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somewhere in casablanca - an essay

some weeks should never happen. poor sleep. depression. poison oak. second thoughts. too many cokes. pondering 31... and everything post bham. bad work week. mistakes. procrastination.

i watched a hilarious show on tbn about the rapture. let my opinion be clear. the raptuare. tribulation. an antichrist... animatronic talking worship idols inside a rebuilt jewish temple = bullshit. i have sad news for you. it's NOT gonna happen. everyone go home. plug in your xbox. st. peter whined about the end of days. as did the first holy roman emperor... as did michelangelo. it's a farce. if you believe it, you are a sucker, sucker.

believe in christ if you like, that's cool... but tribulation. damnation. your soul's eternal percolation? c'mon. even a rat in a sewer knows the concept of hell, or an anti-christ is laughable.

in the inuit/eskimo culture... their version of hell is a very very cold place. christianity... the church at least, began in rome. now i dunno about you but, i've been to rome in july. it's hot as umm..?? you get the picture.

use your head. use logic. if there is a god, then he/she/it gave you the ability to reason. if you accept bullshit as fact, then that's not very reasonable and thus... not very god like.

i will gladly allow myself to be escorted to hell if in fact we are at the will of a god that is apparently a masochist. if god has less mercy than any common mother has for her own children then he can take his one thousand years of peace and shove it up his omnipotent arse. now i myself, have changed a lot in the past few years. i'm not only open to the idea of a god, but i'm conducting my life and attitude more and more, to be in line with budhism... although i'm not a budhist. but i do think i'm becoming a better person.

all i'm saying is... some the... the sun is going to eat the earth, and that will be that.

but i digress: think about this for a moment. a vengeful god. vengeful. vengeful. full of vengence. a simile for hatred. sounds curiously manmade to me. wouldn't that be convienient?

currently watching a long lost (until recently) documentary about a week long travellin' rock festival that took place across canada. the greatful dead, buddy guy, janis joplin, the band, etc... all riding in a train, playing under attended shows for ungreatful hippies with no money. janis delivered, in ontario, possibly the greatest half spoken word, half sung emotive blues lament of the era - about being left behind when your better half leaves to go find themselves somehwere else.

i've been there. it's a bitch. but then again so is life.

the band's performace of "the weight" was stellar. although apparently the drummer was having trouble with his hi-hat stand. common problem in the days before sturdy drum hardware.

looking forward to the end of april. ...and things. the title of the instrumental phreak-out at the end of our song "beautiful" will possibly be subtitled - "can't shake the chill." we are actually contemplating a double album. we are rediculous people. and we are in good company.

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