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Religious Roulette
Posted Apr 29, 2005
I just found this and thought it was funny... had to share it with you guys:
How do you play religious roulette?
You stand around in a circle and blaspheme and see who gets struck by lightning first.
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A point to ponder...
Posted Feb 26, 2005
I think we should all just stop analysing life. It makes everything too complicated and it wrecks good movies. People have driven themselves crazy searching for meaning and reasons, but nothing has ever come of it. Philosophers have sat and thought and written and produced formulae and theorems and great works of art, but it all amounts to nothing in the end. We are still without answers.
Is it only humans who do this? Animals never seem to complicate anything - they are born, they breed, they die. Basically, humans do this too, but for some reason we seem to have been born with an amazing capacity to think (as well as opposing thumbs, which allow us great dexterity for building and manouvering objects). And therefore we have imagined all these emotions that seem so real, and we get caught up in the beat of everyday life and fill in the time between the times we are born, breed and die with pictures and music and stories and news. We are so wrapped up in our own civilisation and greatness that we cease to realise that we are only here to create future generations. We are intent on MAKING OUR MARK on the world, leaving something for everyone else to look at or hear or feel or smell or taste and admire long after we are gone. Very few have this staying power, and yet we all continue believing that we are going to be one of those who stay on long after our physical existence is terminated.
In the end, existence is futile because in a couple of hundred billion years the sun will swell to become a great red giant and scorch the face of our planet forever, eliminating whatever hopelessly corrupt and polluted "civilisation" is left, and then it will consume itself and collapse inwards, becoming a black hole and sucking in our entire solar system with it.
And what has Picasso done to save us? Where is da Vinci or Newton or Aristotle when we need them? What will Stephen Hawking have to say? Where will all our discoveries and breakthroughs and monumental moments go to after this has happened? I'll tell you - into a GREAT, BLACK VOID. A nothingness. All that human civilisation has worked for and achieved will vanish forever. Animals realise this. They have never tried to make a difference - they simply continue to exist. They don't care. But somehow, humanity - with all its emotions and triumphs, cannot let this go. I'll bet that as soon as you finish reading this, you will go on to think about your English homework or your best friends' love life or what's going to happen on the O.C. later tonight. You will try to forget that it's all for nothing and keep on living.
And do you know what the sad thing is? I am part of this. I know this is going to happen to us, and I ignore it. I know that one day all I am and all I'll ever work for will vanish, but I don't care. Because I am alive and that is the greatest gift and the greatest mystery and one of the most extravagantly pointless things that the Universe has come up with so far. And I love it. Because if I'd never lived, I would never have had the chance to experience these wonderful and beautiful and depressing and ecstatic things we call emotions. I would never have seen the sky or smelt a flower or felt the sun on my bare skin. I would never have made mistakes or learned from them or been hurt or fallen in love. I would never have read "The da Vinci Code".
So I say to you all - live life. Nothing matters. Be good, have fun and do whatever you feel like because in the end, nothing will exist. Someone, somewhere, has given us all this extraordinary licence to do anything and be who we are and make mistakes and it's all completely pointless, so have fun while it lasts. Don't analyse things too much because it doesn't really matter. Or analyse them if you feel like it - it's your life, after all, and nobody will remember your wrongs or your shortcomings when you're gone. Only your infallibilites and your strengths.
Forty-two.
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Stuff
Posted Oct 5, 2004
I figure it's been a while since I last wrote a journal entry and it's lunchbreak so I'll write all I can before the bell goes (which could be any time now).
I'm back at school after my spring break and tired for no reason at all. I thought the holidays were supposed to help you relax, but I think I was more tired after I came back than when I went. Oh well, tirednesss has a habit of going away, and at least I'm not sitting at home by myself for indefinite periods of time now. Not I get to sit in front of a computer for indefinite periods of time, trying to write essays and getting distracted by the marvel that is the Internet.
I bought a book yesterday - "The Poison Master" by Liz Williams. Sounds interesting so far, but I've only read twenty or so pages. My friend, who spent her holidays in America, came back with all this stuff, so we spend a few hours pigging out on Tootsie Rolls and Reese's peanut butter cups - stuff I'd never eaten until then because you can't get it here in Australia.
The Princess Diaries 2 is a really bad movie - if you haven't seen it yet, don't. It's honestly not worth your money. I didn't want to see it anyway, but my sisters decided on it. Oh well.
I'm boring you now, I can tell. Better go 
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Genesis
Posted Jul 31, 2004
Great.
My first journal.
So - I have all this space, but what to say. I highly doubt anyone will read this anyway, but if you do, leave a comment so I know all this non-existant effort that I've put in wasn't wasted.
Anyhoo - first item on the agenda - is Jesus an alien?
Yes, I did actually think about that before I wrote it, as opposed to just writing it spontaneouly with no thought at all - I have honestly been wondering - was He an extraterrestrial?
This has been preying on my mind for a while now, probably since RE class last week, but I've come to the point where I can no longer think about it without attempting to share my theory with someone. Everybody I've tried to talk to about it so far has just looked at me as if to say "What's she on this time?" and if any of my non-existant readers think that too, I don't blame you. It's crazy.
I'm a Christian, so I do believe in Jesus and all his Divine Glory, and I'm desperately looking for arguments that will thoroughly convince me that I am wrong about this. But think about it. The "star in the East" at His birth - perhaps the mothership coming in to land? Don't get me wrong, but I feel the whole Immaculate Conception thing very hard to swallow sometimes. The healing of the sick and the various miracles He performed? Perhaps He had the assistance of sophisticated technology that none of His witnesses could understand. The Crucifixion and subsequent Resurrection? Perhaps His body was somewhat different in its genetic makeup than that of humans and He therefore could not die, only pass out, and, with time, heal and regain consciousness? Perhaps I've been reading too much science fiction? Who knows?
If anyone has any evidence (either hypotheical or material) both for and against this argument, could you please let me know?
I'm curious.
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