Cause/Effect (NOT FUNNY WARNING)

Well, today I think I have learned that anyone can have an effect on the world. I think I partially caused Steve-O from Jackass to do something. See, I made a video a few months back about his newfound spirituality (read: annoying preachy-ness). We all know who Steve-O is and what he has always done. He's a funny man and will do absolutely anything to get a laugh. And that is why I respect him.

But lately, he'd been posting stuff on his blog that didn't even attempt to be funny (reminds me of this post). Instead it was stuff about the Age of Aquarius and how the world is going to end soon so everyone better shape up. Hell, it could be true. I don't know.

I come from the line of thinking where we cannot know that kind of stuff. We can't know if there is a "god" and if there is we cannot know what it is. We can make theories and do that like a bunch of crazies sometimes, but there is no way to truly know. Which is why I don't really partake in that stuff. It's all human-created speculation. The Bible has been translated countless times, and it only takes one translator that doesn't agree with something to change it.

I don't disbelieve in anything. I believe it is all possible - but I refuse to live life for something I don't know for sure is there. I don't want to be a good person to get into heaven or avoid hell. I want to be uncertain. I get a certain peace from it.

Basically his recent postings have been the opposite of that - he seems to think he knows the world is going to end in 2012 among other things. Then, yesterday, he posted my cartoon. Said cartoon basically really went after his new preachy-ness. He called it his new favorite cartoon, then today removed it. He went on to apologize for being disrespectful to other people's spiritual understanding.

I don't know that I would call what he was doing that, though. I don't think he was ever being disrespectful. Just really preachy. I don't care what you believe just like you shouldn't care what I believe.

Regardless, I am a big fan of Steve-O. He is sober now, and damn if that isn't a good thing. I can't wait to see what he comes up with with a sharp mind. And if I had some kind of effect on him, I am actually honored. I don't want him to change what he believes, though. This is the USA, I can disagree with anyone. But fuck, this is Steve-O. I didn't mean to make the man feel guilty or something. I hope I didn't, really.