Saw an ad last night for an upcoming Barbara Walters Special. The announcer said the title of the special, Heaven: Where Is It? How Do We Get There?, and followed it with that old standby, "the answers may surprise you".
Now, I'm amazed that the whole "answers may surprise you" cliche ever works to pique someone's interest, but that might be because I don't hang around with total morons.
I suppose anything you don't know already "may surprise you", but when you're talking about the speculations various traditions make about the afterlife, what could possibly be surprising? How can speculation surprise you? It might surprise you that I have a fourteen inch penis, but it shouldn't surprise you that I say I have a fourteen inch penis.
Also, note that this an ABC News presentation. ABC News asks the question "Heaven: Where is it and how do we get there?", as if it's like "How can I peel onions without tearing up?" or "Do I need to declare tips on my income tax?". "How do I get to Heaven?".
The only thing that would surprise me would be if they actually answered the questions. Baba Wawa says "hewe's how you get to heaven", and then they drive there in the ABC News van and actually show it to us, complete with Spaghetti Monster happily flying about.
Posted by monk at 07.12.05 08:07I don't know what's going on w/ ABC, but they've been pandering to the Christians lately. Christian segments galore!! And Wal-Mart seems to have crawled up Good Morning America's ass.
Posted by: z at 07.12.05 13:17there's been alot of hocus pocus on the news in general.
saw an ad the other day for a Fox News segment on dreams- something like "what do they mean? there's a science to your dreams!" while the visual was someone flipping through one of those dream dictionaries follwed by some quack spouting something like "your dreams could be your brain trying to tell you something". Scientific!