Friday, August 05, 2005

A sizeable crowd of godly people had set up a virtual "ops center" in the intersection outside Barnes & Noble this evening, complete with poorly drawn posters of eternal damnation and sallow, blank-eyed little kids wielding gospel tracts. And of course the requisite bearded fuck shouting at the top of his lungs.

The worst part about these demonstrations is the way the kids are enlisted to help with the cause. Striding past with my coffee, I almost felt sorry for them. Which is more than I can say for the little kids harassing pedestrians up the street as part of a "fundraiser" for their basketball ambitions.
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4 comments:

Gerald T said...

If one believes Philip K Dick and the Gnostics, that our universe was corrupted in the making, and is now deranged, this concept, along with the idea of reality(as we perceive it-the only reality) just being a holographic information energy matrix, then your trip past these people would have been very different.

As I observe the flow of the informational matrix around me, I no longer utilize the morel ethical or scientific rational judgmental awareness ego based filtering system, I just view it all as information-energy, some pure focused and highly coherent, like that cat in the window, other areas of the field, like your religos, are more degenerated and tainted by the insane creator God of this hyper universe II.

See a new car go by, it is a coherent field effect of the inspired spirit of the auto designer connection to the higher sane creator God, but wait, the right front fender is smashed, the deranged universe mind matrix is leaking into and imprinting its taint on to the holographic design vision!
This example is also exactly how the Trans dimensional ghouls affect and taint our spirits.
So perhaps you could relate this idea to these people next time you happen by Mac?
I am sure they will welcome new information!

2:27 AM
Mac said...

Gerald--

I'll tell them to read your blog, too.

KennyJC--

I saw the same picture. Simple but effective!

12:29 PM
Carol Maltby said...

Drop a dime in each kid's can just so they can hear it plunk down.

They'd rather be doing something fun, their parents would rather be doing something fun. But most fundraisers for kids' activities require some kind of activity that is a drag, and it's really hard to get anyone other than the same 3 or 4 people to put any effort in. Thus a low-tech, mindless begging operation is as good an option as any.

I remember being a Girl Scout and having to go around to the houses of my neighbors to try to sell them Girl Scout calendars. Those who bought them were bodhisattvas in disguise. Bless them for their kindness.

10:10 PM
Carol Maltby said...

Even a penny will do, of course. You can see them waiting for you a hundred yards away, and have the pennies (one for each kid so nobody feels rejected) in your fist so they don't see it's not a quarter.

When I was younger, I used to whine to myself that hating football or cheerleading was a good enough excuse to do the "sorry, I don't have any change" wiggle. I realize now that that was just plain pissiness, and that if the kids are that passsionate about it that they are willing to do this to continue, I can be generous enough to respect that.

We're all dependent on the kindness of strangers, and what goes around comes around.

There are more creative forms of fundraising that sometimes come into play. I belonged to a local chapter of an international parenting group at one point. We were obliged to do a fundraiser at one point, the usual suggested one being that we do one of those sponsored walk things like everyone elese was doing on that same Saturday.

I suggested that A/we didn't want to bug people to sponsor us and B/ we didn't want to walk and C/we didn't want to blow a perfectly nice spring Saturday morning on this.

So I suggested, "Why don't we have a lounge-a-thon? What's it worth to you to not have to go through all this nonsense?"

You should have seen the twenties come flying onto the table. :)

10:36 AM

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