Awwe Shucks

It is officially the end of my birthday. And I had garlic ice cream.

Urinalysis

It seems as if the past week of my life has revolved around urine. I like cats. But I don’t like the cats that live underneath my house. One evening I entered my bungalow to be bombarded with the poignant smell of cat urine. The smell was so pungent that I gagged and collapsed onto the carpet…. well, not really, but you get the point. To add on top of that, my neighbors have been having some kind of crazy alcoholic endeavors… where night after night, they have been vomitting profusely outside my window. As I’m brushing my teeth with my Oral-B electric toothbrush the following morning, I find the black and white kitten that lives underneath my room gorging itself with the slightly off-orange vomotous. I’m sorry, but this site could not even save the cuteness of this kitten. I gagged. There was no way I was going to catch that critter and find it a home. It’s tainted.

Oh, and I also took a urinalysis test yesterday. Passed with flying colors.

Gah… I don’t have enough time anymore. I have class in 3 minutes.

Terrorist Threat Level: Pink  (or the closest thing to Pink)

So it has been way… WAY too long since the last time I wrote in this. I’m back… not necessarily better than ever, but stressed out like a teenage pregnancy scare.

I’m just procrastinating on my big debate tomorrow in regards to the U.S.’s involvement in Iraq. Lots of interesting stuff… I’ll be sure to post my findings sometime this week.

If you kids have any remote interest in what I’ve been up to, here’s a photo someone took of me two weeks ago.

I’ve imbibed quite a bit of sake and beer this fine evening. Luckily this girl looks like Natalie Portman. Oh, wait… I’m gay. The blonde to my right is my BFF. [Translation: Best Friend 4-Eva.] As you can see, she’s laughing hysterically. At least her cleavage looks good… milky white.

Sigh… the wonders of college life. How I’m going to miss it so. 

Anyway, I apologize for the sophomoric overtones of this xanga entry. I’ll be sure to write someone worthwhile in the next one.  

- peace in the middle east

The Jason Chan’s of the World Unite

Being completely bored to my wits end this evening, I’ve decided to embark on an extensive global effort to form the “Jason Chan” allegiance. I, of course, would be “JC 001″ – leader of all Jason Chan’s. Here’s who I’ve recruited to this allegiance thus far.

JC 002: Graduated with a B. Sc. at the University of Victoria in 2000.  He’s currently working on projects related to false memory… 002: A manipulative sonofabitch.

JC 003: Spiritual teacher, healer, and counsellor. He has studied martial arts, Tai Chi, and sacred Taoist art in Hong Kong since childhood. You can even find his website in Dutch and French. 003: Martial arts proven deadly.

JC 004: Currently stars as “Cam” in Power Rangers Ninja Storm. Faithful servant to a guinea pig dressed in traditional Japanese garb. 004: Important telepathic skills with animals, as well as kickass relations with the Power Rangers.

JC 005: Partner in Intellectual Property and technology. 005: Mean ass muthafucka.

JC 006: An investment professional at Hotchki’s and Wiley Capital Management. 006: He eats people.

JC 007: Student at University Choral, he’s the watcher of Beethoven’s tomb. He also befriends white kids who look like schmucks… 007: still under consideration.

And there is I, JC 001: The ringleader of this fearless global organization. 001: Liberty and Justice… and the gay wad that wears turtlenecks.

JC 002:                JC 003:        JC 004:               JC 005:               JC 006:               JC 007:               JC 001:          

Stand back, United Nations… The Jason Chan’s are here.

Take the Sex Test

It’s not really a sex test, but it’s a question and answer forward that I got in regards to our upcoming war with Iraq. Something for y’all to think about… plus, I’m too lazy to write anything interesting.

1. Q: What percentage of the world’s population does the U.S. have?
A: 6%

2. Q: What percentage of the world’s wealth does the U.S. have?
A: 50%

3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia

4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
A: Iraq

5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide?
A: $900+ billion

6. Q: How much of this is spent by the U.S.?
A: 50%

7. Q: What percentage of US military spending would ensure the essentials of
life to everyone in the world, according the UN?
A: 10% (that’s about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on Afghanistan).

8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II?
A: 86 million

9. Q: How long has Iraq had chemical and biological weapons?
A: Since the early 1980′s.

10. Q: Did Iraq develop these chemical & biological weapons on their own?
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the US government, along with Britain and private corporations.

