Some / many people sure love to hate on these pop icons, emphasizing a lack of originality and citing examples of how simplistic the music is and how it's infested with chemicals rather than being made by hand etccccc
A sentiment I really don't get. Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, etc., I'm personally not fans of any of those folk. Their music is not consistently appealing to me and I'm not charmed by the personas into mentally enlarging them into elevated social status. I don't know how much talent any of them have. I heard Katy Perry sing on some TV special, I think it was a song by The Beatles, and it was good. She seems to have a good singing voice, and I liked her album TEENAGE DREAM. I don't know how much of that album she wrote. I don't know if there's some other song(s) that have the exact same arrangement of musical notes as "Hummingbird Heartbeat" or "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)".
People seem to think art needs to be original in order to be art. How many paintings does Picasso himself paint these days? If someone buys a REPLICA of a Picasso painting, obviously they'd be duped if they paid millions of dollars for it, but is the appeal of Pablo Picasso's ART diminished because somebody else's paint brush expertly imitated it/them?
This guy that was raving about The Smiths in the comments section of an Amazon.com customer review of THE SMITHS (1984) was lamenting how R.E.M. became less original as time went on, relying on more conventional songwriting methods or something...He says he swore off Phil Collins because he and his Genesis bandmates circa 1987/88 starred in a beer commercial...another peeve that makes no sense to me on any level, although it does seem a bit insensitive to put a song about drug addiction as the soundtrack to a commercial for a beverage that stands out mainly for its ability to transform your mental state for better and worse and also be addictive. But I'm sure there's a counter argument you can make for that. I don't know which one Genesis feat. Phil Collins was using in self defense of their own reflection, but one that I can think of off the top of my head is the same one that I used as my logic for not outlawing neo-Nazi & KKK marches in a blogpost from a couple days ago, which is that people are free to think for themselves. If you like Genesis because of a beer commercial, that's fine, but if you drink beer because you like Genesis and Genesis endorses beer, then you need to do a better job at decision making. And really, beer is not the problem. The problem is irresponsibility. Beer is as much to blame for car crashes and bar fights as smartphones are. Should smartphones be outlawed?
And this other guy that posts all over Amazon.com's community forums keeps hammering into people's heads that Genesis has more to offer than ABACAB and INVISIBLE TOUCH. He keeps saying "pop is not an original idea!" I tried telling him prog rock is also not an original idea. He tried to counter that by referring to an album that came out in 1969 and saying that since Genesis as a band got their first foot moving toward somewhere in 1970/71 that prog rock was too original. Key word: WAS. By 1990/91, what would his excuse be for not doing the same constant nagging about Genesis had they not got tired with the whole prog rock thing and veered toward a more rhythm oriented approach? Of course, he had no answer. He responded to some minor side note(s) that I brought up and totally ignored the glaring point that was staring him dead in the eye.
(sigh)
My mom said I'm too negative, that I'm p.o.'d 90% of the time. she's probably right. I'm not joyful per se when I'm not pissed off. I'm like Victor Frankenstein, tinkering with my mind to formulate something new and exciting.......something that much like the flesh that covers the bones of any mammal will wither away to nothing and will ultimately be forgotten about.
Case in point ----------- ^-^^^ Ug.
You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
IT'S GO TIME MAN!
I finally ordered a book shelf with my freakin' Overstock.com store credit card. It was $72apprx and I utilized a 10% off coupon which made the cost more like $65. I'm a Club O Gold member ($20/year), so the s/h was free. It may have been free anyway since a lot of their merchandise if not all of it is free to ship if you get $45+ worth of it. Anyway, it was $65-ish, no tax, s/h included....no added tariffs or santa clauses. Just $65(ish)
I don't know how that compares to what WalMart.com has to offer. I spent hours upon hours a ways ago looking at TV stands at WalMart.com and if I remember correctly, the best option @ the lowest price was something for $40. So I can't imagine $65/$70 is too much more than I hypothetically could have paid somewhere else. The only catch I see is that I need to put it together when it gets here, which may mean I'll have to hold off on putting anything in or on it..........don't know when I'll be able to put it together. Of course -- it's not even here yet, which makes that fact kinda duh, except I hadn't explicitly said I didn't order overnight s/h and that it was successful..............
Anyway..............
I now owe Overstock $700-ish. (eer). My sis ain't gonna be happy to hear this.
I wouldn't care that much except I got so many books on my media shelf that sis & her husband gave me that I can't hold more than 1 or 2. The bottom shelf is the only option for books, it's not sturdy enough to support a book collection, hence the dubbing "media shelf".
