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Blame it on the pill. What do you think Divorce lawyers are going to do with this?
I don’t care if you think this is wrong… 3 August 2008
Because it’s frackin’ HI-larious! —
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other
religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved
from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we
were created from dirt.
8 – You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 – Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah,
but you don‘t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the
babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in
“Joshua” including women, children, and trees!
6 – You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods
sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit
impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to
life and then ascended into the sky.
5 – You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the
scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing
wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents
and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 – You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of
those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects – will
spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion
the most “tolerant” and “loving.”
3 – While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to
convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in
“tongues” may be all the evidence you need to “prove” Christianity.
2 – You define 0.01% as a “high success rate” when it comes to answered prayers.
You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the
remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 – You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the
Bible, Christianity, and church history – but still call yourself a Christian.
Merle
I’m reading this book right now (Yes! I have some time to read).
Anyone who knows me knows that I love dogs. I love them much more than people. I find them easier to relate to, they are more honest, trusting, entertaining. Simply put, if I was stranded on a deserted island who would I chose to to be stuck there with?
Merle’s Door is a book about a dog named Merle. But wait, it gets better. This dog was a stray and Ted (a human) finds him. Hilarity ensues, tears are shed and I don’t know when I learned more about the history of human-dog relations or when I was more impressed by a writer.
I look at my boys in a whole different light and I highly recommend it, both as a source of entertainment and a means of educating yourself about you pooch.
It is done 25 May 2008
Now what?
I’ve been in school so long I feel lost as to what I should do next. My degree is incredibly relevant to my career, which only increases my desire to continue. How else can I improve myself? What else can I get involved with that will help further, not only my career, but my ability to affect change in a way that really matters?
I have some ideas, but I’m keeping them from Meatloaf at the moment. He too is recovering from the last degree. Part of me finds perverse joy in accumulating as many “M”s after my name as possible. And no, I have never wanted any “P”s, “H”s, or “D”s, simply because I haven’t found many practical applications for them in my line of work.
So, as of now I clean my house, I play with my boo’s and I buckle down at work. That too will get old.
Meatloaf just walked in to ask what I was doing and I asked him what he would like to do. When he gave me a look and wondered why we couldn’t just spend the day doing nothing, I realized this emphasizes my need for more. I can never just do NOTHING. THAT is a waste of time.
I am all for relaxing when relaxing is required, but nothing for nothing’s sake is like scrapy finger nails on the blackboard in my mind.
So now he regrets coming into the room. We are heading off now to change the litterbox, vacuum, dust and straighten. NOTHING is unacceptable. Purposefully relaxing is a practical application of one’s time.
🙂 Doesn’t he know me by now?
I can see the finish line… 4 April 2008
It’s almost there. I can see it, taste it, even smell it. But I may not make it. I have always had the tendancy to start things and never finish them.
I am in the last class. I can get my degree in May, if only I can finish it. It’s the hardest class I’ve ever had. Try taking “Advanced Mandarin” with only 2 years of high school Spanish as a foundation. On second though, don’t. I can tell you righ now that it sucks.
Perhaps I will surface again in a month. But come what will, if I don’t make it through this class I will officially become a ‘graduate school dropout’. (and then maybe I’ll get to sleep every once in a while)
Dethawing… 15 February 2008
I am still here. I am frozen. I am also struggling through the hardest (and last) class of my entire graduate career.
It takes all of my time. I am actually in class right now.
But today is a good day. It’s Valentine’s day. I know, I know. It’s not a real holiday. Some bitter or jaded women might claim that it’s silly, subjecting us to having high expectations and setting men up to fail.
I wasn’t sure it was a necessary holiday until I met the boy. And every year since, I get flowers at work. Lovely 2 dozen long stemmed roses, each year a card arrives with them with a message that is better than that of the year before.
This particular year was the best. I was having a horrible day. My boss asked me what was wrong when he saw the tears bubbling up in my eyes. I was heavy with emotion, only wanting to go home and crawl into bed. And then… the receptionist paged me over the system and told me I had a package downstairs. It was a beautiful red vase, my roses with a teddy bear and chocolates. It was there and then that I did cry, but with happiness.
