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Innocence Is Whitewashed Ignorance

I think the thought came to me, while I listened to my neighbour (a gal of around 8 or 9, I'm not sure) go into deep detail about a perfectly true story- which was basically about a girl in a hotel meeting up with a particularly nasty ghost.

Completely true, she assured me, and as I listened to her German accented speech (I had more fun trying to detect her accent than listening to her), I couldn't help but shake my head.

But she is young.

Call it innocence or ignorance. I don't know which is which, but for all intents and purposes, sometimes innocence is ignorance. Of course, the young ones might have not had much time to build up their repository of common sense. But some others (who I've met) who are older than me still display a cringe worthy naive view of the world.

Is innocence really bad? Some would just wish we had it. I mean, what if our founding father and mother had not eaten that fruit? Or perhaps knowledge would've been better. I take the latter, for in this world at least, ignorance is not bliss. No, far, far from it.

But everyone (except the insane, although it is debatable as to whether we are the insane ones) expects the youngest, most innocent children to grow out of it eventually. If you are 2, your "innocence" is laughed at and adored. On the other hand, if you were 22, you'd be considered retarded.

My apologies if you had a much higher view of innocence, but I think it is merely ignorance- polished and all dressed up. And anyway, we lost that darn "virtue" a long, long time ago.

Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix

It's the fifth time round, and already some are beginning to suspect something lagging. It might be that the movie wasn't well made or (perhaps?) the source material wasn't that great. But then again, I did enjoy the fifth Harry Potter book rather much (as much as the previous ones) and so I don't think it would've been any problem there.

So why do I think that this is one of the lesser Harry Potter movies? Well, a few reasons. One would be its puzzling run time. At around 130 minutes, it is considerably shorter than, say, Chamber of Secrets (which clocked in at 160 minutes). Taking into account the fact that this had been the thickest Harry Potter book to date when it was released, it does tell you about how much had to go.

And a lot goes. Character development takes a backseat (or at least, only Harry and a few others get their proper treatment). Much of the story (and side stories) that gave the book much of its delight has been left out, unfortunately.

But I wasn't really all that disappointed. It still was adapted remarkably well, and certainly it did entertain. At least we got to see some proper duels, of which I wished there were more.

For the next show, I sure hope they don't make such short a movie. Then again, considering how slow Half-Blood Prince was, maybe it would be wise to prune out a few bits here and there and make something that's really interesting all the way.

We Are Damned!

Us Prots, I mean. All them Baptists, Presbies, Lutherans, etc. are not the true church. So says the Roman Catholic church. But, really, it's nothing new.

So why does this warrant any comment? Well, first thing is to solidify the fact that us Protestants have been anathematized by the RC church for the umpteenth time, since ancient history. One wonders why we are so sure of our salvation when, according to the one true church, we are gonna burn in hell. One wonders.

Not that I greet this with derision and ridicule. They obviously have put a lot of thought into this (and other similar theological issues).

Of course, this would pose a setback to them ecumenicals. I must pity the ECT folk.  But again, let me take this time to heap praises onto Pope Benedict XVI and how he takes his theology seriously. No compromise with him. Nothing but clarity and absoluteness. I like his stance. Hehe.

But as I wrote about here a lot of times, one can never hope for absolute truth (in certain things) to be found here. Least of all this issue. This has reinforced the fundamentalists' notion of the RC church being Satan's wife.

So they are damned, and so are we. Mutual damnation is not exactly a promising or exciting prospect, but the truth is that only one can be right (or both wrong). Who knows?

Hence why we gotta start finding out now. I make a small request that many others would make. Educate our laity on this issue. I find it how most (Protestant) people I meet either think the Catholics are: Mary worshippers and basically unsaved or that they are on the same bus, only in different seats.

Or at least, the church that I attend ought to be talking more about these issues (and not relegate it to "classes"). After all, Catholics are the largest Christian denomination on Earth. And their HQ says we are not "churches". Perhaps our dear clergy could why, to everyone.

Some People Just Don't Get It

Sarcasm, I mean. Take a look at this video I posted nearly a year ago. To date, it's (ironically) my most popular video. In a nutshell, it's a lame air-cover of Funtwo's rendition of Canon. The title is tongue-in-cheek.

But no. Most people just don't get it.

Here's a few (with some slight editing):

lol, it had to be a stupid nigger huh, go suck **** u piece of ****

do u have a retard holding the camera.. or is it one of yur kids? and
whered u get the guitar walmart?.. or did u steal it?.. eihter way
funtwo is a god guitarist .. so **** it

sad son of a ****

I have doubts myself as to whether they actually really were insulting the poor guy in the video, but I think that some of them actually meant it. If that were the case, then Youtube is (disturbingly) populated by more two-bit airheads than I thought.

On the bright side, I'm sure the guy in this video, Calvin Samuel- a rather popular guy his social circles- would be pleased to know that he was called a nigger. Yes, the geniuses who commented thought thus. A classic example of shallow thinking, as this guy is an Indian through and through.

But I say that he would be pleased to know that he had been a called a nigger for the simple reason that he prefers to be an African-American more than to be an Indian. He's a rapper (wow), too.

So yeah, good things. And bad things.