Welcome to the dark and twisted mind of O'Malley

So it’s been a while since I wrote and I know that the only 2 people following me here on Tumblr are just DYING to see what I have to say next. So here it is.

• God. Some believe in him, some don’t.
• Video games. Some people play them, some don’t.

For anyone who knows me, you know that I don’t like religious fanatics. That’s not to say I’m not religious myself, I just can’t stand the hypocrites or as I like to call them, the “modern day Pharisee’s”.

I call them that because they claim to know everything they claim to know about the Bible (so I’m speaking strictly of the Christian faith here) and treat everyone else like crap. Granted, not ALL believers are like that but the ones that are, are douche bags.

So a lot of these “modern day Pharisee’s” like to pretty much attack everything and anything for the world’s problems and they also try to boycott and ban things a lot. But their favorite thing to attack, boycott and try to ban, are video games.

They use the age old excuse that video games subtly causes one to become violent at some point in his or her life. The unfortunate Columbine school shooting was blamed on, guess what?

VIDEO GAMES!!!

And that’s just one unfortunate tragedy that video games became the scape goat of. The most famous offender of this sick act was Jack Thompson, a lawyer from California who had a sick vendetta against video games, the industry and those who played them.

Oh he was also a self proclaimed “Christian”.

Okay, I’m not one to normally question someone’s faith but if you act like a jack ass and make wild claims with no EVIDENCE to back those claims up then you just need to disappear off the face of the earth and let the rest of us normal folk live out our lives in peace.

Plus we hate your face.

But you see, there’s something that annoy’s me even more about this whole topic. While I was at work, someone (a self proclaimed Christian) asked me about my favorite hobby: video games. I was more than happy to share an open dialogue with someone who shared an opposing view, so I told him about some of the video games I’ve played and such.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was the primary one I mentioned. His response?

“Oh, so you enjoy killing people?”

Huh?

Me: “No, it’s just a video game. I know the difference between reality and video games.”

“But you’re still shooting people.”

Me: “No, they’re just a bunch of polygon’s and are not real people.”

“But they represent real people, they’re virtual people. Deep down inside you enjoy killing.”

Wow, really? So all of a sudden you’ve discovered something that every scientist and researcher has somehow missed? Because from all the studies I’ve read about, video games actually IMPROVE your brain activity and there is NO link between video games and violence WHATSOEVER!

However he felt the need to link his accusation to me liking to kill “people” to my personal faith. Basically, since I play video games in which I virtually shoot people, I”m a bad person and I’m going to hell.

This is what irks me about you Pharisee’s, you think you know everything and you damn anyone who doesn’t agree with YOUR point of view.

You see folks, these types feel that the Christian is not supposed to participate in “worldly” activities that would cause them to sin. Video game’s is one of those worldly things which I’m supposed to have nothing to do with. But what about TV? Do you Pharisee’s realize how much violence and sex is on TV? Or movies? Or music? Or books? Or pretty much everything else in the world, because I’m telling you, we live in a very fucked up world!

Which brings me to my point. We shouldn’t have to live as nomad’s or whatever and live with no electricity, or a phone or a car or any of that. We have to live with all this crap. Not all TV show’s, movies, music, books and yes, even video games, are BAD!

So please, get over it and DON’T judge me just because I enjoy something different than you. If you don’t want to play video games, then don’t. But generalizing and assuming it’s all bad and everyone who play’s them is bad is…well, a sin :)

Now I’m going to keep playing with my brand new iMac, lata!!!!!

Been a while since I blogged. I mean to write one a while back about video games and God but that one will have to be postponed, for now I have something else on my mind.

I guess I should start at the beginning. I’ve never been a motivated person. I kinda glided through grade school, lost in my own little world. It wasn’t to escape the boredom (well, maybe it was that reason a little bit) but because I wasn’t really interested in what my teachers had to say.

As the years went on, that changed. By high school I paid more attention, probably because I started reading actual literature instead of that Goosebumps garbage I read for years on end. I was broadening my horizons. But as graduation loomed before me, I still didn’t know where I wanted to go from there.

And I didn’t really care.

I just wanted school in general to be over with. The thought of college sickened me. However, I told myself I would take a year off and then go back to school. For what, I still didn’t know. I had many idea’s but none of them seemed to stick. But looking back, I can’t help but kick myself in the ass for making one of the worst decisions of my life. I look at a lot of people I went to school with and most of them are done with college, have careers and are getting/already married. Some even have kids.

Now granted, I definitely am not ready for marriage or kids. But I am ready for a career. Damnit, my life has spiraled out of control and I’m stuck in a place I’m not very happy with. First I was working at a grocery store making SHIT and partying a lot with my friends. Then I lost that and now I work at my uncles machine shop, making slightly better money, partying a lot or not so much (depending on my mood and engergy) but now I feel like shit.

