23 August 2002 CE 10:04 pm
Creationism
There are few things more annoying than students that sign up for science classes and argue with the teacher whenever Darwin comes up. In the physical anthropology class I took last year, there were no less than three students that tried to argue with the professor regarding the theory of evolution. If you firmly believe in creationism, you probably should not be taking anthropology or any other biological science class where you are expected to learn about evolution.
Why am I complaining about this now? Well, yesterday in economics class the professor was trying to make a point about classifications and groups and such. For his example he used a person, and one of the groups he said that a person was a member of was the primate group. And someone in the class took great offense at that and began arguing with the teacher because they believed in creationism. Now even if you don't believe in evolution, the criteria that are used to classify something as a primate are still true of humans, meaning the argument should have never occured.
Oddly enough, I've never seen someone who believes the theory of evolution to be true get into an argument like this with someone talking about creationism. Perhaps I haven't seen enough of the world, but I've never seen a person who believes in evolution act like they personally were being attacked when someone else talks about creationism as the truth.
22 August 2002 CE 12:50 am
A War!
I'm declaring war on goths. Now before anyone of the gothy persuasion goes nuts at me for this, allow me to explain. There are goths who wear black and heavy makeup, and then there are goths that are really fscking annoying. If you're just anti-social and dress funny, you're not part of the problem. If you LARP, think you ARE your LARP character, or are overly pretentious, you are part of the problem.
Why am I doing this? I have a healthy respect for classic horror and dark fantasy. I read a lot in general, and of course, some of what I read is from these genres. The problems with goths are that they romanticize objects of horror. Most specifically vampires, werewolves, and Cthulhu. THESE ARE NASTY THINGS PEOPLE.
1. Vampires are horrible creatures that prey on humans like sheep. They kill, they drink blood, they are not to be LUSTED AFTER. There is nothing romantic about a creature that sees you as a snack. I blame Anne Rice for doing this to classic demons that inspired fear for centuries. And for fuck's sake, don't pretend to be one, it just makes you look stupid to the rest of the world.
2. Werewolves are also gruesome murderers, but not so evil as vampires. Even so aspiring to be one is idiotic. Turning into a wild beast that kills indiscriminately every month is not conducive to any sort of social life. And they don't like silver, and I've noticed that goths tend to wear a LOT of silver jewelry. That's just working at cross-purposes there.
3. Cthulhu is a nasty alien that seeks to use the planet as a toy. Do not worship him. Do not worship other elder gods for the same reason. And if you've actually READ Lovecraft rather than just the fan pages and RPG books, you know that the people that worship such beings are either the dregs of humanity, or truly sub-human and tend to be ugly and deformed. Not particularly a good religion for a person who cares enough about how they look to make sure they wear all black and cake on the makeup.
4. And finally, for whatever reason, every third female goth I meet seems convinced that she is Death from the Sandman. Obviously all of you can't be her, try to be a little original, aspire to be Death from the Discworld books or something. I'm sick of hearing ranting about how its so obvious that you are her and you met Neil Gaiman once and he must have remembered you for being like her, or based her on you, etc, etc. Even if you did meet the man, he probably doesn't remember you. GET OVER IT.
Please realize that if you do these things you are being annoying, and you probably need to re-examine your life.
p.s. I aspire to be the Death of Rats. Squeak.
17 August 2002 CE 2:09 am
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down...
I don't know what's going on right now, but everyone seems to be falling apart. Things are happening and some people are understandably having a hard time, but other people are just changing and its having a negative effect. Too many people seem to be lost or unhappy. I wish I could fix things. I spend so much time worrying about people. I just wish I could make everyone happy. Since I know you'll probably read this, Kristi, hang in there, lots of people are worried about you and hope you'll be okay. As for the other people having ish, I dunno that they read this (or that their problems are of a public enough nature), but things will get better.
10 August 2002 CE 7:28 pm
Dwarf tossing!
The following is directly inspired by Spades' comment "'Nobody tosses a dwarf' O_o odd line."
"And today in the Elven Olymics we will be having the Dwarf Tossing competition! Can you tell us a little about the sport Khan'drial?"
"Certainly, it's an ancient sport dating back to the fierce prehistoric battles between the Elves and the Dwarves. The most difficult aspect of the Dwarf Toss is getting a good grip on the dwarf. They tend to squirm, and many competitors here today have suffered bites in practice."
"Wow, sounds difficult, have there been any casualties?"
"Well, dwarves are hard-headed little buggers, so they rarely suffer any damage. A few hundred years ago though one of the Elves was killed when the dwarf he was about to toss pulled a dagger and started dismembering him. This year all the dwarves have been thouroughly searched for weapons, so we anticipate no casualties."
Yes, I am randomness. If you are one of those people that takes offense at the above, it was meant as a joke, and please get a life.
In other notes Peter O'Toole has pretty blue eyes.
10 August 2002 CE 2:26 am
THERE
Yup, we went there... (probably because its after 2am)
Where exactly? Why, a Sailor Moon/Harry Potter crossover fic.
I blame this on rin, really.
ph33r
8 August 2002 CE 11:48 am
Pretentious non-layout.
Mostly I felt like archiving really. In other 1337er hands the image you see this time would probably make a pretentious blog layout with song lyrics somewhere in it. I'd give you song lyrics, but I don't feel pretentious enough to match that up with a song. I'll give you lyrics from what I'm listening to right now! "If you're down he'll pick you up, Doctor Robert, Take a drink from his special cup, Doctor Robert" ("Doctor Robert" The Beatles) ...Well that really doesn't work, and its not pretentious. Anyways, the image is scanned from "Like A Balance Life", a collection of art by Range Murata who is famous for character designs for something I'm sure, I just can't be bothered to find out what. Maybe it's Lain. I don't like Lain. Anyways, I wish the man would draw more males, they're so much more interesting than the endless stream of cutegirls you keep coming across. But he does have an excellent eye for form and figure, so the females aren't strangely proportioned like is so common in anime/sci-fi/fantasy art.
I think my next quest is to finish sewing the stuff I have fabric for, and then armor wahahahahaha. Ph33r.
And in the time that its taken me to do all this update stuff Revolver has gotten to the last track ("Tomorrow Never Knows") and has provided for our amusement some pretentious lyrics to go with the picture.
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...
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