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Spooky · 11-09-2003, 12:16 AM

Years ago when I bought my first car (very used, very nostalgic) I learned a very important lesson: make sure you have a wrench that fits your lugnuts. Naturally, I discovered this the hard way. I had spent somewhere between an eternity and about 10 minutes stripping my lugnuts on the side of the interstate when I was saved by a passing motorist. After the new tire was on he invited me to pull off at the next exit where he owned a little diner for an on-the-house BLT and sweet tea lunch. I politely refused, letting him know it was Ramadan and I was observing the sunrise to sunset fast. His demeanor changed, and he told me that just as he felt obliged out of the goodness of his heart to provide me with the right tools to change my tire he also felt the need to provide me with the right tools for salvation.

The location being in the great state of Georgia, deep south Georgia to be precise, the tool he offered me was Jesus.

And that is precisely why we humans spend so much time debating religon, philosophy, morality etc. It's not so much that we all think we have the right beliefs or drugs or breathing exercises to reach (or disprove) some higher metaphysical state of being, as we think everyone else has the wrong ones. Being the good people that we are we really really hate to see these ingorant people fumbling around stripping the lug nuts of their lives.

In conclusion: Parents, please stop giving your children those toys where they put the differently shaped and colored blocks in the correspondingly shaped holes. You are building in your children strong biased ideas about religion and probably making them racist as well.

11-09-2003, 12:16 AM	#10 (permalink)
Spooky Upright Location: Yar! The High Seas Matey!	Years ago when I bought my first car (very used, very nostalgic) I learned a very important lesson: make sure you have a wrench that fits your lugnuts. Naturally, I discovered this the hard way. I had spent somewhere between an eternity and about 10 minutes stripping my lugnuts on the side of the interstate when I was saved by a passing motorist. After the new tire was on he invited me to pull off at the next exit where he owned a little diner for an on-the-house BLT and sweet tea lunch. I politely refused, letting him know it was Ramadan and I was observing the sunrise to sunset fast. His demeanor changed, and he told me that just as he felt obliged out of the goodness of his heart to provide me with the right tools to change my tire he also felt the need to provide me with the right tools for salvation. The location being in the great state of Georgia, deep south Georgia to be precise, the tool he offered me was Jesus. And that is precisely why we humans spend so much time debating religon, philosophy, morality etc. It's not so much that we all think we have the right beliefs or drugs or breathing exercises to reach (or disprove) some higher metaphysical state of being, as we think everyone else has the wrong ones. Being the good people that we are we really really hate to see these ingorant people fumbling around stripping the lug nuts of their lives. In conclusion: Parents, please stop giving your children those toys where they put the differently shaped and colored blocks in the correspondingly shaped holes. You are building in your children strong biased ideas about religion and probably making them racist as well. __________________ I heart miscegenation. Last edited by Spooky; 11-09-2003 at 12:20 AM..