Complete and udder randomness.
I have a few things swimming in my head at the moment and I'm having a hard time sorting through them... Sorry Nick, but this will mostly be a repeat of last night... BUT there is a little more to add into it. :)
My first problem is that curiosity kills the cat. I realize when I decide to snoop through someone else's stuff, I have to deal with the consequences of what I find... but is it so much to ask someone to just be open and honest? Does everyone have their little secrets that they don't tell their significant other? I suppose we do. I mean.. I do. I think I always did... but whenever I find something out that I wasn't meant to, my stomach turns over, and I get a sick feeling. Even if I discover they are doing exactly the same thing I'm doing... it still makes me feel sick. Is it the inherent catholic guilt that I was raised with, that now I'm dealing with? I don't know what it is. Do I have a right to be jealous, even though I've done the same thing? No, most likely not... it's the stupid double standards that I'm seemingly so fond of. I know you guys are like, "What is she talking about?" But honestly, I don't even want to give specifics because it's so stupidly juvenile. Oh well... I just have to deal with it, right?
Moving right along... The Moo is going under... bad. Mark is doing anything and everything he can to dump it. He wants to sell it, and offered it to Sammy. Sammy needs $1500 in 3 weeks, if he wants it. He asked me to go halfs with him... he wants ME to be his business partner. My automatic response was "No. Absolutely not." I mean, I'm flattered that he wants to keep me around long enough, and trusts me enough to consider being business partners... but there way too many factors that contributed to the reflex response. A) There's a reason Ken sold the store, and now Mark is selling it... duh. B) I've been here long enough, I don't think buying the store would be beneficial to my life. C) You never become business partners with friends.... not to mention friends that you have a rocky past with... I don't want to be tied to him in any way.. and I think being partners is worse than being married. So yeah... thanks, but no thanks.
And I think my final rant... is going to be about two of my favorite complaints... wrapped in one. As you guys know, I have a very low tolerance for opinionated ignorance... well, this rant is about opinionated ignorant Christians. I've had a couple discussions with friends over the past couple of days... one of them was extremely intelligent, and the other was obviously ignorant... They both consider themselves Christians... so it's kind of amusing to be able to compare the two, but still annoying. My issue comes into play when people automatically assume that since I'm white with seemingly high morals and values, and living in America, I must automatically be Christian... Mistake number 1. When I simply reply with "I'm not Christian." I am almost always responded to with one of two questions... the first is "Then what are you?" and the next is "Well... are you Atheist, then?" When I reply to the atheist question with a simple chuckle and a "No," then they proceed with "Then what are you?"
Why is it, if you're not Christian.. you're automatically an Atheist? And it's even more annoying to find that most ignorant Christians think that Atheists are "Devil worshippers." Well.. hahah.. jokes on you, dumb asses. Let's look at this logically. The idea of the "Devil," of "Satan," of "Lucifer," didn't come along till Christianity. Jews don't believe in Hell, therefore there was no lord of the underworld. Christianity is where Hell showed up... God cast Lucifer down from the Heavens. So... theoretically, if someone is a "Devil worshipper," they must therefore, believe that the Devil.. which is a Christian belief was cast down from the heavens by God... which means they must therefore believe in God... so they can't be atheist. And since the definition of "atheist" is the belief that there is NO God... someone who worships the devil, can't be an atheist. Right? Right.
Ok, next is the question "Then what are you?" I'm me. Point blank. I don't believe in organized religion.. my biggest problem with them is that they all think they're right and everyone else is wrong. I have a very hard time with that. In comparison to the rest of the world.. no one organized religion has enough people to balance out EVERYONE else... so does that mean everyone else is wrong? I mean.. it's ok that you think that.. but I can't.
So... let's recap... No.. I'm not Christian.. no.. I'm not an Atheist. I know what I believe (to an extent)... I have ideas... I don't think my beliefs and ideas are the only true beliefs and ideas. I think the idea of what's "true" is subjective and everyone needs to decide for themselves.
