Wow – 2000!
April 18, 2000
Damn. I wasn’t here when the counter hit 2k, but yeah it did. Yeah. Thanks to all who contributed. Haha.
I was working on a piece to counter Dennis’ counter to a counter I did to his counter of my original piece. Still working on it.
And one more final now. Yeah some more! More stuff later.
Hello kiddies, I’m back from the dead [00:00]
One of these days my body will explode spontaneously in the middle of a study session. I was kind of hoping it would happen during these past days of study bursts for accounting (final is in 12 hours). It didn’t happen since I’m still updating. Much to my dissappointment, there were no eye candy to look at during my library study session last night. I did however see the girl I call Linda on the way there but I decided to not position too closely to her or else I’ll get no studying done whatsoever. Luckily, the spot I chose was barren of everything – there weren’t even interesting colors since everything was white or a pale grey. The drabness must’ve increased my interest in accounting because I got through the past exams quickly and picked up quite a bit.
I took a washroom break and saw this sem-decent looking girl on my way there. Again there was that awkward eye contact moment and I could’ve sworn I felt her laughing at my appearance inside her mind. You see I was dressed in my unimpressive but comfortable t-shirt and tear-offs ensemble. Oh well, she wasn’t that great.
Not much has been happening lately, I’ve been feeling extremely "blah" – definition on the right. Quake has been ok – sucks with lag though. If I wanted to play with lag, I wouldn’t have gotten my ADSL connection.
Freeza is still not fucking dead yet. But he is in pieces after his own disc attack sliced him in half from the torso and took off his left arm. Haha. It’s so weird to see him squirming around like that. I gather from the preview that tomorrow, he will be blown away by an energy attack from Gokou and finally end the fucking saga.
A rant that was not based on religion has bred some interesting replies by Dennis and Jesse – go see them. They have really polarized views. I do have something to add though. First, they have really negative views about religion and specifically, the Catholic Church (let’s include Christianity in here for simplicity’s sake). Well, Christianity has its roots as the minority religion during the Holy Moly Roman Empire. Christian’s were being persecuted for their beliefs and yada yada yada. So it’s been a couple thousands of years and now they are more or less the biggest religion in the world. And if history repeats itself (and it does), isn’t there a remote chance that today’s oddball beliefs (the New Age crud) and "lesser" religions could be the mainstream of the future?
I hear so much bashing and there are good points that justify it but the intent of religion was to let people have morals and good upbringing (it’s not forced upon people). Don’t mix up religion with the people who guide the religion to its corrupt ways now. I personally do not have a religion but I do see goodness in them – as opposed to the zero-good views of Dennis.
Not all religions are so rigid in their beliefs. Sure, we see before us many morons who take religion to the next step and become fanatical but they don’t represent the majority of religious people.
I don’t support nor condone religion. I feel it’s a good source of morality for anyone. The Holy Bible read without religious intent is a book of morals. But if you feel you don’t need religion to have morals, then let it be. Let the lunatic religion freaks rant and rave their extremist views. I guess tolerance is a moral principle too but let’s not get into that.
The main point: people need morals otherwise we’d all do whatever we want to and the world would be in more chaos than it already is. Religion is a source of morals but is not the only source. Other sources: vicarious learning from others (friends, family, etc), charismatic leaders (good or bad), books (religious or not – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is filled with morals), and a lot more.
