Rant: Extremists are pissing me off!

Blech... Hey guys. Strep sucks ass, which is one of the reasons I REALLY, REALLY hate the fall. But something good has come out of my sickness, as it has fueled my rage into something worth blogging about.



As you can tell by the title, today's rant is going to be about extremists, more importantly, religious extremists.


Allow me to expand and tell you a little about myself and my religious views. Personally, I am an agnostic. Now, many people will automatically think I don't believe in God and that I'm a "burn the churches" kind of guy, but that's not the correct definition. An atheist is someone who completely disregards religion. As an agnostic, I believe in a higher power, or perhaps numerous higher powers. That would make a bit more sense.

But, as an agnostic, I am directly opposed to organized religion. If there is a god, then I believe it's content with having us live and die. I don't try and formulate some kind of symbol of a god in my mind or write a book describing my god down to the very last detail, or even build monuments where we can pray to my nonexistant god.


Being someone who believes in a higher power myself, I have no problem with ordinary religion. Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jew, Scientologist; it doesn't make any difference to me. You have your religion, I'll have mine. Hell, I'm fine entering a civilized discussion with people over their religious beliefs and my own.

But there is a very thin line in the sand that people cross all too frequently, and it pisses me off to no end.


There are millions upon millions of Christians in the US alone, and most of them are good, normal people. They go to church, say their prayers and are able to live their lives without the fear of almighty God driving their every action.

It's time to begin our foray into religious extremism, starting with the Fearful Follower.

This kind of extremist is the one who is incredibly afraid of God, so much so that every move they make, they second-guess, just to make sure they're not committing a sin.


"Would you like a free chocolate bar with that, sir?"
"Are you crazy?! That's gluttony! That'd send me to hell! And you're going too for trying to tempt me!"


These people go to church not because they want to pay their respects to their creator, but go because they're so incredibly afraid that God will send them to a fiery pit of torment for all eternity that they feel they have no choice.

This makes no goddamn sense to me. People should be free to worship any god they want to because they're thankful for, you know, being created! Worshiping out of fear is not worshiping at all; in fact, it's oppression, something the United States has sworn to liberate people from.


Moving on to our 2nd Bible-Thumper, we have the Blind Follower.

These are the people who turn a blind eye to everything that doesn't deal with God, namely science and the history of their own religion. These people claim to follow every word in the Bible, which is fairly impossible, mainly for the fact that it's written by so many goddamn people. Why couldn't He just tell one of his disciples to write the book for him, instead of telling so many, and with a large time gap, too. I am of course referring to the Old and New Testaments.


In the Old Testament, God was a certifiable bad-ass, unleashing all kinds of plagues and such onto his enemies. This is where we get the 'put gays to death' and 'all blacks are sinful' works of Leviticus, which apparently every Christian clings onto into this day and age. You know, except for the blacks part, since that's illegal now. Then the New Testament comes along, and suddenly God's all about peace and love and 'thou shalt not kill' and all that malarkey.

So the question I pose to these people is why did God change his attitude towards people? And in doing this, is he admitting fault? This should never have happened, as God is all-knowing and omnipresent.


And let me tell you, 95% of the time, people will answer like this: "God had a plan, and he was executing it. He has a plan for all of us, including you." And the other 5% will skate around the question, not bothering to actually answer it.

We've gone a bit on a tangent here, so allow me to reel this train back on topic. The Blind followers are the people who don't know that Christianity was a sect from Judaism, or that the Crusades EVER HAPPENED. They also refuse to believe anything about the Solar System, beginning of the Universe or anything of the type. I'm fine with not believing evolution, but seriously; sometime you're going to have to wake up and smell the sulfur.

The Blinds are extremely annoying, because most just won't listen to reason. But they're nothing compared to our last class:


The Holy-Crap-Let's-Get-These-People-Some-Fucking-Therapy class.

You guys knew this was coming. These people are the ones who hide behind some obscure religious text as a way to instill hate and fear onto other people. The prime example of this phenomenon would be the Westboro Baptist Church, who combine all three classes of religious extremist.


