Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[Mr. Morden]

0400 - Watch the official birth of 2015 in Kiritimati, Kiribati.

You realize that place is a barely inhabited sh**t hole that no one cares about, and will someday not exist, right?  Do you just like typing it or do you care about the people there?

Yes, I'm fully aware of that.  It still doesn't make the few people who live there any less relevant.

Just like Oklahoma is as relevant as any other state.  Kiribati is the Oklahoma of island nations.

[Mr. Morden]

New Years is definitely a holy holiday for Bushie. It means we only have 6-9 years left before the rapture instead of 7-10.

Eh, more like 7-9.  There is one specific event I'm looking for to start the final 7 years.  That is, an interim Mideast peace deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis.  John Kerry was trying to get one done last Christmas, but came away empty in late April.  We can't cautiously tick underneath 7 years until that happens.  I think it will happen soon, although I have no idea when.  That's why I'm cautiously thinking between 7-10 years.

Yeah, no wonder he doesn't give a toss about his body or Earthly life if he's believing this BS.

I assume the "he" in that sentence is John Kerry, and the BS he's believing is that he can get a Mideast peace deal?

[Mr. Morden]

I feel like if he's going to celebrate the New Year for each and every time zone, he should at least make it interesting. Have a drink from each zone when they hit 2015.  A shot of sake when Japan comes though. A glass of Tsingtao for China. Etc. Otherwise, it's going to get awfully dull watching tv all day long. At least when he watches football all day, there is a bit of suspense as to who will win.

He's got to watch to see if 2015 will in fact make it to each time zone.  With the Rapture just an estimated 7-10 years away (with a large margin of error), this is a dicey proposition.

[Mr. Morden]

My "celebration" of Kiritimati (and every other time zone until New York) will be simply watching their clock turn to midnight on the World Clock at www.timeanddate.com.  I can also see the map traverse across the world from east to west all day on New Year's Eve.

Then why get up 45 minutes early for that?

Duh.  Obviously it's because he needs to "hop in the shower to get [his] eyes open".  How can he celebrate the clock reaching midnight if his eyes aren't open?

[Mr. Morden]

That's enough of the end time discussion.  It's only going to turn into a flame war and nobody needs that going into Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Seems like the perfect time for it, to be honest.

Maybe, but I just don't want to incite a war of words the night before Christmas Eve.  Christmas is a peaceful time, and I want to keep it that way.

Let's be real here.  This isn't something that you're prepared to debate on any day of the year, is it?

[Mr. Morden]

What do you mean by "visions"?

Visions/dreams, same thing.

I guess I'm just curious if these visions/dreams exclusively happen while you're asleep, or while you're awake as well.

Whenever God speaks.  Could be while awake, could be while sleeping.

I'm still not entirely sure what you mean by God "speaking." As someone who God does not speak to, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Do you hear a disembodied voice saying words to you? Do you see Him?

As you may recall, God spoke directly to Bushie in 2012 about moving to Kenya, and Bushie provided the transcript:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=143929.msg3281119#msg3281119

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[Mr. Morden]

Also, Mormons are not Christians.  They are a separate religion.

But you just said that all it takes to get into heaven is to admit to God that you're a sinner and believe that Jesus died for your sins.  Mormons believe that as much as any other denomination.  So I guess by your logic, Mormons aren't Christians, yet they're still able to get into heaven, whereas other non-Christian religions aren't going to have people going to heaven because they don't buy into the Jesus part?

[Mr. Morden]

currently 23 in okc.  will bushie leave work early before it gets really cold?

The cold itself doesn't bother me.  The only thing cold, dry, arctic air does to me is dries out the back of my hands and make me need to use lotion more.  It's certainly nothing that keeps me from going about my normal, everyday life.

Yes, but it means that it'll be too cold for you to do your daily outdoor exercis--

Never mind.

[Mr. Morden]

Bushie, if you just had a decent laptop rather than a desktop, you wouldn't need to bother with this nonsense of "I can't practice CADD because it's on the computer in Tulsa, and I'm not going to move that thing to OKC."  I don't really see the point of a desktop if you already have a laptop, to be honest.  I've gotten by fine with laptop only for many years now, and make more $ than you.  What do you need to do that is so sophisticated?

[Mr. Morden]

Why don't you look for jobs based in both OKC *and* Tulsa?  Your Tulsa lease is expiring in two months anyway, so if you find a job in OKC, you can ditch the Tulsa apartment.

[Mr. Morden]

4.  I just am uncomfortable taking life-altering advice from internet strangers.  Most of the advice is sound, and I do take it at times (i.e. the turkey wrap), but it's just the internet stranger thing.

Then what is the point of these past XIX seasons of Update?  So that we can tell you how amazing you are?