tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post8677515699660367533..comments2023-10-05T07:11:05.917-04:00Comments on Art at the Auction: Happy Birthday, Joss!petplutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01053307189721906583noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post-55072907056136039862009-06-27T18:10:26.103-04:002009-06-27T18:10:26.103-04:00I had a similar experience with my favorite comedi...I had a similar experience with my favorite comedian, George Carlin. I had never really accepted anything I'd been told to believe, even at as young an age as five years old ('twas a big dinosaur freak and that alone didn't jive with anything in my children's Bible) but I always pushed it to the back of my mind. <br /><br />Then, when I was 16 or 17, a power outage hit my house. When everything came back on, the TV popped on to a blurred out version of HBO, but the audio was crystal clear. I was doing something else at the time and hesitated to turn it off. The more I listened the more I became sucked in by what I was hearing. Whoever this guy doing stand-up was, he was not just funny as hell - he also made a lot of sense. Within ten minutes, I was sitting in front of the blank screen, completely enraptured. I ended up listening to the entire hour-long special, which turned out to be George Carlin's "Back in Town." While he didn't actually say it in that special, it was pretty clear Carlin was an atheist and it got me to finally think more and more about what I believed in and what I didn't. And the conclusions I came to were that I was an atheist through and through.<br /><br />Ironically, Whedon could have been a similar force in my life but I didn't get into Buffy until my brother bought the Season 1 DVDs while Season 7 was airing. I ended up watching around 130 episodes in less than a month (which was difficult because only the first three seasons were available on DVD at the time) and was caught up by the time First Date aired. By that point, I'd already found myself drawn to several other atheists (my first girlfriend, my favorite college professor...my first roommate was also an atheist but that was pretty much the only thing we agreed on) so it didn't surprise me in the least to find out that Joss was atheistic. And his work has meant a great deal to me. I created a poster to hang in my room (which I still do this day) that featured the speech from "Epiphany" that you quoted, because I felt it the most elegant explanation of how I felt. Hearing your story brought back some memories for me :)Mr. Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721554613716485351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post-63988628749381852412009-06-26T13:30:02.356-04:002009-06-26T13:30:02.356-04:00Bravo; well said.Bravo; well said.Rebekahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01811406094387310769noreply@blogger.com