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This…

This is what true creation looks like; it’s how stars and planets come to be. These are called the Pillars of Creation and they are immense. Mind-numbingly immense. Immense as in 4 light years tall, the distance between the sun and its nearest neighbor Alpha Centauri.

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We Are the Aliens

Stop and think about that for a minute.  We are the aliens to any other planetary civilizations in our glittering night skies. Keeping that in mind, is our behavior toward our fellow human beings really something we’d like to be projecting outward to potential galactic neighbors?

Human beings are killing each other over skin color and god myths, and have been for most of our history. God myths! Is it any wonder we haven’t heard from anyone out there? If we can’t even accept each other’s differences, how the hell would anyone who might be listening in and aware of our existence—no doubt beings far different than us—expect to be welcomed here with open arms? Is our brutality toward each other really the first impression we want to put forward?

Unfortunately it’s too late to change that. As the old axiom goes, “You’re never given a second chance to make a first impression,” and our planet’s first impression consisted of Nazi Propaganda…

I’m sure—based on statistical probability alone—that the universe is teeming with what we would immediately recognize as intelligent life. But based on the radio and television signals that have spread out from our planet to a radius of eighty light years or so, I’m not surprised in the least that we haven’t heard a word back from anyone—much less had the proverbial flying saucer land on the White House lawn. I mean, would you want to make contact with a group of beings who have so little respect for their fellow creatures or their planet that it borders on insanity?

For all we know, there are galactic marker buoys surrounding our solar system warning potential visitors to avoid the third planet at all cost.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that human beings, despite all our science and technological innovations over the past five hundred years or so are aware of only a very, very small part of what is actually going on in this thing we label reality. Further, I also believe that at this stage in our evolution, if we were shown what truly lies behind the proverbial curtain, the our species would suffer a collective psychotic break…

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Black Magic and Voodoo, I Say!

I’ve never been a gearhead, but I’ve always had the utmost respect for the men and women who are. Somehow they manage to keep my vehicle humming along happily and are capable of fixing it when it doesn’t. While I can tear down and reassemble a PC in my sleep—and some people have that same sort of reverence for my profession (really?)— I can’t begin to fathom what mechanics do…it’s beyond my comprehension and this video leaves me shaking my head in amazement. Black magic and voodoo, I say!

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Some People Seem To Have Forgotten…

…that this is my blog, where I express my opinions. If you don’t like what you read, by all means please don’t visit—or better yet, go start your own blog. The last thing in the world I would want is for you to unnecessarily get all worked up by reading something you don’t agree with. I’m sure you can find dozens—if not hundreds—of websites that will agree with your viewpoint. Remember, the internet is huge.

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Some Thoughts on the Colorado Springs Fire and the Hypocrisy of Religion

Let me start by saying that the wildfires burning south of Denver are a horrible tragedy. Thankfully—as I understand it at this point in time—there has only been property damage and no loss of human life.

I still remember vividly the Oakland Hills fire in 1991 and the devastation left in its wake. While I was not personally affected by that fire, being a resident of the Bay Area I still felt an enormous sadness in seeing my neighbors across the bay lose so much.

However, as I watch the news and see the homes and businesses going up in flames in Colorado Springs, I feel none of that empathy this time.

And that brings me to the subject of religious—particularly Christian—hypocrisy.

Colorado Springs is home to Focus on the Family, one of the most well-funded, virulently anti-gay hate groups in the country. And as I’ve noted in previous posts, that pious, holier-than-thou, rah-rah-USA-we’re-number-one, church-on-every-corner ostentatious display of wealth that permeates the city makes my skin crawl whenever I have to travel there to service our satellite office.

Let’s be honest: if this tragedy struck San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or New York, or basically any location that supports acceptance of the gay community, the hate groups nationwide would be jumping up and down with glee, trumpeting it as “God’s righteous judgment against the heathen sodomites.” But since this tragedy has affected God’s own supposedly chosen people, you won’t hear a peep. If anything, they will say that “God is testing their faith.”

Uh huh.

The same goes for hurricanes, tornadoes and a host of other natural disasters that strike the deep south and the so-called “Bible Belt.” You’ll never hear God’s Gentle People even considering the possibility that their Magic Sky Fairy isn’t testing their faith—that he’s pissed as hell and raining down judgement on them for the amount of unmitigated hate they spew at their fellow human beings.

So while my lack of empathy this time is based in part because I’m not emotionally invested in this community the way I was in San Francisco, the majority of it stems from the fact that I—even though it probably labels me a heartless bastard and no better than the people I’ve just written about—can’t help feeling some smug satisfaction in seeing karma in action and that indeed, she is a bitch.

So yeah, what’s happening in Colorado Springs is a tragedy for the people who live there and I’m sorry for the tremendous material losses. But if AFA Headquarters, and even the Air Force Academy itself—another breeding ground for anti-gay Xtianist propaganda—happens to burn to the ground, you won’t find me shedding a single tear.

 

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