So, I am in class right now and I don’t mind. Work is still rough right now and the weather is miserable, but I feel sunny and wonderful, because I am loved. I am adored by my best friend. I am celebrated by my lover. And while this may make you want to wretch, I don’t care. Because right now and all day today, I was a hallmark-moment, floating on a cloud. Because my boy succumbed to social traditions this one day of the year and made sure that I know he thinks I’m special and he appreciates that I’m his.
Why Being Gay is Wrong 21 December 2007
Swiped from my favorite feminist:
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural
things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that
hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy
behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has
legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed
at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and
divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were
allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage
would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay
couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to
marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more
children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight
parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like
ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country.
That’s why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model
at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to
raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never
adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the
service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
Charity – schmarity 15 December 2007
I’m going to write about something that I rarely do. My opinion.
The fact is that I’m very opinionated and if I got started doing that sort of thing, I may never stop. I may even regret writing this one because it may step on toes but I feel the need to tell the story that forever jaded me to the biggest sinner of all do-gooders.
The Salvation Army. I read a blog that mentioned this Satanic Cult – ahem, I mean, this not for profit organization and it stirred memories of rage and hate and I feel the need to share with the world should they feel the need to drop a coin or two into the annoying, f-ing red tub the next time they go to Walgreens.
I will admit that the Salvation Army does good. They help a lot of people. And if they didn’t, they really wouldn’t be around that long. But there’s the idea spoken of prisoners – would you rather an innocent man be imprisoned in order to gather all the guilty, or allow a hundred men go free rather than see one innocent man go to jail? Something like that.
Anyway the same idea applies – would you give to an organization that helps hundreds of people, but in the process willingly and happily ruins the lives of one family to do so? Do their ends justify their means?
I have a very dear friend whose family was split up by divorce when she was young. She lived with her mother but visited her father often and loved him very much. As she grew older she noticed that he started to change, he was turning into a person she didn’t recognize. Somewhere around her 16th birthday she received a call that her father had killed himself. He locked himself in his house (her house as her mother had moved out) and shot himself in the head. The devastation was more than most could imagine. I lost my father around the same age, but it was from natural causes and there is some measure of calm in accepting his death knowing that no one really could have done anything about it.
My friend had to deal with this. In addition, her mother did not make a lot of money and as intelligent as she was (she’s one of the brightest people I know) she knew that she would be going to college, perhaps making something of herself that her father (her old father, before he got sick) would be proud of.
Only this wasn’t to be (at least not easily). You see, a week before he died, he gave away everything to the Salvation Army. And I mean EVERYTHING. That included her college savings, the house, the furniture, her stuff in the house including family keepsakes. Things that were her family’s and things that weren’t his to give.
As soon as they found out, they went to the Salvation Army and told them their story. Her father had been on medication (that he took himself off of prior to his death), was in counseling and was diagnosed with a serious mental disorder. They asked for their things back because it wasn’t all his to give them and without it, she and her siblings would not be able to go to college. Her life was completely turned upside down.
The response from Salvation Army was this – the items were theirs now, they wouldn’t be getting ANYTHING back and that if they wanted any more correspondence they would have to go through their (I’m sure very well paid) lawyer.
This bright, vivacious young girl had to deal with her father’s suicide and because of this “charity” the end of her dreams.
She was able to go to college, but not easily. She is doing well but there is much lost and a lot of that is her idea that the world is full of people wanting to do good. How could that possibly be when the people who are supposed to do good are the ones to take everything from you?
So, now I pass the women and men ringing their bells and I wonder. In my anger I think that they must be suckers. But these people honestly think that they’re doing good. And all of the people who leave the store and drop their change in the red bucket feel better because they’re helping an organization help people who need it.
But at what cost?
Only in Ameri… uh… Australia? 17 November 2007
This story makes me want to cry. It’s like our insanity has bled over to other regions. I fear for the state of the world.
My brother (and Australian resident and citizen) has told me that Australia has been “Americanizing” itself for the past decade or so. It makes me want to weep.
Australia was my “Oz”. It was my magical place that I would whisk my family off to should this one fall and impale itself on its conservative agenda. The cold water of reality has hit me, there is no place safe from PC. (cue horror music [I’m not sure if horror movies have music, I don’t watch them])
There is some light in the midst of all that is unholy that is the story below. Santas are defying their new rules, mothers are outraged and the Corporations and bent to the pressure. But I fear that Santa Claus will be stomped down by the heavy hand of business and tyrannically PC governments. It’s all more than I can bear (cue fainting)
Alchera Rose 