Obruo

… Mad World, the version I like best is from the movie Donnie Darko by Michael Andrews and not the original performed by Tears for Fears.

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

[chorus]
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very…
Mad World

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

[chorus]
Mad World…
Mad World…

Those of you who know me fairly well know I have no real problem with religion in and of itself, I do however have a problem at times with the way some people present themselves, especially to children who aren’t theirs.

I read a really interesting story about a high school student exposing a teacher lying about some biblical statements he made in a public school classroom, the entire recording of the class is at the bottom of the page.  After listening to it… wow.  None of my teachers, even those with *VERY* strongly held religious beliefs *EVER* did anything like that… and if they had I’d have done all in my power to have them removed as a teacher, no one has the right to inflict that on someone else’s children.  It’s both ethically and morally wrong in the extreme, not to mention a massive abuse of power.

Sick stuff in the extremes… scary.