I like nice people.  The "it's-all-about-me" people need to be destroyed.  Or at least given a frontal lobotomy.  I like cats.  Shut up.  I like the internet.  I like food [dammit!].  I like people-watching, for various and sometimes obvious reasons.  I like long talks with interesting people.  I like writing.  When will I sit down and get to that novel?  Matt, I bet we can collaborate.  Nudge, nudge.....  And by the way, I still think your book rules.  Publish it, or I'll kill you.

I really hate people that can recite a film from start to finish (annoying the person trying to watch it for the first time). There is a line that one has crossed there... it's called SANITY. A few quotable phrases, ok.. but the whole film... there is something wrong with you. Really.  Actually, those people fit into the frontal lobotomy category.  I hate people who refuse to learn.  I hate discrimination of any kind.  Seriously, I'm not just saying that.

 

 

I have so few!  I destroyed the peice-of-shit scanner that I had because  I'm sure that it was  responsible for the many times my computer crashed.  So friends, email me any pics you got! No nekkid ones allowed! (Or altered pics... that would be mean.... funny, but mean!)  It's happened.  ***Glares at Chris....

 

If there was a cheap way (aka no-money-at-all-way) to copyright my material, I would post some poetry of mine that was done waaaaay back when I was a "minor niner" in high school.  Way too sappy, but I don't want anyone to steal any of it anyway!  (Highly unlikely, I know)

I will try to update this on a weekly basis.  Good intentions, but I seriously think that will not happen.  Because I'm lazy?  Yeah, that's it.  No really, I have a life.  I do.  Stop staring at me.  I definitely need more pictures.  Oh yeah.... a good way to reach me is by email and that is woodyy@hotmail.com  Or you could just hit the email link thing at the bottom of the screen.  I'm just figuring all of this stuff out as I go. 

 

 

My position on God.  Do I believe?  The simple answer.  No.  The not so simple answer.....  read on but no hate mail!! 

 

I think the concept of a god came from humans not understanding natural phenomena and the like.  Lightning, earthquakes, fires, floods, etc.  Who or what made that happen? [they were thinking]  A powerful being, a 'god'.  There were many gods and goddesses in the Roman and Greek pantheon to explain MANY different mysteries.  Even a god of death, the question that everyone needs answered.  Who wants to die?  Of course everyone wants everlasting life, really.  The thought of 'nothing' after death is incomprehensible.  So we hang on to the idea that there must be something.  And then sprang the theory of ONE god being THE MOST POWERFUL.  A supreme being.  That had to happen eventually because everyone wants to be on the winning team, right?  Religion is just another form of enslavement, in my opinion.  The only one good thing about it is this:  You follow laws, rules and regulations that [for the most part] are not harmful.  The Romans and many other powerful nations were skilled at absorbing cultures along with religious beliefs to make the assimilation of that conquered country go as smooth as possible.  So now we have a history of smooth talkers messing with religion.  What a great way to spread 'the truth', eh? 

 

I think [note that I said THINK] some people use religion as a crutch to make themselves feel happy that they WILL have life after death.  It has a big draw on the lonely, old, and those afraid of death.  You can extrapolate your own reasons for each.  I ask constantly why a benevolent god would let so much war, famine, and disease happen.  And I get the same old tired responses that DON'T answer the question.  "It's a test."  "God gave Satan a certain amount of time to rule the world."  Sorry, I'm not buying it.  He's letting this happen?  No thanks.  What a special god you believe in.....

 

Why do trained theologians have differences of opinion? Why do educated translators disagree over Greek and Hebrew meanings? WHY ALL THE CONFUSION?  Shouldn't a document that was "divinely inspired" by THE GOD be as clear as possible?  Why are most historical wars and contemporary, for that matter, fought in the name of God?  I won't even go into all of the bible contradictions and failed prophecies.  If you want me to ....email me!

 

I can agree that all questions were once spiritual.  ONCE spiritual.  As in the past.  So a bible [from the greek BIBLOS, meaning book] was written to 'explain' a few things.  Just what those were, I still don't know.  Since the beginning of time spirituality and religion have been called upon to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.  Zeus was once thought to make lightning, Poseidon raged in the oceans and seas with the power to cause earthquakes, Hephaestus forging god-like weapons was the reason for volcanic activity.  Science has now proven those gods to be false.  Soon all gods will be proven to be false.

 

Science has provided answers to almost every question that man can ask.  There are only a few questions left and they are the esoteric ones.  Where do we come from?  What are we doing here?  What is the meaning of life.. and the universe?  Again, science has not answered these questions.... yet.  So humans fall prey to the 'filling in the gap' syndrome with spirituality and religion.  Doubt and the unknown is religion's last shred of control.  It used to be fear.  Should religion win by default because science cannot yet provide an answer?  I think not.

 

 

I want to believe in God and be like everyone else.  I just can't take that 'leap of faith' that other people can.  Here is the definiton of Faith:  Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.  What?!?  You're kidding me, right?

 

 

I actually have had people sign my guestbook!  JOY!  Those suckers!!  Just kidding.  I get a perverse thrill when I see yet another entry.  Keep on truckin' people!  If you put in your address for your webpage [or if you prefer to keep it confidential, just email it to me] I will sign your guestbook thingy.  If you have one.  NOTE:  DO NOT ask me how to get a guestbook thingy to magically appear on your website.  This TRIPOD/LYCOS site here gives me enough to play around with but does not actually TEACH anything.  Maybe you should just start one with this site?  I am not getting paid for this plug, trust me.  Or I'd give up my day job...  and my night job.  I work WAAAAAY too much.

 

This rambling is largely due to the fact that I want to bump the picture of me and Sarah Slean to the next column to fit with the whole line of pics I have.  If it doesn't work, I will be back!  Maybe not today though.  I'm lazy.

 

I'm scrounging for more pics as you are reading this.  [Ok, not really... but every now and then I am]

Did I mention that I'm a video game addict? I play console games as opposed to computer games. This includes Playstation, Nintendo 64, and PS2. Right now, I'm playing Ogre Battle 64, and I still yell like a kid if I'm getting my ass kicked. One day, I will beat it!   Update:  screw Ogre Battle.  On to my Game Boy Advance and Sword of Mana!  ...... Ok, wow.  Who knew that Game Boy Advance sucked the life out of batteries so damned quickly?!?!

 

Thanks for reading all the way to the end.  NOW E-MAIL ME!!