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Worker's Log...Day 3
2001-10-31 11:11:08
October 31, 2001
The days are getting colder and the fishbowl is running low.
Things look grim.
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I wonder if its a bad omen if the computer I have at work is slower than the one I use at home. I'm not a technophile or anything either, and I dunno, I'd just expect a programmer to have better tools to work with. Oh well, I have an internet connection so what am I complaining about?
Traffic...You know, I had forgotten how bad traffic can be in the DC metropolitan area. This morning I had to drop my brother off at the car dealership to get his car back from getting maintenance done on it so I took Route 66 into work. I felt like I was re-enacting a scene out of Office Space! Two lanes of traffic (well, really three but one was HOV so it doesn't count) and only one is moving. Of course, the moving lane is always the one you're NOT in. And when you switch, that lane stops moving and the one you just left starts! I'm half expecting my boss to come up to me and ask for TP reports now...
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Insomnia Episode 1: The Drooling Menace
2001-10-18 01:37:11
Ugh, I feel tired, yet I can't sleep. It's only 1:30 am here, which is pretty early, but I want to sleep earlier so I can wake up earlier because I'll be working again soon and I need to get into that eat/sleep/defecate routine again. Well, you know what they say, 2 out of 3 ain't bad! But I still can't sleep, even though I am tired. I blame it on the Phantom Drooler! This sick bastard obviously drooled on my pillow and then shoved my head in it while I was sleeping! But I am a light sleeper so I woke up fairly quickly. Yet somehow the bugger STILL managed to escape! I'm sure some of you have encountered the Phantom Drooler before too. He is an insidious cretaure that preys on anyone, anytime and anywhere! Whether you are at home in your bed or sitting in class listening to a boring lecture, he can and will strike whenever the opportunity arises! So we must all band together to combat this menace to society! And once we do, then no more shall we wake up with our cheeks dampened and a vague sense of disquiet! No more shall we lay awake afterwards wondering if he will return again! And the world will be peaceful once again. Ah, what a beautiful dream...
I'm going to go change my pillow case now.
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don't call me apathetic / 'cuz I don't believe the hype / 'cuz it's people who believe in things / that are always taking lives
2001-10-16 10:38:25
What really bothers me about biblethumpers is not that they strongly believe in their religion, but that they want to force everyone else to believe it their way too.
"I'm right and if you don't agree with me, you're wrong."
That's what it basically comes down to. Well forgive me if I don't agree with you immediately, but maybe I would like some proof, or at least a coherent argument.
*THUMP* (sound of thumping bible)
"The Bible is the source of ultimate truth!"
Oh really? Which one?
"THE Bible."
You mean the christian bible which is a combination of the Old Testament that the Jewish use and the New Testament which came along later? Or maybe the Koran which the Muslims use? Or the teachings of Buddha? Or any number of other lesser known religious texts?
"Errr um, there's only one Bible. That's why its called the Bible. All those other books are called something else."
And then their argument degenerates from there. From herein, I will refer to the Christian Holy Bible as the bible because I don't think it warrants the capital B. I mean, that's pretty arrogant!
But I mean, some of the things I hear from ultra-devout people are just nonsensical. These are the kinds of people that take the bible to literally be the source of ultimate truth. Sure, that's easy to say, but what does it really mean? One person's truth may not be another's. If you told someone a lie and they believed you, wouldn't that be their truth then? They would not believe that what you told them wasn't true, so that's their truth right? If you hooked them up to a polygraph machine and asked them about what you said, they'd still believe it to be true if they didn't know any better.
Let's just say hypothetically that Hitler and the Axis Powers had won World War II. I bet in all the history books, they'd say that the Allied Forces were a bunch of evil people who were up to no good because they were trying to stop Hitler and his Aryan nation. Now I'm not saying I condone Hitler's actions and policies, I certainly don't. But I bet if Germany had won, that's what we'd be learning in school. So maybe you shouldn't blindly believe everything you read about or hear about, maybe you should check out more than one source. Maybe there would be some oldtimer that could tell you about the war and what was really going on or something.
Well anyways, the bottomline is that I think everyone should find their own truth. Truth is not something that should be forced upon someone nor is it something that should come to people who just sit around waiting. People should have to look for it, search for it, work for it. And by knowing it, or merely knowing you are on the right track, you will be more happy.
Of course, for those people who don't feel like working hard to find their own truth, they will probably be happy as pod people can be to accept everything that is forcefed to them. And that's perfectly fine because that would be their choice and that's their prerogative. My main beef with the aforementioned biblethumpers is that they're telling you what to think whether you really want to or not.
It kind of makes me angry to think about it. I mean, what gives them the right to dictate what other people think? If people agree with you is one thing, but you shouldn't have to threaten them with eternal damnation if they don't agree with you. Nor should you have to wave the carrot of eternal salvation in front of them to persuade them to follow your beliefs.
