Day 59: The Beheading

Poor dude came back to his home in Lebanon to find out he was going to jail for Witchcraft. First of all, Witchcraft is bad? Someone should have let me know, because I was considering a trip to Beirut to see my pregnant friend/get a new stamp on the old passport (got to use it up before it expires next year, I thought that was a rule) and I don't think you can refund plane tickets because your worried about losing your head (I have some pretty firm opinions on freedom of thought and religion which might lead someone still living in the dark ages to believe that I am something of an anti-christ or an anti-mohammed. Which I'm not, I'm sure both JC and Mo were pretty cool dudes, maybe they even had dreads, who knows. I wouldn't have minded meeting them back in the day, I wouldn't have missed that concert, if that's your concern.). Valid concern the losing-your-head thing, but you know how the airlines are about refunds.

Yes, the dude is going to be beheaded for supposedly practising Witchcraft (maybe he just didn't feel like putting pants on when he got the munchies in the middle of the night going down to the kitchen. People really should mind their peeping, naked people always look strange in the middle of the night, like on Whyte Ave. Great example, I used to think my old cat looked like a monkey, sneaking around my room at night). By the way, isn't beheading a little old school? When Christianity adopted mason-like rituals into their services way back when, I guess some dudes lost their heads then, too? Only fair. Turn the clocks back to the days of Stonehenge, omigod, the heads MUST have been rolling then, right? Well, no doubt things were a little more tribal back in the day and the heads rolled for little more than a tree and a rock, but man, modern day Lebanon? I guess I just expected more out of them. Do you think Israel would behead one of their own for nighttime nakedness? We should ask Lebanon, see what they say. I really don't know, I'm just making stuff up now. Don't be pissed off, I love both countries equally. Except for the beheading a witch thing. I'm really not into that, I thought that ended a few years ago now. And what if the blade isn't sharpened properly? Like a butter knife?

So, I guess Beirut is crossed off my list of places to work or visit for the time being. It was a little easier not to chew gum in Singapore. But to keep my mouth shut, that is not possible. There is always a good chance that random stuff will leak out of my mouth. Just a few drinks, and I would have been talking up Wicca like it was the new Christianity. I would have been famous, though. But really dead 48 hours later.

Brings me to my thought of the day. Why can't people accept new or different? It blows me away that we are all living on the same earth but have this constant need to control the sheep and demonize the dogs with our ill-conceived notions of what is right. Metaphorically speaking, of course (I know, it's difficult to tell with me). You can't even walk into a prospective job without having to deal with their visual image of the "right" fit. No point in having credentials at all. You want to be a truck driver, grow a foot, mess up the hair, swear a little, get a few extra minutes at the tanning bed and grow your butt a couple of inches. You might want to slap a penis on while you're at it because they're not listening to a word you say after the door swings open. So, I tell stories, children's bible stories. I like to kill off Davie and Goliath in the end usually. And answer questions with numbers. Nobody is listening.

Is there ANYBODY out there listening?????