This is just so depressing, on so many levels. Humanity has developed its society to be pretty damn-near dependent on a limited, unrenewable resource. We have known this for decades, at least half as long as we have been using it. Once you take into account all the hundreds of other factors that influence the cost of gasoline (location, refineries operating, weather, whim of whomever is in charge...) it can be pretty well reasoned that it is basically our own fault that gas prices are high, and it is our own fault that we even care that gas prices are high.
This guy is praying to God, the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient deity that created the entire universe, to lower the price of gasoline. Because He has nothing better to do than save you from trading a few more green pieces of paper for some smelly liquid.
At any given moment, there are genocides being committed, natural habitats being destroyed, and our environment is being polluted beyond recognition. But this guy wants God to let him pay less for gas.
Now, I'm not saying that nobody has ever prayed to God for something that's in their own self-interest. People pray before basketball games, before they put on plays, heck, before most meals my family prays that our personal meals was blessed by the Heavenly Creator himself. This isn't uncommon, and it isn't bad. So clearly, God can sweat the small stuff.
But this guy is having a pray-in. With the news reporting on it. If I prayed for a new bike:
(and Kate would be mad at me if I did), that's one thing. If I start trying to get everybody else to join me in group prayer at the bike shop, that's pretty stupid. A large newspaper writing a story on it is epically retarded. But, a blogger writing about it with righteous indignation is divine.
So, my recommendation to this religious "leader" by the gas station: start praying for a bike. At home.
4 comments:
let's not focus on your opinions and ask the real question---what the hell is with that bike????
Thanks to this and the previous post, I had to answer lots of nonsense questions about bikes from your lovely neice. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Q: what the hell is with that bike????
A: That bike is so rad, your radness quotient has not yet reached the level necessary to comprehend it. It is basically a cross between a BMX and a mountain bike, and I would use it for shredding the rad at the BMX track, dirt jumps, and maybe even four-cross and DS racing.
that Q and A blew my mind.
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