a God is all knowing and all powerful, explain to me how these things can happen.  It is, in my mind, impossible. There is no God. There is no perfection. There is no life but the one we live. I do not see any way around it. There cannot be any truth but the one that is presented.

This World

I’m trying to be more responsible, but I’m finding it very difficult. I guess I have just been so irresponsible for my whole life that it’s something that is really hard to reform. No one in my life has ever depended on me so much. I don’t like it. I don’t want to have people depending on me. I don’t want my actions to have repercussions on other people. What I do each day should not adversely affect anyone. I’m not the kind of person you want to depend on. I drink too much and can’t seem to stop for any extended period of time. I feel like my smoking habits are going to cost me when I don’t believe they should. I don’t want to do anything that directly hurts other people, but our culture and system makes it that way. I just want to be left to myself. I want to be able to get away and just do what I want. Some may say that it’s selfish, and maybe it is, but who cares? If I was not around, people would just go about their days like normal. I wish I could be self-sufficient. I want to have a ranch with a small farm to grow personal things. I want to be able to work for what I have directly. I don’t want to have anyone depending on me for support, love, money, or anything else. Maybe I’m afraid of responsibility or maybe I am just a different kind of person.
Why is it frowned upon to contribute nothing to society? A lot of people go through life thinking that they are contributing when all they are doing is paying taxes so that leeches can continue to thrive. If I left this place, if I went away to an independent place where there is no government or regulation and I lived there providing for myself and enjoying myself, who can tell me that I’m wrong. Granted I like to have the amenities that this country provides, but I think I’d be happy to give most of it up for the opportunity to get away and no longer be a part of this world. I want to live in a new world, where the problems and shit of this world do not affect me. I wish I could start somewhere new. Start a world that exists to only me and anyone else with like ideals. I don’t want to save this world. I don’t care if the Muslims want to destroy Israel and I don’t care if the Russians nuke themselves. I don’t care and I don’t want to be a part of it.
There must be something I can do that people will pay me for. I mean besides prostitution. What makes those monkeys on TV and in the movies better than anyone else? Why are they paid so much and given so much attention? Who gives a shit what Miley Cirus is doing? Not me. But if you want to give me a whole bunch of money to prance around in front of a camera reciting lines I’ve memorized on a script, by all means, continue. I want to be able to save money and make my dream a reality and leave this world. I don’t want to know what is going on in Washington. I don’t want to know about all the refugees in Haiti and the rest of the world. I don’t want to see and hear about all the mistreated pets that need homes and depend on my $5 a month. I’m tired of the government and companies trying to manipulate me into feeling empathy and desire where it has no reason to exist. This world creates want. I do not want to be a part of it. I’m moving to Costa Rica, starting a plantation and I will exist free of outside stimulus. My world will be my friends and family. I’ll send food to the refugees.

