Drug Use?

Today I had the pleasure of meeting a gentleman in his 50's. For the sake of a moniker that is representative of him he shall be called Drinky McWorkingdrunk.
Drinky McWorkingdrunk was something of a disappointment as well as something of an eye opener. I tried to elicit some of his beliefs that he feels might be viewed as unbelievable from the objective point of view. He had a few ideas that he threw out there: There is other life out there and the government does have proof of this. Drinky McWorkingdrunk was convinced that the government has intercepted positive proof that alien life exists and is keeping if from us.
Drinky McWorkingdrunk also felt strongly that humankind is only using about 2 percent of it's brain capacity and that we, most likely, have the capacity for esp, telepathy, levitation and even time travel. As soon as we access the parts of our brain that can rationalize and solve the dimension of 'time' we will be able to use it in any way we choose.
The real belief of Drinky McWorkingdrunk that struck me as worthy of this blog was his conviction that the God of christianity is the same God of all other religions. He claims that, 'all people are different and God needs to reach them in different ways because of that. That is why he takes different forms like Buddha, Muhammad, and Brama. This is not too different from the doctrine of a church called the Ba'hai Faith. As you may have just read, the Ba'Hai Faith believes that the diety of the world has taken different forms in different cultures but the same message of peace and goodwill is the undercurrent of all his teachings. I like this belief.

It is important to note that in all his 'beliefs', the later being exempted, Drinky McWorkingdrunk was not 100% willing to commit his faith. He mentioned that drug use and age made him feel uncertain about alot of things but this did not prevent him from showing great zeal while discussing these various 'objectively unlikely' concepts.

On a side note, I spent about an hour in the LA metro system. I did not question a single person about their beliefs. Frankly, the black man singing his music loudly and stopping occasionally to brag about the various people he has sung with, the homeless lady who was occupied talking to herself and the mexican lady who wouldn't make eye contact threw me off and made me nervous. If I am going to benefit from this project I had better get some balls and start being crazier than the crazies.

By the way, day one post prophetic and LA is still here, not yet swallowed and charred by the mother. Yes!!!