A Hipster’s Guide to…: True Detective

Now with the first season of True Detective well finished, and I have even had some time to think the series over and over again, I believe it is finally time to try to make some sort of coherent blog post about it.

I started watching True Detective, after it had been running for a few weeks and my Facebook, Twitter (@Groschenlein) and all other dark corners of the internet would not shut up about it. I must admit that the reason I did not start watching it immediately was that the internet have been going on and on and on about how it was all very much related to a very bad conscience of mine, something most people will know as “weird fiction”.

I have never really gotten around to reading any of the old original weird fiction, even though I have had H.P. Lovecraft standing on my bucket list of things to read in almost ten years now. I have read some Neil Gaiman, but I am told that he is only inspired by and not as such weird fiction.

The worst part is that I know exactly why I have not gotten around to it. It is the same reason as why I really really want to listen to “Welcome to Nightvale”, but only ever gets around to listening to a few episodes, when I really have nothing else to do.

I really really really really want to like it, but end up being mostly confused, and after the confusion, comes the part where I get a bit lost, and then because I do not get the revelation where everything all of a sudden makes sense, I start to get bored. I know I am not supposed to get the revelation, but somehow that just does not make it any better. So weird fiction and things that springs from weird fiction is usually things I think nice things about, and have all the right attitudes to, and have all the good intentions to watch/read/listen to, and then puts them somewhere in the back of my mind, where I only get a sting from bad conscience once in a while, but never really have to put myself through actually spending time on it, because I know from experience that it will with all probability be a painful one.

The atheist has just secured her get into heaven free card…

This morning when I went to work, it was still dark, and almost felt like it was still in the middle of the night. However, when I got over here, there was an e-mail waiting for me. It was from my boyfriend, informing me that I had just donated money to get a “get into heaven pass”. This made me smile, and the morning just became a little brighter…

The odds right now are, that you have no idea what I am talking about, and find it a bit weird that an atheist (as I proclaimed I was yesterday) became happy to have donated to something that gave her “A get into heaven pass”.

I think this needs a bit of explaining, and I believe the cause my boyfriend donated to, on my behalf, is a worthy cause.

I need to start with the beginning. On Facebook, you can follow “God”. God says he is the good God above, and who am I to doubt him.  His Facebook page is always filled with sensible advice, and he is always ready to talk with people who need it, and help them with getting professional help etc. And he is always damn funny, and damn classy. Even to the people claiming he is not God…

But don’t just believe me, go see for yourself, he really is what God should have been…

How do I get from God on Facebook, to a free pass to heaven?

Well a couple of days ago, God started be more silent on Facebook. And at some point he ended up admitting that his mom had just died… After a few days more information followed, and it turns out that God does not always have it easy, and things surrounding his mother’s death, had been tough on both him and his family. Especially tough on his dad, that besides from the death of his beloved wife, also had to struggle with the insurance company,  because there was problems with her life insurance policy… Sometimes life just sucks to hard…

But God figured out that maybe he could make life a little easier on his dad, so God started the crowdfunded project – Give Gods dad a vacation on indiegogo… He didn’t want something for himself, he wanted something for someone who needed it even more – His dad, who is a minister.

He offered up few prices, as the one I have just gotten, a free pass to heaven, and set the target for 5000 dollars. This target has been reached more than four times at this hour, but all of us who enjoy the Good God Above on Facebook, and shares in his altruistic view of the world, should really go donate to the cause.

 

So please visit the Good God Aboves Facebook, and if you share my view of him, give a  small amount here to give the vacation of a life time to a man life is being very tough on right now – and you can like me, get your own free pass to heaven…

And thanks to my boyfriend Peter for donating on my behalf, and making my day 🙂

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