Zoe’s Journal

Godless: How an evangelical preacher became one of America’s leading Atheists.

This book by Dan Barker just arrived from Amazon. I had forgotten that I ordered it. I was planning to do some homework last night, but decided that I would take a break from the hustle of the day and read the first chapter… and boy, did I get hooked! He could be telling stories right from my life, and his struggle and eventual acceptance of the fact that there is no god was vividly painful and familiar. This book gives me hope.

But we were speaking of my autumn break. That long-awaited break when I would declare two months of my very own, with no homework. … yeah, right. If you know me well (most people don’t), then you know that I have to always be learning something or doing something new.

So, as I posted previously, I signed up for two new classes. Of course, Amazon picks that time to send those three new books my way, haha. And, of course, my laptop dies on me. This is not a tragedy in and of itself… I do most of my work from the desktop, but the laptop is very handy for working from the couch, or for taking places, and keeping track of my foodstuffs and exercise.

I was reading an excellent book last week, “Name of the Wind”, by Patrick Rothfuss… I just kept shaking my head thinking, ‘this is such an awesome story!‘…. then I reached the end only to find that it’s a freaking trilogy. I haven’t been so involved in a fantasy in a very long time.

I’ve been burning a lot of candles recently, both figuratively and literally. I find them very relaxing. Last night, while going through homework at the kitchen table, I had four burning in the same room… so peaceful.

The Autumn break is officially over - it’s time for me to go do some homework reading now.

So, I got this in an email today. I nearly bashed my head into pieces on my desk.

A friend sent this to me. It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden,
made animals and fish… all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners… (inDEED you are)

*God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!*
*God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!*
*A sliced _Carrot_ looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.* (funny how they need science to verify it… and is it even true?)
*A _Tomato_ has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red (um no, it’s BLUE until it hits oxygenated air). All of the research shows (research again? I thought the bible was enough for you?) **tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.*
*_Grapes _**hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell (grapes look like cells? wow, that’s not what my biology book photos look like) and all of the research (science is obviously needed to validify what you want to think) today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.*
*A _Walnut_ looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.* (interesting - I should look this up)
_Kidney Beans_ actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. (*cough* BULLSHIT *cough*
***_Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb_** and many more look just like bones (HAHAHAHA). These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.* (hmm. again, interesting, but FALSE)
*_Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears_** target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. (ROLLS EYES)

There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).*

_Figs_ are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow (is this a reference to testicles?! XO). Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
_Sweet Potatoes _look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. (sweet potatoes are all types of shapes, genius)
Olives _assist the health and function of the ovaries (proof? come on, give it up)
*_Oranges, Grapefruit, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. (:O)
_Onions _look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, _Garlic_, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body. (Onions? Look like cells? yeah… totallllllly….)

*SUBJECT: Psalm 46:19
‘Be Still and Know that I AM GOD’*

****HEAD EXPLODES****

(got a veggie to fix my head?)

Honestly, I can not BELIEVE the shit that people believe. I mean, how anyone even look at this spammer-spawned email and take it for face value? CRITICAL THINKING! Where has it gone? To quote C.S. Lewis.. “Don’t they teach LOGIC in these schools anymore?“

The above comic was sent to me by the LotR. The one below was created by a co-worker of mine (click here to see his page).

If I ever meet this man (Bill O’Reilly) in real life, I might just do a something which I might almost regret during the 30th year of my life-sentence with no parole.

How can anyone employ this man to speak ‘fair and balanced’ news? He is THE MOST bigoted, small-minded, one-sided ASS I have ever laid eyes on.

I’ll thank my gym trainer for loving him on the gym’s TV. And, damnit, I lost my iPod, so I can’t tune him out unless I zip along at 204 cycles a minute on the elliptical, gasping for breaths while fighting horrible stitches in my side. And STILL his prejudiced nasally views seep in!

Today he was talking about this video clip by Bill Maher:

And Bill O’Reilly had the audacity to say that CHRISTIANITY is the only religion in the WORLD that is still PERSECUTED.

WHAT?!?

Of course, he is absolutely dead set that he is right, no matter what the news reports say about people from OTHER religions actually being KILLED for their faith (as silly as faith in an imaginary being is, I understand the effects of brainwashing). This pompous jackass went on for about 15 brain-rending minutes during his political news-cast of the election.

What, so is he surprised that christians (like him, I assume) who blindly bash other people’s beliefs actually get some of the backlash?

WHY DOES THIS KIND OF WARPED CONVERSATION EVEN GET AIRTIME?

Politics and religion SHOULD NOT MIX.

Because it’s FOX News, that’s why. Your ‘Fair, Balanced Source for News’.