And once again, I guess this is a cynical post.  Been just going through the evening, seeing people complain about the prop 8 stuff that went on earlier today.  Now, I'm starting to see people discuss faith, discussing what "Jesus really said" or whatever.  And I guess it's all nice.  To assure yourself that it's not the Savior himself attacking homosexuality, but it's Paul. Or Moses. and all of the fundamentalist movement.  

And yes, I guess it's an idea. Maybe if you undermine a religion's foundation on what Jesus really said, you may be able to get all of the followers to see the light.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

People (in general, you know it doesn't apply to everyone) are typically stubborn when it comes to religion.  And I'm not just talking about "religious people," I mean even people who claim to be athiests.  Other people who try to deliberately undermine your beliefs don't end up changing minds, they end up building a lovely little barrier between people.  Religion itself has a tendency to unite people.  Spirituality is stronger than some may think.  When someone tries to tell you your religion is wrong, you don't go to athiests, you go to religious leaders.

In a bit of a more concrete level, telling Christians that Paul is wrong is like telling Jews that Moses is wrong as well.  Let's be honest. Both denounce male/male sex and claim it dirty, unclean, vulgar.  Moses is writer, recorder of the law. Paul? what was he? He wrote 13 books/letters in the New Testament and helped Christianity gain hold in lands far away from Jerusalem.  Realistically, it is almost impossible to get a majority of Christian demoninations to denounce Paul's letters. 

So, different strategy? Attacking religion itself is pointless to further any overthrow of prop8.  It wasn't religion that made it pass.  It was fear.  People are predictable because they will never support that which they fear.  And when ad campaigns focus on that fear, then people will act on it. It's not a question of belief. It's a question of what's different.  If you can persuade people that a person is different, it then makes them inhuman.  Would you vote for someone's rights when they're inhuman? no.  For this kind of stuff to pass in the future, religious efforts aren't going to cut it.  They'll only vote for people who are "normal people." Sad, but true. the only way for things to go the right way is for the public to feel like we're all human. 

Okay, so I came across this add that basically said condom education will help stop STDs.  So, this will be a very very cynical post.

People are stupid.  Now, sure, people think education helps everything. But that's a blatant lie. In a study of homosexual males with HIV, 30% had unprotected sex with a person who didn't and who they knew didn't have it. When confronted with what they knew about the disease, they said they had known beforehand what unprotected sex would do.

So, there is a difference between a person's education and their behavior.  Just cause you tell someone condoms exist does not mean they will use them.  Merely focusing on telling people, "hey, condoms are here!" will not have them springing to action.  People are stupid. It's safer to fight the diseases themselves instead of educating the people with them.  Huh... that was very quick.  Oh well. 

Life can be a bitch, if you let it, but it can be good if you let it.

hush little baby, don't say a word
never mind that noise you heard
it's just the beasts under your bed
in your closet, in your head



...... creeeeepiest song lyrics everrrrr

The concrete outside is crumbling, the ground beneath twisted and contorted by the onslaught of rain and ice.  The trees themselves have given in to the cold. There they stand, amidst their concrete landscape, their foliage gone and shipped off to rot in a heap or burn in flames. Their hands reach for a gray overcast sky, as the earth itself gives no solace to their misery. Their roots grasp at dry, weathered dirt. Feet have tread over this forsaken land, crushing the smaller plants, leaving nothing but a desert void of life.

The sun is setting, the building to the west casts a long dark shadow over the lot.  Tall metal streetlights spring to life, encasing the trees, the cars, with a dark, dim yellow glow. Unlike the sun, these lights do nothing for the lot.  The lights do not speak of sunny days, of wondrous nights. They sing of only one color. Only of the yellow.  The light reaches surrounding cars, not bringing a liveliness, but encasing them with a sickly aura of jaundice. The cars' once bright, lovely sheens now only showcase rust, slowly eating at the shiny metal. Slowly smothering it with disease.

They all walk through this darkened world. Past the limbs which long for spring, past the parched ground, past the warped concrete, and under the lights and their yellow hue. He runs his finger along the side of a truck, mumbling of the past, of the gleam.  The rust comes off onto his finger, tainting it with red. He starts to cackle into the frigid night air.  And there they find him, crumpled, yellow and lifeless with that grin still on his face.

It's all rotting. That's what he said

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ya.... just felt like writing. that's what was outside, and it was gloomy weather.  Haha.... i really hate streetlights like those, though....

(washington post photo: national zoo)
dat kitty is soooooooooooo cute

soooooo, crazy rant here.

So, today's weather in bloomington was decided to be..... 92 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT HIGH. So..... when i wake up groggy in the morning what kinda clothing do i wear? shorts and a polo shirt. makes sense, no? why wear much more when the temperature is BURNING.

hmmmm.... note to self, maybe change the color of those capital letters.....

anyway, so the day is going fine, i've done all my work this week, ready to turn it in to my laboratory. So, i get to lab on time, only to find out that i forgot that lab rules state that a person should wear long pants at ALL TIMES in the laboratory.

Fine, that's fine, i don't mind being kicked out for that. I forgot that this place has different policies than UMD and i can't wear shorts in lab. Sure, stupid mistake. my bad

BUT, the RA teaching the class tells me to leave my stuff and run to the dorm and change into long pants. So, i do. I make a run that's about 30 minutes back and forth walking in bout say.... 15/20 minutes, give or take a couple minutes.

THEN, when i get back, the asshole of an RA looks at me, looks at the clock, and says i'm too late for the class and i'm kicked out. And i'm already sweating horribly from running in that HEAT, THAT GODDAMN HEAT.

The only thing keeping me from actually getting too angry is that this frees up my otherwise taken afternoon for a little practice before my makeup piano lesson tonight (the teacher had a paper due the day of our last lesson, so it was canceled). Also, the lowest lab report is dropped, so I should still be okay from here on out as long as it gets colder and logic does not dominate my mind when i wake up in the morning.

I just think it takes a real asshole to tell a student to run around in the BURNING HEAT to go change into HEAVIER CLOTHING just to come back and get KICKED OUT of the lab he changed clothes to get into in the first place.

Haha, and now i'm in shorts again.

COLORS!!!!!!

and so.... i was driving home, and this song popped up on the radio. it is a plainly horrible song. i am willing to go to the lengths of eliminating the so-called-artist-failures who made it, and maybe even the people who opted to play it on the radio, and maybe the callers who requested the song be sung, as well as the djs who decide of their own free will to play such crap. Anyway, here's the chorus (repeated over and over in the song, i assume, i only heard it repeated twice before i had to switch) that caused the most brain-cell-death:

"I'm hot cause i'm fly,
you ain't cause you're not
that is why
that is why
that is why i'm hot"

something's wrong with the world........

oh, and the caution is there cause it will kill brain cells

mmm, gots myself one of these started now, and just in case this kind of stuff comes up in a search engine, my entries are probably just gonna stick to friends.