Jolsef 2001 And Beyond
Thursday February 15, 2001
I’m
going to start out talking about Linda. She
is going through one of those rough patches that we all go through…well not
all of us are as lucky as her and able to go through the pain she has to. If you know what I’m talking about you will understand but
if you don’t you need to get with the program and find out. You need to find her and hug her and tell her that you love
her and that you are going to be there for her in this hard time.
I’ve tried my hardest to make this known to her but it doesn’t hurt
to have someone else emphasize it. If
you are reading this Linda I just want you to know that you are welcome to my
time and love whenever you need it.
On
to happier and weirder subjects now. I’m
typing this tonight and I still have a headache from all the alcohol that I
consumed last night. So now I am
going to condemn drinking cause it hasn’t worked for me and we know that when
something doesn’t work for one person they believe that it won’t work for
anyone else.
Brian
came home the other day and told me that he was on campus, reading in one of the
dining halls, and he overheard two girls talking at one of the tables nearby.
One of the girls was Jewish and she was black which is even a more rare
combination so that has to be admired. Anyway,
the evil religious girl was telling the black girl that it says in the bible
that Jesus came again to save them all and that he was the son of god and all
this shit that goes directly against Judaism.
So the deal is that that religious girl was a big religion whore and if I
ever hear someone trying to push their religion on someone I’m going to take
it into my hands to tell them that they are being a whore and that they have no
right to do what they are doing. And
now you should be thinking in your head, well Joel aren’t you a Jehovah’s
Witness and don’t you whores go door to door pushing your religion on other
people. And then I say I would
never be one of those pushy people and tell you that you are a bad person…all
I want to do in this life is to show the ignorant, ignorance not being such a
bad thing for there are many things that I haven’t been able to learn about
yet, people that there are other options out there and just because you were
born into a religion doesn’t mean that you have to believe anything that you
were taught. How many of you
actually have a religion that you practice regularly and how many of you even
know anything about your religion? Religion
is obviously not for everyone on this planet and I don’t wish to have it that
way right now. How different would
things be if we were all the same religion?
Now that’s enough venting for that but you remember not to take that
crap from everyone and don’t you dare argue religion.
All you should do is try to correct people’s ignorant actions and
answer their questions if they feel inclined to ask.
And next time someone stops on your doorstep and wants to tell you what
has worked in their life in a nice way…common courtesy dictates that you
listen and then tell your honest opinion on what they said no matter how harsh
it is…without being rude and malicious.
I
must put in right now that if you have any problem at all with what I am
saying…you need to get to your machine and tell me what you think.
Being a lazy whore never accomplished anything and I won’t learn from
my mistakes if I don’t know that I make them.
Tom Koerber is the president of an organization on campus here that is called DSOC and guess what that stands for. Get this; it stands for DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATION COLLECTIVE. Isn’t that “cute”? I was surprised to hear that straight people actually went to the meeting and after I heard the story of my friend’s brother coming out to his family recently and all together having a horrible time, I thought that I would go and show my support to him. So in a way I was saying that I did not condemn the actions of this kid or of Tom.
I have actually met a lot of gay people on campus here and I know
one that recently had one of his good friends come up to him and ask him if he
would help her with her math work. He
told her that he was going to stop by after he came back from the DSOC meeting. She asked him what that was and he explained the acronym and
she said “what?”. He said it again and then she said…”you’re gay?”.
He said yes and she stood there in her own dumbfound stupor.
She finally said “but you’re such a nice boy”.
As if he had to be bad to be gay. She
then tried to tell him that if he prayed really hard that God would answer his
pray and he would not have to deal with his gayness anymore. It was not that she didn’t believe that he could change but
is it her right to tell him that he should?
I don’t freaking think so. She
is another of those religion whores and he should have said something and
stopped her in her tracks but cause he was a “nice boy”, he didn’t say
anything and left the meeting with the intent of continuing to help her. For one she needs someone to tear her a new you know what and
he shouldn’t feel compelled to help her anymore.
But it’s not my place to tell him what to do.
The other cultural story that I’ve encountered in my time in
Towson was one girl that was from Africa. When
she told her family that she was a lesbian, her father “knew” that she was
cursed. Where she comes from,
you’re gay because you are using someone of the same sex for wealth and power
and it’s just a big lie or someone has cursed you.
So he told her of one time when someone had told her mother that a witch
doctor could give her mother wealth and riches but something bad would have to
happen to her child. Her mother
told her father that she didn’t go to see him but now the father thinks that
the mother is a liar and that the daughter’s homosexuality is the end result
of the greed of the mother. By the
way, the mother is in the medical profession and makes in excess of $75,000 a
year. So what do you think?
Did the mother she the witch doctor and can stuff like that really
happen? Are gay people really evil
and are cursed for being bad or doing something bad?
You need to decide for yourself and I can’t change the way you think.
Well,
that was my day today and I hope you enjoyed taking the journey down memory lane
once again with me. Thank you so
much for all your positive emails telling me that you love the series and want
to hear more. I love to hear that
other people can relate or not to what I am saying.
Tell me everything that you think…even the bad things.
Until tomorrow’s episode, I’m off to bed as Destiny’s Child is
singing “Amazing Grace” on the computer.
How fitting!!!