Just Watched Legion, and Before I Know It, I'm Writing a Super Long Rant About Religion

Legion is a movie about God exterminating humans in the present day because he had enough of us sucking. Again. When I started watching it, I was expecting like a war movie with the main character from Avatar, because I got Legion mixed up with Clash of the Titans, I think. You could imagine my confusion as I was watching this English guy kill demons in present day New York. I was like wait, this is gonna be like a time travel movie, where demons form an army and fight the Avatar guy? Kinda funny. Anyway, I ended up not liking the movie. It did start making me think about religion though, so here's to my first post of the new year!
So in the movie, God is exterminating mankind with angels. Satan and demons never come into play. God orders his army of angels to kill everybody, but very specifically a white trash girl's baby, because it's the hope for all mankind. So, God doesn't want a couple humans staying alive like roaches and starting over again, he wants every last hope for humans to be gone. And the only angel who disagrees with this is Michael, who disobeys God and starts killing the angels that are posessing weak-willed humans, who are then killing all the strong-willed humans who have to be physically killed, because they're too good of people to just be possessed by angels.
I definitely have a problem with that. The only person in heaven that said, "God, this is wrong," was Michael. And in the end, spoiler alert, Michael ends up dying defending the white trash baby, going back to heaven, and then coming back as an angel again and saving mankind because God saw the light, and realized he should keep humans around.
In all seriousness, I thought it was kind of a cool movie until that happened. God is God. He is omniscient, he created existence and knows what is going to happen and every detail about every single person, like Santa Clause. But when God goes around killing people, there is one merciful angel who says, "God, there is still hope for mankind. Look, these people are good." God's like, "No I don't care, I want everybody dead, including that white trash baby." And then Michael dies for mankind, goes back to heaven, and God's like, "You know what Michael, I guess you were right. That mechanic is a really good guy. And so was Tyrese, he died trying to save a little kid. Go save that white trash baby." Boom, everything's OK. So fucking stupid.
First of all, God, you made everything and every person. You're omniscient (you know exactly what every single person you make is going to do, and how they're going to turn out), so why would you just kill all those people in the first place? Second of all, I understand that people are shitty. I honestly think there are more shitty people than good people. So if you're going to kill every single human, fine. But don't stop halfway and say, "Oh shoot, I just can't kill the good ol' southern folk, they're just so friendly." Like after that, all the humans are gonna be like "Yay! We can live again, God is so good!" But he was going to kill you! How can you go back to worshiping the dick who ruined life as humans knew it? In the end, the white trash baby was alive, thanks to Michael telling God to fuck off, so awesome, everything's good. Dumb.
That being said, I would just like to say that everybody can believe whatever they want, I don't care. If you're happy and it's not hurting the happiness of others, go for it. But I have a problem with the apocalypse prophecy in Christianity. It's like if some parents had like 40 kids and 35 of them turned out really bad, like murderers, rapists, thieves, Scientologists, and then the parents just kill all those kids. But everybody's cool with it, because they were super bad kids. That's bullshit though, if you made those shitty kids, they're your responsibility, and the fact is, you probably raised them to be shitty kids.
So fuck the apocalypse, God made everybody knowing how everybody would turn out, if he's not happy with it, it's his own damn fault. And don't tell me we all have free will, I know that. God gave us free will and he knew exactly what we would do with it.
Everybody should just stop being shitty people, that's the whole point of the apocalypse story.

Holiday Advertisements

I was just remembering last night how every year Heineken has that holiday 5-pack commercial where the guy has a 6-pack wrapped up and take one of them out of the wrapping. They've played that commercial probably since I was like 10. That's about 11 years of the same commercial.
Just today, I saw that Budweiser commercial with the horse and buggy going through a snowy neighborhood and people are humming some Christmasy tune in the background. I don't even know what song it is. But that commercial is probably older than the Heineken one.
But I think the most interesting company is Garmin. Every ad I've seen from that company uses the tune of "Carol of the Bells," which is one of the few Christmas songs I could actually listen to and not get tired of it after hearing it once in the mall. A couple others are "White Christmas," and sadly, "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
I think the weird thing is that Christmas is obviously very commercialized...and I like that it's commercialized. If it were a holiday exclusively for followers of Jesus, Christmas would be a lame holiday because everybody sucks at following the word of The Bible (I'm just kind of assuming that following The Bible is following Jesus, but I think a lot of Christians are being more lenient with that, so who even knows what a Christian is anymore).
So, I think that Christians need to chill with the "reason for the season" stuff. Yeah, we get it. "Christ" is in the name. We know. But I also want to point out, and this is probably well known by now, that Christmas should actually be in June or July, I don't know which of those months Jesus was born in. So in fact, the reason for the season is Winter is a really good time to see your family and friends and give and receive presents. Accept the commercialism. It's family, friends, and presents that make the holiday cool. We should adopt a policy to separate church and Christmas in addition to church and state. I'm sorry but the church makes everything controversial.

So I Got In A Car Accident, That Was Crazy

Having an experience that makes you examine your life is always worth talking about. The whole ordeal happened so fast, it doesn't seem like it actually happened. Looking back, I was conscious of my surroundings, aware of what was going on, then there's this rough patch of about 2 hours during my Los Angeles vacation where I don't know exactly what happened, except that I was in a car accident.
The feeling is a lot like coming home on a plane from a long vacation, and you know that your home, but it doesn't feel like you're home because you got home so quickly on the plane. Does anyone else feel that?
It just seems weird that my friends are in the hospital, I got messed up, my life kind of changed, all in a matter of seconds of being hit by a car. I say that my life has changed just because of the perspective I now have. And it's not much of a change, it's just this: I now realize that dying isn't necessarily that bad. It could be over before you know it. But the part about dying that sucks is leaving behind everybody you love.
To everybody I love, you make life worth living.

Contingency

Ironically, and in direct relation to my last blog, this thought was brought on by the class I hate most this semester. In my philosophy class, my teacher said that something was contingent on something else, and then explained what contingency is. I guess something that is contingent exists only due to certain circumstances that allowed that thing to exist. So we're all contingent because our parents all did it and made us. And so much stuff is contingent on something else. Computers are contingent on the fact that electricity was made, and electricity is contingent on Benjamin Franklin. I just thought it was crazy how such a bland sounding word could be pretty and mind blowing, for me at least.

...please keep in mind I realize how weird this post is.

Creation of Blogflection

Why does almost everyone hate school? More specifically, college. And I'm talking about the actual classes, not the debauchery that happens outside of school.I hate school. All of my friends hate school. Most of the people I've ever talked to at least don't like school. Is it because school is just relearning things we've learned in high school or earlier? I don't think so, because most people like doing things over and over if they like them...we just don't like school. So the root of school sucking is not that it is the same thing year after year. I think it's because everybody thinks everybody else is retarded. I think that 2 of my 5 professors are retarded. I only like 2 of them. That leaves one in the middle of the spectrum, who I don't happen to like, she's just not retarded. So if this sample were to be representative of all colleges, that would be 40% of college professors in the United States that seem to be retarded.
The thing is, I am really mediocre at doing my job, too. Waiting tables isn't my thing. I am planning on a career change, hopefully very soon. People must be thinking, why is this guy waiting tables? He's clearly awkward when talking to us, he says the same thing over and over again, and he's just going through the motions.
Sounds like some professors I know. All I'm saying is, we should find people to teach classes that aren't a product of mundane schoolwork out of overpriced textbooks and writing essays about obscure research topics. In my opinion, professors should be more like monks, living and breathing what they teach. Either that or just more specialized training would be nice.