Hm. Well, it’s been something of an eternity since I last posted. Nothing new about that, frankly lol..

Nothing new to really post about, either.

Saturday I went and saw Avenue Q. It was so great!..and, as with every year’s performance that I seem to see in the fall, I found myself remembering that I adore live performance and deciding to see more of it.

I almost bought tickets this morning to Pirates of Penzance…but it’s not going to be here until March, so I think I’ll just wait =x And, of course, I’ve been keeping my eye on the ticket sales for Wicked in June. I got an email from the eClub (through which I got my Avenue Q tix) offering Wicked tickets for Louisville in January =O. I thought about it….it’s only like 2 hours from here - it’d be like driving to TPAC from Pikeville…and it’s totally worth it…but…I mean, a few months later it’s going to be, likely, the same cast who I can see simply by walking across the street… that’s just so much cooler =x

I’m considering seeing Into The Woods at University of Indiana this weekend…but I’m concerned, a little, because it’s a college theatre department…and, well…I still have nightmares about MTSU’s theatre department productions. It was one thing to get in for free to see their shitty productions…but to pay $10 per ticket to get into a production and have it be shitty..I’d hate to waste the money. At the same time, I think…well..I’ll never know if they suck if I don’t see them at least once, y’know? *shrugs*
I guess I could ask someone about the quality of the productions..lol *Shrugs* eh.. I’ll see what happens, I guess.

Additionally, Evil Dead: The Musical is playing downtown between now and November somethingorotherith..and I totally intend to see that lol. GREAT Halloween-y fun.

So that’s pretty much that.

Yesterday (or maybe Monday) I found myself researching the Tower of Babel. Tim and I got into a conversation (…I guess you could call it that o_O lol) that started with me training to be an assassin, and ended somewhere with the world being conquered by extra terrestrial robot overlords. x_O That’s our conversations, though… lol

Anyway, at one point it swung to the idea of languages and stuff..and my views on it being common courtesy to speak the language of the area…etc…and then we started talking about universal languages…and I wondered about Babel, because I knew of that story.

So, I research it…I read about it…and, in the end, I’m just disgusted…almost outraged. The story of the Tower is as follows, from Genesis 11:1-9

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children built.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

…Seriously? What the fuck? Seriously? Now, ok, everyone always preaches that the tower was an affront to God and the people of Babel were sinners and that’s why the tower was destroyed or something…but, dude. Read the fucking passage.

“Let’s build a city and a really tall tower, and we can be a people and not get scattered around the world!”

and God comes in and goes, fucking LITERALLY, “Oh, look, the people are united as one and have one language. Their potential is unlimited - they can do anything they put their minds to. …can’t have that…Let’s go fuck with them!”

…

SERIOUSLY? If you believe absolutely in the stories of the Bible as truth, how could you SERIOUSLY look at the actions of such a being and think “I want to worship and praise out of love and devotion for He that loves me”? Are you telling me that people actually think that they should worship such a douche?

Now, maybe it’s taken out of context - Maybe there’s more to the city or the tower. I also read that the King, Nimrod, was some sort of tyrant? …of course, several times I read that his name only appears once in the book…
And then there was this part about how it was a mandate that God told the people to spread out and stuff on the earth..and that he destroyed the tower and broke up the people because that was what he wanted and they weren’t obeying…so, in that way, I can sort of see how it’s like punishment..

But dude, seriously, fuck…even then… it can basically be said that everything that’s ever happened - War, terror, disagreements with other people…slavery due to “difference”…all that bad crap that’s gone down. It’s all God’s fault.. It’s like…everything could be fine, but he had to go screw things up.

*shrugs* I dunno. It just seriously annoyed me. It annoyed me the idea of a being with such epically phenomenal cosmic power would waste it screwing shit up just to be a dick…it annoyed me the idea of the THRONGS of people who mindlessly throw themselves before such a supercosmic asshat…it just all around bothered me.

It also intrigues me…God..this deity…millions upon millions sing the priases of a deity of Good…and then, it turns out, God’s actually Neutral Evil…lol Out to get what he wants, and will do what he wants to get what he wants, regardless…

Anyway, that was my thought from yesterday.

…and TODAY, well..sitting around with nothing to do at work (as usual)…waiting for the day to end. I really need to do something more productive with this Blog. Something with a purpose…I could do a tri-weekly column about something. I dunno. I still haven’t gotten any terribly good ideas. Gaming…WoW….I dunno. =|

*shrugs* Anyway, I guess that’ll be it for me…running out of things to say =O lol

*waves* Later Dayz