Lessons in Metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music: LEAF BLOWERS

I went to bed at around 2am, got a stupid call from a telemarketer at 10am and thought to myself that I wasn't going to be able to get back to sleep and for some reason the pillow was uncomfortable. I then, apparently quickly fell asleep and began to dream (Note: I had been doing nothing but playing D&D and The World Ends With You all the previous day or two and at no point does anything in the dream resemble what happened in either):

The first part that I can remember involved me telling Herold, in my parent's bedroom, this neat idea I had about kobold adaptation which seemed brilliant at the time but I'm not sure makes any sense now. (There are no alpha males or females, and during each breeding season they all store their eggs in the same place, and the ones who first spring up are a given color since this is under the pathfinder setting . The rest of the eggs when they hatch have adapted to try to change their color to match the one's that have already hatched because of something dealing with killing off the last color or it reflecting poorly on those children's parents or something.)

Michael Richards, playing his character Danny Lidz from the movie Unstrung Heroes, showing me some cookie-related magic tricks, some of which involved him opening his mouth to snake-like wideness (Which I was actually thought was normal at the time and in no way part of the trick) and telling me that his son was a transvestite, or at least wore high heels that I thought was gut-bustlingly hilarious and appropriate given what I knew about his son (Note: He had no son in that movie and I do not recall anything about his son in the dream other than this). I also recalled that he no longer needed to work because he invented giant magic cards (?) and was living in a feed store I went to in Santa Rosa when I was like 8.

(Obviously a bunch of missing bits in here)

I rode a motorcycle back through Las Vegas after the truck I drove to there by mistake I just left behind

Which involved me going over a huge several hundred foot drop, along with several other cars and landing and me closing my eyes only to discover that I was totally fine and the crash I heard were missiles being tested from what appeared to be a car dealership a few miles away and I was informed of all this by the person who I've never seen being now riding behind me. He then proceeded to tell me about punk music or something.

Then there was something about an arcade in a casino, specifically a really weird adventure with the token machine, but it's pretty fuzzy. Oh! But there was a karaoke game with Buddhist chanting which now I find pretty funny but didn't faze me then.

I had to stop by a small cafe that was connected to a theater (as in plays not movies) to talk to Drew Barrymore who missed me since the last time I visited (which it was implied had been more than a few) and she gave me a slip of paper with a solid circle overlaping all but the tips of a solid 5-poined star, and written on it was a weird little poem or story about the proper way to have a relationship (which was very unusually profane). Bill Murray was also there.

Next, I think, was the elevator down which was nothing less than the self contained sit down handle-bar-drive pods that everyone could climb in and take part in the “Sea Turtle Adventure” (I believe) which had a slot for inserting coins but up on the screens they were all provided with there was a icon of someone circumventing the coin slot and it displayed “Payment Circumvented” and we began to descend.

And then I woke up, at 3:30pm.

A while back I made a post ( http://tetujin.livejournal.com/20737.html ) about a couple folks that sit out near one of the major walking nexus points around campus with a sign “Bible Questions Researched and Answered for Free”. I spoke to Dave, one of the people there today. The conversation began somewhat awkwardly since Dave had just finished speaking at the Atheist Student Organization meeting where he was being grilled for his beliefs and countering with various passages from scripture. So I began by saying “So, I've got some questions for you, but they're not going to be like the ones you were just answering” which may have just made things worse since I think he thought I was saying my questions were going to be more aggressive or something. My actual questions dealt with what attributes does the Bible actually state God has and to what extent he has them. Dave says there are four really important ones “Love, Justice, Power, and Wisdom” and he reaches over to one of his books on biblical questions, looks in the table of contents and says “Huh”. He picked up another book with some signs of increasing worry. While reaching for a third book he apologized “I'm really sorry. Here I was pretty sure I had quite an extensive knowledge of these sorts of things”. “It's OK, you're going to be able to find this way faster than I am” I reply. He is digging around through a literal bin of books, so heavy it was on a wheeled cart to get it out there, and finds what I believe is a sort of biblical index with major ideas listed. From here he's checks a few of them, coming up empty handed. After a while I get at least one passage for the four properties Dave, somewhat surprised still, says “I hope that helps..it's so weird I don't have any books on that. You know, I'll be here next week and I might have something for you then, OK?”.

I suppose I just think it's weird I gave a proficient Jehovah's Witness something to think about.