baptism

Despite my agnostic views toward religion, I went to church one morning over break. My Priest started his sermon by talking about baptism. At first, I thought he would talk about how we are all baptized as babies, thus making us christians. Much to my surprise, he did not discuss the christian aspect of baptism. The priest only discussed how a baptism doesn’t only have to be a christian event. It can be any life-changing event or moment that indicates new beginnings.

Before this particular sermon, I was unaware of the true meaning of baptism. I always thought of it as a religious thing where a holy man pours water on someone’s head, says a prayer, and that was ‘the word of the Lord’. My ignorance has taught me a few lessons. They are as follows:

Firstly, I’m ignorant.

Secondly, baptism isn’t just becoming a Christian.

And thirdly, I now have the opportunity to use a “big” word in normal dialogue.

Lesson learned? Yes.
Win? No.
See ya…

about last night…

So I’ve developed a theory over the past few years.  There is certainly evidence to support my maybe seemingly dumb theories but some people might not appreciate reading about them.  Either they’ll act no differently, they’ll love me to death, or I might be facing death with a knife to my throat (extremely unlikely but you get the point).  In any case, I’ll leave out the few examples I have to support my theory.

So here’s the theory: The things that people do, say, shout, write and text while they are drunk are more than 50% true, 90% of the time.

Now hear me out.  What I’m trying to say is that although the next day you might receive a text or a call saying, “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean the things I said” or “last night was a mistake”, more than 50% of the time they are just using ‘being drunk’ as an excuse to express how they really feel.  While we all know that alcohol messes with the way we think, act and feel; from my experiences with it, a lot of what I have said while drunk has been true, for better or for worse.

The percentage statistics I have provided above are based on absolutely no real statistical analysis whatsoever, in case you were wondering.  But I felt it necessary to include them to help convince myself that I am being somewhat logical.  Then again, I have based everything in this post upon only the experiences of myself and the few friends I actually have who don’t deny everything.

So based on my fake research and upon myself and my 10 friends, here’s a word of immoral advice: if you want to get the truth out of a friend or loved one (and don’t start with this suggestion), try getting them drunk.  It seems when it comes to telling the truth and speaking my mind, I do it best while under the influence.

Until next time….