Current Ramblings
Sunday, November 21, 2004
And thus my tormet began...
Woo! My DS shipped!
...to my mom!
...and I can't have it until Christmas.
*sob*
I went to Target tonight thinking I might see one in package to drool over, and also with the much more attainable goal of buying one of those cases of tasty Jones Soda they've taken to carrying. The shelf was berift of DSes, however, so I drooled on the demo model for a bit before leaving with my delicious soda and some My Little Ponies. Walky says his store had a lot of them when he left, so maybe I'll drop by to molest theirs later.
I'd like to take a moment out of my handheld gaming geekery to address a worrisome trend I've noticed while running the Religion section at my store, specifically Christian diet books. Books like The Weight Down Diet, The PRISM Weight Loss Program, and the ubiquitous T. D. Jakes' Lay Aside the Weight, among numerous others, all get God involved in our culture's relentless struggle to make you hate yourself and your body. I'm not a religious person, but I can't help but criticize these things with a religious perspective. Did being fat become some kind of sin? Did somebody other than God give you that metabolism? Doesn't God love you even if you can't get rid of that last 10 pounds, and really, shouldn't everybody else? It makes me want to write my own book, drawing from all the parts of the Bible that talk about how you are the way God made you. I will call it God Wants You to Be Fat.
Though on the subject of disgusting-by-their-own-standards religious books, I'm bothered every time I see a copy of God Wants You to Be Rich, which yes, I did totally rip my title off from. Once again, I'm not up 100% percent on my Christianity, but didn't Jesus have a lot of good things to say about poverty? Do monks traditionally take a vow of affluence? Yeah, I didn't think so.
In other news, someone is way too into Chobits.
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