oh that is just creepy... an acquaintance of mine just "liked" this church I know of in town on facebook. It's creepy because it's a big, smiling co-dependent church and because I could have guessed he'd like it or was likely to get sucked in. They try to be all positive and light with a "hip" young appeal but they are still that creepy blend of brainwashed, co-dependent "join-us" feel-good groupies. I mean, ugh, I don't mean to knock all churches but so many people in organized religion seem to just stop using their brains when they join because its necessary to just get off on the love I guess and to me they do just become feel-good groupies. They just happen to have a bunch of other people endorsing their love addiction of choice. It's sort of like a girlfriend who starts dating this guy who is just kind of alright but also kind of a loser - or a total jerk - it doesn't matter she'll never see it because she is infatuated with having a boyfriend and busy imprinting on him as "thee one".
Anyway this guy - as sincerely nice as he is - is also kind dumb. I learned through him that I don't always inherently loath all dumb people because some are quite kind and I see great value in that but they really do grate on my nerves if I am around them too much. I realize this makes me sound like an intellectual snob, and I guess I am, but I actually think I am just more of a creative, independent thought snob. It both irritates and amazes me how little people are capable or willing to think outside boxes, they prefer to just go along with whatever heard they find appealing and they are just not inclined to question whatever the heard says or does because they just want to be in the heard. Sometimes it appears to me so incredibly lazy that I tend to loath it but other times I can see that part of their brain is just not on, they don't care to use it or even need it to get by. It's as if they just have a taste for baby food instead of brain food - they like things processed and spoon fed to them and they are happy to accept it because its easy.
I used to observe this in this particular acquaintance - genuinely nice guy, a bit of a pretty boy but all & all good company but he is just not that bright and doesn't seem capable of developing the right questions let alone question things or seek solid well-rounded, rational answers. He's outgoing, attractive and young so I guess he's never really had to work that hard or look that hard at things anyway.... in a lot of ways I actually envy people like him - not the looks or the youth in this case - just the ignorance and lack of effort it takes to be happy and stress free and so unquestioning about it.
Ugh, but it is so funny how shallow he is sometimes too - he will think nothing of referring to a fictional character on TV as a slut but he thinks cursing is uncool. LOL, omg this character had a reltionship with two different men at two different time periods and he thinks nothing of referring to her as a slut like he is so sly and above it all *shakes head*. It's just so lame, so hung up on a label and yet sees profanity as some sort of self-diminishing crime. What makes it so funny is he has tattoos because he thinks its cool (can you say hipster doofus?) when just a few short years ago it was associated with criminals and addicts and many people still find it the visual equivalent of profanity and self-defacing ugliness. And that's what I mean about this church - it is so mass media masquerading as tolerance. Bring us your tired, your reformed addicts, your tattooed goodie two-shoes. Oh God save us from churches before I cough up my lunch.
Some other guy I once knew on Facebook was quoting the bible today, amazing how many people I know who belong to that church too. Made me think I should have just saved hipster doofus some time and sent him a link. *shrug*
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