One Month

Today might seem a very special post.

I'd like to start with a couple movies.

Spirited Away is the first.  The preview is dubbed in English, but I fully recommend watching the movie with the English subtitles instead.  When I watched this movie I really wasn't quite sure what to expect. I completely understood why it is one of the highest rated anime films after watching it.  It's phenomenal.  If you like magic and mystery and love and adventure then you'll like this.

Howl's Moving Castle is the second.  It is also made by the same director as Spirited Away.  Again the trailer is in English, but I really urge you to watch it with English subtitles.  It just gives you a better idea of the voices of the characters and everything.  This movie is amazing too.  It had me laughing and crying (good tears) and completely sucked in.

Here is a comic strip that I found to be really profound and think that everyone should give it a look.  It's a touch long, but totally worth the read.
A Day at the Park

There is this page on Facebook that I have recently been turned on to.  It's called "fundies say the darnedest things" and it's essentially just posts of found statuses made my hyper religious people. It's pretty funny.  Mostly the posts just make me sad and despair for humanity, but the comments give me my hope back.  What I have come to find the most consistently true is the amount of blind, questionless faith these "fundies" have.  It's like they think asking questions is wrong and should never be done.  They have been raised in a time warp of Christianity that is unchanging and therefore not really relevant in our world.  Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with religion.  We all need ways to cope with our lives and ways to answer questions and something to have hope in.  For some, like me, we get hope from ourselves and the world around us the just the simple joy of being able to experience this little life while we can no matter what it means in the future.  For others, it's the need to feel part of something much bigger.  What I don't agree with is mindless belief in something that you 1) don't really understand yourself and 2) condemn the rest of the world for not following. My biggest beef with most religions is that they don't allow for adaptation or change within it's worshiping population.  We are not our ancestors.  We have different ideas, different needs, different rights, way more people, and a hell of a lot more problems.  We amend the constitution all the time (as one example being as I am American) but we look at a bible created thousands of years ago and still expect it to have our best interests in mind.  I know, I know, "But Mav, the bible is divinely written" blah blah blah.  Having divine inspiration does not make it written by Christ.  People are divinely inspired all the time.  Usually they are standing on street corners telling us to repent.  Do we listen to them? What also makes me smile about the comments on this page is that the non-"fundies" (rationals, radicals, smart people) in most cases have a much better understanding of what is actually written in the bible or what laws there are that should be followed.  It shows me that being raised in this non-questioning group they really don't know what they are talking about.  They have never taken the time to have their own questions answered, to seek the truth.  Searching for truth doesn't make you less of a believer, it just makes you smart.  I also learned that everything that they don't believe is Satan.  This is coming from people who supposedly "follow" (even though I'm pretty sure they just use Christianity as an excuse to be bigoted) a man's ideals that included hanging out with seedy people and loving them just the same.  Of every religion, I think Christianity is the pushiest. They just want to shove it down everyone's throat.  Like on Orange is the New Black....and that didn't end well for her.

Breathe Me by Sia
This song is really good and I really enjoy the artistic style of the video.

Patiently,
Mav

30 days O_O


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