I felt a little defeated today and I have been inside for far to long so I decided to go see a friend. She was working at a regular hang out of mine and she only works one day a week. She was hanging outside in the rain talking to several others when I arrived. During the course of the night two girls got in an argument to the point where one (who was underage but not being truthful) had to be physically dragged out and the girl she was arguing with was bragging about getting her thrown out. So the girl that was kicked out then proceeds to go outside and throw a fit and is whining to her friends about how it wasn't fair that she couldn't get away with her lie. This went on for twenty of thirty minutes. I went outside to casually keep an eye out while talking to some strangers about Halloween costumes for this year. It was all I could to keep from setting that girl and all her friends straight about what they really should be worried about. I would have too but but well, frankly I don't care enough. If I was going to win a battle, I think I have better chances with a wild rhino than I did with that group. As the night progressed, I really hadn't had much luck striking up a conversation until a friend, about my age, realizes that I was there. I had noticed him when I walked in but he had been in a heated conversation with someone else who had just left. I remember how excited he was to see me and I thought how odd... I'd walked by 3 maybe 4 times to keep going out the door to make sure no one was arguing or fighting and I even helped break up the fight earlier in the night but he hadn't noticed I was in the building? Anyway, he starts to tell me how the guy he was talking to was conservative and that their conversation was religious in nature. So I thought, this is my chance, I am going to do some recruiting right now. Just then he says, "There's no way I am going to believe some old jewish guy is floating around in the sky who's been around for a gazillion years and all he cares about is who I am having sex with". No joke. Then he says "That's what all those religious folks keep telling me about God and No I don't believe Thor exists because I have never seen him or heaven and as far as I am concerned we are all just animals". I was deflated. Really? This guy is my age, gainfully employed, knows a great deal about material things but nothing spiritual? So I asked him, "What have you done to disprove he exists?" He explained about how he watched all these movies and read all these books, which in my opinion was just regurgitating what he had seen and read. So I said, "Well can you prove all that stuff that you learned about was true?". He says "Well I haven't proved it myself but I know it's right." So I said, "Well if you can believe that but you can't prove it, how come you can't believe there's a God?". Then I jumped right into whether or not he believed in Jesus. He didn't believe in him. I asked him about Satan and he didn't believe Satan either. The closest I got him to admit Satan existed was by having him look at it in terms of "amount of negative influence in the world" being added up and given a name lol. I really stink at this lol!
Anyway after a nice long chat about it, I finally convinced him that we (humans) are "Special" at the top of the animal chain. Oy vey (that's the Jewish version, not Yiddish) Until next time.
Anyway after a nice long chat about it, I finally convinced him that we (humans) are "Special" at the top of the animal chain. Oy vey (that's the Jewish version, not Yiddish) Until next time.