Today's been a total waste of day (Grey's Anatomy marathon FTW), but yesterday I a) sold my bike for 35 measley euros (boo!) b) went to Amsterdam and wandered c) watched Case 39 (eep!) and d) had tea with Nahry (whoot!)
In other news, my mother may or may not be flying in tomorrow. Stupid volcano.
Supernatural's "The Rapture" Meta: Just been rewatching
Jimmy Novak clips and holy angelcakes, Batman, does Jimmy's speech here scream Show Meta. I mean, if I didn't know any better I'd say the dialogue was Sam's or Dean's.
JIMMY: I'm done, okay, with demons, angels all of it. I just wanna go home. [...] I've been shot and stabbed and healed and my body's been dragged all over the earth. By some miracle I'm out and I am done. I've given enough, okay?
And of course, Jimmy can never go home. Just like Sam can never go home - or well, back to Stanford life. Just like neither can Dean, who's never had one. And just like the first ever Monster of the Week in Pilot. Oh, Show ♥
Meme - 30 Days - Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy: My view on religion, in crack metaphor form.
The way I see it, life is a big ass jungle. There's pretty things, poisonous things, cool things, slippery things, hard things and soft things all around. You walk along and you'll get mud on your shoes, trample some plants, forde a few streams, walk around some obstacles or claw your way through them. And it's alright.
Religion tells you that there's someplace very nice somewhere out there in the middle of the jungle. It tells you that you should point your steps towards that place, that temple which they call god, nirvana, heaven or enlightenment. Instead of making your own way through the jungle, religion shows you a path that others have taken, saying that if you follow that, it will lead you to the best place in the jungle.
Some religions say that you only have to follow the path, others that you have to do it at a certain speed, or that you have to observe particular signs along the way. Your path may even end up crossing or going parallel with other paths of other religions, either going in your direction, in the opposite direction, or completely tangental to yours. But since no one really knows where the temple is, you can't really be sure that you are on the right path, or the easiest or shortest path to the temple. For all you know, it's the other path that leads to the temple and not yours, or all paths leads to the temple eventually.
So religion gives you a path and asks you to trust that there is a temple in the jungle and that it will lead you to it. You may catch up to other travellers on your path or other paths, you may decide to go in groups. You may try to convince others to join your path away from theirs, or find people not walking any path and decide to tell them about the temple you hope to find. You may give up on the path, wander off it, try others.
Religion, then, is a path through the jungle that others have made and you decide to follow in the hopes of reaching the temple that you believe to exist.
Buddhists are the ones with the machetes. They've been taught how to make their own path.
Agnostics think that there might be a temple or not, but they'd rather not follow in anyone's path. If one day they walk out into a clearing and see the temple, they will be glad of it, but if they spend their life walking the jungle without finding it, it was still a nice jungle.
Atheists do not believe there is a temple and walk the jungle and enjoy it for what it is, not thinking of it as something to be walked through but as the place where you are.
In other words, The Powers That Be may or may not be in the jungle and religion may or may not lead to it. I say, get your boots muddy and enjoy the scenery.
Previously:
Day 01 → Your favorite songDay 02 → Your favorite movieDay 03 → Your favorite television programDay 04 → Your favorite bookDay 05 → Your favorite quoteDay 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy - GIFsDay 07 → A photo that makes you happyDay 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sadDay 09 → A photo you tookDay 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years agoDay 11 → A photo of you taken recentlyDay 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy - Nature is awesome!Day 13 → A fictional bookDay 14 → A non-fictional bookDay 15 → A fanficDay 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy - My irrational fears, let me show you them. Day 19 → A talent of yoursDay 20 → A hobby of yoursDay 21 → A recipeDay 22 → A website Day 23 → A YouTube video Coming Soon
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Quote of the Day: Anon. or uncredited
Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout, "Wrong jungle!" The MANAGERS shout back, "Be quiet! We're making progress!"
Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
babyss's
1x16 and 1x17 Wallpapersiwantpie's Review
Point Of No Returncowards_kiss' Review
Point Of No Returncitizencandy's Fic
Ask Me No Questions And I Shall Tell You No Liesmorganoconner's Good Omens Crossover Fic
Baby Bluesblue_phlox's Art
Losing Faithstarandrea's Fanmix
Falling Is Teaching me To Fly (Dean/Castiel)
sistermagpie's Meta
Point Of No Return: You can count on me. No, really. I think.secretlytodream's Fanvid
Playeryourlibrarian's Meta
Point Of No Return ;
Victimhood in SPNsuzyx's
Icons - "Dean Winchester: His legend precedes him, the way lightning precedes thunder."
light_ofmy_life's
Iconsina_ami's
Icons and GIFsdeny1984's
Icons and GIFsawakencordy's
Iconstearaphoenix's Fanvid
Chained to a Comet (Jimmy, Castiel)
adrenalineshots's Meta
Point of No Return: Dean and Michaelsauve_icons's
Iconsobeyshi's Fanmix
Ungodly Hourradios_jammed (
dreamlittleyo and
leonidaslion)'s
Radio's Jammed With Gospel Stations: Strangerfandomsecrets's
Obligatory "Oh noes, the Wincest!" Secret - Now with GIFs thread!
dean_sam's Picspam
Funny Moments ;
Excerpts from the letter Lost:
Benery Knows Best:
Lost Love Doctor Who:
versaphile's Review
5x01-5x03redscharlach's review
Victory of the Daleksoddood's Picspam
Top 10 Favorite PhotoshootsBleedingCool's
The great Doctor Who conspiracy of the fifth season Ashes to Ashes:
redscharlach's Review
3x03 Other:
wptjeh's
Jackie Earle Haley at WonderconMisha Collin's Poem
June Second \o/
ClassicFM's
John Simm reading an excerpt from Crime and PunishmentHyperboleAndAHalf's
Spaghatta Nadle! ;
New pain chart ;
How a fish almost destroyed my childhood ;
I can't feel my face!TheStar's
No end in sight as volcano's ash spreads - Alskjflsdkjglsdkfgj! I have stuff that needs packing and moving and parental assistance!
Book trailer:
The Book of Awesome360 Degree Panorama of Phoenix * Bette Davis