I think I'll forgo Rhapsody this coming month. I have a buttload of CDs, many of which I bought over these past few weeks. Was listening to Enya's A DAY WITHOUT RAIN. Some of the lyrics are kinda stupid. There's this one song called "Pilgrim". According to the lyricist, finding "who you are" is a long journey. My eyes can't roll far back enough to explain how utterly stupid that song is. It's crap like that where "new age" becomes a synonym for pegeanism rather than merely a genre of music. Until the 1960's or thereabouts, midlife crises were not expected from anybody in the United States. Why? Because this nation rested on God Almighty who provides security and comfort. People knew where we as humans came from, we understood the nature of our history, and we understood how it pertains to our destination and we were looking forward to it. Then these activists started making a big fuss about the presence of God in this nation and since then people have been tinkering with the weight of the pros and cons of allowing students to pray in school. My history teacher pointed out that Christians would be offended if a Muslim stood up and started praying or if a Buddhist bowed down and started chanting. I agreed with his argument then, but that's because I was raised in an anti-Christian household and had no real knowledge of what Christianity was except some set of beliefs, i.e.: "just another religion". But I now realize that is A) a weak and cowardly argument and B) incorrect and C) dangerous. It's C) in the sense that offensive speech should not be outlawed. We as a people spent almost two decades fighting censorship of literature and movies. Now people want the government to censor direct quotes from actual people? And B) -- bigotry does not go hand in hand with Christianity. Bigotry goes hand in hand with narrow mindedness and having a religion does not automatically make a person narrow minded. Yes, most high schoolers and young folk who are branded Christian are "that way" because they were raised to be that way. Since when is that a bad thing? People seem to think that because The U.S. Constitution includes a section about freedom of religion that all religions are equally valid. No religious text that I'm aware of inspired that tidbit from the Constitution and the anti-Christian interpretation that people have of it has nothing to do with the text at hand or the inspiration of that text. The Constitution does not say you're not allowed to debate the merits of one religion over another. It's basically just dictating that if someone disagrees with the idea that God is who we as a people circa 1776 say he is, then the government is not going to imprison him or deprive him of his rights as a citizen, which would be freedom of speech. If a non Christian starts talking, we are not required to stop talking so he can be heard. As a Christian society, we should have never sat back and allowed such people to walk about freely without trying to persuade them of their error(s). The U.S. Constituion isn't about SOCIETY. It's about GOVERNMENT. Christians have just as much right to speak as non Christians. Republicans have just as much right to speak as Democrats and smart people have just as much right to speak as stupid people. If someone says something wrong, the government --- nor anyone else --- should be free to beat up or shoot someone for saying something wrong. You win an argument by talking it through. If a civil and well paced discussion is not on your menu, then you need to sharpen your sense of civilization.
What's done is done tho. There's no turning back. God forsaw this and warned us of it in the Book of Revelation. On the upside, Heaven will face a stunning renovation that makes the old one as breathtaking as it already is pale in comparison. It's just sad that so many of God's creation want no part of it.
I don't know how that compares to what WalMart.com has to offer. I spent hours upon hours a ways ago looking at TV stands at WalMart.com and if I remember correctly, the best option @ the lowest price was something for $40. So I can't imagine $65/$70 is too much more than I hypothetically could have paid somewhere else. The only catch I see is that I need to put it together when it gets here, which may mean I'll have to hold off on putting anything in or on it..........don't know when I'll be able to put it together. Of course -- it's not even here yet, which makes that fact kinda duh, except I hadn't explicitly said I didn't order overnight s/h and that it was successful..............
Anyway..............
I now owe Overstock $700-ish. (eer). My sis ain't gonna be happy to hear this.
I wouldn't care that much except I got so many books on my media shelf that sis & her husband gave me that I can't hold more than 1 or 2. The bottom shelf is the only option for books, it's not sturdy enough to support a book collection, hence the dubbing "media shelf".
I think I'll forgo Rhapsody this coming month. I have a buttload of CDs, many of which I bought over these past few weeks. Was listening to Enya's A DAY WITHOUT RAIN. Some of the lyrics are kinda stupid. There's this one song called "Pilgrim". According to the lyricist, finding "who you are" is a long journey. My eyes can't roll far back enough to explain how utterly stupid that song is. It's crap like that where "new age" becomes a synonym for pegeanism rather than merely a genre of music. Until the 1960's or thereabouts, midlife crises were not expected from anybody in the United States. Why? Because this nation rested on God Almighty who provides security and comfort. People knew where we as humans came from, we understood the nature of our history, and we understood how it pertains to our destination and we were looking forward to it. Then these activists started making a big fuss about the presence of God in this nation and since then people have been tinkering with the weight of the pros and cons of allowing students to pray in school. My history teacher pointed out that Christians would be offended if a Muslim stood up and started praying or if a Buddhist bowed down and started chanting. I agreed with his argument then, but that's because I was raised in an anti-Christian household and had no real knowledge of what Christianity was except some set of beliefs, i.e.: "just another religion". But I now realize that is A) a weak and cowardly argument and B) incorrect and C) dangerous. It's C) in the sense that offensive speech should not be outlawed. We as a people spent almost two decades fighting censorship of literature and movies. Now people want the government to censor direct quotes from actual people? And B) -- bigotry does not go hand in hand with Christianity. Bigotry goes hand in hand with narrow mindedness and having a religion does not automatically make a person narrow minded. Yes, most high schoolers and young folk who are branded Christian are "that way" because they were raised to be that way. Since when is that a bad thing? People seem to think that because The U.S. Constitution includes a section about freedom of religion that all religions are equally valid. No religious text that I'm aware of inspired that tidbit from the Constitution and the anti-Christian interpretation that people have of it has nothing to do with the text at hand or the inspiration of that text. The Constitution does not say you're not allowed to debate the merits of one religion over another. It's basically just dictating that if someone disagrees with the idea that God is who we as a people circa 1776 say he is, then the government is not going to imprison him or deprive him of his rights as a citizen, which would be freedom of speech. If a non Christian starts talking, we are not required to stop talking so he can be heard. As a Christian society, we should have never sat back and allowed such people to walk about freely without trying to persuade them of their error(s). The U.S. Constituion isn't about SOCIETY. It's about GOVERNMENT. Christians have just as much right to speak as non Christians. Republicans have just as much right to speak as Democrats and smart people have just as much right to speak as stupid people. If someone says something wrong, the government --- nor anyone else --- should be free to beat up or shoot someone for saying something wrong. You win an argument by talking it through. If a civil and well paced discussion is not on your menu, then you need to sharpen your sense of civilization.
