Religion Thoughts
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How can people look at others with different beliefs and somehow through the reading of their own preferable text justify superiority? If god created us then he must be present in each and every one of us. Why do we look to the bible to find answers when the answers are written in the DNA and lives of everyone around us? I'm certainly not against looking to the bible for answers but those answers are transitory at best. If you were god, would you create a mysticism so confusing that it would create 50 different factions to understand it? Would you create a son to be a savior to all of humanity and have him not write one word concerning salvation but leave the task of documenting to his followers and the followers of his followers long after the fact? I think this life can be so harsh that its very easy to understand anyone trying to paint a blissful picture of the afterlife. What I don't understand is the rules it takes to get to this supposed afterlife. Live like an animal and ask for forgiveness and pretend to believe and you have a hall pass. I for one like the idea of the hall pass, but is that real? Its very easy to look at text and find many meanings. Is this good or bad? If you were god would you want the answers written in text? If you spoke a sentence to me would you want me to understand it or try to untangle some kind of mystery? It would also be easy to control people with the fear of hell and I can't think of a more cruel idea than that. If you think you are god .....you might just find 100,000 people ready to listen to your godlike ideas and make you rich. I guess I don't have issues if people find peace from religion but for those that want to control, judge and implant fear of hell and reign all knowing....I do have issues.

1 Year

1 year this week...I arrived in Carson City with my shit. I would like to thank the people who helped me get here and the people who helped me get going. You know who you are. I'm not sure if it feels fast or slow but today I was talking to someone from work and she mentioned it seemed like I had been there forever. Hopefully that's good. I feel lucky on many accounts. The economy made my idea of finding a job scary had I not found this job with a little help from my friend(Jeff). I'm working hard, riding hard, laughing hard and still wondering hard. Wherever you go, there you are. Stupid but so true. 1 big spin cycle but now at least my blankets aren't all on the same side of the washer so things spin a little more freely. I really can't say I miss anything on a large scale because as it turns out most of us are trying so hard to survive that the miss instinct gets buried. I miss many little things. A lot of my friends have fallen out of touch but hopefully not forever. No fault of mine or theirs as I would like to believe.

http://eerygurl.blogspot.com/2008/03/last-leg-carson-city-bound.html

http://blaascott.blogspot.com/2008/03/moved.html

Had to add a recent pic. Yesterdays lunch ride...............

Raw

I feel raw. Not bad, not good just raw. Nothing new as far as feeling but I thought I'd post a picture of raw and just say it. Raw happens when for good or bad you have to defend your position over and over. It starts usually over bigger things and then amplifies over little things that will make it stink even worse. I back into my parking spot and the wind chime bitch has a year old grudge over my disapproval of her man made noise stuck in a tree in this wind swept place. She sneers at me and I sneer back but soon I'm gonna ask her whats up. But I won't let my raw comments creep into other things that I could easily attack her with just because I'm feeling raw. Even though I'm raw I'll still order a California Roll instead of real raw. I would just like to define it as being in a state where your filter isn't quite there but you're also not aggressive. Fuck the tulips and bring the sushi.

lunch in early march

Today as I went to work it was dark and raining. In the 10 mins it takes to get to work it was snowing and by 11:30 the roads were dry and it was sunny. So I headed out with J-Mo and Big Jon. A few pics taken from my old failing camera. It put the effects on these pics all by itself.

few more pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/srussel459/2009LunchRideMarch3#