This church has about 90 people altogether, mainly the Felps-Roper family. These people fucking infuriate me to no end! These people are so sick and twisted that they picket soldiers' funerals, holding up signs that "God hates fags" and "Thank God for IEDs." Their response to why they spread this hate? They "love all of God's decisions, and the military are fag enablers."

What in the fuck's a fag enabler in the first place?! Look, I understand you are opposed to gay people, but what in the name of fuck do you think gives you the right to hate other people for it?

And why a military funeral, you sick fucks? If it weren't for men and women giving their lives on the battlefield, you wouldn't have the ability to worship freely!

And what's more, they actually criticize the Catholic Church for being too soft and fag enablers themselves. What. The. Fuck.

Let me run down some of the other things they "thank God" for. They believe God organized 9/11 as a way to "wake America up," and he did so because he was angry at the fact that so many fags lived here. God will smite us all, and no-one is innocent. So it looks like we'll all burn in hell for things we didn't do.

These people just make me so FUCKING-

You know, I just had an epiphany. These people aren't sick, disgusting people who want to pervert the founding of a decent religion. They're professional trolls!

This entire fake religion was created for the sake of fucking with us! No ordinary human being is this messed up. They're running a 32 year scam on us, and it's been working!

Damn, these people are smart. In fact, I salute you, Most Hated Family In America. You've conned us all into believing you're a family of fucked-up people, and that takes some intelligence.

(Reality: I actually do believe they're faking, at least to a point.)

So, if you've skipped down here to the bottom, I'll give you the TL;DR version. Religion will always produce people like this, which is why I hate it being organized.

If I ever do become a productive member of society, I think I'll be a pastor, so I can save people from going down these paths of idiocy.

Videos to watch: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Darknessthecurse&view=videos Just type in "Religion" in the search videos bar. Make sure you watch the Jesus Camp rant too.

Hentai and common sense forever,
Kyouger.

Lolicon. Why, exactly?

Hey, all. I've been pretty bored lately, so that's given me a lot of time to think. And as we all know, thinking is bad, children!

If you've paid close enough attention, you'd probably know that I like lolicon immensely. Hell, my first M rated fic (off the site) was an UruruxRukia, and my first actual fic was going to be a TophxKatara. Even though I love it to bits, the question that kept creeping its way into my mind was why exactly I like it. I thought I could easily answer that, but I found that I couldn't. This got me started thinking about why lolicon is attractive to so many people. I mean, I'm not a pedophile or a child molester (And if you are, eat shit and die), but I still harbor and attraction to the younger members of the opposite gender.

As of 2004, the Supreme Court officially declared that banning lolicon was unconstitutional. I'm not exactly sure of its legal status now, but I'm pretty sure George Dubuya Bush outlawed it in the US, though it may depend on the situation it's presented in.

What's most odd about this is that I'm attracted to the small, childish, flat-chested animated girl as much as the 18 year old DD one. I suppose both of these aspects came into play with Tsunade, though it did kind of turn her into a Frankenstein of fetishes.

I've come up with a couple theories as to why I and many others are attracted to it. I think part of it comes from early childhood experiences. Think about it; when was the first time you were attracted to a girl? My first crush was in 1st grade, so naturally when I think about it, I'm thinking of the girl as she was at 6 or 7 years old. Thinking that would usually be considered pedophilia, as you're not supposed to harbor feelings for someone that young. So perhaps, looking back, I see many of the other girls as much better looking than I did then, and perhaps what I missed out on. Still, this may not be exactly why I came to lolicon, or why so many others are.

The second idea may have to deal with genetics. Trust me, I'm not a scientist, and I haven't cracked the human gene code, but from what I've heard, many of our personality traits simply come from inherited genes or mutations in DNA. Hell, this is really off the wall, and I'll admit that I have no clue if any of this is true or not.