What's done is done tho. There's no turning back. God forsaw this and warned us of it in the Book of Revelation. On the upside, Heaven will face a stunning renovation that makes the old one as breathtaking as it already is pale in comparison. It's just sad that so many of God's creation want no part of it.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Gee...To think I didn't know any better;)
Just spent the past couple hours circling around this book I wanted to read, planning my budget about it. Then it kind of occurred to me that I might want to read just a smidgen of it before plopping down a large fraction of my small wad of cash that I'll have to spend in a few days...and lo and behold, the author had used three words that I had to look up online to follow along with what he was talking about and one of them apparantly has a different definition outside of the United States...I'm assuming the author is British, although I certainly could be wrong. idk.
I did find another book that looks to be more enjoyable, although again I don't know if I'll read enough of it to make it worth having bought ever.
A) THE LONELY by Andrew Michael Hurley
B) I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS by Iain Reid.
The latter (B)) features a quotation from Scott Heim, whose writing I've never cared much for personally. I bought WE DISAPPEAR several years ago in softcover from Barnes&Noble, but I just couldn't get into it. I liked Gregg Araki's adaption of his book MYSTERIOUS SKIN -- it was a very melancholic tale if you're the sort such as I who can appreciate that sort of thing. It was aptly photographed and acted. The subject matter is very disturbing, so most people haven't seen it........
Slept a few+ more hours this afternoon, from about 11 to 3:30.
Got me mum a turtle shaped lamp. She was happy with it. She was too tired to try and figure out which room she wanted to light up with it. As I've jotted down in various postings here, she babysits my nephew from 8am to 6pm. Now that she lives in the same building as my sis et al, she can come up and hang out with her daughter before she gets whisked away to work, which ends at 5:30 + some time in traffic (25-45 mins).
The lamp came UPS Ground. I was asleep when my mom got it and opened it. It was addressed to me. I emailed my mom telling her she could open it w/o worrying about whatever mail tampering laws if any might apply. No, I would call the cops on my mom over that. However, I don't believe obeying the law only applies when potential prosecution looms.
Don't know if I was going to say anything else...fyi, my previous post from earlier today was not meant to refer to any consumption of alchohol I've enjoyed or gagged over. I was referring to this line in a SEEDS FAMILY WORSHIP album ---- info @ Seedsfamilyworship.com ---- "wake up from your drunken stuper", which of course is not a mere reference to alcohol, just like Jesus warning that whoever is found sleeping will be in serious trouble is not a reference to actual sleep. I think ---- obviously I could be off base to a lesser or larger degree, idk ...... --- both passages/verses are saying the same thing, talking about living life passively, not sewing seeds, not seeking to bloom personally or refrain from sinning et al. I'm not even going to get into all that oNoWhatifMaybe b.s. again. As Esther herself said, if I perish, I perish. I don't understand myself......(sigh)
xx4now
I did find another book that looks to be more enjoyable, although again I don't know if I'll read enough of it to make it worth having bought ever.
A) THE LONELY by Andrew Michael Hurley
B) I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS by Iain Reid.
The latter (B)) features a quotation from Scott Heim, whose writing I've never cared much for personally. I bought WE DISAPPEAR several years ago in softcover from Barnes&Noble, but I just couldn't get into it. I liked Gregg Araki's adaption of his book MYSTERIOUS SKIN -- it was a very melancholic tale if you're the sort such as I who can appreciate that sort of thing. It was aptly photographed and acted. The subject matter is very disturbing, so most people haven't seen it........
Slept a few+ more hours this afternoon, from about 11 to 3:30.
Got me mum a turtle shaped lamp. She was happy with it. She was too tired to try and figure out which room she wanted to light up with it. As I've jotted down in various postings here, she babysits my nephew from 8am to 6pm. Now that she lives in the same building as my sis et al, she can come up and hang out with her daughter before she gets whisked away to work, which ends at 5:30 + some time in traffic (25-45 mins).
The lamp came UPS Ground. I was asleep when my mom got it and opened it. It was addressed to me. I emailed my mom telling her she could open it w/o worrying about whatever mail tampering laws if any might apply. No, I would call the cops on my mom over that. However, I don't believe obeying the law only applies when potential prosecution looms.
