Jerry Falwell

As you all know Rev. Jerry Falwell died recently. Here are some of the teachings he left us:

On Martin Luther King Jr.: "I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations."

On public education: "I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again, and Christians will be running them."

On feminists: "I listen to feminists and all these radical gals. ... These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men; that's their problem."

On global warming: "I can tell you, our grandchildren will laugh at those who predicted global warming. We'll be in global cooling by then, if the Lord hasn't returned. I don't believe a moment of it. The whole thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."

On the separation of church and state: "There is no separation of church and state."


Rest in Peace!

Email for me

It is 2:45 PM:

I am very scared. I’ve just received an email sent by my own yahoo account:

"Dear Augusto,

I am you in the future. I’m not from a distant future; I’m from only some minutes later. It is exactly 3 o’ clock now. You will receive this email exactly at 2:45 PM. I know it because that was the time I received this same email. I am writing to you to warn you: You are going to die at 3:01 PM unless you write an email to the Augusto from 2:45 PM with the following instructions:”

It finished like this. There was nothing else written. Why did the Augusto from 3:00 PM not finish the email? Is it because I died before finishing the email?

I reply to the email asking about the instructions and receive a response without a clarifying answer.

It is 2:50 PM:

What do I do now? What are the instructions? Should I write the email and send it exactly at 3:00 PM even without the instructions?

It is 2:55 PM:

I copied and pasted the email onto a new email and I am going to sent it to the Augusto from 2:45PM. However I still do not have the instructions. I’m going to send it as it is.

It is 3:00PM:

I’ve just sent the email and I promptly receive a reply sent from the Augusto from 2:45:

"What are the damn instructions?"

It is 3:00PM + 30 seconds:

I still have time to reply to it before I die:

“How the hell am I supposed to know?!?”

The last standing traditional institution

I asked some of my best friends on what they think about marriage. The people I asked were: a gay man, a gay woman, a cocaine addict, a nerd, a pot-head, an illegal alien, a hippie, a cheater and an atheist. Sure some of them had more than one of these characteristics, but it doesn’t really matter.

What really matters was that the result was: 100% of them take marriage very seriously to my absolute surprise. They find that marriage should be based on the purest love and that one must try to be happy forever in a marriage.

You can call me conservative but I thought that this concept of marriage only existed amongst radical Christians and ugly and fat people.

Then something occurred to me. Is that the origin of the unhappiness of many couples? One can think like this: I am married and this person here beside me really bothers me. I do not know if I love this person anymore. Actually I am not even sure it was love that brought us here. Perhaps it was only passion or maybe I’ve just been horny for an extensive period of time. However now I cannot leave this relationship because I built a psychological prison around me. After all I’ve always believed that marriage should be forever.

How can someone be happy like this?

Obviously some of the people who answered the poll are single. Therefore they cannot be completely happy yet. It will only be possible when they find the person who they will marry, even though they may then paradoxically find bitterness in their marriages till the day they die.

PS. I also interviewed some happy people, both married and single people, but they did not believe in the institution of marriage therefore they had not entered this research.