I'm Back

First, I'd like to thank those of you who continue to encourage me to blog. It's been a crazy three months at work, but things have now returned to normal. For some reason, I find that I enjoy blogging. I rarely go back and read my posts, so I guess I'm just venting.

At the beginning of the year I created a second blog that was going to be more personal, like a journal. Then I created a secret third blog, were I was going to reminisce about old girlfriends and stuff. But, yesterday, I killed them both. I decided that I like my Goose persona. I'm just this curious guy, going through life and trying to figure it all out. Yeah, that's me. It's therapy – my therapy.

I'm not sure if I'll post links to Facebook very often. My relatives are conservative Christians, and when I question and push the window, well, they just think I'm some wild heathen. It gets awkward at family gatherings. It's no fun being an outcast. It's better to just conform to the dominant culture and just ride life out.

Politics

The Republican primary keeps me depressed and sad. The candidates have gone into outer space. It's like we are going back in time, to some make-believe better era that never was. The candidates follow the conservative and Christian slate, which is to deny global warming, keep gays in the closet, and battle for uterus control. I personally find the Republican Party absolutely disgusting. It is a perverted marriage of greedy capitalists and pious, self-righteous Christians. What a totally fucked up coalition. What doesn't matter is that the example set by Jesus Christ doesn't appear to match the capitalist agenda, but that is a minor detail that is brushed under the table.

The Dome

If I had to choose the biggest problem facing humanity, I would say it's our ability to create our own little worlds and make them our reality, no matter how bizarre they are. For instance, you can be a Mormon and never question the fact that the Book of Mormon is a cheesy rip of the Old Testament. That simply doesn't matter.

Or Newt Gingrich making videos talking about how we can drill our way out of the energy crises, which is both fantasy and doesn't take into account GLOBAL WARMING, which is simply one of those "liberal issues."

Or people who stuff cigarettes in their mouths all day, thinking it won't really hurt them, or they will quit just in time before the health problems start.

Or the alcoholics who justify taking one more drink, even though their pancreas and liver are fried.

The most amazing dome of all are the people who tell me the world, heck, the entire universe, is 6,000 years old. The evidence is overwhelming that the universe is billions of years old, but that doesn't matter to those who live in religious, denial fantasyland. Or, as some Christians used to tell me, "the length of God's days may be longer than our days." Hmmmm. Maybe heaven is rotating around the universe.