The golden calf.

Non pagans look at me funny for believing in many gods.  Admittedly, they sometimes leave bibles around, but that's beside the point. They think I'm strange (at best) because my faith is divided betwixt so many deities.

But I don't think they realize there doing the same thing.

Think about it. We are a culture that is obsessed with celebrity. Even just this week CNN was running stories about a talentless starletts shoplifting woes in between stories on the crisis on the middle east.  As if it were real news! And the outrage of the Biebs cutting his hair! The candlelight vigil when Snooki drunkenly twists her ankle! (ok, that hasen't happened yet, but you know its going to)

So I've decided to make a little game out of it.  Wanna play?  It's called "who are the modern day gods".  Here goes...

(And much like my own pantheon, its a mix of Norse and Greek.  Yeah, I know, I'm weird)

Thor  - god of war.  I'm going to go with Gerrard Buttler. beautiful to look at, but has that air of hidden danger.

Hera - queen of the gods. Sandra Bullock. Total Hollywood royalty.

Odin - the man. The most powerful god of all (and the sexiest IMHO). It's a toss up. I was going to say Nathan Fillion, because... well, he's Mal and Mal is a GOD PEOPLE.  But I also have to say Liam Niesson.  Also powerful, smart, and uuber sexy.

I have an Odin thing, sorry.

Ahem, moving on.

Athena - goddess of wisdom.  Oprah. Not even going to explain.

Loki - the trickster god, trouble maker extrordanair. Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, insert any rehab junkies name here. Constantly in creating and living in chaos. 

Persephonie - (my patron goddess) goddess of spring, queen of the underworld, and deity of transformation.  I had a hard time coming up with a celebrity, but I'm going to go with Nichole Richie.  She was a loki, but turned herself around and now has this whole earth-mother thing going on. It's good. I'm usually not a fan of hers, but in this case, I'm good with it.

Gaia - the mother goddess. Julia Roberts. I totally get that hippy momma vibe watching her.

Balder - gentle and wise, god of light, source of all love.  Tom Hanks.  All the way.

So see, we may not realize it, but were worshiping the gods still. Just not the way we used to. 

im being stalked by jesus

so ive been noticing a weird trend in my tweet stream. im apparently being stalked by jesus. and an anti pornogrophy ring. and a money making plan that just requires a small investment of...

its all a little disconcerning.

i have nothing against jesus. hell of a guy. heard great things about him. and 99.999% of the christians i know are fabu people. its the ones that try to convert me through the anon gauze of the tweetaverse that are getting on my nerves.

i am happy in my path. i see no reason to look elsewhere. and, yes, i was BORN OK THE FIRST TIME. thank you. you can stop lurking in my stream now.

and while i dont follow them, they cant really enjoy reading my tweets. i curse. i complain and grouse about everything. im not a really plesant tweeter. funny, hells yeah. plesant, not so much. so im pretty sure with names like 'kids for christ', im not their bag.

personally, i use twitter as a sounding board for that ever random thought pops into my little head. moreso than facebook or even this blog. ask anyone who follows on both fb and twitter. im much less censored there. things and people that tend to annoy have their own hashtags. and the people that i follow are either people i KNOW, or ones that i am actually interesed in hearing what they have to say. im old school like that.

have we really become such a self obsessed society that ew expect everyone to hang on our every word? sadly, i think we have. just my two cents of course.

o ill admit, i follow a couple of celebrities. a couple of the firefly cast, some of the bsg cast. but thats just because im a massive geek. a. massive. geek. im under no delusions that these people want to hear ANYTHING i have to tweet.

so unless youre actually interested in what i have to say, dont follow me. think of me like @NathanFillion. stunning to look, at hillarious to read, but not connecting with you on this level of existance. (im sure hes a wonderful person, sweet to his friends, kind to animals, etc. but lets face it, hes a modern day god. but thats another post)