Okay, so my current job has it’s benefits and they are as follows:

• I have great health insurance
• Even though I work way too many hours, the money isn’t that bad
• I met some cool people
• I developed a good work ethic

But when I think about it further, none of that even really matters. I’m unhappy. I hate my life as it is in it’s current state. The worst part is I did go back to school but my previous job ruined that, bunch of bastards (although it’s partially my fault for letting them and not having the balls to stop them). I even went back to school not too long ago and my current boss made a special schedule for me (he wasn’t too happy about it though) so that I could leave work early on those certain days when I needed to.

Then life threw me a huge curvball during finals week and I haven’t been back to school since.

But I still want it.

I can’t do it with the current job I have…so I found another way.

By this point you may be wondering what the hell I’ve written so far has to do with the title of this little piece…and here it is.

You see, I’m a guy who believe in Fate, in Destiny or whatever you wish to call it. So believing in that, I wish to follow my Path and fulfill whatever it is I need to accomplish in this life. However, I feel that I’ve strayed from my Path. I’ve been lazy and right now I am NOT doing what I’m supposed to be doing, I’m NOT following my Destiny and I believe that is where my unhappiness and misery is coming from.

Now you may be thinking to yourself at this point that I’m overexaggerating but I beg to differ, I think on a larger scale than most people and there it is. It’s time for me to get my ass in gear and get back on my Path.

I’ve been working a job that requires 63-66 hours of my time each week. Do any of you know how that feels? Some of you might and for those that do, you know that it absolutely sucks! Doing this for three years has made me realize just how precious my time really is. Do you know what I could be doing with some of that time if I didn’t have to devote most of it to work? I could be working on improving my art, writing my books and going to school to make something of myself and not be like the rest of the sad drones at my workplace who will be working there until they’re called into the next life.

I don’t want that for myself, I’m sick of it. Time is precious and I’m losing it with each passing day. I have a new plan for myself that will hopefully get me back on my Path, that will get me back my precious time so that I could use it for something that really matters.

And you know what? I have a really good feeling about this…

I have a juicy blog coming your way soon ;)

Well this is the one I promised you. I meant to write this like a week or two ago but found myself extremely busy or not in the mood. But now I’m ready to go.

So two weeks ago I stumble across this article on the internet. The headline reads:

Scientists Predicts the End of Aging by 2029

Wow, what a discovery eh? I know what you’re thinking. How in the world can scientists stop us from aging? Well according to the article, scientists would use gene therapy (whatever that is), nanotechnology and organ re-growth and transplantation.

Sounds interesting.

Now I don’t know what any of you think about this but I know what I think. I thought about it since reading this article, what it would be like to not grow old and die. Man, that would be something.

But you know what? I don’t want to live forever. I mean I’m like most people, the idea of death scares me. I don’t like thinking about it too much. Thing is though, I believe most people I know wouldn’t choose to live forever either, which means that if I did I would have to watch friends and family die around me while I keep going.

I couldn’t do that. Not to mention that I think at some point, I would probably just get sick of life. I think that when we are old and grey, most of us are ready to go on. At that point we’ve lived our life and have seen things both wonderful and terrible and it’s just time to move on.

I think I’ll just keep aging, thank you very much :)

If you want to read the original article, here’s the link:

http://digg.com/d317ekl

Well, technically not. I’ll tell you why in a minute.

But you see, I realized something today. Since Daylight Savings Time, it’s been getting dark early as it usually does every year. However, I get up for work everyday at 5 AM, usually 6 days a week.

So I drive to work in the dark.

Then I usually get off work at 5 30 PM and as I’m driving home, it gets dark.

So I drive home in the dark.

So in a way, I’ll be living in an eternal darkness 5 to 6 days a week for the next few months. Damnit.

As for the technically not eternal darkness remark, I usually see the light of day if I decide to go out to my car during break and/or lunch.

But anyway, I guess most people would find this situation depressng.

But not I.

No, I live for the night! Seriously, I love nighttime. There’s something fun about it. Maybe it’s my recent club hopping experiences that made me appreciate this time even more than before. Besides, the fact that it gets dark early means the party can start early ;)

I’ve been so busy, going to the gym with Bre and getting my fat ass in shape among other things such as playing one of the best racing games I’ve ever had the pleasure to play.

Got an idea for a blog that’ll be coming soon on the subject of Immortality, that should be fun. Plus I think I’m also gonna review video games and movies that I’ve played and watched as a fun little passtime. Maybe I’ll prove to certain people that I am a movie critic after all ;)