Don't know if I was going to say anything else...fyi, my previous post from earlier today was not meant to refer to any consumption of alchohol I've enjoyed or gagged over. I was referring to this line in a SEEDS FAMILY WORSHIP album ---- info @ Seedsfamilyworship.com ---- "wake up from your drunken stuper", which of course is not a mere reference to alcohol, just like Jesus warning that whoever is found sleeping will be in serious trouble is not a reference to actual sleep. I think ---- obviously I could be off base to a lesser or larger degree, idk ...... --- both passages/verses are saying the same thing, talking about living life passively, not sewing seeds, not seeking to bloom personally or refrain from sinning et al. I'm not even going to get into all that oNoWhatifMaybe b.s. again. As Esther herself said, if I perish, I perish. I don't understand myself......(sigh)
xx4now
a boozy Tues morn
was up 'til 2 A.M. ish. Part of it I'm sure was the caffeine intake. I drank a lot more soda than usual throughout the day, something like 32 ozs. To boot, I also had a couple cups of coffee around 11 P.M. (Take that coffee! In corner 1 --- 200mgs of caffeine. In corner 1 --- a pillow's worth of SLEEPY! SLEEP WINS!!! [ROOOAR])
Anyway, here I am...just mosying at the computer. I should be reading The Bible or having had read The Bible. I've already been up for 1 hr 45 mins..have no idea what I've done to kill that much time. I ate breakfast, fed my cat.........let the dogs out to go potty....been sitting here at the computer since...ugh. Not sure when I turned it on. 9 A.M.? It was a tad before 8 when I woke up.
Seriously need to take a shower. I can't believe they let me in church this past Sunday, two days ago. Was really motivated to around midnight last night. My mom had done laundry earlier that day and put just about all of it in her room, the exception being a collection of towels.....now that she's awake and not occupying that room, I could go in and get the clothes.....no longer feelin' it. Ug.
A movie that my sister somehow has actually heard of is maybe coming in the mail today from DVD.Netflix.com . I wanted to be able to see that movie STREET TRASH (1986), but nobody offers it for rent digitally and there's no video stores in the Metro Atlanta area, very few if any anyway....at least not video *RENTAL* stores....sure you can go to CD Warehouse or 2nd & Charles or, ya know, Barnes & Noble, FY.E. or Books A Million and *BUY* movies...but if you like a movie enough to buy it, you can save a shipton of time and money by buying online. Even if CD Warehouse does in fact have what you're looking for, driving to Duluth or Marietta is a waste of time unless you just HAVE TO WATCH IT RIGHT THEN A.S.A.P. [ALL HANDS ON DECK, THIS IS URGENT!]
Anyay, the movie was on *my* Que. My sister hasn't got around to setting herself one up. I'm glad more than just me is/will be using this service. If it were me, I would've just signed up for the $4.99 plan or maybe the $7.99 plan, but my sister opted for the $13.99 plan, two out at a time as much as the mail service & Netflix will process fast enough to let you have. Generally they try not to let you rent more than 8 movies a month, so if you return every movie you get the next day or the same day, NetFlix will impose measures to reduce the qty of movies you get from the theoretically possible 15-20 to 12 or so....I don't finish movies that quickly. I got STREET TRASH in the mail like 5 days ago and I just started watching it a couple days ago...no, yesterday early A.M. Only saw about 20 minutes of it. There looks to be a lot of different story elements working together and their relationship, as well as their nature, has not become clear as of yet.
Hmm....P.M.'d one of my Legacy Marietta peeps on Facebook yesterday. He said something about a wheelchair. I haven't seen him in a while...he wasn't online at the time I P.M.'d him and I haven't been to FB yet today
As I said in an older blogpost, I'd missed church 3 weeks in a row b/c I rely on my Mom to transport me there, at least I used to. I'll probably go with my sis if my mom gets too sick or tired to go since I'm now sorta living with her too now....and now it's been 3 Mondays w/o having attended the Legacy Marietta Men's Bible study where we both used to attend(he still does as far as I'm aware).
He didn't attend church the day me and Mom finally made it back that way [we decided to drive almost an hour to attend and while there my mom decided we'll come back and visit occasionally...how often that is, I don't know, since she's the one with the driver's license...]
He probably explained what he meant on one of his older Facebook posts. I'm not on Facebook as often as I ought to be. Is that a good thing? How can I know? I do know I get sick of these chain letters people post on there and these "share if you agree" or "type amen if you want world peace" or whatever...and there ARE A LOT of those...I feel like wringing people's necks sometimes over that crap.
[deep breath]
mmmmmmmmmm...listening to EUROPE '72 on Napster fka Rhapsody (they bought the Napster logo and name and are using it instead of their old name). Well, I'm not really listening to it...my subconsicous is listening to it I guess...I'm listening to it NOW, but I'm on like track 5 I think...or 6...kind of a cross between high energy and easy listening...weird. That's drugs for you, maybe(?) Or maybe it's just b/c they don't use high voltage electric guitars and bass-drum machines...
Anyway, here I am...just mosying at the computer. I should be reading The Bible or having had read The Bible. I've already been up for 1 hr 45 mins..have no idea what I've done to kill that much time. I ate breakfast, fed my cat.........let the dogs out to go potty....been sitting here at the computer since...ugh. Not sure when I turned it on. 9 A.M.? It was a tad before 8 when I woke up.
