I HAVE NO SENSE OF WOO. 😉 -Childhood- I went to church every sunday. I went to

I HAVE NO SENSE OF WOO. 😉

-Childhood-

I went to church every sunday. I went to catholic school on saturdays. I read the bible twice. once in seventh grade, and once in … I think it was senior year. I graduated from a private catholic boy’s school. I read the catholic encyclopedia, or at least most of it.

-A Literary Map-

I … thanks to my era and mother, read all the fairy tales when young and particularly disney’s take on the germanic tales. I was obsessed with weapons engineering in grade school, and samuel colt was my hero in middle school – read his biography so many times I can’t recall. I drew mazes. big ones. 18/24 and 24/36, and I did a lot of drawing of buildings and houses and hallways. I read the greek myths, I don’t remember when. But mostly I read encyclopedias and science fiction. I have zero recollection of anything in the bible as meaningful, but overwhelming recollection of encyclopedia britannica in particular, or the oxford english dictionary, and a lot of science fiction as formative. I didn’t read any fantasy until I was in college, and initially found it terrible, until I found Conan and Elric, and I understood how those characters were meaningful avenues back into our ancient history – our myths before our conquest and defeat by christianity. Even then I read science, archaeology and history almost exclusively and only visited sf/fantasy when I needed an exit. (I”ve read an awful lot of the the top 100 classics, but none of them affected me. Too ‘shallow’.)

-The Author’s Perspective-

But you know, I have a ‘talent’ for logic that is somewhat abnormal, and I actually don’t see, hear, feel, or remember nonsense words, and my subconscious translates nonsense-prose into something relatively analytic on the order of ‘Oh, I see what the author was trying to do here.” This is why I can’t read fiction. I just see it as a technical exercise in script-writing, or article writing, or paper-writing. I don’t experience it at all.

-Scripture?-

So where you read ‘scripture’, I read a bunch of fairy tales written for ignorant peasant children, from the viewpoint of the author writing the fairy tales, so that he can fool them into letting him boss them around. That’s all I see.

-The Character of Evil-

I think that abrahamic god is so fucking evil that I cannot understand how anyone could even imagine something good about a world he held dominion over. As far as I can tell he’s a demon or devil not a god. And I have no respect … actually, I fear such people as if they’re zombies – and I treat them as such. Observant and kind and harmless christian zombies, parasitic jewish zombies, horrific muslim zombies, and every other kind of zombie. I call ‘the scary stupid’ people ‘zombies’. Mostly because they’re stupid and irrational, and dangerous and can hurt me.

NET: I HAVE NO SENSE OF WOO.

Or rather, the only time I feel ‘woo’ is when I see the evidence of vast records of time in front of me like in or archaeology, or geology, or astronomy. The rest of the time. I just see humor, irony, fact, folly, or sadness.

Usually from “the author’s” point of view.

Cheers.