So today was supposed to have been game day, unfortunately due to a combination of illness (On my part) and scheduling difficulties (On some of their parts.) led to a day of watching Angel instead, oh and some John Cusack in The Contract.

Since Live Journal is down, I am publishing this here.

Started my work on the D20 Star Wars campaign, even though in all likelihood it will be a one shot on our parts. Depends on how well I can get the others sold on this. I know they'd like it, but right now scheduling is such a bitch. Estes and bishop work in food service, so of course their schedule is shit.

3278 had personal commitments today, for which I can't blame him-after all somethings do take precedence over gaming. (Few.) (Very few.) (I mean life and death shit.) (Like Red Dawn serious is what we're talking here.)

On the Shadowrun front I am happy with how the game is progressing so far, but again scheduling is sucking. We just got started and now we're stalled. A least until next week.

On the personal front I took Drama C to the park today and let her swim for a few hours. She had a blast, and it was fun watching all the kids play. Tried calling the kids tonight, but the exwife was unreceptive to letting them calling back apparently, since it's been 3 full hours since I called them, and she said they were out playing.

Well more sneezing now.

Why is it that when some people fervently believe in ghosts or when they follow commanding ‘voices in their head’, these people are treated as delusional, crazy or even psychopathic? These people are given medical treatment and brain-chemical balancing drugs in order to manage their mental illnesses. Yet when people profess the most intense beliefs in certain other things no one has ever really seen, such as demons, Allah, God, angels, heaven, hell and so on, these people are treated with the greatest of reverence and social respect and even made into leaders and wise gurus who become rich from the donations of their faithful followers!

What is the difference here? The fantasies and delusions are equally foolish whether it’s the belief and obedience to a psychotic voice in the head or an imaginary deity residing in some magical place no one can see. Religious beliefs should be placed in the same class as mental sickness or any other serious psychological disorder that degrades the quality of life and the individuals’ ability to deal with reality.

One of the fundamental (but understandable) flaws with modern psychology is its assumption that sanity is defined using the mental character of the majority as a benchmark. But this standard isn’t really objective, it’s subjective and merely based on a relational comparison that is used incorrectly to define an aberrant standard for mental health. Just because many people believe in something that doesn’t make it valid, and just because a lie is repeated a billion times that doesn’t make it any more truthful than it was to begin with!

Words harder than steel.

In this post I announce the opening of my blog, and my intentions.

Now to get some intentions, and something interesting to say!!