Sidetracked: Kira

When it comes to sidetracked articles they tend to be the farthest thing from books possible, and this time is no exception. Tonight I am discussing my personal views and desires as they pertain to religion. Tonight I make a personal wish to correct a wrong in this world that has not been addressed since the beginning. I wish there was a god.

My name alone WitchyErotica should suggest that I am a witch by trade. This would be a good assumption, but not quite true. Technically I am an atheist you has a strong faith in the supernatural. I used claim a belief in a god that that I didn't know or understand, but this changed recently when I was lead down a path of understanding morality from TheAmazingAtheist. After a night of deep contemplation I concluded without a doubt there was no god, and I could prove it on a moral level. This troubled me for I had repeatable observations of the supernatural. (No I still have not formulated a repeatable experiment.)

Though I am now an atheist I still practice a raw form of magic. Actually it was my observations of the paranormal and what appeared to be an innate uncontrollable reflexive gift to shape reality that made me practice witchcraft in the first place. I was born to a predominate Christian culture, but I knew I just didn’t fit into that. For me to have fit in I would have to deny what I saw and who I was, but I still have a healthy interest in this religion despite this. I took to witchcraft and magic as a way to systematical learn to control myself and understand what I saw. Though I am quite humble, I do not bow before any mortal or god. I walk my own path alone if I have to but shoulder to shoulder if possible.

I turned my back on the belief in a Goddess because I looked around, and I saw a leaderless people. Our race is shattered, broken, and unguided. When it comes down to it a god is nothing more than an unparallel leader. Gods set the moral standard in which a population follows. Being a leader is more than just making up some rules however, it is being able to uphold them and enforce them that makes you a leader. I see no grand enforcer. I see no results of a uniform enforcement anywhere. Karma is an elusive ghost in this world. Therefore there is no god. This world, no universe has always been and will always be. It was not created, but always existed. For those who are worried about an afterlife I leave this topic open. Perhaps there is an undiscovered form of energy that powers consciousness. By chance there may be an interaction with another dimension that our senses cannot easily perceive unaided. Read Flatland: A Romance of Dimensions to expand your willingness to accept we cannot see everything around us.

As a reader I am fascinated by the world created by the authors of Black Library Publishing (Blog). As a lover of TV shows that make you think Death Note is my show of choice. I bring these two things up because they both have mere mortals that rise up to become gods among men (I apologize for the sexist cliché).  As troubled as this world is, as desperate as things have become, and as hopeless as our people are, we can still turn things around and reshape things to make them better. The trouble is we are stuck following leaders that are idiots. They just lack the genius to pull us altogether in a single direction that would set things right. We need someone with a plan, that not only rights the wrongs of the world, but carries us to our rightful place among the stars. That’s why I look up to the stars in the night sky. It is more than their beauty, but it is the fact that they are ours for the take if we only had a god leading us.

The Face of a God.

I always felt like it took more than intelligence to make a good God. It takes a ruthlessness to bestow determination to our people. We are a savage animistic bunch in our hearts. It is going to take someone that understands this enough to be able to manipulate this feature to drive us to a worthy goal. Kira from Death Note had all these qualities in abundance. If I pray for anything I pray for Kira. With Kira as a moral compass we can navigate ourselves to prosperity that will inevitably lead to us conquering our own nature but the universe around us as well.

Sidetracked: Throwback Soda

As soon as I heard of the throwback sodas (pops for you Midwesterners and coke for you people that are just wrong) I was thrilled. It was not because of the nostalgia or novelty factor, but because this would be the first time I would feel at ease drinking soda in such a long time.

A long time ago I learned the hideous secret behind corn syrup. That is a secret for another time, but it's enough to say that I try to abandoned all corn syrup sweeten products. Soda is one of these products that I avoided like the plague and spoke out against.

So I went looking high and low for these new throwback Pepsi products and still came up empty no matter where I went. I tried gas stations, supermarkets, Walmarts, and vending machines all over the place. I even took my search across state lines, and still I turned up nothing. Then finally this last weekend I stumbled onto a few at a discount store.

Now I am a fan of all those people who go out and try new foods and drinks. Right now my two favorite vloggers have series running about this sorta thing (LordKat.com and CinemaSnob.com)  They are really great and you should go and check them out if you don't already. Heck I had a camera I would do this kinda thing as well.

Now onto the taste of Throwback. Throwback Mountain Dew tasted sour as hell! I should clarify the situation. I was just chewing some of that Trident sugar free gum, the orange kind, just before I cracked the seal and took a swig. There had to be some sort of weird reaction between the sugar and artificial sweetener on my tongue cuz I just couldn’t taste the sugar in the soda. I guess it makes sense considering the sweetener starts off as a sugar base. So about four French fries later the palette was cleansed and I could taste the sugar again. Even then however I could notice a difference. I remembered normal MDtasting a little heavier than this. I heard that this actually tastes more sugary, but that is just obvious.

So tonight I tried the Pepsi Throwback and well it tastes kinda like Diet Pepsi. Once again this probably goes back to that sugar sweetener base. After a few more sips it occurred to me that this wasn't quite like diet Pepsi but something else. It freaking reminds me of Crystal Pepsi!!!! Yes it’s back at least in flavor. As you can already tell I was a huge fan of the stuff and drank ENTIRELY too much when I was kid. I miss it, but you know with the throwback Pepsi it gives me hope that maybe just maybe it can make a comeback as well one day.