RED ALERT!
Dec. 24th, 2003 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transomwhiplassMy siblings broke their Game Cube. Without electronic distraction there is now massive unrest in the ranks. Boredom and focus on each other (rather than the television) has combined to form one ridiculous battle after another ("HEY! Stop looking at me funny!" ::KICK::). Send me emergency rations and reinforcements, the war has begun! OH GOD.. DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE.. RETREAT, RETREAT!
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I found out we are going to mass at Strake this year, oh joy. I guess it is for the best, St. Cecilia's has become so blind with greed for additional parishioners that it has forgotten two simple words - "EXCESS CAPACITY." We got shoved into overflow last year, it made me wonder if it was some how a less authentic mass since it didn't take place in the church, rather, in the community center. Oh well, I hope it isn't 3 hours long and the priest doesn't do the gospel about "Behezelbub begat Jerimazah who begat Frahabazith," then act like he just did us a favor by pronouncing all those names for a half an hour. A St. Cecilia's priest did and called it "a Christmas gift," I thought gospels typically had some sort of moral or thought you could carry with you - I guess I'm a horrible person but the genealogy of Christ doesn't do much for my soul.
Honestly, I don't think I would rather have one of those horrible, soul rotting consumer Christmas's totally detached from religion all together. Despite my current skepticism in Christianity, I do think I will "see the light" or something in the future. I do tend to worry that doing something like celebrating Christmas Christ-free would be too awful a thing to do to ever achieve salvation, even as a non-believer or member of another religion. Maybe a Pagan Christmas would be fun; sacrificing a goat, praising the trees, running around almost naked.. haha. Somehow I don't see it happening, I mean.. where do you get a goat so last minute?
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I found out we are going to mass at Strake this year, oh joy. I guess it is for the best, St. Cecilia's has become so blind with greed for additional parishioners that it has forgotten two simple words - "EXCESS CAPACITY." We got shoved into overflow last year, it made me wonder if it was some how a less authentic mass since it didn't take place in the church, rather, in the community center. Oh well, I hope it isn't 3 hours long and the priest doesn't do the gospel about "Behezelbub begat Jerimazah who begat Frahabazith," then act like he just did us a favor by pronouncing all those names for a half an hour. A St. Cecilia's priest did and called it "a Christmas gift," I thought gospels typically had some sort of moral or thought you could carry with you - I guess I'm a horrible person but the genealogy of Christ doesn't do much for my soul.
Honestly, I don't think I would rather have one of those horrible, soul rotting consumer Christmas's totally detached from religion all together. Despite my current skepticism in Christianity, I do think I will "see the light" or something in the future. I do tend to worry that doing something like celebrating Christmas Christ-free would be too awful a thing to do to ever achieve salvation, even as a non-believer or member of another religion. Maybe a Pagan Christmas would be fun; sacrificing a goat, praising the trees, running around almost naked.. haha. Somehow I don't see it happening, I mean.. where do you get a goat so last minute?
