Entertainment elitist
I hate most of your music.
I hate a lot of your movies.
I hate a lot of your tv shows.
Why can’t you see how AWFUL it is?
And I wonder why I can’t connect with people.
scott is awkward
If it didn't matter...
In the course of a recent conversation with my wife, I asked, “If you knew it didn’t matter [in a religious sense], what would you do? What sounds fun, that the only reason you wouldn’t do it is because it’d be a sin?” We joked about it a bit: rob a bank, be a hooker, other ridiculous things. But I tried to get a real answer out of her, which was difficult even for her (she’s a naturally polite, law-abiding type of person). Finally she started to answer and stopped herself. She didn’t want to admit it. I probably wouldn’t have been offended by it. Everyone has at least one secret/taboo desire. I just want to know more about her, what really goes on in her head, more of the REAL her.
That got me thinking, again, about the restrictions of religion/faith. Do all the rules change who we are, force us to deny part of our own selves?
Maybe yes, but it’s for the better, inhibiting the worse part of our nature, the Super-ego to our Id.
Maybe no, because the restricted desires are temporary, not part of the personality, and they’d be destructive anyway.
Maybe yes again, and it’s wrong, preventing exploration, possibilities, and pleasure/happiness.
I can identify with each answer. I don’t really know where I stand.
Thoughts (religious or otherwise)?
Did I mention
a co-worker of mine has a Triforce tattoo on the back of his hand?
“ The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. Then one day someone discovered that if you walked as fast as possible and looked at nothing but your shoes you would arrive at your destination much more quickly. Soon everyone was doing it. They all rushed down the avenues and hurried along the boulevards seeing nothing of the wonders and beauties of their city as they went. No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
Norton Juster, “The City of Reality” in The Phantom Tollbooth (via rachell)
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/
Although this is good for Microsoft, it also shows just how much people want to be rid of Vista.
Zebo Punkt No More Human (via SirOtton)
Original concept. Watch it through to the end.
