So I feel good, but I'm due for lunch with mom in about half an hour, and this is way late being posted already. So nothing new; just the long "parody or not?" religious site discussion below.  I wrote it Saturday evening while surfing the site and discussing it with a friend, and as you'll see, my impression of it changes during the viewing.

I would also like to post and comment on a few emails, since there have been a bunch of interesting ones lately.  Thanks to everyone who had nice things to say re: my Malaya story.  I know it was borderline-TMI the whole time, but I thought a relatively honest reporting of my experiences would be of interest to others, to reflect it on your own life and opinions, if not for the story itself.

And yes, see Fluxy who thinks his experiences are illustrative to everyone else, when a month ago he'd have been the one scoffing most loudly at the whole "getting rid of emotional baggage before you can love" concept.

So tomorrow I'll probably quote and comment on a few mails, and do the matrix 2 write up.  Sorry there's not more today, but I need to be out the door in like 15 minutes.

One thing I liked yesterday.

I was talking to Malaya on the phone and we were debating various long term issues, mostly financial and how/if we can afford to live together soon.  And I was sort of bumming out about it, worried about being able to do what I so want to do. The conversation wasn't going anywhere, I was mostly just trying to figure out why I was so worried, and after a few minutes she'd had enough of that.

So next pause in my diatribe she leaped in and spun a lovely little fantasy.  Talked about being with me, and rubbing my back, and kissing my neck, and moving her hands over me and teasing, foreplaying, and so on.  I'm skipping the details here, but trust me, she didn't skip them in her version. And as I just relaxed and listened to her talk, all of my worries and bitching just seemed to fly away. After five minutes of that, I didn't even remember what we'd been talking about, and I felt really good and horny and invigorated.

There's no bigger point to this story than that; I just found it nifty how she was so easily able to purge my mind of the worries and bring me around to a better mental state.  And how she could do it so easily!  And pleasantly.

Weird thing, being in love.

his page is simply freaking me out. It's some super-Christian site with pages on all sorts of topics, most of them pretty amusing. I've only looked at a few pages of it, but there are fairly standard "science is wrong the Bible is right" arguments that lack anything approaching convincing logic, along with all sorts of discussion about society. 

I'm honestly not convinced yet that it's not all a big joke, since the pages are just so ridiculous to anyone with a measure of education or common sense.  Take the dinosaurs one.  He regurgitates the standard bits about how they lived with humans a few thousand years ago, how the whole fossil record is a lie or formed during the deluge, how Noah couldn't fit them on the ark, etc.  All laughable stuff if you know anything about biology, geology, geography, etc.  But the site adds some stuff I've never seen before; various carefully-selected quotes about 

The Kidz page is somewhat astonishing also, with Habu the poor polytheistic elephant.  And the "Beware of Atheists" banner truly a work of art.

What should you do if you find an atheist?

TELL A PARENT OR PASTOR RIGHT AWAY!

The bottom one on the page is probably my favorite, though it really makes me wonder if this is all just an elaborate joke.  I mean come on, this defines self-parody.

It is a beautiful day for Lambuel to witness on the street corner to passersby!

People enjoy having the bible shared with them!  So go brighten someone's day with Jesus!

Aside from telemarketers when you're eating dinner, is anything more hated than some nut trying to force their religion upon you?  People pull out the comfortable chairs and bake a pie when they see Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses coming, right?

And more than the absurdity of the wording, how about the illustration?  The main character, Lambuel, is this goat-headed anthropomorphic demon thing with cloven hooves for hands.  Kids are supposed to identify with him?  He looks scary to me.

Another great page is the anti-Landover Baptist Church one.  Landover is a brilliant parody site that treads just on the edge of believability as a real church, but is obviously humor along the lines of The Onion.  This site is apparently trying to get them shut down for Anti-Christian hate speech.  Of course they don't have any hate speech and it's obviously all parody, but anyway. They even have a progress page to document their efforts to get the Landover site shut down...

Okay, I'm having more doubts.  Maybe this site really is a big parody?  I mean the top line of the anti-Landover page is:

The Internet was created by the United States of America - a Christian nation [ref. 1, 2, 3] - and should not be used to spread anti-Christian, secular, or non-Christian propaganda and hatespeech. This is our Internet, and we should exercise our position as its owners and as the guardians of civilization to stop its misuse.

That's just way too over the top to be serious.  Isn't it?  And then read the entries on the Progress Page; they are occasionally believable, but usually utterly ridiculous. March 26, 2002, June 11, 2000, and the earlier entries about the purple/rainbow bear are just way too out there to not be parody.

The hosts of the site appear to be www.crossspot.com who look like a real Christian website hosting service.  So are they legit, and don't realize they are hosting a parody?  Or is the whole domain owned by the parody guys who are just going completely all out on the parody?  This this is like trying to figure out what's real and what's inside the Matrix. 

Okay, now that I've concluded that it's all a joke, it seems obvious.  I mean check the Have You Accepted Christ Yet? page.  It's completely ridiculous.  Someone out there has way too much free time to think all this up and write it all out.  It's almost like some sort of religious compulsion.

Oh wait...

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