Seriously need to take a shower. I can't believe they let me in church this past Sunday, two days ago. Was really motivated to around midnight last night. My mom had done laundry earlier that day and put just about all of it in her room, the exception being a collection of towels.....now that she's awake and not occupying that room, I could go in and get the clothes.....no longer feelin' it. Ug.
A movie that my sister somehow has actually heard of is maybe coming in the mail today from DVD.Netflix.com . I wanted to be able to see that movie STREET TRASH (1986), but nobody offers it for rent digitally and there's no video stores in the Metro Atlanta area, very few if any anyway....at least not video *RENTAL* stores....sure you can go to CD Warehouse or 2nd & Charles or, ya know, Barnes & Noble, FY.E. or Books A Million and *BUY* movies...but if you like a movie enough to buy it, you can save a shipton of time and money by buying online. Even if CD Warehouse does in fact have what you're looking for, driving to Duluth or Marietta is a waste of time unless you just HAVE TO WATCH IT RIGHT THEN A.S.A.P. [ALL HANDS ON DECK, THIS IS URGENT!]
Anyay, the movie was on *my* Que. My sister hasn't got around to setting herself one up. I'm glad more than just me is/will be using this service. If it were me, I would've just signed up for the $4.99 plan or maybe the $7.99 plan, but my sister opted for the $13.99 plan, two out at a time as much as the mail service & Netflix will process fast enough to let you have. Generally they try not to let you rent more than 8 movies a month, so if you return every movie you get the next day or the same day, NetFlix will impose measures to reduce the qty of movies you get from the theoretically possible 15-20 to 12 or so....I don't finish movies that quickly. I got STREET TRASH in the mail like 5 days ago and I just started watching it a couple days ago...no, yesterday early A.M. Only saw about 20 minutes of it. There looks to be a lot of different story elements working together and their relationship, as well as their nature, has not become clear as of yet.
Hmm....P.M.'d one of my Legacy Marietta peeps on Facebook yesterday. He said something about a wheelchair. I haven't seen him in a while...he wasn't online at the time I P.M.'d him and I haven't been to FB yet today
As I said in an older blogpost, I'd missed church 3 weeks in a row b/c I rely on my Mom to transport me there, at least I used to. I'll probably go with my sis if my mom gets too sick or tired to go since I'm now sorta living with her too now....and now it's been 3 Mondays w/o having attended the Legacy Marietta Men's Bible study where we both used to attend(he still does as far as I'm aware).
He didn't attend church the day me and Mom finally made it back that way [we decided to drive almost an hour to attend and while there my mom decided we'll come back and visit occasionally...how often that is, I don't know, since she's the one with the driver's license...]
He probably explained what he meant on one of his older Facebook posts. I'm not on Facebook as often as I ought to be. Is that a good thing? How can I know? I do know I get sick of these chain letters people post on there and these "share if you agree" or "type amen if you want world peace" or whatever...and there ARE A LOT of those...I feel like wringing people's necks sometimes over that crap.
[deep breath]
mmmmmmmmmm...listening to EUROPE '72 on Napster fka Rhapsody (they bought the Napster logo and name and are using it instead of their old name). Well, I'm not really listening to it...my subconsicous is listening to it I guess...I'm listening to it NOW, but I'm on like track 5 I think...or 6...kind of a cross between high energy and easy listening...weird. That's drugs for you, maybe(?) Or maybe it's just b/c they don't use high voltage electric guitars and bass-drum machines...
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Too much caffeine? Uh...
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that I'll be asleep during the most beautiful segment of the morning... I'll probably be getting to sleep right as the sun is coning out. I won't be able to say since this room is always pitch black unless I have the door open or a light bulb in operation.
I probably won't sleep all day...I'll probably be awake around 11(+/-)
ugh. Look at thee --this hypocrite! I doth typeth ontith via my phonith. It shan and hath be dotith.
I still can't wrap my head around how a guy that wrote PLAYS -- not novels or short stories--is considered literature. And its not even in the same language as that which any human being in existence is fluent in, at least not for any practical purpose other than getting a good grade from some brainwashed institution member.
I probably won't sleep all day...I'll probably be awake around 11(+/-)
ugh. Look at thee --this hypocrite! I doth typeth ontith via my phonith. It shan and hath be dotith.
I still can't wrap my head around how a guy that wrote PLAYS -- not novels or short stories--is considered literature. And its not even in the same language as that which any human being in existence is fluent in, at least not for any practical purpose other than getting a good grade from some brainwashed institution member.
Dang...two? Two?? Whew, must've been...
Took a shower about an hour ago. Second one this week. Blogpost title is in reference to a bit by Chris Rock I heard on Yahoo's long abandoned Launch cast customized radio (the Pandora before Pandora). Anyway...yep. So that happened. Floors accumulate dirt and dust quickly. This being a rather expensive house, I've been sweeping a lot more. The toilet in the Acworth trailer last I knew was irreversibly stained. Even though the trailer park was generally regarded as a sheethole, I still felt a little guilty about that; I've been cleaning the toilet here much more frequently. Im still having difficulty brushing my teeth daily+.
