To celebrate Chinese New Year’s, my family decided to host a small party, inviting old friends to come and celebrate. Now, the adults were of course occupied by cards and talking and such; however, us teenagers and children were stuck without anything to do. What we ended up doing was rather interesting.
We started out by watching a movie, because it would burn a decent amount of time. So we watched “The Invention of Lying”, a movie about a man who discovers how to lie in a world where people can only speak the truth and nothing but the truth. I thought the movie was pretty good, but there was an implication that I didn’t quite like in the movie. Partway through, the protagonist says, “What happens after death is written on these pizza boxes”, and thereafter goes on to describe 10 rules that would allow people to go to “a place where everyone has a mansion”. This was an obvious reference to the Ten Commandments that God has set forth for us to follow. The analogue in the story was “The Man In The Sky”. That wasn’t too bad, but then at the end, the main character says, “there is no Man In The Sky”. God Exists. EOM.
After that we tried to figure out something to do, but some adults (cough, cough) had invaded our section of the house, so the few things we could think of were out. We ended up having a small Nerf war, which was decently fun. I must say, it was amusing to watch people try to use an 80% broken Maverick and win. Of course, being that there were more people than there were guns, there was a blowgun in usage, and thrown darts counted.
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