Stuff and Things
Jul. 7th, 2006 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielBeen home since yesterday. Yea, I guess. Wanted to e-mail and catch up with people, but the internet decided to stop working. So I tried writing, something I didn't do the whole week in Seattle, and ended up with some stuff I'm pretty happy with and other stuff that just wouldn't come out the way I wanted. I'm going to blame that on the tiredness.
Let me get a rant out of the way. I do not like forwards. I don't hate them, but I'd rather not get them unless they are brilliant, funny, amazing, or all of the above. Mostly because I feel compelled to look at all of them. I hate missing things, and what if one day I don't look at something and it turns out I missed something terrific?
I don't mind the forwards my dad sends me, or Neesha on occasion, because they know what I'll appreciate generally. But over the week I got several from a friend. I saved them to read later because K&G have an horrible internet connection and it takes forever to do anything. One of the forwards contained this:
"[This message] must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired."
Firstly, what exactly is this "very unpleasant surprise" that is going to come to me if I don't do anything? What does this matter in the grand scheme of things?
Secondly, do not ever send me an e-mail telling me about the people who are "otherwise faith impaired." Don't. It will probably make me want to smack you and point you toward some classes you can take to help clear up that ignorance and help open your mind to points of view besides your own.
And, okay, maybe I'd be less annoyed about it if it was focusing on people who didn't believe in anything. I say less annoyed, but it's still pretty up there because you're saying that your opinion, your belief, is more valid than another person's. I hate that.
(Am I a hypocrite for arguing this? Because I'm ultimately arguing that I'm right about being tolerant and that others are wrong for not being.)
But then I looked up "agnostic" in the dictionary and it's only someone with doubts. They don't necessarily profess to true atheism.
I don't know. I don't want to think about this. It just makes me frustrated and annoyed at people that I otherwise find fairly decent. Hopefully if I meet up with them and the subject of religion/belief comes up, I'll be able to use what I learned the past quarter to articulate my own feelings on the subject.
So, yeah. Obviously that's something I have issues with. And maybe I can admit that part of my reaction to the e-mail is specific to the person who sent it. I don't want to name names, but this person has used the phrase "blinded by God" in a completely serious way. Now, I don't want to come off as making fun of any religion, but I'm finding more and more that things like that just sound silly to me.
Now, random, more fun stuff.
Am slowly making my way through last season of Doctor Who. I'm kind of ridiculously charmed by all of it. And the music gets stuck in my head whenever I think about it. I like the fact that things specific to the Doctor Who-verse are explained along the way. My mom was a big fan of the show when she was younger, and I'd seen enough bits and pieces on PBS to get the general picture, but not enough to understand how things worked. It's nice that if I have a question about something within the show, it usually gets explained by the end of the episode. Now, if only I could actually find it on DVD.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
olivelavonne should consider herself warned for being subjected to another show in the fall. I think she would enjoy the Doctor.
I wasn't planning on seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 2 until sometime next week, but last night I saw a behind-the-scenes special on Starz and, well, I have no self-control. And then Neesha suggested we see it and I was going to suggest that we wait a couple of days, but then I thought about the special and, yeah. I can't wait. Overall, I don't know how I'll feel about it after seeing it, but I think I'll be happy as long as the clip with Norrington that they showed last night is in the final cut. Because guh. Maybe I'll change my tune about Orlando Bloom. Wouldn't that be weird?
This morning I had a dream where I was on campus but not. There was more lawn and there was some modern sculptures and lawn furniture and places to hang out. (It actually reminded me of some of the Tollan stuff on SG-1.) I can't remember how it all worked out, if e-mailing happened first or if I randomly ran into him and we hit it off, but I ended up meeting Richard Dean Anderson. We really hit it off and soon he was coming around all of the time to do stuff. It was kind of weird, but a lot of fun. I think I kept trying to post about stuff we did together (I think we played chess outside at one point), but every time I went to write something I'd decide that actually, no, I didn't want to share that RDA and I were BFF.
And then I think Mom woke me up.
Finally saw the Stargate promo with McKay in the elevator. I love him when he's smug. And the rest of the time, too.
