wisdom

Well Whistler was an awesome time. As it always is. Great to see everyone and nothing beats a hot day playing volleyball with good friends.

One of the friends of a 'used to be' friend stayed with us. He's a pothead. Thankfully he is a somewhat considerate pothead knowing that not all people enjoy 'blazing'. I'm not sure what it is about potheads but every one of them I've ever met really likes to theologize and have a philosophy on things that they assume everyone wants to know.

During one conversation I overheard, he took about 10 minutes explaining why there is such a low blood alcohol limit to drive. Obviously, he knows how much he can drink and still be in control and it should be his right to choose and moderate himself. Obviously, it is a government ploy to get money and remind us prohibition times. However, he DOES believe in seatbelts because he lost a friend to a car accident where seatbelts would have saved his life. In another long pontification, he told us about why he likes rain. It reminds him that forest fires are kept down. We just worship the sun because it is a marketing tool for big companies. But NATURE likes rain. On and on he goes.

Here's the part I don't get. People LIKE to listen to this guy! They call him smart. They call him reflective. He's even called spiritual. (and he frequently liked to say to me, "you should understand that - you're spiritual") If making incongruent, half baked statements of ill conceived observations makes someone wise, then I suppose they are right. So why is it that when a Christian opens their mouth about something from the Bible, we are called stupid for believing 'that stuff'. Smoke dope, play the drums, close your eyes and talk about your feelings about nature and you're wise. Attend church every week, read your Bible and believe in one of the oldest, most influential religeons of all time and you are ignorant. (and that's only from a secular point of view)

God takes the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. I just hope he's not talking about pothead.