5:29p
Does anyone else ever get jealous of people who are more intelligent than them? I only really get jealous of prodigies. Like people who can has solved a rubik's cube in a day, even though tehy only heard of them the previous day. Or Tim Minchin
When I decide I like it I start to hate it, when I decide I hate it I start to love it. It's up to you whether you want to risk it. But it is a good movie.
7:35a
OK I have nothing against choosing what you believe and I believe that Christianity is not bad in itself, as no religion is bad in itself, nor any system of belief is bad in itself.
Having said that, I feel like Christianity can be compromised real easily by bad people who want power and don't mind abusing people's faith to do that. The argument: 'morality stems from God and I represent God's will' gives bad men a lot of licence to redefine morality however they like. If I say that, for example, murder is right because nobody is without sin, it's hard to argue with me if you still accept that God exists and believe that I represent his will. After all, morality comes from God, right?
But it is a distortion of true morality, which we're all born with, and which should be intuitive to us throughout our lives, which states that murder is a greater sin than almost anything, and is almost never justified.
I don't like the shepherd/flock relationship. That is real creepy to me.
I don't like that it has a history of meddling in politics. Mixing church and state is wrong, because it makes certain things justifiable which shouldn't be, by the same 'morality stems from God' argument, then whips up passions out of proportion to the true importance of the matter. Which creates a storm in politics, which can and has led to wars.
The phrase, 'It's god's will,' can be used to justify anything at all.
In conclusion it's a very very compromised religion, and that is why I get offended when people try to convert me in any way. This is because I fear that if I accept it I will end up at the mercy of whoever wants to manipulate me. Once you've accepted God into your heart, all things are possible.
And that is why I overreacted to War and Peace's essentially harmless Christian perspective.
12:02p
Yeah there's a film out there called Let the Right One In and sure it's well made and sure the relationship between the characters is sweet (or looks that way at the end of the movie) but the subtexts and implications (and there are a lot of them) are so creepy and disturbing that I'm not even comfortable talking about them.
I don't know if it's a film I'd really recommend anyone to see. It's one of those things which leaves a sweet impression, but the more you think about it...
5:17a
So War and Peace pushed Christianity, but I accepted it and even began to think it might be worth tolerating the religion, thinking it's important to let other people believe what they like even if I don't agree with it, when out of nowhere there came an attack on science out of nowhere, and I remembered why I don't like Christianity.
9:17a
Why I wish I was a real boy who knew about cars and stuff:
I had my car serviced earlier this week, in preparation because I'm driving to Melbourne next week. The result of the service was the guy telling me that my brakes were quite worn, and he quoted me about $600 for all the parts and labour required to replace/repair them.
I told him to leave it, took said car to Michelle's parent's place last night, and had her dad put in new front brake pads for the grand sum of $50, plus the advice that it'd be about a further $30 to replace the rear ones.
If I was a real boy, I wouldn't get ripped off by mechanics so much.
3:22a What killed the dinosaurs? No-one can prove it was me.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? As much as a woodchuck could chuck, unless it was bored, or wanted a holiday, or died.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? 2+2=5
Can you tell me how I can get back on to the freeway? Put your trousers back on.
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