Buttons are M.A.D.E. to be pushed
When I'm avoiding school work, I tend to find ANYTHING else to do. My bathroom gets really clean when I have papers to do.
So, I'm doing 259 questions worth of Biology and browsing the ol' LJ. One journal I check every now and then is Puripnon's journal. He's part of the self-affirming intellectual LSU social circle. It's not really something I'm interested in, but sometimes the sheer intelligence can make for a good read. I am aware that some of these people DO have much stronger minds than I. ANYHOW, I click on his friends list and casually peruse one of those journals.
One of them strikes me as well written, but contains amusing contradictions. The journal is littered with mentions of not eating meat on Friday, Church, and Confirmation class. In contrast, also strewn throughout the journal, are *gasp!* curse words and vague, boyobsession-ridden details of a typical trendy bar-rat kind of life. I'm sure she has an endless supply of the-awesomest-friends-you'll-ever-meet, band guy friends, and cool hair.. but, it was nothing out of the ordinary. It's just the whole Christian thing that always perplexes me.
Generally speaking, religion and God fearing is adhered to, mostly when convenient enough. (I suppose this is common in many aspects of social climbing.)
As if God will be like "you've performed premarital sex acts with 3 artsy guys this year (hypothetical scenario alert), cursed constantly, drank, smoked, called some of my own creations gugly.. but wait.. what's this? Oh, you went to confirmation class and didn't eat meat on Fridays? You've been good!"
Thinking it wasn't a big deal, I made this seemingly harmless comment about our religious society: "I love how convenient it is for some Christians to choose their sins."
I plunged back into my book and continued the scholastic obligations at hand. Almost immediately, this person IMed me and this conversation ensued:
Lapis Lazali (5:06:15 PM): you're a fucking jerk
NeptuneFix (5:07:04 PM): Oh shit.
NeptuneFix (5:07:08 PM): Mom?
Lapis Lazali (5:07:22 PM): No, you posted something on my LiveJournal. Who is this?
Lapis Lazali (5:08:02 PM): How did you find my shit?
NeptuneFix (5:08:02 PM): Just delete it. Whatever is more convenient. Just an observation of Christians.
Lapis Lazali (5:08:10 PM): WHO the fuck are YOU to judge me?
NeptuneFix (5:08:33 PM): Damn, you're quite the little ball of internet fury.
Lapis Lazali (5:08:49 PM): Do you get your kicks by leaving nasty messages on strangers' fucking LiveJournals?
NeptuneFix (5:08:54 PM): How is that nasty?
Lapis Lazali (5:08:59 PM): and trust me... I'd be saying this even if you were right in front of me, ass.
Lapis Lazali (5:09:19 PM): You're judging somebody you don't even know because of your own fucking insecurity.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:08 PM): Not gonna say shit huh
NeptuneFix (5:11:20 PM): What is one to say? you're spazzing over nothing.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:29 PM): You called all Christians hypocrites
NeptuneFix (5:11:35 PM): Boo hoo.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:38 PM): You're a fucking ass for saying that shit
Lapis Lazali (5:11:41 PM): And you're fuckin gugly too
NeptuneFix (5:11:57 PM): How very Christian of you.
Lapis Lazali (5:12:06 PM): I'm not christian, I'm Catholic
Lapis Lazali (5:12:10 PM): It's fucking different
Lapis Lazali (5:12:14 PM): We're allowed to defend our faith
Lapis Lazali (5:12:40 PM): Think twice before you fuck with somebody based on their faith WITHOUT knowing why they feel the way they do
Lapis Lazali (5:12:46 PM): and don't ever read my fucking shit again
NeptuneFix (5:13:50 PM): .. and Catholics are Christians, btw.
Lapis Lazali (5:13:57 PM): I don't take kindly to losers from BR just posting random shit in my journal without knowing me especially since nothing about that post had anything to do with not being Christian
Lapis Lazali (5:14:03 PM): And don't fuck with me little boyt, I know my owjn faith
NeptuneFix (5:15:26 PM): If it were a typical social placation type thing, you wouldn't complain. I never imagined someone taking such offenses to a blanket statement based on an OBVIOUS observation.
NeptuneFix (5:17:52 PM): Eating meat on Friday: nope, Jesus will notice!.. Curse like a sailor, insult people based on their God given looks: Jesus won't mind.
Lapis Lazali (5:19:26 PM): You're righttttttttt you hit the nail on the head
Lapis Lazali (5:19:30 PM): Now leave me oaloen
Aww. I feel so tingly now because talking to her is like being touched directly by the hand of Jesus! The reasons for this idiotic story are:
1) Getting pissed is usually a sign of not liking the thoughts being provoked.
2) I wonder if more Catholics really think they aren't Christian? Catholicism IS as Christian as it gets. Protestants and Martin Luther broke away from the church to seek a more liberated society, where the Church didn't control so much knowledge and hypocrites can't get out of sins simply by sucking up to the church. It was at this point when individualism and democracy broke out and ran rampant all over Europe.. along with the Renaissance. Ireland managed to keep itself out of the Renaissance, in part because of complete control by the Catholic church. Go figure.
3) I've been inspired to post a picture of the night light Alisa gave to me. Not quite as cool as the Jesus action figure currently on my wall.
