April 29, 2001

I think this clearly demonstrated my point. 3 days and not a single responce. I told you I either don't exist, or no-one cares anymore.
Anyway.
I finished reading a really good book yesterday. Slaughterhouse Five. Im not a real fan of fiction books, matter of fact I dont enjoy them at all. However, seeing as how I had to read this one for a grade, I did enjoy this one. Not so much the book itself, but the consept that the book presents about time and life. The main character, or "hero" (in this case more like the victum) is a man named Billy Pilgrim. He goes to some planet named Tralfamadore where he learns that all time happens simultneously; thus, no one really dies. The irony of this all is that the permanence has a dark side, and all horrific events live forever as well. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, really makes a point about fate and destiny though. Through his view of time it shows that all events are fated and impossible to change. Which makes death all the better in the novel. Everytime someone dies Billy just says "so it goes." Because someone is dead only for that moment, but is still alive for millions of moments prior to that one.
The one thing that really sold me into this book was when he started to talk about Jesus being Gods son.
"Jesus really was a nobody, and a pin in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels. So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. There couldn't possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought. The reader would have to think that, too, since the new Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was. And then, just before the nobody died, the heavens opened up, and there was thunder and lightning. The voice of God came crashing down. He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son, giving him the full powers and privileges of The Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity. God said this: from this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections!"
The point of this was: what if Jesus wasn't the son of God? Would it still have been so horrible to kill him? Why do people think that killing Jesus is anymore important than killing a bum on the street?

Remember: all good children go to heaven

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