For the LOVE of all that is GOOD and HOLY, Pope Francis, while a wonderful Pope and Vicar of God on Earth, is not breaking any new ground by agreeing that the Big Bang happened! The Catholic church has never refuted this, nor the Theory of Evolution.
I don't know what is happening with this Pope and the media but it is very creepy. Yesterday on FB, I saw where a (Non-Catholic) friend posted about the "news" about the Pope and the Big Bang Theory and someone called Pope Benedict a Nazi and said that it was good that he retired when he realized he was no longer relevant. I ... um, ... what?
I can't think of another organization that has such misinformation passed about it and it's just A-OKAY with all the pedants int he world who would DEMAND better information about anyone else. It is driving me bananas.
Here's a link to some information about the CATHOLIC PRIEST who is given credit for proposing the BIG BANG THEORY. Just FYI. As I tweeted to my friend who retweeted a joke from Dr. Ruth regarding the Pope deciding that the Church is okay with the Big Bang Theory, the Catholic church has always been okay with it. #themoreyouknow
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
The Duggars
I don't think I've seen more than five minutes all together of any of those Nineteen and Counting shows, and I don't really have any opinion about all those Duggars, but I find myself getting kind of mad when people go on and on about them.
I don't know why - is it because I have four kids and people seem to think that's a lot and I think that it's none of their business? I mean, they have nineteen! I think maybe that Mrs. Duggar is my age or maybe a year younger than I am, so maybe that's it? I do know I abhor and despise when people make the it's a vagina, not a clown car joke. My cousin said that one day on Facebook and I said actually, no one carries a baby in their vagina, it wouldn't fit. You dummy, I added silently. I hate when people say that someone had all these kids (like FOUR) and you know, that their uterus is going to fall out. I mean, my uterus is fine, not that I feel like I should have to say that, but it is. It is the same size as a pear, from what I hear, just like it was in 2004 before I ever got pregnant. I just - I don't feel like people should have the right to talk about my uterus because they read some urban myth about someone's uterus falling out or whatever the hell. Why can't it be my body and my choice? Why can't we not judge me the same way we trip all over ourselves not to judge anyone else? Arggggh it makes me crazy.
Another friend of mine said that she read that the Duggar who is getting married is doing pre-marriage counseling with their Dad, Joe Bob or whatever his name is ... Jim Bob? I can't remember. Anyway, I think he is maybe their minister too, and we did our pre-marriage talking with our priest and I - I mean, we didn't really talk about sex too much. Mike and I do pre-marriage counseling with couples at our church and we don't really get into it too deeply - I mean, it's awkward. It's probably not as awkward as with your Dad, but it wasn't SUPER comfortable talking to my priest about it. The thing is, though, even though our priest has never been married, I wasn't really going to counseling for him about that. He was there as kind of an expert in what God wants for our marriage, and maybe to give us tips on how to be happy? Maybe? I don't know. My friend was also mad because if Jim Bob said no, his daughter couldn't get married, she wouldn't. I don't know - I mean, I feel like if my Dad said you can't marry Mike, I probably wouldn't have. Not that he lords over me, or makes the rules, but I mean, it would be a major problem is my parents said I couldn't marry the man that I was going to.
I feel like - I was thinking today, everyone is mad at the Duggars, specifically because they don't teach their daughters to be college-going woman, to be whatever and whoever they want to be. Also because the dad can say "don't marry that guy" to his daughter and she wouldn't. Also because they keep having all these kids, and they had the one baby who was super premature and has had some problems. I was thinking about them because this novena that I'm doing is mostly about the end of your life, and being in heaven, and - ha, I was going to say blah blah blah but I don't mean that. But it's a lot about Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize, I guess, and I was thinking I mean, I think it's just their religious beliefs that make them the way that they are. I think that Mrs. Duggar - what is her first name? I have no idea. Anyway, that she thinks Jim Bob is in charge and that their kids probably think that they should honor their mother and father. And I think don't we really try, in this country and society, allegedly TRY to respect people's religious beliefs? I think we do, until they come in direct competition with our beliefs. Like it's upsetting to hear that someone is doing whatever their father says, even to the point that they wouldn't marry someone if their father didn't approve. It's upsetting to think that Mrs. Duggar - I looked it up, Michelle, that Michelle Duggar is doing whatever Jim Bob says, because what if she is saying, hey Jim Bob, enough with the kids already, my uterus is falling out and he is saying TOO BAD!? I mean, that would be terrible. But there is no proof that that's what's happening, we just disagree that women should be told that the best they can be is a mother and wife. I take offense at that because the best thing I can be, right now, is a mother and I am not ashamed of that. I mean, I probably should be because most days I suck at it but I am offended that OTHERS are offended that the Duggar girls are trying to be what I am and those people say how dare they? How dare they not REACH HIGHER?
