Organised Religion

Due to the ‘world youth day’ or whatever that idiotic institution is I have properly defined my issues with the large churches and organised religious institutions. The first item on my list and one that not many people have a perspective on is disability. My brother is partially disabled, being that one of his eyes doesn’t work properly thus leading to a poorer quality of life for him, the basic problem is with his retina, normally it would be untreatable and he would have to go through life with a diminished ability to perceive. With all these recent discoveries however, in the field of electronics, stem cell therapy and so forth he has a chance to see properly.

The Catholic church, one of the most influential and rich organisations in the world has deemed that stem cell research is against ‘god’ and thus preventing my brother and thousands of other around the world from leading lives that most of us take for granted. So apart from all the obvious bad stuff the church has done, by restricting the scientific development of the human race they have held back people from living better than they would normally.

To that I say Fuck The Church

A Musical King of Warmth

music really is an amazing medium, it can convey so many emotions and ideas that were I to choose one entertainment for the rest of my life I would have to seriously consider giving up reading.

it is from this point of view that I have to say that music has become a festering sore on the face of human culture, occasionally it heals over when a new, decent , band makes an appearance but then bursts in a fountain of pus when a ‘new’ ‘artist’ appears.

But enough with the bodily analogies, basically I am appalled at the level to which music has become unsentimental crap that transpires to be a 2 minute song about ‘my humps’ or being ‘in da club’ it pulls at the very cords of my existence and strives to pull a deeply disturbing philosophical response screaming from my lips to wash over the untold masses of humanity and purge their souls of the fibrous rot that has infected them. But that’s neither here not there, one cannot stop this corruption of one of the most deeply and primitively powerful forces in human culture.

I ask that you, yes, you the reader take a moment to listen to something more sophisticated than ‘we dont go nowhere without toast’…….it is the only way to pull back from the lacking existence that we have decided to inhabit. To quell any protests you may have, I am not suggesting that you stop listening to the crap that so many people enjoy for some unintelligible reason but that you add into you daily musical quota something more intelligent, Stairway to Heaven for instance or even In the Court of the Crimson King

A Depressing Fugue

I just finished reading the last book in the Mortal Engines series, A Darkling Plain.  My favourite character would have to be Shrike, not just because he is an almost unstoppable killing machine but because he views the world in a detached way.

Shrike’s world view is clinical and unemotional because nothing can hurt him, in his mind anyway. This leads to Shrike drifting through the stories with only one goal in mind, to stay close to Hester, his broken child.

Shrike is a ‘Stalker’ a resurrected man, he has an exoskeleton and blades in his fingers, he is around 7 to 8 feet tall and has green eyes. Because of this he is a startling sight to people.

After the end of the final book Shrike goes into ‘Hibernation’ and sits motionless for hundreds of years, with only his brain and eyes working, until he wakes himself up in the future and encounters inhabitants of the new world, a world without traction cities…(its a long story)

this is Shrike, quite an accurate picture(and no I didn’t draw it)

The New Software

This is pretty cool, I downloaded windows mail and now I can post quickly without logging into WordPress itself, its exciting only because I’m sad.

Anyways, I believe I am stuffed, I have a major English test on Tuesday, an oral presentation, which I haven’t even written and now I have to go do Kendo till midday, wow I am stuffed….