March 21, 2008

Are you a god? So Bennett Prescott and a friend are on their way to California. Apparently, they live somewhere between the oughts and the nineties (the bad ones where the web designer didn't allow for your 19.2K modem).

Bennett's not quite as cool as Dave Rat, but he's getting there

posted by Richer 16 years ago
  • When someone asks you if you are a god, you say "YES"
  • Is it just me or is that site really obnoxious to navigate?
  • Is it just me, or is it obnoxious to base your whole attitude toward a state on the billboards you see zooming through on I-40?
  • Is it just the people who glance at me with menacing stares, or am I paranoid?
  • This is a post directed to the people of the state of Arkansas. It has been brought to my attention by, well, a number of billboards on your highways, that you people really love Jesus. Like, woah kinda love Jesus. In the way I love cigarettes. And I have to ask... Why? It appears a majority of you are poor. Poorer than folks ought to be in this day and age. And while I don’t imagine that a large portion of that has to do with religion. I am more than willing to place at least some of the blame on the religious attitude of your state. It appears your belief in God trumps the belief in yourselves to fix your own standard of life. Instead of striving to better yourselves, it appears you believe God will take care of you. Instead of using your billboards for advertising goods or services, you use it to scare passersby into considering accepting Jesus if, for no reason, other than to avoid going to hell. That, plus, I’d rather glance to the side of the road and get some feeling for the potential for siphoning wifi from a hotel off the next exit, and not consider how batshit absurd your love for The Christ is. So, I therefore have to ask, because it seems that you don’t know the difference between space reserved for advertisement for economic advancement and a pulpit for your religious beliefs, do you know the difference between your entire state, and a hole in the ground? Wow. I don't like these guys.
  • It appears your belief in God trumps the belief in yourselves to fix your own standard of life. Instead of striving to better yourselves, it appears you believe God will take care of you. It appears your own stupidity has actually amplified your own smug sense of self-worth. Instead of striving to better yourselves, it appears you're content with being a bunch of wiser-than-thou cockmouths with all the intellectual depth of the notebooks I filled with narcissistic bullshit during my sophomore year of college.
  • I'm more anti-religious than the next twenty or thirty people, but I've never reached these sort of conclusions about people or places. But anyway, a pair of wankers.
  • I'm more anti-religious than the next twenty or thirty people plus roryk. And even I would never assume that the poor themselves are collecting aluminum can deposit money in order to put up a Jesus billboard. (I assume those billboards are funded by salesmen shiny in tooth and shoe, who prey on the weak by offering them false hope for a way out of their hopeless, dead-end lives. Charismatic religions thrive in poverty-stricken areas like rats thrive in a granary.)
  • Yeah, I tend to assume it's this other guy, and not Bennett, who's usually cool, who writes the stupid in.
  • They're apparently in New Mexico right now. You want me to hunt them down, figure out which one is the asshole and then slap him? He's only had nice things to say about my state so far (our billboards being awesome and all), so I guess I won't slap him very hard.
  • I guess I'll try to post about nicer people next time :P