A BIG BUSHY BEARD!

So I was having a chat with my good friend Andrew last night in the theater before Hot Fuzz started (pretty funny movie... "He had one thing you don't... A BIG BUSHY BEARD!!" but kind of slow when you only got 3 hours of sleep the night before) and he was talking about how he thought Christians and the church in general are really fake. I don't want to go into what we talked about, more about that point. Basically he said Christians are pretty okay with a mediocre faith, and not really growing in that faith. If you've had one discussion about American Christianity with me you'll know I completely agree with that. It's completely self-serving, and put simply it's lazy. Maintaining a relationship with God is really difficult, and honestly I don't think it's honest if you're pursuing your own dreams of self-actualization or whatever. Basically, I don't think it's possible to pursue the American dream before you have genuinely and fully pursued God, and allowed God to change you in the ways you need to be changed. If you do that, and then once you have a nice comfy lifestyle you decide "you know, I need God, I think I'll go pick up a devotional" you've based your life on yourself, and that base has to be stripped if you genuinely want to live that lifestyle.
Anyway, that's not really what I want to talk about. (Disclaimer: I am in no way bashing Andrew and what we talked about. What we talked about kind of shaves to the side of my qualm with myself and others who do this. We good? Good. Now give me five.) I have this amazing ability to feel better about where I am in my walk by looking at someone and saying "well this person is getting drunk and crap when she claims to be a Christian. I may have my issues, but at least I'm not as bad as her." I really don't like a lot of aspects about this country and it's citizens. Again, if you've had one conversation with me about that, you know that. Still, I find myself building myself up by tearing someone else down. I don't see a major difference between that and those assholes who beat their wives/ girlfriends. Or someone very intelligent who bashes people for being "dumb." There is a difference, but they're in the same arena. So, I'm gonna try not to do it anymore.
On a happier note, Spiderman 3 wasn't as bad as everyone said it was. Don't get me wrong, it was much worse than the 2nd one, and I have plenty to complain about. But I went into it having such a low standard for it, that it really surprised me. Tim pretty much already wrote the book on it in his Xenga, so I'm going to add two things to his post: Venom looked retarded. He looked like one of Dwight's bobble heads. And he had no personality. For some reason it left Peter personality in the black suit, but when Brock got it, he's all of a sudden this snarling creature with no personality. I know it plays off of individual personalities, but come on, they were just trying to make it more badass. (By the way, what the heck happened to the man-spider?!? They set it up in the second with him losing his powers, and then all of a sudden there's no problem? Effin' A Cotton.) Second, it would have been great as a TV series, but as a lot of people have said, it was just way too complicated. Every 20 minutes we were supposed to care about some completely new plot development. They introduced these characters and plots, and then barely scratched the surface because they needed to fit in the Sandman's daughter, or Peter/ Maryjane/ Harry, or Peter and Harry, or Brock and Peter and what's her face. But, 24 does that every week. They just give us a week to work it out in our minds. So yeah, I give it a 6. The fight scenes were freakin' cool though. And Harry and Spiderman's workin' together sequence was A-MA-ZA-ZING.
So yeah, that's what's up. I had a really good weekend, and I have to turn in my paper sometime within the next couple days, and I'll be done with school.... then comes summer classes.... then moving out... then peeps from Texas.... then the amazingness that will be Oregon. It's gonna be a good summer.