some bombs that both connected

today went by pretty fast. and for the most part it was a good day. actually, it was a good day with two instances of annoyance. i’ll start with the second one because why not.

if you have a parking spot, you have a strange desire to guard it. it’s a weird sensation. i dunno. some people are particular about their food, some about their clothes, I’m pretty particular about my parking spot. so when i get home from work and there’s a car parked in it that is not a car belonging to anyone who lives in the building and has enough snow sitting on it to mean it’s been sitting there for a few hours, i frowned upon it. i didnt make a fuss, just frowned at it. then i wrote ‘not your spot’ in the snow on the back window. that’s it. now you tell me if you think i overreacted to a car parked in my spot once you consider what happened sometime during me coming up here, making dinner and heading back out to go see Avatar (which never happened cause it sold out). Angry Parked Person, who they shall be henceforth known, obviously came back to their car, saw that in the snow, and then decided that it was actually necessary to write on not one, but two full letter sized pieces of paper about how they were only there for five minutes, who am i to say they can’t park there and look at the other empty spots. two pages. and then took the trouble to find a plastic bag to wrap it in so it wouldn’t get wet in the snow and stuck it under my rear wiper blade. which in itself was kind of stupid because if you put something flat against a back window that gets covered in snow, it’s not like someone will walk out an immediately go “oh look! there’s something there!” i didn’t even see it until i was halfway passed it. cause you know, don’t put it on the front windshield where someone might actually notice it. either way, i noticed it, and instead of going “what kind of douchebag does that?” i chuckled because I knew what it was going to say. I didn’t know it would take two pages and a plastic bag to say that, but i knew that’s what it would say. Angry Parking Person is angry for who cares why. you don’t live here. there’s big signs that say “Tenant Parking Only”. How do you know that someone won’t come back? you don’t. You sir, Angry Parking Person, are seemingly of the mind that you can park wherever the fuck you want without somebody noticing that, hey, that might not belong there. but yeah, no that’s ok, go ahead and write two pages of whatever letting me know that letting you know i know you don’t belong there is somehow my fault. i feel like you would be an appropriate addition to Cartman’s Special Olympics team. I’m sure that you yourself have a parking spot of your own somewhere, and would likewise be unfavourable to you coming back to it only to find it otherwise occupied. see, it’s give and take. you take my spot, i give you a subtle fuck off this is my spot. then you take that to mean im a huge asshole and you give me a reason to think you have not much better to do than stand in a parking lot writing angry notes. i think you should give it a rest and take a break. like a kit kat.

the first thing that annoyed me today was this. ok, at first it was annoying, and then as i sat there at work it simmered to a familiar sort of calm rage. ok, for this one i dont care if you think im overreacting. it should be expected of me for something like this at this point.

let me just say that I find it no huge surprise that the current pope who was a member of the Hitler Youth signed a decree telling the world how Pius XII, the pope during the holocaust and after, was such a good guy that he should be a saint. yes, such a good guy that he apparently “worked quietly behind the scenes” while six million people were murdered so as not to make the situation worse for Catholics in Europe while the Nazis went on a tear. I’m not sure, but i don’t remember ever being taught how Catholics were rounded up and put into camps then tortured and killed.

to become a saint Pius needs to be beatified. so a miracle has to be attributed to him. that miracle must be his impressive ability to let a genocide take place. Or maybe it was his ability to take no action when high ranking members of the Vatican established ratlines to help Nazi war criminals escape to countries where they could hide and not be extradited to face war crimes trials. Oh, and let’s not forget that those high ranking officials like Alois Hudal didn’t even recognize Nazi SS as war criminals. It doesn’t matter if the Pius was not directly involved in establishing these ratlines, but it DOES matter that nothing was done to stop it. Of course, the Vatican refuses to open whatever documents it has relating to this because, oh no no no, the pope can do no wrong because someone way back when came up with the decree of papal infallibility. pretty fucking convenient if you dont want to face the responsibility of fucking things up isn’t it?

so that started it. then there’s that bit about Benny Ratz  issuing that edict allowing for prayers that call for the conversion of the Jews. for someone who says he prides his ability to have empathy for other faiths, that doesn’t seem like much evidence of that.

and of course, this just lead to being angry about wondering how many catholics or christians actually know this or care about it or even care to find out. it’s reprehensible no matter how you look at it. followers take little initiative to find out what historical screw ups their religion is responsible for, and leaders of the faith are similarly silent on teaching them.

how many christians or catholics are actually aware that The Crusades were sanctioned military efforts to rid the world of the ‘enemies’ of the pope? how many know that the current pope went to south america and actually said that the ancestors of the natives were ‘silently praying for salvation from the Lord’ which was delivered by Catholic colonists who then proceeded to bring disease and murder and basically destroy cultures around the world because they were ‘uncivilized’ because they didn’t know who jesus was.

how many people do you think know that? here’s a personal example. none. i brought these issues up in high school in both the religion classes and social studies classes i took. each time everyone else in the class other than the teacher thought i was full of shit. i always enjoyed their looks of disbelief when our teachers would pause and hesitantly tell them that no, he’s right.

so anyway. there. the two things that annoyed me today.