Spent a crapton of money this week. Got another credit card. A REAL one! My sister recalculated the total monthly expenses for me and my mom and I'm now $100 less able to piss away. So I repaid $75 of my REAL(!) credit card and promptly enough spent $40 of it.
I was just about to buy 12 ANGRY MEN Criterion Edition Blue ray. The only Criterion edition video disc I own is my just recently re-acquired BEING THERE (1979). Seems weird. I decided against it even though I have $200+ available credit on my Overstock card...I need to wait a few months before spending anymore $. I need to wait until at least November before making any semibig ($20+) purchases. Maybe -- ideally not... - I'll buy a couple $5 items in Sept. Of course, it wouldn't be unimaginable given the wind like ways of my mental flows that I'd be bold - gungho for goodness(!) - and then sink back to sea level....
Must keep on. Stay tuned((!))
Spent a crapton of money this week. Got another credit card. A REAL one! My sister recalculated the total monthly expenses for me and my mom and I'm now $100 less able to piss away. So I repaid $75 of my REAL(!) credit card and promptly enough spent $40 of it.
I was just about to buy 12 ANGRY MEN Criterion Edition Blue ray. The only Criterion edition video disc I own is my just recently re-acquired BEING THERE (1979). Seems weird. I decided against it even though I have $200+ available credit on my Overstock card...I need to wait a few months before spending anymore $. I need to wait until at least November before making any semibig ($20+) purchases. Maybe -- ideally not... - I'll buy a couple $5 items in Sept. Of course, it wouldn't be unimaginable given the wind like ways of my mental flows that I'd be bold - gungho for goodness(!) - and then sink back to sea level....
Must keep on. Stay tuned((!))
Friday, August 18, 2017
week 2 of my new life
The 5 of us (4 adults and a baby) are now living in one building, divided by two roofs. Loganville, GA. I live in a basement apartment with my mother and my sis & her husband live on the main floor while their son sleeps in the floor above them but spends most of the day on the main floor. My mom is now able to babysit her grandson without driving for 2 hrs x 5 / week. I wasn't able to say anything about any of this without facing the wrath of my tinesy cheapeas phone...I guess I could have blogged on my phone. My broNlaw is, ya know, busy (he has a job....) and it took a little bit for him to be willing & able to investigate the computer situation. It turns out all it needed was a new cord to connect from the monitor to the tower (the computer, ya know, the thing that computes...some people seem to think it needs another word, so it's also called a tower...rrr).
Was surprisingly easy living w/o the PC. I guess I now have a taste of life after it. (shiverrr/na, jk)
Missed church the two weeks preceeding the move, which took place August 5th. August 6th was another Sunday. Got back into The Lord's house the Sunday after. It took 57 minutes apprx to drive to Legacy Marietta. Was a fairly easy going drive. It helped a little not taking the entire way via interstate.
I found out after dreading the entirety of it that I don't live "too" far away from a CD Warehouse. My sister's old locale in Lawrenceville is less than 30 minutes away. So if I have more than 3 or 4 things to take to CD Warehouse and we didn't JUST GO there a few or so days ago (or a week...), then I can pack 'em up and take 'em out.
Still slowly grabbing ahold of my spirituality in a rather resistent and slothful manner. It's like I have one foot in fantasy land like "Oh, everything is fine" and another one going "Hey, this is serious man". The EIF view is so much more powerful...errrrurrrrr........wwwaah...
Alrighty......guess that's alll...yeah, really, my life is THAT boring (hahaha!)
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
the will to change
I keep telling myself I need to get my debt under control. I owe WalMart or whoever (Synchrony Bank I think, something like that) $820. SERIOULSY!!! That amount alone is bigger than my monthly income. I spent $65 at WalMart and WalMart.com this month. I only paid down $55 of that. So only $10 of that $820 is from THIS month. Is that progress or just a mirage?
I did return several things I bought in June. I don't know how much I spent that month. Probably too much. Anything more than a couple dollars is just TOO MUCH. My minimum payment is $25. I can't afford starting August to pay more than that. I actually had to cut ties with Fingerhut. I had scheduled payments set with them. I told/asked them to cut that. They supposedly did. I should probably call them back to verify that. If they did, I'll be hearing from a collection agency sometime. If they can't accept $20 a month, then I'll just have to dodge them until they give up and transfer the account to another collection agency, which'll take a month or two...and then the process will start over, with me trying to reason with them and them trying to reason with me...
I did return several things I bought in June. I don't know how much I spent that month. Probably too much. Anything more than a couple dollars is just TOO MUCH. My minimum payment is $25. I can't afford starting August to pay more than that. I actually had to cut ties with Fingerhut. I had scheduled payments set with them. I told/asked them to cut that. They supposedly did. I should probably call them back to verify that. If they did, I'll be hearing from a collection agency sometime. If they can't accept $20 a month, then I'll just have to dodge them until they give up and transfer the account to another collection agency, which'll take a month or two...and then the process will start over, with me trying to reason with them and them trying to reason with me...