11. Q: Did the US government condemn the Iraqi use of gas warfare against Iran?
A: No

12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988?
A: 5,000

13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
A: 0

14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did America use in Vietnam?
A: 17 million.

15. Q: Are there any proven links between Iraq and September 11th terrorist attack?
A: No

16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
A: 35,000

17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western
forces during the Gulf War?
A: 0

18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by U.S. tanks with ploughs mounted on the front?
A: 6,000

19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
A: 40 tons

20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in Iraq between 1991 and 1994?
A: 700%

21. Q: How much of Iraq’s military capacity did America claim it had
destroyed in 1991?
A: 80%

22. Q: Is there any proof that Iraq plans to use its weapons for anything other than deterrence and self defense?
A: No

23. Q: Does Iraq present more of a threat to world peace now than 10 years ago?
A: No

24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on Iraq in 2002/3?
A: 10,000

25. Q: What percentage of these will be children?
A: Over 50%

26. Q: How many years has the U.S. engaged in air strikes on Iraq?
A: 11 years

27. Q: Were the U. S and the UK at war with Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: No

28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on Iraq between December 1998 and September 1999?
A: 20 million

29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on Iraq’s imports and exports?
A: 12 years

30. Q: What was the child death rate in Iraq in 1989 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 38

31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in Iraq in 1999 (per 1,000 births)?
A: 131 (that’s an increase of 345%)

32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions?
A: 1.5 million

33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997?
A: 750,000

34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of Iraq?
A: No

35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998?
A: 300

36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems?
A: 5

37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba’ath Party HQ?
A: Yes

38. Q: Who said that by December 1998, “Iraq had in fact, been disarmed to a level unprecedented in modern history.”
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.

39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq’s post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled?
A: 90%

40. Q: Is Iraq willing to allow the weapons inspectors back in?
A: Yes

41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65

42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?
A: 30+

44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8

45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
A: 0

46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
A: Over 10,000

47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: The US

48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400

50. Q: Who said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter?”
A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Congratulations! You got a 100% on the test. Anyway, I’m going to the Grand Canyon tomorrow. Hopefully I won’t fall in.

Was bored… changed my “look and feel.” You like? Comments are welcome. I want your experience at Gasian’s world wide webpage to be a pleasant one.

Spring had Sprung

Greetings my xanga friends. I’m currently in Santa Barbara for spring break… hanging out with the rastafarians, admiring their glass work, and gorging myself.

My vacation has started out quite nicely. I’m currently staying with my childhood friend, Christine. We rode our bikes today… I on a masculine black cruiser with high handle bars (which matched quite nicely with my black hoodie), while she sported a shiny red one with silver guards. She felt so feminine on her bicycle that she flipped her hair for me, losing control, and running into a parked Rav4.

Poop
After some deliberation, I’ve decided to give this topic a rest. Since I do not have Xanga Premium, it limits my ability to debate this topic over IM with tkd. I will, however, continue the debate via xanga or e-mail if tkd is still interested. BUT, Expoernie made a good point.

Perhaps I got caught up with my arguments when I really should be focusing on my personal relationship with God. What is Christianity really all about? Reconciliation between us and our Lord. It just seems a bit futile to rant on such issues, exhausting ourselves when we should focus all this energy with the good Lord.

If anything, we have our own beliefs relating to our own experiences in life. We have our different interpretations of the Bible, different religious practices and values, different relationships with our God. Who is to say that my practice, my personal beliefs of Christianity are better than tkd’s, and vice versa? We can only agree to disagree.

Break out the Full House soundtrack… Christianity really isn’t about rules and regulation, but building a relationship – an amazing friendship – with someone who loves you unconditionally despite how lame you can be. It’s about a God who sacrificed his own son so we can live eternally in a really really really ridiculously awesome place… dancing, singing, and praising forever. How amazing does that sound? And all you need to do is to believe and trust.

I do not believe that Christian homosexuality is a sin, although many people would disagree. And if it were a sin, some people may forget that it’s no worse than any other sin, say like spitting your gum in that crazy ho’s hair.

So that’s that. Comments are still welcome about the issue, and a debate about the issue is still welcomed if y’all want to. Otherwise, lets move on to lighter, Oh happy day topics like midgets, baboons, and polka music.

God bless…

Sigh…

Thanks again for all your opinions, comments, and support. I would like to especially thank Ms. poop johnson’s latest rant. Extremely articulate and well written. I suggest y’all read how brilliant she is. Thanks poop!

