I had a lot of fun. Ate good food. And had fun company.
I found it interesting, though, at one point the TV was on and we were all watching it. For those who do not know, I do not watch TV. So, it is always odd when it’s “get around the TV time.” Granted, this was for the Simpsons, but still.
Anyways, the episode the the Simpsons we watch kind of struck me. It was about Lisa finding a skeleton to an angel and everybody in Springfield getting all raptured about it.
A lot of the episode was trying to mock the fight between “Science” and “Religion.” At one point, the skeleton moves to a hill top (on it’s own) where it has written on it “The End will Happen tomorrow at sunset.” Lisa does not believe this. Everyone else gets all dressed up (You know, I find it funny knowing that if people thought that judgement day was here, they might just get dressed up. Isn’t is about your soul and God, not your clothes? And didn’t Adam and Eve start out naked? Whatever.) and wait for the event to happen. Lisa is firm in her belief that nothing will happen. At sunset, the statue rises up and starts talking. Lisa gets scared (as does everyone else) and holds onto her mother.
The whole thing turns out to be an advertising sham for a new mall, but here is my point.
The ending message in the show was Marge saying to Lisa “You got scared there, at the end.” as if saying “You started to Believe, didn’t you.”
Sorry, I have a problem with this. For those, like myself, who will not have blind faith and will not believe something just because someone else says that it is true, I completely stand firm with Lisa’s denial of the existence of an angel, until proven it was. However, I also agree with her getting scared. People who really live to learn through their experiences would have also gotten scared. If it is happening, there is not much denying the fact, now is there? I would have been scared like her, if the statue floated into the air and started talking. That does not make her stance bad, or flawed, or make her “almost” a believer. It makes her exactly what she was–someone who learns through their experiences in reality.
People who claim to live through their experiences, but will not accept something you show to them are just trying to hide from themselves and reality. They are not truly trying to live.