September Deluge

It had been raining nonstop for the past two weeks like hell that you'd begin to feel that the old testament god is up with his temperament over humanity that maybe he's out to flood us again for something, fortunately we have a good working sewer system in this millenium now that is saving us from another deluge, unlike before when all somebody could only think of was to make a boat.

The weather too is getting on my nerves, I can get the least two garments soaked everytime i get out of the house from the heavy rain and I can't hang them dry fast enough without sunlight for days, I was running out of shirts to wear that hell I was even forced to sew back these holes on some of my old shirts some goddam mouse gnawed on some weeks back. I'll bet that guy stuck on his boat for forty days under the rain from the old testament had trouble drying his clothes too, and with the whole animal kingdom on board his ship, his clothes probably had holes too from all sorts of rodents trying to find something to chew on.

I needed more things to wear because I was also leaving for manila that I had to pack a weeks set of wardrobe with me, most of what I brought were shirts that I had already worn once but they were dark colored anyway and they don't catch dirt that fast, nobody could tell. The weather was as bad in manila and it still brought my depression to overdrive since I was now alone, and I couldn't get any work done being depressed, I needed some time alone to unwind anyway. I decided to go to some mall facing manila bay to kill time, I took a cab to save myself from getting soaked and i was expecting the driver to chisel me over my fare, they will just pick about anybody to chisel when its raining but my driver didn't pull one out on me, he didn't even talk or anything, I suppose he was depressed too by the rain.

I wanted to get some coffee in the mall and watch the rain take on the bayfront but I had pizza instead, I was hungry anyway. What I didn't know before I got to the mall was that they brought the shroud of turin there for a show.

The shroud of turin is a 500 year old white blanket laid with an image of a man made by red stains with facial features of a renaissance inspired look of jesus christ complete with emphasis on his stigmatas. Despite conspicous proofs, christian believe that this is the cloth that covered jesus christ after his death a thousand years and a half earlier.

The exhibit was up for 250 bucks to see the blanket up close, I wanted to see it at first too for all the fuss it made the last 500 years but I then thought it was too expensive and somehow I didn't want to join the bandwagon of believers buying this 500 year old prank. The truth is, I think this is one great prank somebody thought of that lived off for a long time, the guys who made it didn't knew about the science of DNA coming out in this century and if they knew they should have the least placed their blood over the blanket and expect them to be cloned as gods 500 years later, but a still lot of people buy their story anyway and their dead bodies six feet under are probably laughing at us right now.

I'm no iconoclast but I think people should draw a line between symbolism and blind fanaticism, and if I were the old testament god, this might be reason enough to flood this part of the country where the blanket is right now and wash it clean.