And people who take the bible too seriously are bad too. If you live and breathe the bible then what do you do in a situation that was not described in it? The biblical texts that make it up were written hundreds of years ago and certainly there is still a common human factor between all this time, but society has changed so shouldn't there then be some logical revision also? Women don't have to be completely serve and please their husbands. Obviously they're not nowadays and probably weren't even back in biblical times, but that is the image of the "good Christian wife". What sort of ideal is that though? Probably written by some chauvinistic male of that era. And hell, lets look at the word "husband". Ever heard of animal husbandry? Its the art of raising and training animals. If the male is the husband/trainer, the wife must be the trainee/animal. Pretty scary if you think about it.
That's why I'd rather think about the abstract notion of love than the idea of marriage under the eyes of god. You can have a loveless marriage, but hey if its sanctioned by God it must be good, right? I don't even think they have such a thing as divorce in the bible, yet plenty of people get divorced nowadays. Why is that? Societal changes. Of course, if you love someone then you should marry them. There's nothing wrong with that. But the marriage does not confer the ability to love, its more involved with inheritance and property. Half of your possessions becomes the property of your spouse and vice versa (except with pre-nuptial agreements, yet another social invention).
And why is pre-marital sex bad? If you have sex before you're married with say, your fiance(e), then what's the problem? I mean, you're going to get married eventually. What difference does it make? You could even call it predestiny if you want! "We were destined to eventually be married, so we acted as if we already were!"
Personally, I don't care whether or not the woman I marry has had sex before being with me. I mean, if she has, I won't judge her a sinner. Certainly, if she has had sex with other people and then has sex with me, then either I'm really good in bed or my other qualities compensate and even exceed those of her other partners. Its like if you take out your flirtatious girl/boyfriend to a club. Its okay if they flirt with other people because you know that at the end of the evening, they're still leaving with you. And what's so great about marrying a virgin? I met this woman online who was having severe marital problems. She had married her husband at a young age and he'd been the first and only guy she'd been with. I guess after 10 years, his sex drive had dwindled and hers had increased. But she didn't know that it could be any other way than how her husband did it. Eventually she had an affair and that guy was apparently a much better lover than her husband had been, she just hadn't known it because she'd never done it before. Their marriage was pretty much downhill from there. Certainly, sex isn't the only thing in a marriage, but it can be important and often is symptomatic of other things wrong too.
But anyways, I made my agreement with God a long time ago. I'll handle stuff down here and when I die, he can pick up from there. It really ticks me off that there are so many problems in this world yet there are so many people thinking of what to do in the next world instead of solving the problems here.
Well, that's my 2 cents.
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I'm predicting that the world will end in the year 2000. The Creator of the universe works in mysterious ways, but He uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
2001-10-12 11:13:24
Hey, just because I type one-handed sometimes doesn't mean that I'm doing anything wrong with my other hand! Maybe I'm brushing
my teeth or writing something down or trying to clean the pocket lint out of pants that have really deep pockets!
Yeah, there's a virtual cornucopia of Beatles songs to make videos with. I think that someone could do a great one to "Why Don't We
Do It In The Road?" off the White Album! =] I think its on the first disc...
And why limit yourself to when they were still a group? They all tried to do their own solo stuff, although I only really liked John
Lennon's solo stuff (Jealous Guy! Woohoo!).
On another note, I caught Better Off Dead on cable the other day. Great high school romantic comedy movie. Check it out if you've
never seen it. They just don't make movies like this anymore! Nowadays, everything is hypersexualized! Sure sex sells, but it is fun
to put people in sexually awkward situations and see themselves just make it ten times worse, but where is the zaniness and
originality? You just don't see rabid paperboys chasing people around yelling "Two dollars!" anymore! I think something is wrong with
Hollywood or today's popular culture or both and that saddens me. -
Bring it on!!!
2001-10-11 14:17:05
Speaking of Bring It On, I really liked that movie. Sure, it was about high school cheerleaders, but there was something about it that I really liked. Besides the fact that Kirsten Dunst was in it and I"m a sucker for blondes that is. Eliza Dushku was in it too and even though she looks like a tramp now, one of my friends says he had a crush on her in True Lies. Or maybe that was that he has a crush on her 13 year-old self? I dunno. Hopefully he's not reading this (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU CHEEKY MONKEY!).
Anyways, bring it on Kusoyaro!!! We can fight by proxy! I'll pit my one fangirl against your screaming hordes of fanboys and fangirls and they'll have it out! Actually, my fangirl is probably your fangirl too so there will be some sort of inner conflict there, but those are always exciting to watch too!
Actually, I'm planning on going to AnimeUSA this weekend, so we can meet there and throw down. How about it, you mean lyric corrector guy? BOOT TO THE HEAD AND IT'LL COME OUT YOUR ASS! Bjork and Radiohead Mix! Yeah!
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