I would also like to thank SJHockey’s desire to educate himself about this matter, and keeping an open mind. Thanks B!

Anyway… just to continue on this arduous debate, and to procrastinate further on my studying, I will propose more questions to spark further analysis. I would also like to apologize for the lack of clarity and articulation in this blog, but my brain is fried from school.

Before I start on this rant, I would like to say that I am not against Christianity, the Bible, or its teachings… but what I am trying to do is to pose questions in order to open new doors of thinking as opposed to taking things as face value. Everything is interpreted differently by people with different experiences. Let this be whatever you want it to be.

In response to tkd’s comment that things are black and white in the Bible when it comes to women’s rights and homosexuality in the Bible, I beg to differ. Here’s an article that supports my claim that various denominations of Christianity interpret things differently (a grey area):

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.01.01/mpnews3-0109.html

If things were black and white, wouldn’t every single Christian on this planet be in the same denomination? Wouldn’t we follow the exact same practices of baptizing our children when they’re born, take communion on the same day, sing the same hymns if everything was black and white? What’s the purpose of having Babtists, Presbyterians, Evangelical, etc.?

Furthermore, when I posed the question to tkd whether he believed that Christian men were superior to Christian women, his response was “no.” I agree with tkd with this issue, but if we take SJHockey’s comment that “God’s Word is true and infallilble,” this would mean that, yes, Christian men are more superior to Christian women. For example 1 Timothy 2:11-14 says “Women should listen and learn quietly and humbly. I never let women teach men or lord it over them. Let them be silent in your church meetings. Why? Because God made Adam first, and afterwards he made Eve.” Would this mean that all women pastors are going against God’s wishes? This, of course, is based on interpretation (a grey area).

Another verse. 1 Peter 3:7 says “You husbands must be careful of your wives, being thoughtful of their needs and honoring them as the weaker sex…” Men are superior!

And here’s the most interesting I’ve found: Titus 2:4-5 says “These older women must train the younger women to live quietly, to love their husbands and their children, and to be sensible and clean minded, spending their time in their own homes, being kind and obedient to their husbands…” And verse 9-10 also says “Urge slaves to obey their masters and to try their best to satisfy them. They must not talk back, nor steal, but must show themselves to be entirely trustworthy…”

Does this verse say that women are not allowed to work outside the home and pursue careers such as social workers, nurses, or perhaps the future president of the United States? Does this also mean that slavery is okay? If this is God’s Word being true and infallilble, does this mean that we should take black people and enslave them again?

Other verses that deal with women’s subordination: Col. 3:18, Ephesians 5:21-33, and more… if you’re interested.

My point:

Interpretation… interpretation… interpretation. Everything is grey, nothing is ever black and white. This can include homosexuality… Sodom and Gommorah: Gang rape; 1 Cor. verse: greedy (Capitalism?), swindlers (Robin Hood?), homosexuals (Greek practices of power [refer to my Feb 10 blog]);  1 Romans verse: Issues of lust not love. Interpretation… interpretation… interpretation…

As for Leviticus, I have always had difficulty with this book and how to associate it with modern Christian practices. If we still practiced what was said in Leviticus, we wouldn’t be able to to play football? Women couldn’t go into church while wearing a tampon? Not being facetious, but I’m completely flabbergasted with this book. If anyone has ideas, I’m all ears.

And in response to SJHockey’s article he found (which I appreciate)… there are, afterall, two sides to every story:

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/exodus.htm

http://www.jeramyt.org/gay/exgaypap.htm

And so it ensues…

Since I’m studying for midterms, I’m just going to continue this debate about Christianity and Homosexuality. Post your comments… Christians, Homos, Straight people, bonobos monkeys…

Latest response to my March 4th blog:

“Nor will you know the humiliation, the confusion, and being scared in a society where people strap other humans to a wooden fence, beating them senseless and leaving them for dead.”

Ah but we know more than you’d think. Roman arenas, lion’s den, crucifixtion? You think just cuz some idiot WASPs are running this country that Christians, true Christians, I must clarify, have had it all good? [Gasian this isn't in response to you, but a response to a response to you.]

The Bible says homosexuality is wrong. Man and woman created to become one. Period.

Gay penguins, natural homosexuality, blah blah- excuses. It is not natural, it is not normal, it is not not a choice, if that made sense.

As militant and ultra-right-wing as I sound, I’m not. Always open to debates.

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