28 February 2005
Discourse on the Ten Books of Snow, Cigars and Arson.
The Ampitheatre
Yes my friends, AU has an ampitheatre. There it is. There are some advantages to living on McD 2...a semi decent view of the ampitheatre is one of them, although the angle isn't the best.
So anyways...last night I sent out a plea to my friends via away message. It was pretty simple and straight forward...
"To the religious and spiritual: pray for snow. To the atheists: sit in the corner and grumble angrily about the lack of god's existance. To the agnostics: shrug your shoulders, say "whatever" and continue on your merry, lazy lives."
Take no offense, it's pretty much true. I'm an agnostic and I'll be the first one to admit it's because I'm too lazy and preoccupied with my life to go on a spiritual journey to seek the truth. And oddly enough, I'm OK with this. One day something will shake my life to no end and force me my spiritual journey and that's a journey I am looking forward to taking, I'm just not ready for it yet. So to the faithful and to the atheists, rock on. Y'all stick to your convictions no matter what and I applaud you for that. Whether you're right or wrong is inconsequential and unimportant. What matters is that you fervently believe in something, whether it be a god or yourself and y'all deserve mad props. *Hands out the mad props amongst her friends.*
True to my agnostic self, this morning when I saw the snow and learned that classes were not yet cancelled I shrugged my shoulders and continued on my merry way to Ward where I watched an absolutely ridiculous documentary. Today I realized exactly how different justice and law are. Yes, I'm still headstrong in my quest for both and intend to go into one of the least lucrative fields of law, but it shall be worth it. As Rachel and I like to say as we're jogging through one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country, gawking slightly at the beautiful homes that are more like castles..."Must not sell out to Corporate, Must not sell out to Corporate"
But I digress...the reason for discussing the documentary this morning is because afterwards Kat told me a story that made my day...it's a story of greed, the idiocy of the law and sweet, sweet revenge...
...There once was a man. He clearly had more money then he knew what to do with so he bought absurdly priced cigars. He was so afraid for the well being of these inanimate and cancerous objects that he had them insured against pretty much everything from fires to floods. Eventually, the man smoked all 24 cigars. Then, realizing that he had them insured against fire, sued the insurance comapny for the insurance money. As if the justice system isn't shamed enough, the judge actually forced the insurance company to pay the due money as the company had not specified what kinds of fires were acceptable in the clauses of the contract. The man received approximately fifteen thousand dollars for his destroyed property...
...later the insurance company filed a law suit against the man. What was it for, you ask? Quite simply...they sued him for twenty four counts of arsen to insured property. They too, won. The man paid a large fine and served a small sentence in jail.
And let the dancing begin.
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