Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Gobbles?
Everyone should remember Gobbles as Timmy's pet turkey in the Thanksgiving South Park episode. Great episode.
Last night J and I watched the All about Mormons South Park episode, which sent us into another religion debate. I say that a belief needs at least 4 or 5 hundred years behind it before I will consider it a religion. She said that all religions started at some point and most everyone thought they were a cult. True, and the Mormons seem to be doing okay, so maybe in 200 years, they will be one of the big religions with hundreds of years of history.
But what I find so amusing is the founding of the Mormon religion. It takes a whole mess of faith, and while I do have some, I don't have enough for this story. So here goes, the history of Mormonism as told by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: (and any glaring misconceptions put forth, please let me know any Mormon readers)
Joseph Smith lived in 1830 and was visited by an angel who told him to dig in the woods to find a golden tablet and some seer stones that would help translate the strange language into english. Apparently Native Americans are actually white people from Jerusalem who came over here and lived and then were killed by the "red faced" americans and so they became the Native Americans. And Adam and Eve lived in Missouri. So he dictated the translation to a friend who was going to publish the translation. He took the pages home to his wife who said, WTF? Well if he's for real then he'll be able to duplicate these. So the guy went back to Joseph Smith and said he lost them and he needed to translate those again. Joseph said God was angry and wouldn't let him use those gold tablets again, but another set with the same general story but not exactly the same.
And that's it. But thankfully the Mormons realized that was a little strange and now teach that kindness and caring for others is how you're supposed to live. And 2 years of missionary service. And most "good Mormons" I've met have been very nice people.
But the episode ends with the Mormon boy telling Stan that he just wanted to be his friend, but Stan couldn't look past his religion. And then tells Stan to suck his balls. Great TV.
I also went over to the conference that is going on right now. It's all about thermoelectrics but another faculty member that we work with alot is in charge of it. But they have "morning break" from 7:30 to 8:30 before the talks start, so I figured I would swing by and get some "breakfast". I wasn't expecting Shoney's buffet or anything, but this was sad. Apples, oranges, pears and bananas. Some scone type things that were more like muffins and burned on the bottom. Several breakfast cakes I guess. The one I had was okay. And coffe, tea, water, V-8 (hella nasty), cranberry juice and ruby red grapefruit, of which I snagged two for lunch today, which is hot dogs if you were wondering. And blueberry fruit on the bottom yogurt.
And before I go, condolensces to Karl Mueller's family. He was the bassist for Soul Asylum and died at the age of 41 of throat cancer.
Soul Asylum bassist, Karl Mueller passed on
Anyone who doesn't know Soul Asylum, their big hit was "Runaway Train" aka one of the most overplayed songs of the early-mid 90's. But that isn't their fault. Stupid radio.
Last night J and I watched the All about Mormons South Park episode, which sent us into another religion debate. I say that a belief needs at least 4 or 5 hundred years behind it before I will consider it a religion. She said that all religions started at some point and most everyone thought they were a cult. True, and the Mormons seem to be doing okay, so maybe in 200 years, they will be one of the big religions with hundreds of years of history.
But what I find so amusing is the founding of the Mormon religion. It takes a whole mess of faith, and while I do have some, I don't have enough for this story. So here goes, the history of Mormonism as told by Trey Parker and Matt Stone: (and any glaring misconceptions put forth, please let me know any Mormon readers)
Joseph Smith lived in 1830 and was visited by an angel who told him to dig in the woods to find a golden tablet and some seer stones that would help translate the strange language into english. Apparently Native Americans are actually white people from Jerusalem who came over here and lived and then were killed by the "red faced" americans and so they became the Native Americans. And Adam and Eve lived in Missouri. So he dictated the translation to a friend who was going to publish the translation. He took the pages home to his wife who said, WTF? Well if he's for real then he'll be able to duplicate these. So the guy went back to Joseph Smith and said he lost them and he needed to translate those again. Joseph said God was angry and wouldn't let him use those gold tablets again, but another set with the same general story but not exactly the same.
And that's it. But thankfully the Mormons realized that was a little strange and now teach that kindness and caring for others is how you're supposed to live. And 2 years of missionary service. And most "good Mormons" I've met have been very nice people.
But the episode ends with the Mormon boy telling Stan that he just wanted to be his friend, but Stan couldn't look past his religion. And then tells Stan to suck his balls. Great TV.
I also went over to the conference that is going on right now. It's all about thermoelectrics but another faculty member that we work with alot is in charge of it. But they have "morning break" from 7:30 to 8:30 before the talks start, so I figured I would swing by and get some "breakfast". I wasn't expecting Shoney's buffet or anything, but this was sad. Apples, oranges, pears and bananas. Some scone type things that were more like muffins and burned on the bottom. Several breakfast cakes I guess. The one I had was okay. And coffe, tea, water, V-8 (hella nasty), cranberry juice and ruby red grapefruit, of which I snagged two for lunch today, which is hot dogs if you were wondering. And blueberry fruit on the bottom yogurt.
And before I go, condolensces to Karl Mueller's family. He was the bassist for Soul Asylum and died at the age of 41 of throat cancer.
Soul Asylum bassist, Karl Mueller passed on
Anyone who doesn't know Soul Asylum, their big hit was "Runaway Train" aka one of the most overplayed songs of the early-mid 90's. But that isn't their fault. Stupid radio.
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