Okay, I’ve figured it out.
If you know me fairly well at all, you know that I have (what I’ve always thought was) this totally irrational hate-on for Kirk Cameron. Ever since he was in that stupid show, Growing Pains, I’ve thought that there was something somehow inherently evil about the guy. Don’t know when I started thinking that, but it was early on. I’m sure sharing satellite space with Alan Thicke didn’t help his case any, but there’s something I ran across today (thanks to the good folks at Cruel.com), I think maybe there’s more to it. More than just the totally irrational “if I ever meet him I wanna punch him” gut-level reaction I have.
Let me explain, sorta kinda.
I’ve got what doctors call a “deep focus in the temporal lobe” also known as temporal lobe epilepsy. Hasn’t done anything negative to me since I was a really really little dude. Back then (around the age of two), I could/would have seizures if I had a particularly bad wipe-out and smacked my head. Since then, I’ve had migraines and things over the years (most of which went away after the age of about 20), but here’s the thing:
People with TLE are often obsessed with religious images and rhetoric.
Probably something to do with the whole idea of feeling like there’s some sort of greater purpose. For a lot of folks with TLE, it becomes religious zealotry. I seem to have the exact opposite: zealous non-religion, based on what I’ve seen “good church-going folks” do and say during my years of growing up in Chilliwack, British Columbia’s Bible Belt.
Don’t get me started on that place… woof-o…
Okay, so back to Cruel.com’s link to this site with Kirk. Here’s the thing:
He’s now the lead running a very slickly-produced “you’re going straight to hell” site.
So, I wonder if I’m not feeling like there’s not some sort of something going on, and that maybe Kirk’s going to end up being the evil dictator of Texas or something.
Me and Joan of Arc
What I wanna know is this: Does Saint Aardvark also have TLE, and maybe that’s why he’s the kinda guy that collects religious tracts from car windows and stuff?
October 30th, 2004 at 3:32 pm
Now I am more confused than ever!
January 26th, 2005 at 11:20 am
Kirk Cameron IS evil.
That’s the creepiest website I’ve seen in a long while.
March 26th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Wow… that website is awesome… I love the part where they describe hell… all praise Kirk… uhh.. I mean Jesus… nice…
Hey if you guys like reading crazy religious websites check out Jack T Chick… there are a bunch of sites out there that mock his tracts… sooo funny…
November 19th, 2006 at 12:31 am
[…] We’ve got programs that makes phones call other phones, taxidermied robotic owls, optical mice and turntables *do* mix, iPods minus the iTunes, awesome bluetooth iPod remote headphones that crack in half three weeks after you get ‘em, elderteapots and yell-controlled blenders (both in one post, too!), sites you don’t click on, network drive mapping problems (my MOST popular post ever, sadly), video/audio fragmentation performances, wicked-looking games that never actually get launched ever, me writing about DNS and Active Directory the way some blogs write about food, Google putting yoni in my bible pocket, going on an absolute TEAR regarding LG’s marketing video made in 2001, commenting on Boogaloo Shrimp (from Breakin’ and Breakin2 – Electric Boogaloo) and then having HIM SHOW UP in the comments on my very own blog, hassling the guy who put Princess Leia in the GoldBikini (it’s okay, I work with him), finding secret messages regarding a certain digital audio format in my can of Edwards coffee, our cat smuggling LEDs in her ocular cavities, guys playing a cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” while ruining a number of kitchen appliances, fighting with a whole bunch of people online over who gets to spell what with fridge letters, insane robofish, the Rohypnol version of “Who’s On First?”, carrying a midget around as a cryptographic tool, and who could forget “Why a deep focus in my temporal lobe makes me hate Kirk Cameron in specific, and religious zealots in general.” […]
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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October 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Did you notice where Kirk thinks the soul is? Yup, that’s right – in your spleen. I couldn’t look at the rest of the site – I wanted to puke. This sort of thing curdles my innards.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 am
[…] Went to Quaker meeting today. Sat in silence for 45 minutes with a group of people who are also sitting and thinking (or not thinking) about whatever comes to them. Sometimes people talk about what they’re thinking, but mostly it’s just silence. It’s interesting, can be meditative, but can also be surprisingly… what is it? Apt. Apropos. From outta nowhere, yet outta somewhere. I described it today as hearing a song you don’t quite know, and when the 3rd verse starts, having someone else say that first word, and suddenly you’re clicking into it too. Interesting. No pressure. Very little “Lord Christ Jesus” vibe. Very unlike my experiences in Chilliwack. […]