Experience at a Christian Event

This post is a little bit different. Instead of writing it when I am high and elaborating on it on the other blog, I'm just going to write it sober on this blog. It would be silly to write it on the elaboration.

Just to set the whole situation, me and my friend got high and went to this christian event. They had a major worship band and my favorite speaker of all time. However, I am not going to be naming any names. All that needs to be said is that he's one of the most notable speakers in the world.

Now that you understand the situation, on to the good stuff. The experience was awesome! I enjoyed the majority of the event until it got to the invitation at the end which I knew from experience is built to draw extreme emotions out. Since I was high, there was several things that were super obvious to me. Here we go:

1.) These people are raising their hands and literally worshiping a god that they have never seen and man that lived (arguably) 2000 years ago. All that was going through my mind was how similar these worshipers are to every other "pagan" worshipper. It blows my mind to think that christians, especially in the south, are so quick to say how ridiculous these people are that worship gods that aren't theirs. The ironic thing is that they can't see that they are exactly the same as the people that worship other gods. Their hands were in the air, reaching for the sky, as if they were just trying to be closer to their creator. All the while, I'm thinking how insane this was! They are saying how much they love a person that lived 2000 years ago. Mind blowing for sure.

2. I was those people! It was totally a blast from the past. It was like I was thrown right back into the life that I lived just a few years ago. I could seemingly float back and forth between the frame of reference I had then and the one I have now. This was very cool. Some of the time I was thinking how different I was from the people that surrounded me, and some of the time I was totally feeling the emotion that surrounded the songs that were being sang. I felt very similar to how I used to, except back then I had my hands in the air with them.

3. Jesus could be the most clapped for human being of all time. I thought this was a hilarious thought....

4. There was a song that was being sang that spoke of how their god was greater and stronger...doesn't that imply the existence of other gods? This does seem to be mildly contradictory because christianity generally is of the opinion that there are/were no other gods.

5. Ninety percent of christians are full of shit and just go to church in the hopes of getting to heaven. I hate this whole insurance policy approach to christianity. With that being said, there are ten percent of them that actually believe what they are reading and try to put it into practice every day. These people are genuinely good people. I've been around a few of them in my life and its something special. A person that actually follows the moral values presented in the bible will inevitably be a good person and a person that you would want as a friend. This is assuming that they aren't trying to get you "saved" all the time.

6. Some of the people there seemed to be truly invested emotionally in the things they were singing. This is a beautiful thing. Intense emotion is something that is missed by a large percentage of the people that walk this earth. These christians seemed to be using this as an outlet to truly throw their emotions into and have them be stimulated. I mean, everything from weeping to laughing goes into this "relationship" that these people truly believe that they have with the creator of the universe. I can see why this is powerful. I know its powerful because I lived it for the majority of my life.

All in all, great experience. I'll totally do it again if I get the chance...but next time I want my phone to work so I can tweet my thoughts!

Genesis 5-6:1-8

Adam lived 930 years? Come on bro...where's the people living that long now?
God took Enoch to heaven...that's important. It only happens a couple of times throughout the entire bible.
God cursed the land.....WTF!?!?! Why would he do that?
Noah was a direct descendant of Adam. Overall, chapter 5 was pretty boring.
Chapter 6 is where things start getting interesting.
 At the first part of this chapter, God puts the cap on human life at 120 years. Random number, especially after that whole lineage of people lived to be like 900

Wickedness is all the sudden the only thing that humans were thinking about at this time. I don't fully understand, because at this point god hasn't put forth any code of mrality. So how can anything that these people do be wicked?

The Lord actually regretted/grieved his having created us!?!?! this is BS! I mean he did make us and apparently he knew this shit was gonna happen because he is the beginning and the end. Time is nothing to him.

So he's regretting that he made us and his solution is to just wipe us from the planet? This isn't a god of love, its a child getting mad at his toys.

Genesis 3

It looks like we don't have to watch the movie The Invention of Lying because we just found out. The serpent created lying in the third chapter of Genesis when he was convincing Eve to eat from the tree. It did not take much to convince Eve that God was wrong when he told her not to eat from the tree, I'm just saying. Adam didn't either. He just watches Eve eat from it without trying to talk some sense into her and then when she tells him to eat some too, he was a little bitch and did what he was told. That should say something about the power that women have over men...even when GOD tells you not to do something, if your woman tells you to do that exact same thing, you do it immediately. This is interesting because I'm pretty sure that God is supposed to be the creator of the heavens and the earth....what an idiot. This should say something about the stupidity of the human race. Even the very first members of it, the ones that populated this rock, couldn't follow one direction.
Eating this one piece of fruit fucked things up for all of us because by eating this fruit, they realized they were actually naked....WTF??
Aside: I wonder if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil actually held the knowledge of good and evil? If this is so, then there were no morals before they ate that fruit. That's the reason that its ok for them to walk around naked. Before this, nudity was ok. This is what gave nudity its wrongness. I wonder if they were covered from head to toe after they realized nudity was wrong. I say this because in different cultures and different parts of the world, different things qualify to be covered up. In africa, there are ladies walking around with their tits all out all the time. So it seems like adam and eve would have to cover themselves almost entirely to compensate for that fact.

If this tree holds knowledge, then why would God want to deprive these humans that he created from it? It would seem that if you were going to create a conscious being and give that being the ability to think freely, it would be cruel to deprive him of any knowledge. Maybe it was for a good reason…I don’t know.
Immediately, the humans start blaming other people/serpents for their fuck-ups…typical humans.
The two punishments god gave women seem a little outdated…1.) Pains during childbirth. Well, we nipped that in the bud with the advent of anesthesia. 2.) The insubordination of women below men. The nineteenth amendment and women’s rights activists have pretty much knocked that one into ineffectiveness too.
Adam’s punishment indicates farming for the earliest humans. The earliest humans were documented hunter gatherers. Farming is a relatively new thing.

Genesis 2

It's a strange thing that god got tired from creating a tiny little planet like earth and had to actually take a day off, and apparently that day was important enough to mention in the holy and perfect bible. It seems to me that a god wouldn't have the ability to get tired.
It shocks me that the term "helper" is still being used in the bible in reference to women. I don't know why those girls would beat em up. It doesn't even mention the very important fact that we as a race need women to procreate...that is a pretty interesting thing.

Genesis 1:1-8

“In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.” Was the rest of the universe separated from the earth for a reason here? For our benefit because earth is the planet we happen to be inhabiting or who happens to be reading this peace of literature?  Is earth being used as a metaphor for the universe and the heavens a metaphor for the spirit world? Is the spirit world all around us right now and we just aren’t equipped with the correct senses to be able to experience it? Maybe that is what happens when we die, the bodily five senses die and go away and our spirit is equipped with the senses needed to experience the spirit world. The next part talks about how the earth was “formless” but the goes on to describe the water on the surface of the earth as being dark and the spirit of god hovering over that water.  Now if there was water on the surface, then it seems like there must be a form to it which would contradict the former part of the paragraph. These seems like a descriptive inconsistency which “god” would never do because he/she is perfect. How can we (humans) be created in the likeness of god when he doesn’t have a form? He is a spirit I think. That’s the only way he could be in all places at one time (omnipresent). So that seems strange. God says let there be light and he saw that it was good….so he spoke it into being without knowing what it was going to be like? How could he know to speak it into being if that’s the case? Did his friend tell him? This is a little wacky.