Another thing that comes to mind as I'm writing this is Valamir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which the word lolicon is deprived from. Humbert (The main protagonist), due to an affair he had with a fouteen year old in school, is now extremely attracted to nyphets, as he calls them. This locks in with my other theories. Perhaps it was a combination of both genetics and early childhood experiences that drove him to chase after Lolita.

Even with all of this thinking, I'm still not exactly sure why I've become attracted to lolicon. Hell, I may never know. But I can still wonder, I suppose. Oh well.

Hentai (And lolicon) forever,
Kyouger.

P.S: I finally got Xbox Live! Though I may not be on it for a while (Problems at home; I'll make a blog post with more info when I get it.), you can add me if you wish. My gamertag is simply Kyouger. Keeps it simple.

As my friend byakuganwalker puts it,
P-E-A-C-E!

What happened to the old days?

Hello, and welcome to my 15th blog posting. Does this mean I'm going to throw a keg party to celebrate? No. But it does mark the first rant on this blog. I had to take a mental poll, but I eventually chose this one. Jack Thompson came in a close second.

I've been watching cartoons for most of my life, and I believe that I have a pretty good understanding of them. Ever since I was old enough to walk, talk and eat solid foods (happened in that order), I've been fascinated by all manner of animated pictures. The first series I got hooked on (and I mean hooked) was the original Pokemon. I actually got in trouble for watching when I wasn't supposed to. That, and I loved being named after a TV character, as did my cousin.

I loved the first season of the show, and kept watching it until we moved, and had no cable for about a fricking YEAR! Anyway, when I returned to the series, it was now in the Johto region, and I was so excited about seeing so many new pokemon. But there in the back of my mind I realized I was going to have to give up some things, like being able to name all 150 pokemon (which I can still do to this day), but I didn't think much of it.

After Johto ended, I felt really good about the series and even bought a couple of games for the N64 and gameboy. But then, lo and behold, another series was about to take mine's place.

By now I was getting suspicious. The clips I had seen showed two new characters who I had never even met before (May and Max), and I felt confused. Where was Misty, the first animated girl I ever fell in love with (How could I not drool at a girl who is either wearing A) 4 inch shorts, or B) a mermaid outfit?); where was Brock, the lovable pervert who actually became my role model? This is when I finally just decided to let the series drop forever. I still watch a few episodes here and there (Mainly because Dawn is a nymphet; see 2nd post after this), but overall, it's basically dead to me.

Actually, I suppose I'm being overly mean. Most of the pokemon video games (With the exception of Pokemon: Revolution) have been really entertaining, and though I've never gotten all pokemon in each game, I've had gotten some real use out of Pokemon: Emerald, at least until I lost it. 138 hours of use, to be precise.

I could go on listing some more examples of how companies are unwilling to let good old serieses die just so they can reap a few more drops out of its teats, so I will.

Take Digimon. I never followed the original anime too closely (Or I my memory could be failing and I forgot most of them), but I'll admit that I loved the movie. One Halloween I even dressed up as... er... Gatomon, was it? I can't remember. Anyway. I thought the movie was tear-jerking, actiony and was good enough to keep me up all night thinking of different ways it could have gone. That's probably the first baby steps I took into the realm of fanfiction. But then, after something like seven motherfucking seasons, it's just fallen into the same rigmarole that the other seasons did, and did much better. The latest seasons have been nothing more than self-parodies, to be truthful.

Pokemon, Digimon, and Friday the 13th movie sequels all have the same problem: they all reach critical mass at around the 3rd installment, leading to directors who have fallen off their high horse desperately trying to get their audience back, and losing nearly as many as they get by spending less consideration to characters and more on flashy animation and marketing.

Look, as I've grown up and watched the world grow up around me, I've been disgusted with about 80% of it. TV channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have just been releasing worse and worse shows over the past three years or so. I might add that there are much less anime played on each of these channels, but that's another story.

The last good show to come out of CN was Ben 10, and even that felt like it was lacking something. I honest to god loved Teen Titans, and that's why it was such a frigging disappointment when they decided to take it off the air. Hell, even my mother, who generally stays as far away from animated shows as possible, was wondering what happened to Terra in the end.

