That was a thought that came to me this morning as I was reading more news about the Christian fundamentalists' latest fads (things to protest). When I posed that question to my friend Evan, he said "_turning_?.....it started as a cult." And I'm leaning towards agreeing with him.
If Christianity is a cult, and it bears all the signs of being one, then how does it get away with the bad things they do in "God's name" or because "God spoke to them." Didn't they used to lock people in a mental hospital if they said they talked to God? Now they elect those people president (GW Bush said that God talked to him)!
The religious right (not right as in correct, but right as in the opposite of left) has taken over our government. That much is obvious by how much power the Christian fundamentalists have within the upper echelons of the Executive branch. Jerry Falwell was consulted (before he died obviously, but you never know with this administration) on appointees for the Supreme Court. It's been reported that, just on the White House staff, there are over 150 graduates from Pat Robertson's Regent University (aka "a televangelists diploma mill" - Bill Mahr). In fact, Regent claims that over 1/6th of it's graduates are working for the government.
What happened to separation of Church and State? That ideal is no more.....now they are one entity. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; and the action of Christianity infiltrating our government has caused the reaction of the government removing more and more of our civil liberties.
I'll get off of my soap box for now. I didn't really get into the Christianity as a cult bit as detailed as I would like, but I don't have time to write it all up right now. Additionally, I wanted to talk a bit about Al Sharpton, his bigotry, and double-standards, but that would get me entirely too irritated. :) Maybe next I'll talk about the Denver Metro area cops, and their double-standards. Yet another very irritating subject! Have you heard of the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"? Well, I wanted to write a book called "7 Habits of Highly Irritated People". :)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Headlines - Storm in Denver Metro Area Hinders CTF Prep!
Ya gotta love Colorado. Just when I was sitting down to access an image we have running of the CTF 05 system, ready to practice more on reversing those services, and a fairly intense storm hits here in Denver. First indication I had that the storm was getting worse was when I lost satellite signal for my TV. No great loss, since there is only crap, and more crap to choose from on daytime television; and I could watch what I had saved in the “Now Playing” area. Something for background noise while coding n whatnot.
Then I lost my Internet connection (DSL). I went down to the “wiring closet” and saw that the DSL modem/router had lost connection to the CO (central office), but it re-established connection while I stood there. Thinking the problem had resolved itself, I went back upstairs to get back to work, but I was still unable to connect to any resources on the Internet! So I restarted everything, all network devices and computers in question. Just to see if that clears the problem.
Time to get back to basics, I broke out ping and traceroute. ☺ I tested connectivity to my router, and had no problems, no drops, excellent ping times (of course...it’s a LAN connection). But when I tested connectivity to my gateway (ISP’s router), the problem becomes apparent:
--- ip.addr.removed ping statistics ---
876 packets transmitted, 733 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 36.014/45.059/276.710/25.305 ms
*sarcasm* Awesome...and intermittent problem. My favorite! */sarcasm*
I went back down to the wiring closet to check out the DSL modem, and lo and behold it had lost connection to the C.O. It resync’d while I stood there (again), and a few minutes later the process repeated. *BOING* There goes the Internet connection. Kinda difficult to maintain an ssh connection or three when your Internet bounces like that!
I’ll be back later, hopefully the Internet connection and satellite connections return to stability. Unlike the rest of the household. LOL
##### UPDATE #####
5:30pm: Internet and satellite TV back. w00t.
Then I lost my Internet connection (DSL). I went down to the “wiring closet” and saw that the DSL modem/router had lost connection to the CO (central office), but it re-established connection while I stood there. Thinking the problem had resolved itself, I went back upstairs to get back to work, but I was still unable to connect to any resources on the Internet! So I restarted everything, all network devices and computers in question. Just to see if that clears the problem.
Time to get back to basics, I broke out ping and traceroute. ☺ I tested connectivity to my router, and had no problems, no drops, excellent ping times (of course...it’s a LAN connection). But when I tested connectivity to my gateway (ISP’s router), the problem becomes apparent:
--- ip.addr.removed ping statistics ---
876 packets transmitted, 733 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 36.014/45.059/276.710/25.305 ms
*sarcasm* Awesome...and intermittent problem. My favorite! */sarcasm*
I went back down to the wiring closet to check out the DSL modem, and lo and behold it had lost connection to the C.O. It resync’d while I stood there (again), and a few minutes later the process repeated. *BOING* There goes the Internet connection. Kinda difficult to maintain an ssh connection or three when your Internet bounces like that!
I’ll be back later, hopefully the Internet connection and satellite connections return to stability. Unlike the rest of the household. LOL
##### UPDATE #####
5:30pm: Internet and satellite TV back. w00t.
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