Sunday 2/2/08

I was appauled reading about the supposed catholic visionary Christina Gallagher. Kudos to the Sunday World for exposing her antics. Her delights seemed to be very much rooted in this world, if she has a number of millionaire properties. Her palatial estate in Malahide, is certainly not in keeping with what she preaches. The catholic world seems to be choc full of stigmatists, visionaries, and doomsayers. What I feel terrible about, is that the only people that would have been suckered into giving her money, is the people that can least afford it. You can almost be gauranteed, that she was not receiving money from wealthy people (they would not be wealthy for too long if they were suckered into every scam going). It is the exploitation of the poor morons on social welfare, or the people that have saved money all their lives, and think that they are reserving their places in some supposed afterlife, that really annoys me. If I had the courage, I would love to conduct an experiment on Grafton Street. Given the fact that I must look so pathetic most times, I would be very interested to see how much money I would make if I had the nerve to just sit in the corner with a begging bowl,and my right leg splayed out. It seems that she has gotten away with her charade for many years, but it is all now catching up to her.

I have been in contact via e-mail with an ex mormon, and I now know that catholics are not the only crazies. As she said to me, the mormons are a lot of crazy fuckers, and she is glad that she has now removed herself from them. Joseph Smith was indeed a crackpot! I personally think it is a very good sign, that the churches are emptying all over the world, but my only reservation is that I hope people do not cling to the more radical cults in search of meaning. I heard on the radio last week there was a case in Wexford, where an Irish family who had converted to islam, had protested that their daughter should be allowed to wear a full tracksuit bottom instead of shorts when playing camogie. I would take issue with this. She is playing a sport, not advertising a religious preference. I would have the same objection if the girl insisted on wearing a crucifix and rosary beads around her neck. Does'nt seem fair that the girl has to run around in a sweat in tracksuit bottoms, in order to uphold her families cult beliefs. Why do people seem to be so ready to get on their knees?. Are'nt we as humans the real ones that should be worshipped?. Anything to me, that puts humans on their knees, or in some deferential posture, has to be considered suspect.

I have just finished a book called "Many Lives, Many Masters", written by an eminent psychiatrist, who's belief systems were shaken up when he encountered a woman patient, who appeared to have lived many lives before, under hypnotic regression. It seemed very plausable and accurate, and it seemed to give him great relief and satisfaction to know that there is no such thing as death, and that we merely pass onto another plain of existence. To be honest though, this does sound just a little bit too condescending for my liking. What lessons are the people that are born into abject poverty and hunger learning, or being born into a terribly dysfunctional family, where they are abused day in day out?. It seems to me that these books are a good read, for people who have the luxury of being able to sit around and intellualize all day.

Yesterday I was meant to go to Midlands Bodybuilders in Longford, to correct the ramp at the back of the van which is leaking oil. I want to take premptive action, before the day comes when we are stuck in Dublin, exhausted after a days shopping, and we find that the lift wont come down. As it happened, the roads were too icy on Saturday to allow us to go. We would have had to set off by eight, as they told me that the job would take 2 hours and they finish strictly at 1. So instead we went to Dublin, where there was the usual good Grafton Street atmosphere, led by a street entertainer called Basketball Jones.

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