So, I've relocated.

 

Alberta bound I was, steers and... well you get the idea.

 

I've found one thing in my travels out here. Alberta is a mix of Utah and Texas. It's kind of wierd. I mean really wierd.

 

I'm confronted on a daily basis with something I have nothing but disdain for: Organized religion.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's evil (It's close, but not there just yet) but it's screwed with a lot of peoples heads.

 

I won't speak of the crazy fundamentalists that are found in some eastern religions (I'll stick to the western ones), ones with a few thousand years of history behind them. Do you think any of those people that put the pieces of religions in the early days would be labeled as bat shit insane if thy came up with those ideas today? Look at David Koresh.

 

The reason I ask is that we had a group of mormans who came in tonight. We had a small wait, and rather than eat in the bar, or even entertain the notion of waiting in the bar, they almost left. What strikes em as odd, as that I'm pretty sure one of the teachings in thier "church" is taht you should be one with the world, not of it. I might not ahve that quite right, but the idea is, you can be a part of what is percieved as normal society, but you don't have to take part in all that they take part in.

 

I've also noticed a disturbing trend. Marriage. People are selling themselves up the river pretty quickly out here. It seems to me that peolpe are putting a ring on the first thing they sleep with, or the only thing they plan to sleep with, or they only thing they could trick into marrying them. Wierd, adn I won't go too far into it right now as a whiskey is calling my name, but doesn't a ring seem like a double standard? Hear this out for a second, in an engaement, the woman is the only one required to wear it, but in the marriage it's both. Wierd? No? is it just me?

 

FW.