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- From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
- Subject: Re: Stop lights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.142411.1582@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:24:11 GMT
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- judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Michael Judson) writes:
- >What I really hate is when you're stopped at a stoplight because it's red,
- >the other side is green, and absolutely nobody is on the other side.
- >Why should you have to wait for the light to change?????????????
-
- Is this a trick question? Running red lights is a sin.
-
- The Pharisees then asked, "Which of these
- commandments is the most important?" Jesus
- replied, "The greatest of these commandments is
- that you obey local traffic codes."
-
- (BTW, "Road to Nowhere" includes a bit where someone runs out of gas
- while trying to raise the nerve to run a red light.)
-
- I'm sorry, did you want a serious answer? I'll try again.
-
- ---
- You should wait at the stoplight because otherwise you'll be very
- sorry. God is always watching and he carries a video camera.
-
- I got my proof of that at the college graduation ceremony. The dean
- said he had a surprise for us when the lights dimmed and movie screen
- came down. He called the first boy's name, shook his hand, and gave
- him the diploma. Then a film came up of the boy running a red light
- in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. It looked really
- cool like you were looking through night-vision goggles -- God has
- some really cool equipment I guess. The cinematography was cool too --
- it was from the sky, but I could tell it wasn't a crane shot or a
- helicopter shot, it was a God shot.
-
- Boy howdy did that kid screeeaaaaaammm when they snatched that diploma
- right back and said "Sorry, maybe next time!" Because nobody knew
- that a screening of the worst thing you had ever done was going to be
- part of the ceremony. The girl who was next in line ran away and
- everyone was screaming and bawling and arguing and soon all the kids
- in their caps and gowns were running to the exit.
-
- Then it was my turn because all the other kids had left. I knew what
- was coming next and golly was I nervous! I prayed to God for strength
- but he said "It wasn't Me who got you in this mess." So there were
- Mom and Dad and the Dean watching a film of six-year-old me watching
- Saturday morning cartoons instead of doing chores!
-
- So Mom and Dad don't trust me any more. That diploma wasn't worth the
- thousands of whippings I got in the years afterwards, but, you see,
- God already knew what I had done and he wouldn't want me to hide the
- truth any longer. I always keep in mind the hundredfold: no matter
- how bad a whuppin Mom and Dad will give me if I fess up, God will give
- me one that's a hundred times worse if I don't.
-
- The dean was really pretty nice about it though. He congratulated me
- on being the first person ever to graduate and then we went back to
- the projector room and he gave me all the videotapes showing the nasty
- things all the other students had done. He knew I would be a good
- guardian for the tapes and I would never use them for titillation.
- But if one of those kids tries to run for public office then the
- public will get an eyeful of God's wrath.
-
- --
-
- Oh, you all have the wrong attitude about the "Finals Dream". That
- dream is relatively sin-free as dreams go, _plus_ if it wakes you up,
- then it's keeping you from further nocturnal sinning and gives you an
- opportunity to get some more work done. Have you thought that the
- dream might just a message from God saying "Quit dreaming these
- depraved sinful dreams?" Perhaps you have dreamt of sex or violence
- too, hmm? By comparison, a dream about sex typically involves misuse
- of one's reproductive capabilites plus adultery (unless you dream
- about your wife) and rape (unless you get permission to dream about
- that person first, and in that case you're guilty of conspiring to
- commit a sin).
-