on the subject of truth, assassinations and false prophets.

wow good to see there have been heaps of posts since i was last on the internet. congrats guys, your all a really hard working bunch. but seriously, everyone except for bilby needs to post some more stuff. especially you, cornflake! and dont go on about how shit everything you could post iis about. talk about simon! or something else interesting. who knows maybe you could write a post or two about that lovely dad of yours :)

well its been an interesting week. i finally met lorna! (sorry if i mis-spelled that) she is completely different to what i was expecting. she is really small, wich i kinda knew from everyone else, but still..... she's tiny! she seems really quiet as well, but that might have been that everyone else was just overly loud. yea thats probably the answer. she has a scottish accent, but its not as strong as i imagined, but again i didnt actually hear her talk all that much, so for all i know she could sound worse than mr meekle........shudder.

looks wise, she's very pretty. in fact probably more pretty than i imagined as well. she also looks different than i imagined in my minds eye. but then no-one really told me what she looked like other than "she's really small, and really cute". well anyway she seems to be a very cool and nice person. well done mr bilby, you got a fine catch there.

i was watching this show on tv last night called the moment of truth. perhaps you've heard of it??? well it goes like this: these people are all hooked up to a polygraph machine and asked a few yes or no questions. they can be on any subject, and they get progressively more personal. well then they get the person in front of a live studio audience and they have to answer all the questions truthfully in front of their friends, family, and the american nation. they can win up to $500,000 if they answer all 21 questions truthfully. sounds like a bit of fun.

so there i was, reading on the massive couch at about 11:30, when everyone else had gone to bed, and this show comes on tv called the moment of truth. iv never seen it before, but im pretty sure iv heard something about how it works. its something to do with answering questions truthfully, right??? so anyway they got this guy up and asked him some questions. it started out allright, just a bit of fun. but then the questions started getting more and more personal. the guy used to have a gambling problem, so they started asking "do you still gamble? do you see yourself as a dissapointment to your dad? have you ever lost more than $10,000 in one night of gambling?" well the guys dad had enough of this, so he pressed the button. the person who is answering the questions has their family and friends up on stage with them on a big couch, and if theres a question they dont want to hear the answer to, then they press this button, and they go to another question. but: the button can only be pressed once. so the dad pressed it, and they stopped asking him about his gambling.

by now i was thinking, this is different to what i expected. the guy was visibly upset, with all this talk of his gambling past. so they changed the topic of his questions......to his sex life. now keep in mind his girlfriend is sitting on the couch with his family and best friend. again, it didnt start out too bad, but it got really bad. they ended up asking "could you see yourself having kids with your girlfriend? do you think you could ever be faithful to just one woman? have you ever been paid for sex?" i mean, i suppose the guy's partially to blame, they were his truthful answers, (no, no, and yes, in that order, if you want to know) but by the time he decided to quit and leave with his money, his girlfriend was nearly in tears, and his mother and father were visibly upset as well.

after that, they called in this woman. again, didnt start out too badly. "do you think women envy your beauty? would you be upset if your kids inherited your fathers red hair?" and others i cant remember. it was pretty late by then, or early, depending on how you look at it. but again it got worse. by the time the episode finished, she had been asked, "do you find it tough sometimes to stay faithful to your husband? have you ever fantasised about soemone else during sex with your husband? have you ever had sex with a married man?" and then, the half a million question: do you ever regret marrying your husband? her husband, by this time, looked like he was gonna kill himself or something. she was visibly upset as well. but she answered truthfully none the less. i know what the answer is, but your all gonna have to watch it next week, cause thats when they show it. i heard they got divorced after that.

every time someone answered a question truthfully, the audience would aplaud. and i sat there thinking: are they aplauding the person for being honest, or the fact that they did something like getting paid for sex or sleeping with a married man? i dont know really. then i got to thinking: why would that woman throw away her marriage like that for half a million dollars? does human greed really steep that low? the answer of course is yes. greed is everywhere, and almost everything is governed by it. god bless humanity, we fuck up everything.

moving on, speaking ov governing, i was reading a very interesting short story yesterday. its called the children of bable, and its one of clive barkers books of blood stories. in the story, this woman accidentally stumbles upon this place in the wilderness, and they hold her against her will because there is stuff there that she cant know about. she later discovers that the worlds most brilliant minds, in the form of these 5 old people, are living there, and given the task of deciding every major decision in the world, from who gets ellected, to the outcomes of wars, and even the expansion of things like a country's borders. the old people have been deciding world events for so long, they've become bored with it, and they play games to decide what happens in the world, like flipping a coin, rock paper scissors, and the favourite, frog racing! the woman is quite shocked to discover every majour decission in the world for the last 10 years has been decided by chance. so she and the old people escape, but theres a car crash and the old people die.

when the woman comes to, she's looking at all these computer screens, showing the rooms of every prime minister, president, king, and whatnot in the world, and because its been several days since they recieved any orders and decissions, they are going quite spastic. the man who runs the place sais that the people on the screens in front of her couldnt run a circus, let alone a country, and the woman, looking at them, decides there is not a face among them she would trust either. so she sits down with the one old person who didnt die in the car crash (because he didnt want to escape), and starts racing frogs with him, for the rest of her life.

it was a brilliant story, and one i probably could imagine happening in our world. why do you think there have already been several plots un-earthed to assassinate obama??? because he thinks for himself. and almost every other pollitical figure who has thought for themselves has been assassinated. martin luther king jr, jfk, lincoln, even john lennon. and thinking back on it, i dont really think i would trust any current world leader (short of obama) to make any important decision.

christmas is aproaching. horay. answer me this: is anyone honestly looking forward to it this year??? i am not, to be perfectly honest. why, do you ask??? because in my oppinion, christmas is the lonliest day of the year. you get all these presents, all this nice food, a day off from work... and you have to spend it with your family. i dont want to spend any more time with my family than i have to. i would much rather spend it with my friends. but christmas is the one day of the year were parents say no, this is a family day. and why? because their celebrating the birth of someone who never even existed. the one day of the year i want more than anything to be around my friends, and i cant because the whole world has been duped into believing and worshipping the supposed birth of a complete fucking lie! and why do i have to spend it with my family anyway??? what has family got to do with anything??? my only real family are my friends, and i only ever feel at home when im with them. but clearly family comes above happiness. as does everything in the world. happiness is only a by-product of some of the things that go on around us, and no-one really cares in the grand scale of things if people are happy, so long as they are of course.

happy fucking holidays, everyone!