Seriously need to read (one of) my copy of The Bible. Might as well stop writing...not sure if I have anything else to write about. If I do, it'll get written eventually, I hope/maybe...
Monday, July 24, 2017
medicine for the soul...
Well...last week, the days from 12:00A.M. Sunday to the end of Saturday of most recent, I managed to read 4 entries of my 1 Year Bible. That's over half the week...just barely...I took my mental health - stabilizing pills 5 out of the 7.
-----for those who don't know --- it's one round every morning -- two pills, one for schizo-effective disorder and the other for depression, I think...I'm not officially diagnosed with any schizoidness, I don't think...but schizo effective disorder is the closest anyone's come at pinning down what's wrong with me...I also have a very watered down variation of autism...I'm thankful for my mom's sake that I don't and as far as I'm aware never did start screaming bloody murder when someone would try to touch me or make certain noises....I am pretty darn obsessive, although I guess compared to some autistic people I have a larger variety of thoughts at hand. I am pretty flexible, but I also worry a lot, and I don't know what to do about that..."be still and know that I am God" helps, but I still feel my veins quiver even then...and there's only so much being still I can tolerate...ugh...
Anyway...I don't know the whys and hows, but I do believe that God has given me the medicines that are required for me to live a better life for Him. Choosing not to take my medicine is basically choosing Mr. Hyde over Dr. Jekyll. I don't necessarily become different when I take my meds. But I have a greater chance of success when I do. We all have to battle between being a Mr and being a Dr. It stands to reason I would not be exempt from that just because I take some pills.
What's confusing to me is how my brain got so messed up. I mean, it's generally understood to be a mental disorder. Disorder means something bad --- like a toilet that doesn't flush or a room that isn't organized.
But it is evident time and time again how God punishes those even who are not directly responsible for a given act or deed. King David did something or other and God punished him by sending a plague on the land. Those who died from the plague are not detailed in The Bible. I don't know how many of them ended up in Hell. I would think many of them did. I'd like to think many of them got into Heaven. The way much of The Old Testament reads, it sounds like 99.999% of Israel went to Hell. But it's hard to say. It seems like if that were so, God would have scrapped His plan for Israel altogether or done something to speed up the process. It's not real clear, but I get the impression that from the formation of Israel to the last book of The Old Testament, you have *at least* 1,000 years of history. That might not be accurate. It might be waaaay less......that's just the impression that I get. Not sure how I get that impression....I guess it's just the sheer scope with which The Bible is written...I mean, from the time Noah landed on dry land after the flood and the calling of Abraham to sojourn with God...I mean, what is that? A few pages at most? But there's no way all these people groups could have formed around Abraham in just 100 years. That would have had to have taken *at least* 300 years and that's ****IF**** every woman was very fertile and the men were constantly ravaging them. And even then, what the heck caused all these people groups to break off INTO people groups? That latter part is something I have absolutely no expertise on, being somewhat of a stranger in my own land.
But anyway...the point I started out making before I got distracted is that I come from a long line, at least 3 generations of people who turned their backs on God. I am the 4th generation of such people. All 4 of these generations in my line re-connected with God somehow or another. I don't think God would make things easy for anybody. He says in one of the OT books that His commands are not impossible to follow. Yet everyone has fallen short of the glory of God. When you sit and read the 10 commandments, it seems rather simple and easy to follow. But in reality they are not. The 1st Commandment is the hardest to follow and I think the Old Testament documents how hard it is for mankind in general to master that one. The other commandments are not easy to follow either, although some of them I for one am not guilty of breaking. I have not committed murder or adultery, but Jesus did provide some insight and pointed out that if you harbor hatred for anyone in your heart, you are indeed guilty of murder. And lusting after someone who is not your wife is adultery. I don't think He specified gender because he was talking to men. I don't think men and women socialized a lot back then outside of marriage. I could be wrong......I am no historian. I know Muslim men don't associate with Muslim women because of the adultery/lust issue --- and that's not history. That's Right Now. At least that's what I heard on some news piece on CBS a few+ years ago in relationship to something else they were talking about that I don't remember......It's possible CBS just made that and everything else up to make the world look totally different than it actually is......heck, how do we even know Donald Trump IS indeed the President? Yeah, that's sarcasm in case someone's thinking "You can't trust the media!"
But back to what I was saying --- the commands are not impossible to follow. You read through them and it's pretty starightforward. Yet even without being certified guilty because of your thoughts and / or feelings, how many people would categorize themselves as honest? Ok, for all that have raised their hand --- how many of you have EVER told a lie?
In some ways, this mental disorder I have could be looked upon as a blessing or a curse. For instance, why me? Oh why me? That's a curse. The blessing stems from the fact that I have an opportunity to give thanks as I take my medicine and remind myself of the tools God has given me to succeed in as many areas as I allow Him to help me succeed. That in itself seems like a rather good start to accomplishing Commandment #1. And the more one follows Commandment #1, the easier the other 9 are to follow. I can't say that from my own experience, but I have heard that said by numerous poeple.
Amen.
