Monday, February 02, 2009

I hate it when it doesn't rain

I hate drought. It hasn't rained in over a month or more. The temperature was super hot this week - reaching over 40C in a straight week- a number of people died as a result. Mostly old people trapped in their homes by the heat. It didn't help that the State Govt decided to cut off power to half of Victoria to prevent the electricity grid from melting down. Morons had over 10 full years of prosperity - and the incompetent Labor bastards alway end up screwing the economy up.
Thankfully we have a cool breeze/change coming in. The temperature has finally gone below 28C. I'm playing Vangalis' album Soil Festivals - its a beautiful piece of music written to celebrate a thunderstorm. They incorporate the sound of rainfall into the music; what a strange experience - listening to the sound of rain played on an MP3 player.

I didn't go to church again. I don't think I've been to church for awhile. Frankly I find it a depressing experience going to church. Its like going to a carnival. The preacher will swagger around the stage and do a half-baked comedian stand up routine. And then you get all these jokers who want to use the pulpit to "share" but want to do their version of Jimmy Swaggert and drone on and on. (And they wonder why the church numbers are falling off).

Vanity. Vanity. They love the sound of their own voices too much.

Can't we bring back public stoning for false prophets?


Why can't churches be a holy place? We go there - we worship God collectively. We hear a meaningful sermon - and if there is no meaningful sermon - we hear a reading of God's word - then we pray - sing the doxology and go home.

Well I guess my version of a holy place differs from most people.

I used to enjoy going to St. Paul's Cathedral or St Marks and hearing the choir sing, listening to mass. I should do that next week.

14 more days before I go back to Singapore.







3 comments:

Andrew Hall said...

yeah going back to more traditional services sometimes is great. Its good to hear something straight to the point that doesn't drone on and on.... Those more traditional places are often run tightly and if you have a good preacher there, its a most enjoyable experience.

Jelissa Mei said...

Blame it on hollywood. All the preachers in the movies can sing and scat like Ray Charles, bring judgement and fire and brimstone like Moses.

Andrew Hall said...

you're right.. you wouldn't customer buying a hammer to make a song and dance, or why would we expect the same from the preachers. Content of what they say is more important... then again if you want a singing and dancing hardware purchase, you can always go here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QTPcSUtFvoE