Cartoon Network has produced some pretty good cartoons in the past: Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Megas XL-friggin-R.

Most of these have been directed to the 8-10 year old audience, but Megas was geared towards a teenage audience more than the single digits. It was just like a Japanese Mecha show, but instead of featuring a yaoi fangirl bait as the main protagonist, Coop is an overweight, pop culture spewing junkyard dude who lives in Philly (A lot like me, except for the Philly part). It had a ton of inside jokes and references to music and anime that (Shock!) were actually funny! Not one recent show has made me laugh so hard, except to laugh at the ridiculousness of the concept.

As two more marks for Megas, Jamie is a lanky perv who likes chicks and money (Again, a lot like me), and Kiva is H-O-T hot. To top it all off, the show was still very action-packed, with Megas often facing off against unbeatable odds, only to have something go horribly wrong that saves the day, like accidentally teleporting a 36 ounce slushie into a mech which short-circuits the controls or making an MTV satellite fall from the sky and crush something. Fucking hilarious.

I'm still extremely ticked that it only lasted for two seasons, but I can kind of understand Cartoon Network's decision on this one. Probably more than a few parents with 6 year olds complained that the show wasn't kid-friendly enough, ignorant to the fact that their 6 year old loved the show to begin with. Even if they didn't get the jokes, they still liked the giant robots.

But lately, everything has gone from producing good shows with intelligent humor to producing shows with low production values and shit-faced characters. I would rather gouge my eyes out with dessert forks than watch these new shows. Chowder, Flapjack, George of the Jungle, Chop Socky Chooks; all of these shows are simply a way to cash in on 6 year old gullibility. Oh, and if any of you have never heard of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, consider yourself lucky.

Nickelodeon did have couple of classic shows up its sleeve. I think it's been around since the 70s. The Angry Beavers, Rugrats, and The Wild Thornberrys, which was a Steve Irwin show in the guise of a cartoon show. Rocko's Modern Life I wish I could see again, because there were a lot of jokes I didn't get as a child that I'd probably get now. Regardless of all of these shows being at least decent, Nickelodeon never was the channel to beat when it came to cartoons. Most of its programming in the beginning consisted of wacky game shows like All That, Double Dare, the Amanda Show and so on. Plus, it was the channel that aired Animorphs, which I'm so dissapointed that I missed. I found the books about a year after the series ended. Such a shame.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is the only good cartoon that Nick currently has out, and has actually gained an extremely large following of otaku, much like myself. So what does Nick do? Put it on fucking hiatus. Thankfully, the hiatus is ending in July, but only FIVE EPISODES? Christ's sake! Look, Nick, I know you want people to watch your shows so people will advertise and you will get money. That's the way it works. So don't put one of your most watched shows on hiatus, get us hyped by showing teasers in other countries that eventually wind up on youtube in shaky-cam-o-vision and then only air five episodes!

And they say there's going to be a movie, but I doubt that. To me, "movie" is something that lasts more than an hour, not counting commercials. Most of the "movies" that Nick has shown have just been 1 hour specials. Look, being gone for six months means that you should have something to give us other than five episodes and a special. This is supposed to be the show finale, with Sozin's comet coming up. What were they doing this entire time; giving each other piggyback rides? Maybe they were tired of the cash and free hookers being thrown at them constantly.

All I can say is that there had better be something waiting for us after the five episodes. I can deal with waiting for Friday to see the next installment.

And I know for a fact that this crap isn't what kids want! If I loved pokemon when I was a kid (and most of the people in my school did as well), then why can't we go back to making more dramatic shows at slightly higher prices?

Look, if you feel the same way as I do, just comment. I'd appreciate it.

Links you should check out:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0s37se92o RIP Nickelodeon 1979-2004
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Prjqu0F6d-U RIP Cartoon Network 1992-2004

Hentai forever,
Kyouger.