Besides the fact that I am constantly trying to defend myself on my own blog from readers who do not even know me, I have been keeping busy.  It is really quite frusturating when you try to state your opionions or even what you believe in and random readers (kind of creepy) are out there with enough guts to actually leave me a comment.  I usually do not accept the comments but I did keep the last one as it was not as rude as others.  If this continues, I do not think that I am going to want to keep this blog up-to-date anymore!!

Now that I have that off my chest….Conrad has been busy with the end of basketball season (two more tournaments left) and the beginning of football, cleaning up dog poop in the back yard (I delcared from day 1 that it will not be my job), getting really excited for spring and summer, watching much NCAA March Madness and trying to still finish his book that he has been reading forever!!  I have been keeping busy with play practice (a dinner theatre at our church…I am a mistress), reading, cleaning house for 11 house guests next weekend, procrastinating with our taxes, laundry, work, spending an evening in Saskatoon with my mom and Martina McBride (so much amazing) and trying to get my rest for these next two weeks of craziness for the play.

Tomorrow we are having a curling bonspiel at work, should be a lot of fun since 4/40 people have actually curled before!!  Somehow Conrad ended up on a team without even signing up so I had to break the news to him yesterday….I convinced him to come though!  Shall we be called Team Gushue?!?!?!

I found out this morning that a co-workers mother passed away suddenly late Monday night.  My co-worker is about the same age as me and her mother was still quite young.  How is it that you can be sharing Easter with your mother Sunday night and then by Monday night she has passed away?!  They are not even sure of the cause yet.  It just makes you really think about how precious life really is and that we should cherish every minute we have with eachother because you just never know what life is going to hand you. 

Well, I am going to do another load of laundry and then go hopefully finish my book, goodnight.

Let’s not poach nurses

JERUSALEM (AFP) – High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,” Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the “burning bush,” suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.

“The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon,” he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to “see music.”

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil’s Amazon forest in 1991. “I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations,” Shanon said.

He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

I am disgusted that people find time in their lives to try and prove that the Bible is irrelevant and make believe…or on drugs!  How about you put all that energy into trying to feed the homeless or find a cure for cancer, that would be useful to a lot more of our society!