Random Things I've Done/Pondered in the past 24 hours

Of which, I've been awake for about twenty...

Do: Wear jeans! I haven't worn jeans in a couple of weeks (not counting the destroyed pair I wore while doing laundry). My Mom, she fixed them!!! I have jeans!!!

Ponder: What does the line about "Throw them over your shoulder /like a continental soldier" mean in the song Do Your Ears Hang Low? Methinks it's about them Europeans, but why? The song's been in my head since 5 am this morning. It's quite annoying, and now I'm parsing the lyrics. Heaven save me.

Do: I ordered a cheesecake at the restaurant I went to with my Dad last night. The server said something about it being a drink, but I thought he meant it came with a drink. Nope, it was a martini. Good thing it actually tasted like cheesecake. My Dad got real cheesecake, darn it.

Do NOT: Get drunk in front of family. I maintain I was tipsy only last night. I didn't tell any of my drunken whrore stories to my father. I told other peoples' :) Still, was v. chatty, and if not for the fact that my Dad had had twice as much wine as me, I might have been more worried. I don't think he thinks I'm a lush, but I could be wrong about that.

Ponder: Why does a company have to write DO NOT DESTROY on the manual for our new freezer? Are we going to burn, scorch, rub out, tear up or shred the only thing that tells us how to work the freezer safely? I think not. Also, delivery guys are idiots. When there's a piece of paper saying "Leave it standing and off for at least three hours, and for every 1/2 hour spent not upright, add another three with the thing off," TACKED TO THE BLOODY FRONT DOOR, here's a clue: don't plug it in.

Ponder: A pipe burst in the wall yesterday at work. It smelled a lot. I guess that's not so much of a ponder as "Huh, how about that?" type deal.

Do: Laugh at this this from America--the Book, the Calendar!

The Founding...Mothers?!?
Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams was the wife of President John Adams and was widely considered his intellectual equal. (He must have been pretty stupid!) In fact, she once wrote to her husband, "Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors," making her one of the country's first feminists. My guess? She was a dyke.

Google, who are you fooling?

Just goes to show who's got money for those links in Gmail: www.wonderfulworldtomorrow.org.

The PDF of "Why Were You Born?" is really an ID argument in disguise. It's a pretty pathetic disguise.

1) Look closely at the first page of the PDF and at date it was written: 1957. Had we even had the Scopes trial by then?

2) It's so out of date, there's still focus on nuclear war and the imminent threat of WWIII (it's eerie, however, the similarities of the threat of nuclear war has to the threat of terrorism, but most of us were aware of that already, methinks).

3) It refers to "the late Winston Churchill," who has been dead for decades.

4) IT CALLED THE EATING OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENESIS THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT Me = explode.

5) No really, check this out:
"And how did they do it? They 1) rejected revelation, 2) used observation, 3) used experimentation, and 4) used human reason. And that is precisely the “scientific” method used by modern science today!

And the result of that experiment? THEY DIED! They produced the first child delinquent, the fi rst criminal and murderer! The most VITAL dimension of knowledge was MISSING from their “scientific” procedure!

Now, me = really exploded.

6) It reads like a sermon, or a rally, not anything like a pro's literary work. There are single sentence breaks that ask rhetorical questions, like the guy was fapping himself really hard at that point and was close to ejaculating all over the place with happy, stressed italics, but it slipped away from him. So he went back to the longer paragraphs, the steadier base-to-tip rhythm until he can get to the single-sentence oh-so-close-oh-my-Lord-I-am-getting-it-I-am! bits.

7) He takes gravity for granted but questions the science that tells him he evolved from dirt? You cannot pick and choose your sciences. The method is the same, yo, and if you've got a problem with the method (he says science is never going to "get it" while it misses the point that revelation in God is the end of all knowledge), you've got a problem with all science.

8) Check it out! Christ was a white dude!!!

And what does Christ look like, now?

His appearance is described in Revelation 1:14-16: “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow;

I bet he totally spoke English, too.

9) I take it back--that whole masturbation analogy thing in #7. He totally comes all over the place with his heading titles. Just spurts forth with every randomly capitalized word in a sentence.

10) By the end, he concludes: Now Understand Why You Were Born!
Do you really grasp it? The purpose of your being alive is that finally you be born into the Kingdom of God, which is the divine FAMILY of God.

Soooo.....God made me that I might be made in his Kingdom? Was there another option? Couldn't I have been part of that Thedan thing that all the really cool kids think they're made of?