The Cynic Says……

I think Christmas sucks… I hate the fact that nothing is open on x-mas, frankly… I think if you’re a big enough fucking piece of shit loser that you have to work at McDonald’s, then no one should care if you get Christmas off to spend with your equally worthless shit family. I have to work both Christmas Eve & Christmas… along with New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day. I don’t really give two shits about working on x-mas, but working New Year’s Eve and Day both just guarantees that I’ll walk into work hungover like a motherfucker. Oh, well… I’m not letting work interfere with my New Year’s celebration. Christmas is going to suck as usual, to be honest. Hopefully we won’t be busy like we were for a good part of today. Apparently, Dec 24th is a huge shipping day for UPS because everybody and their fucking grandmothers got their shit today and wants it installed ASAP. I thought the Christmas holiday was supposed to be for spending time with family and all that happy assed horseshit! Why in the hell are you calling me wanting to setup an appointment to have your stupid DirecTV system installed then? Oh, well… just another point that I don’t see any point in Christmas… It’s not like it’s Christ’s birthday or anything… The only thing of historical significance that happened on Dec 25th was the magi arriving bearing gifts. Jesus was born on Sept 11th, to be exact; that’s kinda fucked up simply because of what happened on Sept 11th a few years ago. However, that would totally make sense as fundamentalist Muslims don’t much care for the Western christian way of life. At any rate, the reason behind Christmas even being celebrated when it is, was that back when it was decided to celebrate it, they were also trying fairly hard to convert much of the Pagan population over to Christianity. Pagans celebrate Yule (Winter Equinox) at almost the same time (Dec 22nd) and so having a holiday that nearly coincided with theirs of course would have made the “transition” to Christianity much easier due to not having to deviate from one’s already set holidays. The same can be said for Easter, of course; again planned around the Pagan holiday of Ostara (Spring Equinox). Need I say more? I’m done ranting about Christmas for now, but feel free to IM me or email me if you’d really like to get into any sort of in-depth debate about the validity (or lack thereof) of the Christian religion. At any rate, some really interesting reading can be found at www.wage-slave.org. I absolutely hate Bush and everything he stands for… He is quite possibly the biggest fuck-up we’ve had in office since I can remember. His dad wasn’t really any better, frankly. I just hope we can get a democrat back in office before we end up pissing off every single other country on earth. Thankfully, he has just under a year left in office… and if I know him, he’s going to try and pass some seriously bullshit laws right before he goes out just to make our next president’s life a living hell. Our next few years should be quite interesting to say the least. Heh… that’s all for that rant… now for a few random things to throw out…. One, I kinda sorta had a date yesterday, I guess. This girl I’ve been talking to online and I went out to dinner at Calhoun’s and it was pretty good. Nothing really noteworthy went on. She’s a pretty nice girl and all… extremely tall, at about 6′1, but she’s pretty good looking. I don’t get the idea that she’s really all that interested in me, which is fine. I’ve never really been one to get all bent outta shape over a girl. It’s just the way I am. I’m me and if she doesn’t like me, oh fucking well. Maybe I’ve just not met the right girl, I dunno. I just can’t seem to come across any girl intriguing enough to capture my attention long enough to flip out over. I guess what I really expect most from a girl is to be incredibly intelligent. I just can’t stand a girl who can’t sit down and engage in an in-depth discussion about why George Bush sucks (or doesn’t suck, depending on your point of view), religion, or any other discussion topic that requires an actual brain. I also don’t much care for girls who can’t differentiate between too, to, and two. I don’t dig improper grammar too much in general.. bad spelling is yucky as well, but I can put up with it. Yes, I’m picky but there’s NOTHING I can’t stand more than having to dumb down my conversations around girls (or just people in general). I don’t deal too well with people of lower intellectual level than me. Case in point, I was having a discussion about Kid Rock and his lack of talent… and this particular female said the following of Kid Rock, “He sings good”. Just hearing those 3 words together made me want to just scream. If anyone has no idea what’s wrong with that sentence… I feel sorry for you. Needless to say, things like that are my biggest pet peeves. Even more amusing was when that very same person tried to say that she knew more about Christmas than one of my friends, yet did NOT know that Dec 25th was not the actual birthdate of Christ… that didn’t even piss me off, that just almost made me piss myself laughing, to be honest. Any self-respecting Christian should know this fact, it’s pretty well-known to every major denomination of Christianity. But hey, whatever; I’ve come to the realization that not EVERYONE can be of a useful intelligence level. I suppose we need some idiots on earth to balance things out. Just sucks that I happen to run into so damn many of them. Then again, the fact that Bush got elected is proof in and of itself that society is dominated by the idiots. And on that note, I’m out… time to go do other stuff like play games or something.