Sparse Random Thoughts

Words.
Well, there it is… I'm not very impressed. See the deal is I told someone I was thinking of writting in my blog and they agreed that I should. They were even so bold as to tell me that they knew what I should write. Their great suggestion was that I write "words". I, not having a better idea, decided that it didn't sound like a bad plan. So, there it is. I've got to say again I'm not that impressed by it. Maybe I should be more selective in the future in the suggestions that I implement.

Some days I really feel like I and everyone else is just a cog or for that matter some other insignifigant part of a machine. I guess it's the same as feeling that you get if you ever think about everything being part of "God's will". That no matter who you are or what you do you're just playing the part you were given.

I guess the better or easier to deal with of the two ideas is the machine one. Or more so it is dependent on what you see as the machine. It seems that most who use this analogy refer to our (US) capitalistic government as the machine. Which wouldn't be so bad, because you can work against the machine in this case. But with thinking that "every thing works out to the glory of God" it almost feels like the whole thing has been scripted.

Now I'm not looking to get into a theological discussion, as I have argued both sides at some time or another. I guess what I'm wondering is if anyone else ever comes to this same realization and how does it make you feel?

I've never been someone that really has any interest in horror movies and have not really understood their appeal to people. But yesterday I actually got the first response to why someone might like them that I could understand, or at least thought it was worth understanding. The basic idea portrayed to me was that after seeing a horror movie, in a sense an alternate reality, that the world didn't seem quite as scary/bad. I'm not so sure that I agree with the idea, but I can see that it could be true for others.
I guess one problem with this discussion is that there is a wide variety of movies that could be grouped into the category horror. Some of these border more on comedy, while others I'd refer to as suspense/thriller, then there's the core of horror movies that I won't even try to subdivide. Now the ones towards the comedy side (whether or not the humor was intended or not) are what I would consider meaningless entertainment, which does have it's time, but I am more likely to choose a true comedy when filling this time. Now there are some towards the suspense/thriller side that intrigue me. But this where I think the person's idea isn't true for me, for I never walk away feeling like the world is a little better, in fact I'm more likely to be watching the shadows a bit closer. For my imagination is powerful force and watching these movies is like adding a weapon to my imagination's arsenal. Of course the person also said something that I flat out disagreed with, "Everyone likes being scared." I am in fact scared enough by what happens in the world around us that I really prefer not to subject myself to another scare.