AMEN.
So, I'm doing 259 questions worth of Biology and browsing the ol' LJ. One journal I check every now and then is Puripnon's journal. He's part of the self-affirming intellectual LSU social circle. It's not really something I'm interested in, but sometimes the sheer intelligence can make for a good read. I am aware that some of these people DO have much stronger minds than I. ANYHOW, I click on his friends list and casually peruse one of those journals.
One of them strikes me as well written, but contains amusing contradictions. The journal is littered with mentions of not eating meat on Friday, Church, and Confirmation class. In contrast, also strewn throughout the journal, are *gasp!* curse words and vague, boyobsession-ridden details of a typical trendy bar-rat kind of life. I'm sure she has an endless supply of the-awesomest-friends-you'll-ever-meet, band guy friends, and cool hair.. but, it was nothing out of the ordinary. It's just the whole Christian thing that always perplexes me.
Generally speaking, religion and God fearing is adhered to, mostly when convenient enough. (I suppose this is common in many aspects of social climbing.)
As if God will be like "you've performed premarital sex acts with 3 artsy guys this year (hypothetical scenario alert), cursed constantly, drank, smoked, called some of my own creations gugly.. but wait.. what's this? Oh, you went to confirmation class and didn't eat meat on Fridays? You've been good!"
Thinking it wasn't a big deal, I made this seemingly harmless comment about our religious society: "I love how convenient it is for some Christians to choose their sins."
I plunged back into my book and continued the scholastic obligations at hand. Almost immediately, this person IMed me and this conversation ensued:
Lapis Lazali (5:06:15 PM): you're a fucking jerk
NeptuneFix (5:07:04 PM): Oh shit.
NeptuneFix (5:07:08 PM): Mom?
Lapis Lazali (5:07:22 PM): No, you posted something on my LiveJournal. Who is this?
Lapis Lazali (5:08:02 PM): How did you find my shit?
NeptuneFix (5:08:02 PM): Just delete it. Whatever is more convenient. Just an observation of Christians.
Lapis Lazali (5:08:10 PM): WHO the fuck are YOU to judge me?
NeptuneFix (5:08:33 PM): Damn, you're quite the little ball of internet fury.
Lapis Lazali (5:08:49 PM): Do you get your kicks by leaving nasty messages on strangers' fucking LiveJournals?
NeptuneFix (5:08:54 PM): How is that nasty?
Lapis Lazali (5:08:59 PM): and trust me... I'd be saying this even if you were right in front of me, ass.
Lapis Lazali (5:09:19 PM): You're judging somebody you don't even know because of your own fucking insecurity.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:08 PM): Not gonna say shit huh
NeptuneFix (5:11:20 PM): What is one to say? you're spazzing over nothing.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:29 PM): You called all Christians hypocrites
NeptuneFix (5:11:35 PM): Boo hoo.
Lapis Lazali (5:11:38 PM): You're a fucking ass for saying that shit
Lapis Lazali (5:11:41 PM): And you're fuckin gugly too
NeptuneFix (5:11:57 PM): How very Christian of you.
Lapis Lazali (5:12:06 PM): I'm not christian, I'm Catholic
Lapis Lazali (5:12:10 PM): It's fucking different
Lapis Lazali (5:12:14 PM): We're allowed to defend our faith
Lapis Lazali (5:12:40 PM): Think twice before you fuck with somebody based on their faith WITHOUT knowing why they feel the way they do
Lapis Lazali (5:12:46 PM): and don't ever read my fucking shit again
NeptuneFix (5:13:50 PM): .. and Catholics are Christians, btw.
Lapis Lazali (5:13:57 PM): I don't take kindly to losers from BR just posting random shit in my journal without knowing me especially since nothing about that post had anything to do with not being Christian
Lapis Lazali (5:14:03 PM): And don't fuck with me little boyt, I know my owjn faith
NeptuneFix (5:15:26 PM): If it were a typical social placation type thing, you wouldn't complain. I never imagined someone taking such offenses to a blanket statement based on an OBVIOUS observation.
NeptuneFix (5:17:52 PM): Eating meat on Friday: nope, Jesus will notice!.. Curse like a sailor, insult people based on their God given looks: Jesus won't mind.
Lapis Lazali (5:19:26 PM): You're righttttttttt you hit the nail on the head
Lapis Lazali (5:19:30 PM): Now leave me oaloen
Aww. I feel so tingly now because talking to her is like being touched directly by the hand of Jesus! The reasons for this idiotic story are:
1) Getting pissed is usually a sign of not liking the thoughts being provoked.
2) I wonder if more Catholics really think they aren't Christian? Catholicism IS as Christian as it gets. Protestants and Martin Luther broke away from the church to seek a more liberated society, where the Church didn't control so much knowledge and hypocrites can't get out of sins simply by sucking up to the church. It was at this point when individualism and democracy broke out and ran rampant all over Europe.. along with the Renaissance. Ireland managed to keep itself out of the Renaissance, in part because of complete control by the Catholic church. Go figure.
3) I've been inspired to post a picture of the night light Alisa gave to me. Not quite as cool as the Jesus action figure currently on my wall.
AMEN.