Fuck

Fuck. That’s all I can think about right now, just fuck. Everything is just fucked. Everything. Nothing is going at all to how I pictured my life being at any point in my childhood. I don’t want anything that I have. I don’t want to be around it. I don’t want it to be around me. I’m tired of people telling me what to do. I’m tired of being told how the way things are supposed to be done and why there are expectations that I am somehow not fulfilling. I never said that I was going to be like “most people”. I don’t want to be stuck in this shit that I’ve created for myself. I want to start over. Go back about 3 years and kick my own ass and beat myself to a bloody pulp. Maybe if I did that, I would know that I need to change things up a bit or the future me is going to be a mean dick who beats the shit out of unsuspecting people. Oh, and I would be unsuspecting. Can you imagine walking up to yourself in the past and the past you is like “oh, hey! It’s me from the future!”? But then after you get that out, future you just starts kicking the shit out of you for what seems like no apparent reason. I would beat myself senseless. Then after a recovery period, I would explain why I had just beaten the shit out of myself.
I wish I had a talent for music and being able to form into words and music the things that I hear in my head. I swear, I’ve had number one best selling hits in my brain. I just have no way to convey it. And it only stays with you for so long. Then when I try to play it on guitar or something, I just fuck it up and forget what I was thinking about. I loose the tune that was in my head for the shitty one that is instead being played through the amplifier. Even if I try to sing the tune and record it so I don’t lose it, my voice is awful and it ends up coming out sounding like shit. I wish there was a way to like, download your thoughts in tact onto something so that my thoughts and all don’t get distorted by my retarded language and clumsy fingers and bad memory.
There are ways to make my life better and more bearable, but I can’t make myself do those things. I always just put things off because, I don’t know, it’s work I guess. Maybe I just don’t want what I’ve made for myself. I don’t think I am doing what I want to do. Not at all. I’m doing what other people tell me I need to do. I’m doing what is acceptable. I know what I want in the future, and it’s still very attainable, just the means of getting there is now skewed and fucked. I don’t think I’m going to be very happy for the next few years. I’ve made the bed that I have to lay in, but it’s a bed of failure, laziness, and inebriation. I don’t want this life anymore. I don’t want what I’ve made. I want to get out of it. There are fantasies in my head about ways that I could get out. Ways to make life bearable. They just aren’t feasible right now. I need money. Everything in life stems from needing money. Fuck this life. Fuck this world. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK!

God

So I’m going to write something on the assumption that Christianity is the correct religion and God does exist (and is not an invisible flying spaghetti monster).

As I sat in church on Easter as I do every year, I began to think about what a crock of shit all that stuff is. “God loves you!” “He’d come and die just for you!” Bullshit. OK? Bullshit. That bears no meaning whatsoever. If I were the only person on Earth, Jesus would come and die just for me? No he wouldn’t. He’d say, “Hey Scott. What’s goin on pal? Want me to forgive you of your sins?” and I’d say, “Oh hey Jesus. Sure, that sounds great.” I think that’s about the gist of what would happen. Jesus showed great love by making himself a man and coming to Earth to suffer and die they say. What the fuck? If God was so great, why would he not just hang out on Earth all of the time and just hang out with people. Everyone would know God was real and there would be no other religions to fight with each other. There would be no spiritual debates. I guess that would just be too easy. God wants us to wonder if he’s there, choose a religion, and if we get it wrong we go to Hell. Sound fair to you? That’s like me giving you a hypothetical test and saying that if you get the question wrong, I’m going to torture you for all of eternity. You know what we call people like that? Lunatics! Sadistic fucks! Demented, insane, psychotic supreme being.
It’s just like the story of Adam and Eve. God creates a utopia for man to live in. Also, God knows everything that has, is, and ever will happen. So what does he do? He creates the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, knowing full well what is going to happen if he puts that fucking tree there. So he says to Adam and Eve, “Hey guys, do whatever you want. Just don’t eat any of those apple over there or I’ll fuckin’ kill you.” And then he sneaks off to wherever it is that he goes off to and sits there thinking about how awesome hell is going to be. He thinks about all of the people that he’s going to send there and all of the different forms of ironic torture fitting for their transgressions. What kind of being does that? Seems to me like God is the worst killer in the history of the world, except instead of just killing people, he sends them to a place of eternal damnation and suffering. Sure, he tries to blame it on man and their free will, but can you really do that? It’s like setting a trap that you know is going to work and then acting surprised when it does.
I don’t understand this “God” character. I guess that’s what Christians want you to think. “You can’t understand God. He has his own plan. A holy, awesome, wonderful plan for everything”. Yeah, right, sure he does. After this world is over and there is a new Heaven and a new Earth, you think he’s going to put some fucked up temptation out there for someone to get a hold of and fuck things up for everyone again? I wouldn’t put it past him with his track record. I guess we’re all just destined for a fucking terrible eternity. I guess this rant is nearing an end, but I think those are some pretty critical points I have discussed. Seems to blow a hole right through this “Loving God” theory...