It's Only Humor....Seriously!

"A Christian Scientist from Beal
Said although I know pain isn't real,
When I sit on a pin
And it punctures my skin
I dislike what I fancy I feel." ~ Unknown

Does anyone know if someone who works for the Christian Science Monitor has to be a member of the Christian Scientist Church? Probably not, I guess, but if they do...

I wonder if Jill Carrol, the Christian Science Monitor reporter who was just freed after months of captivity by extremists in Iraq, was really kidnapped? Christian Scientists don't believe anything is real so maybe she imagined all that.



Even if she really was, she said she was well treated. But maybe they tortured her but she doesn't believe she really was. Or maybe she thought she was being tortured but really wasn't. She says she wasn't hit or threatened but maybe she was. After all, Christian Scientists say that pain isn't real, it's only an illusion.

Ok, It was just a thought.

Blogger Buddy Tech wrote a post naming many of the plays he has been involved in over the years. One of the plays he mentioned is a play called "Night, Mother". It is a play about a girl who announces to her mother, right out of the blue, that she's going to kill herself that very night. That's near the beginning. The rest of the play is pretty much her mother trying to talk her out of suicide.

It was a movie, too, which I saw, starring Ann Bancroft and Sissy Spacek as Mother and Daughter. What I remember better than anything else about that movie was part of this line:

"Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it's hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you want to get off. And the only reason in the world you don't get off is it's still fifty blocks from where you're going. Why get off right now if I want to? Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it's still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I've had enough, it's my stop. I've had enough."

I think of all the reasons ever given to commit suicide, that is the most logical. Sometimes you just get tired of riding the bus, you know?

Ok you're probably wondering why I seem so depressed. It's because I am. My girlfriend of over a year told me last night that she's seeing another man. I said, "Well, why don't you try rubbing your eyes, or something?"

But then I caught her in bed with another guy. I was crushed. I said, "Get off me, you two".

You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers. Damned anthropologists.

Ok, I'm done. I'll get serious tomorrow. Right now I'm tired. Good night.