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I read my old journal entries for the first time ever. It's weird... like looking at pictures of oneself. so, um, thoughts and stuff. :D wikkity.
I still find it pretty amazing that for an hour's work at minimum wage you could pretty much feed yourself for a day if you had to.
(America is an awesome place.)
so after reading the latest 20 or so random livejournal posts, I have a better idea of what it's all about. and that's ranting about how miserable the writer's life is in about 75% of journals.
(maybe 75% was too high, but closer to 0% are used as actual journals)
it's particularly creepy how the [psych] textbook repeatedly refers to humans as "organisms."
(yes)
if you stop using particular words to curse and just take other, ordinarily less offensive words and redefine how they're used, how is that any better?
(I did this yesterday and felt very guilty afterwards. I did it all the time when I wrote that :x)
the more I read on the Internet, the more disheartening it is. almost no one stands up for the traditional virtues, and a lot of people are depressed/suicidal and even more are jaded with reality as a whole.
(doesn't really surprise me anymore. :|)
[Elder Maxwell] uses such cool metaphors too, like one to the effect of the world having anemia and needing the red blood cells of the Gospel.
(and that came up yesterday. :D)
20. Do you trust others easily?: Yeah, judging from the degree with which I lend things to strangers lately.
(I brought this to new heights a few days ago, when I agreed to buy/send something on eBay for somebody I don't even know who's in England and couldn't buy it himself... he paid me back for it pretty quickly tho.)
Most Mormons believe stupid stuff. But that's OK, because most of them are good people, and that's what He really wants. And we definitely don't have a monopoly on stupid beliefs.
(stupid? nah. not factual? maybe. but it's not like it really hurts anyone; it's the important stuff that matters. professors here very gingerly step around questions about evolution and such things though...)
Oh, it was kinda fun. ^_^
(getting locked out of my apartment and biking to random places and doing random stuff - I still maintain that this is some of the better stuff to do in life :D)
I grow more radical by the day.
(I think I'm as liberal as I'm gonna get - I still think we have no right to tell people they can't be queer because God doesn't like it though)
I miss talkin to Kevin, my soul sister.
(my phone is still... somewhere. again. it's not behind my bed. rawr.)
mmm... so tired. dunno why. was in the Morris Center (cafeteria) for an hour or so and on the edge of coherence by the end.
I still find it pretty amazing that for an hour's work at minimum wage you could pretty much feed yourself for a day if you had to.
(America is an awesome place.)
so after reading the latest 20 or so random livejournal posts, I have a better idea of what it's all about. and that's ranting about how miserable the writer's life is in about 75% of journals.
(maybe 75% was too high, but closer to 0% are used as actual journals)
it's particularly creepy how the [psych] textbook repeatedly refers to humans as "organisms."
(yes)
if you stop using particular words to curse and just take other, ordinarily less offensive words and redefine how they're used, how is that any better?
(I did this yesterday and felt very guilty afterwards. I did it all the time when I wrote that :x)
the more I read on the Internet, the more disheartening it is. almost no one stands up for the traditional virtues, and a lot of people are depressed/suicidal and even more are jaded with reality as a whole.
(doesn't really surprise me anymore. :|)
[Elder Maxwell] uses such cool metaphors too, like one to the effect of the world having anemia and needing the red blood cells of the Gospel.
(and that came up yesterday. :D)
20. Do you trust others easily?: Yeah, judging from the degree with which I lend things to strangers lately.
(I brought this to new heights a few days ago, when I agreed to buy/send something on eBay for somebody I don't even know who's in England and couldn't buy it himself... he paid me back for it pretty quickly tho.)
Most Mormons believe stupid stuff. But that's OK, because most of them are good people, and that's what He really wants. And we definitely don't have a monopoly on stupid beliefs.
(stupid? nah. not factual? maybe. but it's not like it really hurts anyone; it's the important stuff that matters. professors here very gingerly step around questions about evolution and such things though...)
Oh, it was kinda fun. ^_^
(getting locked out of my apartment and biking to random places and doing random stuff - I still maintain that this is some of the better stuff to do in life :D)
I grow more radical by the day.
(I think I'm as liberal as I'm gonna get - I still think we have no right to tell people they can't be queer because God doesn't like it though)
I miss talkin to Kevin, my soul sister.
(my phone is still... somewhere. again. it's not behind my bed. rawr.)
mmm... so tired. dunno why. was in the Morris Center (cafeteria) for an hour or so and on the edge of coherence by the end.