Staying away from SG-1/SGA spoilers is getting harder, but there's only a week left and I am determined to make it. I know some broad things. It's the specifics I don't want to hear.
Let me get a rant out of the way. I do not like forwards. I don't hate them, but I'd rather not get them unless they are brilliant, funny, amazing, or all of the above. Mostly because I feel compelled to look at all of them. I hate missing things, and what if one day I don't look at something and it turns out I missed something terrific?
I don't mind the forwards my dad sends me, or Neesha on occasion, because they know what I'll appreciate generally. But over the week I got several from a friend. I saved them to read later because K&G have an horrible internet connection and it takes forever to do anything. One of the forwards contained this:
"[This message] must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired."
Firstly, what exactly is this "very unpleasant surprise" that is going to come to me if I don't do anything? What does this matter in the grand scheme of things?
Secondly, do not ever send me an e-mail telling me about the people who are "otherwise faith impaired." Don't. It will probably make me want to smack you and point you toward some classes you can take to help clear up that ignorance and help open your mind to points of view besides your own.
And, okay, maybe I'd be less annoyed about it if it was focusing on people who didn't believe in anything. I say less annoyed, but it's still pretty up there because you're saying that your opinion, your belief, is more valid than another person's. I hate that.
(Am I a hypocrite for arguing this? Because I'm ultimately arguing that I'm right about being tolerant and that others are wrong for not being.)
But then I looked up "agnostic" in the dictionary and it's only someone with doubts. They don't necessarily profess to true atheism.
I don't know. I don't want to think about this. It just makes me frustrated and annoyed at people that I otherwise find fairly decent. Hopefully if I meet up with them and the subject of religion/belief comes up, I'll be able to use what I learned the past quarter to articulate my own feelings on the subject.
So, yeah. Obviously that's something I have issues with. And maybe I can admit that part of my reaction to the e-mail is specific to the person who sent it. I don't want to name names, but this person has used the phrase "blinded by God" in a completely serious way. Now, I don't want to come off as making fun of any religion, but I'm finding more and more that things like that just sound silly to me.
Now, random, more fun stuff.
Am slowly making my way through last season of Doctor Who. I'm kind of ridiculously charmed by all of it. And the music gets stuck in my head whenever I think about it. I like the fact that things specific to the Doctor Who-verse are explained along the way. My mom was a big fan of the show when she was younger, and I'd seen enough bits and pieces on PBS to get the general picture, but not enough to understand how things worked. It's nice that if I have a question about something within the show, it usually gets explained by the end of the episode. Now, if only I could actually find it on DVD.
olivelavonne should consider herself warned for being subjected to another show in the fall. I think she would enjoy the Doctor.I wasn't planning on seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 2 until sometime next week, but last night I saw a behind-the-scenes special on Starz and, well, I have no self-control. And then Neesha suggested we see it and I was going to suggest that we wait a couple of days, but then I thought about the special and, yeah. I can't wait. Overall, I don't know how I'll feel about it after seeing it, but I think I'll be happy as long as the clip with Norrington that they showed last night is in the final cut. Because guh. Maybe I'll change my tune about Orlando Bloom. Wouldn't that be weird?
This morning I had a dream where I was on campus but not. There was more lawn and there was some modern sculptures and lawn furniture and places to hang out. (It actually reminded me of some of the Tollan stuff on SG-1.) I can't remember how it all worked out, if e-mailing happened first or if I randomly ran into him and we hit it off, but I ended up meeting Richard Dean Anderson. We really hit it off and soon he was coming around all of the time to do stuff. It was kind of weird, but a lot of fun. I think I kept trying to post about stuff we did together (I think we played chess outside at one point), but every time I went to write something I'd decide that actually, no, I didn't want to share that RDA and I were BFF.
And then I think Mom woke me up.
Finally saw the Stargate promo with McKay in the elevator. I love him when he's smug. And the rest of the time, too.
Staying away from SG-1/SGA spoilers is getting harder, but there's only a week left and I am determined to make it. I know some broad things. It's the specifics I don't want to hear.
