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I have had a very sheltered life. Violence does begin at home.
The circle does remain unbroken.
That being said there is hope after all.
Oh yea, about the movie; I am still speechless.
It was a near perfect movie in the sense of movie making and story telling, I'm sure the book is near perfect as well.
There was nothing bad about the movie other than the reality of the situation.
This is an untold story that some would push back into the darkness.
This story needed to be told.
What I am upset about is the why of the whole thing. The fact that the story exists at all.
No one even hinted at mental illness.
Why are the mental health issues not addressed, not even by the story teller nor the movie maker themselves? Of course it wasn't their job...
I think that is what upsets me the most.
Why this is the way it is and nobody ever did a God Damned thing about it?
...that and the fact that I saw Mariah Carey's moustache and was so struck by her beauty that I feel guilty for actually having never noticed her before.
...the fact that I am still upset but not at the move, somehow at my self...
...the fact that I have some kind of guilty feeling, like I've done something really disgusting like tasted shit and found it so delicious... I want to weep at its beauty...
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I went to see it.
I am still in shock. I will need to process and finish writing this at a later time, no sooner than tomorrow. It is Friday night and I just got home from seeing Precious.
I have only ever cried at one movie in my life, Testament in the 1980's. Tonight I did have to dry my eyes.
No one said anything on the way home.
I have never been so moved by a movie in my life.
I applauded afterward, one of the few but with no hesitation.
It's 10:16 on Friday night and I can't even express anything yet. I'll say more about the movie later. I have to go eat my burrito and I do feel like I really need to cry.
I'm not sure what I think but I do think the director, and several others deserve an academy award.
This is a rare film.
Other than that I am currently speechless...
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This is a totally new concept for me.
I was having lunch with a mid-western Protestant and a Catholic from Queens yesterday, and someone else who has no opinion either, and I was astounded to hear the Catholic and the Protestant begin discussing the "fact" that .."when Jesus got back from Hell..." while his body was in the tomb...
This is where I said,
"Excuse me? Come again? What was that I didn't exactly hear you"...
I was reminded of course of how Jesus went to Hell for 3 days after he was crucified and placed in the tomb.
Someone said something about the "Bosom of Abraham", but I was still in shock....
Now, my personal opinion has no place here, I am simply stunned by the fact that I was raised in the Church of Christ until I was old enough to realize what was going on and leave the "Church", but I have NEVER heard anything about JC having gone to Hell for 3 days while his body was in the tomb.
I mean what is this? Did you know about this?
I was always of the impression that being crucified on a cross would be pretty much enough misery and sin taking to account for mankind but apparently there is a HUGE Christian contingency that actually BELIEVES that Christ spent 3 days in HELL as part of his suffering for our sins.
Now I am not one to say one way or the other about what I believe and don't believe, nor to preach, but I am totally confounded at not having HEARD this before since it seemed to be, at the lunch table, such a commonly known thing.
I'm certain my mother would have had a strong opinion about it one way or the other and I never heard of this concept.
Apparently, many Christians believe that the bible says that the soul of Jesus went into Hell for 3 days after crucifixion as part of the whole dirty bargain.
My question is, is this supposed to be common knowledge?
I don't know what my beliefs are at this point, other than there is a higher power, and I actually don't personally believe in Hell so I guess that says I don't believe that Jesus went to Hell...
I believe it has to do with human error and translation and interpretation as well as social and moral values of the authors and times, but my point is...
Is it common knowledge that Jesus went to Hell?
Is that how the story goes and I didn't know it all these years? I don't think my family believed that or I would have heard it.
Have I just been out of the loop? It is interesting me to when I come across a new concept that I think I certainly would have noticed hearing about or reading about before.
What else don't I know?
I'm certain there is a mountain that I don't know, in fact I don't mean to say I know much at all, but this seems to be a detail that would be out there?
How could this concept have been over looked or perhaps it was suppressed?
This just makes it all that more confusing and hard to become involved in.
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I thought the cat food company was cute when I saw a can of Turducken for cats in the special health food for pets store. Then someone at work mentioned it.
Ok, it was funny, but there was a human form of this Turducken, the mixture of turkey, duck and chicken?
Why yes, yes there is. Have you ever heard of Turducken?
Imagine a large Turkey, roasted and delicious and as if that weren't enough, imaging stuffing the turkey with a nice roasted DUCK! Yum Yum. An even better idea would be to first stuff the duck with a CHICKEN...
...so, okay, according to Wikipedia, no one knows for sure, but either some Cajun cook or some other meat selling entrepreneur in the 1980s decided it would be nice to stuff a duck with a chicken and then stuff that into a large turkey and roast them all together.
Now, personally, and I may be a bit daffy, but I don't care for duck. I did not like the amount of dark meat, oil, and gamy taste of the roast duck, the Peking Duck and the third duck I have tasted as I have tasted duck thrice. Three times and I can fairly say I don't like duck.
I love turkey and chicken, I'll do chicken and turkey up the yin yang, but only white meat, and the drier the better, but I will not ever partake in anything such as a Turducken.
Often these Turducken are stuffed with sausage stuffing.
This sounds like a gastrointestinal vomit job to me, although foodies and gourmands everywhere are clinging on to this new American delicacy, the Turducken.
I think the Turducken is the perfect example of America's lust for overdoing a good thing and always wanting MORE.
Someone told me yesterday that their family fills their seasonal Turducken with crispy crispy bacon.
Will your family embrace Turducken?
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| And loopdeloup pointed out how it is all right here on Xanga recorded if I had wanted to bother looking but I probably was trying to put distance between me and the terrible event.
No wonder it hit me so hard, only being the third year.
She died so close to Thanksgiving that that first year I was already in California and with my family for the holiday, of course without mother and her death being so close it was all rolled together.
I don't remember what I did for Thanksgiving in 2007. In 2008 I spent Thanksgiving on vacation in Puerto Rico so am I right in thinking this will be the 4th Thanksgiving and the very beginning of the 4th year since losing mom?
I don't want to do anything this Thanksgiving. I want to stay home and do nothing.
I want a Thanks but No Thanksgiving... to rest and I don't know. I don't feel like making any type of plan at all. I see it as 4 days off. 4 days to rest and recuperate.
So I don't know at this point and am only looking forward to time off.
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