Finally, it becomes clear; they had released the super-deluxe-edition-thingy of GHOSTBUSTERS I & II earlier this summer/late-spring of this year in Australia, but I'd heard nothing of weather or not plans were being made to release it in the USA. Well, now it's pending pre-order on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Ghostbusters-1-Giftset-Bill-Murray/dp/B002J4KQ6I/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_3
It's coming out in Oct, which I thought was fairly likely, ya know; ghosts/Halloween...so I wasn't too terribly shocked that I hadn't seen it on Amazon for pre-order until now, although I hope I can actually order it by August, since most other products can be pre-ordered 2+ months in advance...
I would celebrate by popping in my currently-owned DVD of GHOSTBUSTERS, but A) I just saw it a few days ago and B) I'm lazy and C) I'm not sure I can sit through the whole thing, so what's the point?
My mother will hopefully be awake within less than an hour, maybe we can go to Starbucks...with her $ (sigh).
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
small mind in a small world
I was searching for some item that has the first two words consisting of "you can", and, as usual, Amazon (where I was doing the search) came up with the top results as I was typing, and one of the items was "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence But You Can't Make Him Think", which I knew from personal experience was a contradiction and a half, and I was tempted to ignore it, but curiosity got the best of me. I looked at the reviews, 2 1/2 average, the "featured" review (most helpful) pointed at least half a dozen major flaws with the book, most if not all of them centered on the fundamental flaw of misunderstanding. The guy makes up the same types of lies about atheists that a racist makes up about people outside his/her race. For instance, he claims atheists don't believe in God b/c it makes it easier for them to live amoral lives. This is total b.s. on several marks; firstly, what exactly does "moral"/"amoral" mean? If he's talking about sex, like most people do when they say "moral" or any word stemming from that word, then he must be under the delusion that Christians are all sex-free until marriage and don't watch porn...MORE Americans watch porn than SPORTS! Who doesn't understand how integral sports is to this country? I HATE sports yet its always been obvious to me how important it is to this nation, millions of dollars spent/invested on "school spirit", at the cost of academics and sometimes human lives. If anything, personally, I think the # of viewers of porn vs. sports ratio has shifted since being a barbaric cavedummy has become less popular than it used to be. Barbaric cavedummy's are still everywhere, and fortunately this economy still and probably will for a long time have a place for such anti-thinking-men/women. BUT AS I WAS SAYING, the reason I brought up the porn vs. sports ratio thing is b/c YOU GOTTA be lying through your teeth when/if telling me that Christians don't watch porn. As for pre-marital and other kinds of sex aside from with spouse, I really don't have that much knowledge on the subject.
I bring this book up not to bash it in particular, but to reflect on my vulnerability to Christianity. My mother and likeminded people keep introducing these ideas that make it seem as if Christianity and science could go hand in hand if scientists were willing to let it. Lots of books, some probably more well written & thought out than the aforementioend one, talk about such ideas, even a film featuring Bill Stein was successful in talking about those kinds of ideas. However, what I find most disturbing about these people is that, at the core, they don't care about science and have a limited knowledge of it. They will always believe that there is one and only one source of knowledge worth looking towards and it seems almost psychotic that they scoff at the world around them for not doing the same.
As for my knowledge, I don't have a whole lot on any one topic to dance to victory with. My brain is rather limited in its ability to process information, mainly b/c I don't exercise it enough. I obsess over the same small details, sometimes entire (small) ideas, but I don't study anything in depth and learn from it. Even the topics I'm interested in, like music and other media/art, I can only learn so much before it all starts to sound the same.
So if i ever "break free" from my atheism, it probably won't be very soon from now.
I bring this book up not to bash it in particular, but to reflect on my vulnerability to Christianity. My mother and likeminded people keep introducing these ideas that make it seem as if Christianity and science could go hand in hand if scientists were willing to let it. Lots of books, some probably more well written & thought out than the aforementioend one, talk about such ideas, even a film featuring Bill Stein was successful in talking about those kinds of ideas. However, what I find most disturbing about these people is that, at the core, they don't care about science and have a limited knowledge of it. They will always believe that there is one and only one source of knowledge worth looking towards and it seems almost psychotic that they scoff at the world around them for not doing the same.
As for my knowledge, I don't have a whole lot on any one topic to dance to victory with. My brain is rather limited in its ability to process information, mainly b/c I don't exercise it enough. I obsess over the same small details, sometimes entire (small) ideas, but I don't study anything in depth and learn from it. Even the topics I'm interested in, like music and other media/art, I can only learn so much before it all starts to sound the same.
So if i ever "break free" from my atheism, it probably won't be very soon from now.
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