
Last week I was in Germany for a conference (ISWC 2008 in Karlsruhe, for those of you who are into Semantic Web conferences and weren't there), and in the picture you can find two items I found in my hotel room. Eden Hotel, a regular hotel, nothing too fancy and nothing too bad either.
what caught my attention, apart from the suggestive pictures of friendly young ladies, was the co-occurrence of the two items in the same place. Is this a contradiction? A show of hypocrisy? An offense to someone, both those who live by the book and those who live by the movie and could feel that the other item is meant as: this is what you are missing?
Personally, I don't feel strongly either way: the book is just a book, I've read it when I was younger and was told it's full of truth; I've changed my views about that a while ago. I've not seen these specific movies, but I've seen some related ones, and despite what some of my friends maintain, that porno movies have relevant trama and dialogue, I've failed to notice great differences, so I feel that I can safely skip these particular ones without much regret. They are both part of the items you usually find in a hotel room, slightly irritating sometimes but more often just disregarded until you check out. Like shampoo bottles, or the small soap pieces you usually get: the soap is crap, and there is never enough of it, or too much for what you need, and the rest goes wasted or recycled for the next visitor, and I'm not sure which alternative I find more disturbing... Point in favor of the Eden Hotel, it has none of the stuff: the soap and shampoo come in big sized containers, attached to the walls. Easy to use, you squeeze out what you need. Just the simplest solution.
So, might it be that gospel and porno together are the simplest solution? You have everything available, just pick what you like in the amount you prefer. By the way, you'll get charged more for porno than for the gospel. Well, that detail, it figures. You may be chased down the street by preachers, but hot chicks, it's often the case that you have to pay (/end of cynical joke).
Or maybe the whole thing is a lot less emotionally charged. Like in: we live here in this small city, we're doing all right, we sort of believe in god, we believe in love and we love sex, we got our little red light district (seriously little - it was like fifty meters from stem to stern) and we don't make too much a fuss about which part of our life you like more... mmm need to ask some German about what's their view on this. Off and out, I.

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