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A new couple just had their first child, a baby boy, and were extremely excited to go through all the new ordeals of parenthood. They greatly anticipated moments like the first time he would crawl, the first time he would walk, and the first time he would speak. As the months went on, the baby aged and went through all the usual stages of baby-hood. He crawled like no other, and once he started walking they could barely keep up with him. However, a year passed and he hadn’t said a single word. The parents asked their doctor and she told them it was normal for some children not to begin speaking until they were as old as 2 years. The terrible-twos hit with not even a whimper. The doctor continued to reassure them that there was nothing wrong with their child but they grew worried. Years passed and still not a peep. Then on his sixth birthday he looked down at his chocolate ice cream and said, “I don’t like chocolate ice cream. I prefer vanilla.” The parents were flabbergasted! “Why haven’t you spoken before?” they asked. He replied, “Everything was fine until now.”

Okay, so it’s been over a month since I’ve updated this site… for those of you who have been patiently waiting for my promised updates: sorry. Of course, since I assume this list is rather small, I hope that it has not horribly tarnished my reputation (such as it is).

When I see all the horrific things some people get away with, I sometimes tell myself, “at least they have to answer to a higher power someday” (which is somewhat ironic when you take into account that I consider myself an atheist). If death is as unfair as life, I must conclude there is no hell.

I believe that organized religion is just an elaborate version of the lie that is Santa Claus–just a ploy to get us all to behave. Religion assumes that we cannot think for ourselves or have any concept of what is “right” or “wrong”. I must concede this is incredibly insightful for those who propagated the narrow-minded doctrine that make up today’s “accepted” religions–most people cannot think for themselves. So they tell people what they should avoid doing (like killing other people and other such “immoral” things) so they don’t spend all the time after they’ve “died” suffering and continuously burning (how does that even work?) in a place where all the bad people go. I mean, I wouldn’t want to spend eternity in a place like that, would you?

Luckily (or unluckily, perhaps), the only hell I believe in is the hell we create for ourselves in life. The one thing keeping me from fully testing this theory is the idea that life is better than death. I have no evidence to support this belief, but it’s too much of a risk to test otherwise.

Perhaps I just need something to distract me from all this (whilst I sit here listening to “Radio Towers” by Gritty Kitty alone at 3:00 am on a Saturday night/Sunday morning).