Nothing is more dangerous than a fool with too much time to think
Which is what I've been for the past 2 and a half months.
School starts on Wednesday, and I'm glad of it. I've had too much time of sitting and thinking by myself.
For some reason I've had an obsession with Mormons. I've been rereading Under The Banner of Heaven which is about them, and I've just been thinking how anyone could bear to be one.
Like, the Mormon missionaries have the following restrictions.
-They can drink no coffee, tea, alcohol, or caffeinated beverages, and can have no drugs or tobacco. (not so bad)
-They can neither masturbate, have impure thoughts, have extramarital sex, or, of course, be gay (I might have trouble with that one)
-They have to wear a hat and robe every day (ew)
-They can't read or listen to any music not produced by the Mormon Church...
I don't understand how someone could make their whole life one thing all the time, all day, their only focus, for years.
I do a lot of swimming, and I love it, and I focus on it, but I also take time off of it sometimes to play soccer, play the piano, do schoolwork and shizz.
And of course I disagree with the stupidass douchebaggery of Mormons, but spending time is thinking about it is doing no one any good. If they're happy, I should be happy too.
Ugh. I feel like I'm going crazy.
I have too much time to myself, which I usually spend watching horror movies, and reading, and building things with blocks, while drinking coffee tea all day, sometimes mixed with vodka.
Perhaps I shouldn't be so depressing. Let's try again.
Life is going pretty good. School is starting on Wednesday, and I think I'll feel better when it does, I'll have things to do, that other people tell me to do, I won't have to be forced to come up with my own ideas all day. Cause I suck at that. And I have a headache.
Fuck. Depressing again.
Whatevs. I'm not exactly on a roller coaster of happiness and joy right now, but I'm not in a deep black pit of despair either, it's more like a shallow gray pit of apathy :P
I need sleep, obviously :P I'm sorry I'm being such a self-centered dick again and posting this, but it makes me feel better :P
Night night Oasies!
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Comments
Grab...
...hold of yourself!
You'll make it... just one more day... and life begins anew!
As for the Mormons... nothing in your assessment with which I could disagree. Actually, it's tragic how religions can be so controlling.
One sci-fi author (OSC) used to be a favorite of mine... until I learned he was a member and an active champion of the religion... and that bits of (disguised) Mormon "thinking" were subtly finding their way into his great stories. No longer... for me!
Did you make it to the top of Mt. Rainier?
Going to the top
was never in the plan, we were just going for a day trip, going to the top would require overnighting.
We made it to the climbing high camp at 10,000 feet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5ghXdq6Z0&safe_search=on
So...
being on top isn't important to you?
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"Why be given a body if you have to keep it locked up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" - Katherine Mansfield
Requires...
much advance planning, no?
Eh...
I'm not sure that's quite what he meant... :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5ghXdq6Z0&safe_search=on
heh...
I can never quite tell if elph proceeds as though I'm not joking, doesn't know if I am, or just picks up that there's something off about my reply so adds to it... hehehe.
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"Why be given a body if you have to keep it locked up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" - Katherine Mansfield
So...
...I'd guess this leaves us with a dangling... conundrum? :)
My response...
...covers all eventualities, agreed? Hope so!
side note, your entry made
side note, your entry made me listen to the soundtrack of "Book of Mormon." Fucking brilliant show.
Whatevs. I'm not exactly on
Whatevs. I'm not exactly on a roller coaster of happiness and joy right now, but I'm not in a deep black pit of despair either, it's more like a shallow gray pit of apathy :P
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO I DIED
Well...
"If they're happy, I should be happy too."
I'd agree with this, if they weren't funding anti-gay initiatives and such.
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"Why be given a body if you have to keep it locked up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" - Katherine Mansfield
Well
Okay, I can dislike them for that, but I shouldn't care about their stupid restrictions on their own shit, that should be their business. I don't know why I care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5ghXdq6Z0&safe_search=on
a fool with to much time to think...
careful chad, thats how religions get started ;D
"A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationships? As dogs or as humans?"
Exactly
more importantly, that's how religious fundamentalism gets started, when you can think and think and then villify people, seperate into 2 black and white categories, us, the good, righteous ones, and them, the evil, thieving ones.
Which is why I'm worried I'm starting to really dislike Mormons. I don't think they're evil people, and I shouldn't think of them as such, they're just in many ways stupid and misguided and without any individual thought :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt5ghXdq6Z0&safe_search=on
"more importantly"
Everyone (except for a few) says it. If you listen to any discussion, it is ubiquitously employed to introduce a different tack.
But, why an adverb? For me, it sounds awkward. This mind screams: It should be "more important."
Just an observation... nothing at all to suggest any disagreement with the expressed sentiment.
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