My plan and my beliefs

Since this blog is to train me to write more I've decided to change my habits and hopefully create some good ones.

Instead of sitting down in front of the computer at 11 pm and typing for a while then going to bed at midnight I'm going to start earlier and do two parts.  Part one will be the typical posting whilst (I love that word) part two will be part of a longer and future post.

My post "Steubenville" was difficult for me to write, I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes just because I didn't want to proofread it.  When my father died I realized that my mother would be passing soon also.  I tried to write a eulogy for her but I just wanted to procrastinate on that.  Then when she did die I had a few hours to write an obituary for her, didn't quite get it done.  That made me realize that in a few years I would probably be at a funeral for one of my brothers.  I have written his eulogy and am working on his obituary but they were not quick and simple pieces for me do.

Because of the difficulty in writing these I did a puff piece after.  Hopefully doing the more intense pieces in parts will let me be happier and do better work.

And now for something completely different.

I'm an atheist.  The way I see it there are two kinds of atheists; the ones like me and the angry ones.  The angry ones also fall into two camps; arrogant pricks and the ones that secretly believe they are wrong.

If someone could prove to me that some kind of intelligent design was at work with me would I act any different?  Not really, I do reserve the right to some modifications for what flavour of designer may have created me.  If I find out that the Norse mythology is correct I will have a hammer/spear/lightning bolt engraved on my carry gun, if I ever lose sight in one eye I will wear a really cool eye patch and I will hate mistletoe.  If the Greeks were right I'm not making anyone in that pantheon mad because they were all vindictive bastards.  All in all I act in a manner that most mythologies would be copacetic with.  Now if H.P. Lovecraft was actually right, it doesn't matter what I believe because we are all SCREWED.

There is a big difference between belief and worship though.  Why should I bend the knee to someone/something that created me?  Respect is fine but not blind obedience.

Of course if the Scientology cult is correct to hell with them they just annoy me.