Afghan War

Today marks the 1000th Soldier to die in the Afghanistan War. When Presendent Bush was in Office I remember the outrage from Dingy Harry ( and other Democratic figures), Code Pink, and various people or organizations the decrying the waste of life. So, where is the outrage now? War is different now? If you are againest war, then you are againest war. It does not matter what political party in is office, but I guess that is not true.

Genisis

I was watching a show on the History Channel the other night "Decoding the Past," and the show was about the Creation Story in the Bible and how there seems to be 2 different accounts in the first 3 chapters of Genisis. The first 5 books of the Bible were written about 1400 BC (somewhere in that time period) a 1000 years before Genisis was written there was the "Epic of Gilamesh" which is a Sumerian legend . The Epic of Gilamesh is a collection of poems and stories about a mythological hero-king named "Gilamesh," the Epic contains a creation story (which was a 7 day duration), and world flood story, and a snake. The show went on to explain that later civilizations took the "gods" of previous civilizations and then demonized the gods; hence in the Biblical creation story the snake is evil, because in the Epic of Gilamesh the snake was a "good guy." Basically the Biblical creation story is a copy from the Sumerian story.

Jewish Rabbis state that there are tensions in the Old Testement and the difference between the two creation stories is such a tension. The Rabbis then form some kind of groups ( I forget what they call them ) the purpose of the group is to explain the apparent difference between the "tensions" in the Old Testement. Apparently there were two women that God created: first there was "Lilith", and then "Eve." In the first creation account God created Adam and Lilith from the ground, in essence equall to each other. A fight accured between Adam and Lilith over sex. Adam said that copulation could only accure between them in the "missionary" position, but Lilith did not agree with that assesment by Adam. Lilith said "I want to have sex with you, but I want to be on top," Adam did not agree with that, thus a fight broke out between them. Lilith, flew off to go and have sex with the fallen Angels, creating the giants referenced by the Old Testement. Lilith is also reference in the Gilamesh myth, which would indicate that idea of Lilith was copied by the writters of Genisis. In the second creation account God put Adam to sleep and took one of his ribs and then created Eve. The Rabbis explained that the idea was the Eve was equall to Adam, but not independent -- joined together so she would not be like Lilith (independent of Adam). It is just supposition but I am guessing this is how the idea of marriage started, that you are "one" with the one who who love; joined together.

Boston

I was getting ready for school one morning in my room, and I heard this song. I remember thinking "What group was that?" I had never heard music that, it was different from everything that I was hearing on the radio. Boston has been my band every since I heard them.