strangetomato | Strangetown, HWC: The Magic Show

"So how did you enjoy the show?"

"It was... what it was."

"Oh, here we go again. What was wrong with it THIS time?"

"Nothing. It was just a magic show. What else is there to say about it?

"Don't tell me you don't like magic! Everyone loves magic, Fran."

"Yes, like pirates. There's just no accounting for taste."

"Oh, please. What's wrong with magic? That stuff was really impressive."

"It's moronic. There's an obvious trick to it all, but people still ooh and ahh like it's amazing."

"It IS amazing."

"Well, they don't have to play it up as some sort of spiritual thing. The power of attraction - what a crock."

"Oh boohooHOO, Franny. Just because someone actually believes in something instead of crying about how God is dead all day..."

"Are you making fun of me?!"

"What do you think?"

"I think you've had too much sugar. It's past your bedtime."

"Yeah, sure. Get snotty with me."

"And for your information, I don't cry about it. I just don't believe in fairytales... or magic."

"Okay, fine. So you didn't like it. But why not just say that instead of insulting everyone that does like it?"

"You asked me for my opinion, Beau. And my opinion is that magic is for -"

"What's that? I didn't catch it."

"Oh, nothing."

"Rubes. You were going to say rubes, weren't you? I can read your lips."

"Oh, can you? Then bring your lips over here and read this."

"You want to kiss a rube?"

"Are you a rube?"

"I'm a lot of things."

"You said it."

"I'm an magician too, you know. I can make your pants disappear."

"We'll see about that."

"Kiss me."

A/N: I worked a magic (no, sorry, illusionist) show tonight at the arts centre and it inspired me to send Frances and Beau to the same show.

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I'm fairly certain my mother's monkey hatred comes from evolution. She's a creationist (yes, she actually said she believes the earth is only about five-thousand years old--my sister and I just stared at her like WTF?!) I think when she looks at a monkey it rattles her beliefs. She doesn't enjoy that one little bit. (she also doesn't like it when you point it out to her, like commenting, "Gee, George W Bush really looks like a chimp. Guess there's something to that evolution thing after all, huh?")

She also thinks they're dirty and gross, which I can agree with on some level.

Wow. I have a friend a bit like that (we're both Christian), but not even he's said that. Me, I've always taken it to be a metaphor, since no one was there at the time. There's been too much evidence of evolution for me to think any different.

I actually found an interesting take on the creation story. Turns out the Hebrew term for "days" could mean anything (it's a translation glitch, I gather). So the creation as told in Genesis could well have happened over millions of years, therefore agreeing with the evolution theory on that front.

Therefore, for her to take the story so literally just sounds pretty silly to me :-\

There's a lot in the Bible that needs to be read as metaphors to make any sense. I'm baffled that people in this day and age can read the Bible and still take everything in it 100% literally.

As a side note, I like monkeys/apes, not for comedy but because they're pretty awesome animals.

Replace "metaphors" with "a story" and I agree 100%.

Well, yeah. But while not Christian myself, I can at least understand the groups that don't interpret it all literally. Creationists... not so much.

Yeah, I'm the same way. I grew up in a very Christian home, so I've come to accept that belief in God (and some version of the Bible) as the norm in the same way heterosexism is the norm. But even with that in mind, it amazes me how easily people throw their beliefs out on the table like it's obviously universal and think nothing of it. I guess you have to be something of an outsider to notice it (like the heterosexism thing).

I'm still more or less undecided about religion, and I gave up thinking about it in much detail a long time ago. Lately, I feel like I'm heading down the atheist slope off the peak of agnostic mountain. But enough about religion... it's one hell of a way to kill a good party. ;)

It's less common here, a large part of ethnic Norwegians are "casual" Christians, in that they are a member of the state church (we actually have a state church yet are far less religious overall than the US, ironic eh?), do church weddings, christenings, etc, out of tradition, but don't really practice the religion at all otherwise. I'm one of those, except I refused to get married in a church and won't christen any possible children I might have, either. I'm about in the same place as you on that mountain, though there's no 'Christianity' slope in either direction.

Woo, metaphors!

But yes, enough religion, I don't wish to anger anyone. I think I've had my share of angry religious debates on the Internet. :)

Agree with you 100% !

Specially about the monkeys/apes. Awesome animals!! <3
(*me needs a 98% chimp shirt* :P )

I was pretty stunned when she said that, too. My mother's always been just this side of a religious nut, but that was around the bend even for her.

She's getting more fundamental as she gets older, too. I remember back in the day when my sister or I would say things about evolution my mother took a more "intelligent design" stance (that was before it had the catchy name) and we all saw it as a compromise of sorts. But this new view is just too damn much.

My mother believes in the creation story in a fairly literal way. I think she thinks she HAS to believe, or at least say "I believe," or she's not going to Heaven.

And yeah, she believes in Heaven. Full on "balls to the wall" belief. So that's another point where our beliefs diverge. I generally avoid the whole discussion because it's too much to think that maybe she doesn't believe in evolution or something crazy like that.

She's pretty smart about the gay thing, though, so I have hope that she at least also believes in science. Still, I'm sort of afraid to ask.

Edited 2009-04-27 21:17 (UTC)

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