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Saturday, 02 February 2008
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Monday, 19 March 2007
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Currently Reading
The Big Sleep
By Raymond Chandler
see relatedYes... it's true
To answer the growing rumors I just want to clarify, yes I have a for-real-yo sleeping problem!
Namely- I don't sleep right at all. I'm just shy of up for 36 hours and can't convince myself that sleep is the right thing right now.
I should really submit myself for scientific research.
I apologize for the narcissistic post, I'm just troubled by this constantly circumvoluting circadian cycle of mine.
was does night wake me up and day make me uneasy. not tired, just nervous. I think daytime is plotting against me. Why is nothing open when I am? Who decided 3:30 was when breakfast starts being served, banks should close before 5 and good restaraunts only serve dinner until 9?
Why does it storm more often at night? (or is that the only time I'm awake to notice)
It's hard to meet interesting people at fo' in the mo'ning - I take that back... it's hard to meet safe interesting people
when did couches become more comfortable than beds, and why wasn't I told this as a child?
why do people start watching movies just to fall asleep to? if you're going to press play you should be willing to commit for the whole time!!!
Thursday, 22 February 2007
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So, real quick -
I'm reading through the bible like its a book, rather than some sort of recipe/text book that I use to divine answers and sift out lessons. And I've already discovered some fun things~
1. We (the collective contemporary christian culture) have added a lot of things to the bible stories, things that aren't in the bible, things that I looked for and was surprised to not find. This is bad. The bible should be taught as it is, not as it could be. For the same reason I don't believe in lying to kids about Santa (ever!) I feel like this pattern of teaching fleshed out story versions of stories has gone a little too far.
2. This has lent itself to instilling me with greatly inflated bible characters. It's weird but I set up certain peeps on pedestals they shouldn't be on. Actually, I just read what I wrote and I'm wrong. I didn't do this, everyone else has. I mean come on - Catholics and Mary, Jews and Abraham, Me and Paul - There is this bad tendency in religion to deify the people God works through, rather than God! Read that last sentence again, it's the best thing I've written on here for months. If you actually look at the people they are quite human. I could explain and link things and cite sources but just look it up yourself will ya?
3. God is, in fact, and in the bible, almost surreal-y human. We're over here deifying peeps when we should be humanizing God. Now, don't you take that wrong, there, Bessy! I am not removing His divinity at all, I'm saying read Genesis and tell me if He doesn't spend a lot more time walking around with people than He does bragging about how perfect He is. I mean for real, He walks and talks and argues and discusses stuff with everyone all the time! Walking with someone is one of those things were you totally have to be patient enough to match pace, go somewhere, endure awkward silences, put up with distractions, etc. It is like the MOST human interaction form possible - walking and talking!
In summation, reading the bible is Good, God is Good, the world is full of lies.
i'm tired, good night, and what do you thing?
Monday, 29 January 2007
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Currently Reading
The Illustrated Man (Bantam 991)
By Ray Bradbury
see relatedsave that for a rainy day!
Alright so, the entry previous was a bit cheesy... yes, it was a thin veil, easily pierced, so congratulations. But here's the fun part -
I have this thing where I love to write notes (anyone else like this?) to myself. I have little notebooks and post-its and legal pads sprinkled from my room to my car. Whenever I get an idea I like or need to accomplish something I write a list or note. These are oft employed for the benefit of speeches I give, papers I write, or shopping the next day.
Well! I do the same thing with a notebook file on my computer that is just called "jots" that I keep on my desktop and I throw a sentence or two down from time to time and use that as a floating message board for myself.
*here's the fun part*
I woke up the other day, walked out to my computer and opened my jots up for to write down an address and I see this message staring at me - ' write cool video below and then leave a bunch of empty lines'.
That was it. I don't remember writing this. I don't remember thinking this. I don't know where this came from! I don't know IF I wrote this or if someone else did. If I did then it occurred either during a state of minimal consciousness or I have a really bad memory. It took me by such surprise that I laughed at the very concept of telling a joke to myself for so long and I had to post it just for my own sake!
p.s. I love when you take a problem to God, and then you get desperate and really turn it over to him for real (sometimes it seems you almost have to be desperate to understand how to turn it over for real!?), and then all of a sudden out of the blue, God solves the problem in an impossible to foresee sorta way! Yeah, that's always fun.:)
p.p.s. If you put a note before a letter should it be labeled s.s. for sub script and is that why ships start with that?
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- Name: R. Dwight
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- State: Nebraska
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- Birthday: 10/7/1983
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