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mmoa_writes at 01:59pm on 26/06/2007
mmoa_writes at 01:59pm on 26/06/2007Exams are over, and basically they went quite well. But now I have to get back to business...
I watched 'Keith Allen is going to Hell' on... Channel 4, I think a few days ago in which the 'journalist' Keith Allen (yes, father of Lily Allen with a new shtick) travelled to America to meet the Phelps.
In itself, it was rather enjoyable. I had several of my illusions shattered (I always thought that having a University degree in philosophy made you impervious to such nonsense, but I turned out to be completely mistaken as one of their most vigorous members turned out to be a philisophy grad who had originally come to the compound in order to make an expose on them. Then, somehow, he ended up converted. I have been living a lie - it took me a few hours to get over this shock to my belief-system...) and in fact ended up wishing I hadn't watched the programme. The unfortunate tendency of getting to know people who have an ideology you find utterly disgusting, it that you learn to separate them from it and find that they actually aren't all that bad in themselves. They just have a really bad shtick (unlike Keith Allen's, which, in case you don't know, is his whole 'amusingly-disgruntled-father-because-my-daughter-who-doesn't-like-me-is-more-famous-than-I-am' act. It isn't actually that amusing).
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There was, of course, that most annoying of catchphrases at the end which went 'Thank God I'm an atheist'. I know it's meant to be funny, but at the end of a really interesting programme about a disturbing aspect of religion, it just seemed to make the whole thing rather irreverent and silly. I mean, what does that actually mean? Thanks be to a God that doesn't exist... that I don't believe in... It.... I mean, come on! it's not as if being an atheist suddenly makes you immune from religious bigots or having to confront the really stupid and unpleasant aspects of it (far from it!). What does that actually mean?
Grr!
I swear, catchphrases whould be outlawed.
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So. I now have more free time on my hands than I have ever needed. Threw away all my old notes etc. as... I no longer need them! I have finished school!
Feels rather surreal.
Somehow have to get myself back in the swing of writing and drawing. Comics waiting to be inked, illustrations waiting to be coloured... *sighs*
Read 'The Ballad of Halo Jones' and once again began griping that the nine books weren't completed. It's an amazing comic by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson. Read it!
I watched 'Keith Allen is going to Hell' on... Channel 4, I think a few days ago in which the 'journalist' Keith Allen (yes, father of Lily Allen with a new shtick) travelled to America to meet the Phelps.
In itself, it was rather enjoyable. I had several of my illusions shattered (I always thought that having a University degree in philosophy made you impervious to such nonsense, but I turned out to be completely mistaken as one of their most vigorous members turned out to be a philisophy grad who had originally come to the compound in order to make an expose on them. Then, somehow, he ended up converted. I have been living a lie - it took me a few hours to get over this shock to my belief-system...) and in fact ended up wishing I hadn't watched the programme. The unfortunate tendency of getting to know people who have an ideology you find utterly disgusting, it that you learn to separate them from it and find that they actually aren't all that bad in themselves. They just have a really bad shtick (unlike Keith Allen's, which, in case you don't know, is his whole 'amusingly-disgruntled-father-because-my-daughter-who-doesn't-like-me-is-more-famous-than-I-am' act. It isn't actually that amusing).
( Read more... )
There was, of course, that most annoying of catchphrases at the end which went 'Thank God I'm an atheist'. I know it's meant to be funny, but at the end of a really interesting programme about a disturbing aspect of religion, it just seemed to make the whole thing rather irreverent and silly. I mean, what does that actually mean? Thanks be to a God that doesn't exist... that I don't believe in... It.... I mean, come on! it's not as if being an atheist suddenly makes you immune from religious bigots or having to confront the really stupid and unpleasant aspects of it (far from it!). What does that actually mean?
Grr!
I swear, catchphrases whould be outlawed.
( Read more... )
So. I now have more free time on my hands than I have ever needed. Threw away all my old notes etc. as... I no longer need them! I have finished school!
Feels rather surreal.
Somehow have to get myself back in the swing of writing and drawing. Comics waiting to be inked, illustrations waiting to be coloured... *sighs*
Read 'The Ballad of Halo Jones' and once again began griping that the nine books weren't completed. It's an amazing comic by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson. Read it!
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