Anyway, I'm sure I am not making sense but I just - I am not mad at the Duggars, hardly ever, but I am certainly mad at the people who have to go and on about them. Let's live and let live with everyone, not just the ones with whom we agree anyway, mmmkay?
I don't know why - is it because I have four kids and people seem to think that's a lot and I think that it's none of their business? I mean, they have nineteen! I think maybe that Mrs. Duggar is my age or maybe a year younger than I am, so maybe that's it? I do know I abhor and despise when people make the it's a vagina, not a clown car joke. My cousin said that one day on Facebook and I said actually, no one carries a baby in their vagina, it wouldn't fit. You dummy, I added silently. I hate when people say that someone had all these kids (like FOUR) and you know, that their uterus is going to fall out. I mean, my uterus is fine, not that I feel like I should have to say that, but it is. It is the same size as a pear, from what I hear, just like it was in 2004 before I ever got pregnant. I just - I don't feel like people should have the right to talk about my uterus because they read some urban myth about someone's uterus falling out or whatever the hell. Why can't it be my body and my choice? Why can't we not judge me the same way we trip all over ourselves not to judge anyone else? Arggggh it makes me crazy.
Another friend of mine said that she read that the Duggar who is getting married is doing pre-marriage counseling with their Dad, Joe Bob or whatever his name is ... Jim Bob? I can't remember. Anyway, I think he is maybe their minister too, and we did our pre-marriage talking with our priest and I - I mean, we didn't really talk about sex too much. Mike and I do pre-marriage counseling with couples at our church and we don't really get into it too deeply - I mean, it's awkward. It's probably not as awkward as with your Dad, but it wasn't SUPER comfortable talking to my priest about it. The thing is, though, even though our priest has never been married, I wasn't really going to counseling for him about that. He was there as kind of an expert in what God wants for our marriage, and maybe to give us tips on how to be happy? Maybe? I don't know. My friend was also mad because if Jim Bob said no, his daughter couldn't get married, she wouldn't. I don't know - I mean, I feel like if my Dad said you can't marry Mike, I probably wouldn't have. Not that he lords over me, or makes the rules, but I mean, it would be a major problem is my parents said I couldn't marry the man that I was going to.
I feel like - I was thinking today, everyone is mad at the Duggars, specifically because they don't teach their daughters to be college-going woman, to be whatever and whoever they want to be. Also because the dad can say "don't marry that guy" to his daughter and she wouldn't. Also because they keep having all these kids, and they had the one baby who was super premature and has had some problems. I was thinking about them because this novena that I'm doing is mostly about the end of your life, and being in heaven, and - ha, I was going to say blah blah blah but I don't mean that. But it's a lot about Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize, I guess, and I was thinking I mean, I think it's just their religious beliefs that make them the way that they are. I think that Mrs. Duggar - what is her first name? I have no idea. Anyway, that she thinks Jim Bob is in charge and that their kids probably think that they should honor their mother and father. And I think don't we really try, in this country and society, allegedly TRY to respect people's religious beliefs? I think we do, until they come in direct competition with our beliefs. Like it's upsetting to hear that someone is doing whatever their father says, even to the point that they wouldn't marry someone if their father didn't approve. It's upsetting to think that Mrs. Duggar - I looked it up, Michelle, that Michelle Duggar is doing whatever Jim Bob says, because what if she is saying, hey Jim Bob, enough with the kids already, my uterus is falling out and he is saying TOO BAD!? I mean, that would be terrible. But there is no proof that that's what's happening, we just disagree that women should be told that the best they can be is a mother and wife. I take offense at that because the best thing I can be, right now, is a mother and I am not ashamed of that. I mean, I probably should be because most days I suck at it but I am offended that OTHERS are offended that the Duggar girls are trying to be what I am and those people say how dare they? How dare they not REACH HIGHER?
Anyway, I'm sure I am not making sense but I just - I am not mad at the Duggars, hardly ever, but I am certainly mad at the people who have to go and on about them. Let's live and let live with everyone, not just the ones with whom we agree anyway, mmmkay?
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