I guess that's about all I need to rant about for the time being. :) Thanks!
My first problem is that curiosity kills the cat. I realize when I decide to snoop through someone else's stuff, I have to deal with the consequences of what I find... but is it so much to ask someone to just be open and honest? Does everyone have their little secrets that they don't tell their significant other? I suppose we do. I mean.. I do. I think I always did... but whenever I find something out that I wasn't meant to, my stomach turns over, and I get a sick feeling. Even if I discover they are doing exactly the same thing I'm doing... it still makes me feel sick. Is it the inherent catholic guilt that I was raised with, that now I'm dealing with? I don't know what it is. Do I have a right to be jealous, even though I've done the same thing? No, most likely not... it's the stupid double standards that I'm seemingly so fond of. I know you guys are like, "What is she talking about?" But honestly, I don't even want to give specifics because it's so stupidly juvenile. Oh well... I just have to deal with it, right?
Moving right along... The Moo is going under... bad. Mark is doing anything and everything he can to dump it. He wants to sell it, and offered it to Sammy. Sammy needs $1500 in 3 weeks, if he wants it. He asked me to go halfs with him... he wants ME to be his business partner. My automatic response was "No. Absolutely not." I mean, I'm flattered that he wants to keep me around long enough, and trusts me enough to consider being business partners... but there way too many factors that contributed to the reflex response. A) There's a reason Ken sold the store, and now Mark is selling it... duh. B) I've been here long enough, I don't think buying the store would be beneficial to my life. C) You never become business partners with friends.... not to mention friends that you have a rocky past with... I don't want to be tied to him in any way.. and I think being partners is worse than being married. So yeah... thanks, but no thanks.
And I think my final rant... is going to be about two of my favorite complaints... wrapped in one. As you guys know, I have a very low tolerance for opinionated ignorance... well, this rant is about opinionated ignorant Christians. I've had a couple discussions with friends over the past couple of days... one of them was extremely intelligent, and the other was obviously ignorant... They both consider themselves Christians... so it's kind of amusing to be able to compare the two, but still annoying. My issue comes into play when people automatically assume that since I'm white with seemingly high morals and values, and living in America, I must automatically be Christian... Mistake number 1. When I simply reply with "I'm not Christian." I am almost always responded to with one of two questions... the first is "Then what are you?" and the next is "Well... are you Atheist, then?" When I reply to the atheist question with a simple chuckle and a "No," then they proceed with "Then what are you?"
Why is it, if you're not Christian.. you're automatically an Atheist? And it's even more annoying to find that most ignorant Christians think that Atheists are "Devil worshippers." Well.. hahah.. jokes on you, dumb asses. Let's look at this logically. The idea of the "Devil," of "Satan," of "Lucifer," didn't come along till Christianity. Jews don't believe in Hell, therefore there was no lord of the underworld. Christianity is where Hell showed up... God cast Lucifer down from the Heavens. So... theoretically, if someone is a "Devil worshipper," they must therefore, believe that the Devil.. which is a Christian belief was cast down from the heavens by God... which means they must therefore believe in God... so they can't be atheist. And since the definition of "atheist" is the belief that there is NO God... someone who worships the devil, can't be an atheist. Right? Right.
Ok, next is the question "Then what are you?" I'm me. Point blank. I don't believe in organized religion.. my biggest problem with them is that they all think they're right and everyone else is wrong. I have a very hard time with that. In comparison to the rest of the world.. no one organized religion has enough people to balance out EVERYONE else... so does that mean everyone else is wrong? I mean.. it's ok that you think that.. but I can't.
So... let's recap... No.. I'm not Christian.. no.. I'm not an Atheist. I know what I believe (to an extent)... I have ideas... I don't think my beliefs and ideas are the only true beliefs and ideas. I think the idea of what's "true" is subjective and everyone needs to decide for themselves.
I guess that's about all I need to rant about for the time being. :) Thanks!