-----for those who don't know --- it's one round every morning -- two pills, one for schizo-effective disorder and the other for depression, I think...I'm not officially diagnosed with any schizoidness, I don't think...but schizo effective disorder is the closest anyone's come at pinning down what's wrong with me...I also have a very watered down variation of autism...I'm thankful for my mom's sake that I don't and as far as I'm aware never did start screaming bloody murder when someone would try to touch me or make certain noises....I am pretty darn obsessive, although I guess compared to some autistic people I have a larger variety of thoughts at hand. I am pretty flexible, but I also worry a lot, and I don't know what to do about that..."be still and know that I am God" helps, but I still feel my veins quiver even then...and there's only so much being still I can tolerate...ugh...
Anyway...I don't know the whys and hows, but I do believe that God has given me the medicines that are required for me to live a better life for Him. Choosing not to take my medicine is basically choosing Mr. Hyde over Dr. Jekyll. I don't necessarily become different when I take my meds. But I have a greater chance of success when I do. We all have to battle between being a Mr and being a Dr. It stands to reason I would not be exempt from that just because I take some pills.
What's confusing to me is how my brain got so messed up. I mean, it's generally understood to be a mental disorder. Disorder means something bad --- like a toilet that doesn't flush or a room that isn't organized.
But it is evident time and time again how God punishes those even who are not directly responsible for a given act or deed. King David did something or other and God punished him by sending a plague on the land. Those who died from the plague are not detailed in The Bible. I don't know how many of them ended up in Hell. I would think many of them did. I'd like to think many of them got into Heaven. The way much of The Old Testament reads, it sounds like 99.999% of Israel went to Hell. But it's hard to say. It seems like if that were so, God would have scrapped His plan for Israel altogether or done something to speed up the process. It's not real clear, but I get the impression that from the formation of Israel to the last book of The Old Testament, you have *at least* 1,000 years of history. That might not be accurate. It might be waaaay less......that's just the impression that I get. Not sure how I get that impression....I guess it's just the sheer scope with which The Bible is written...I mean, from the time Noah landed on dry land after the flood and the calling of Abraham to sojourn with God...I mean, what is that? A few pages at most? But there's no way all these people groups could have formed around Abraham in just 100 years. That would have had to have taken *at least* 300 years and that's ****IF**** every woman was very fertile and the men were constantly ravaging them. And even then, what the heck caused all these people groups to break off INTO people groups? That latter part is something I have absolutely no expertise on, being somewhat of a stranger in my own land.
But anyway...the point I started out making before I got distracted is that I come from a long line, at least 3 generations of people who turned their backs on God. I am the 4th generation of such people. All 4 of these generations in my line re-connected with God somehow or another. I don't think God would make things easy for anybody. He says in one of the OT books that His commands are not impossible to follow. Yet everyone has fallen short of the glory of God. When you sit and read the 10 commandments, it seems rather simple and easy to follow. But in reality they are not. The 1st Commandment is the hardest to follow and I think the Old Testament documents how hard it is for mankind in general to master that one. The other commandments are not easy to follow either, although some of them I for one am not guilty of breaking. I have not committed murder or adultery, but Jesus did provide some insight and pointed out that if you harbor hatred for anyone in your heart, you are indeed guilty of murder. And lusting after someone who is not your wife is adultery. I don't think He specified gender because he was talking to men. I don't think men and women socialized a lot back then outside of marriage. I could be wrong......I am no historian. I know Muslim men don't associate with Muslim women because of the adultery/lust issue --- and that's not history. That's Right Now. At least that's what I heard on some news piece on CBS a few+ years ago in relationship to something else they were talking about that I don't remember......It's possible CBS just made that and everything else up to make the world look totally different than it actually is......heck, how do we even know Donald Trump IS indeed the President? Yeah, that's sarcasm in case someone's thinking "You can't trust the media!"
But back to what I was saying --- the commands are not impossible to follow. You read through them and it's pretty starightforward. Yet even without being certified guilty because of your thoughts and / or feelings, how many people would categorize themselves as honest? Ok, for all that have raised their hand --- how many of you have EVER told a lie?
In some ways, this mental disorder I have could be looked upon as a blessing or a curse. For instance, why me? Oh why me? That's a curse. The blessing stems from the fact that I have an opportunity to give thanks as I take my medicine and remind myself of the tools God has given me to succeed in as many areas as I allow Him to help me succeed. That in itself seems like a rather good start to accomplishing Commandment #1. And the more one follows Commandment #1, the easier the other 9 are to follow. I can't say that from my own experience, but I have heard that said by numerous poeple.
Amen.
Sunday, July 16, 2017
the ToE
Was reading Genesis 1;NIV.
God did appararently speak light into existence.
After he created light
Verse 6 through 8 @ https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1&version=NIV
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
God said "...."
SO GOD MADE "..."
And it was so.
God called "..."
I don't know how on Earth Charles Darwin and/or anyone else knows or thinks they have enough information to establish the Theory of Evolution (ToE) as fact. I haven't studied it. I'm not at all academically accomplished. I don't even think I'd know where to start in studying it. If I cracked open ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, I'd probably be overwhelmingly lost by the middle of page 1. I highly doubt that mankind originated from organisms in the water that morphed into different forms of life. During the creation process, it seems possible that God was experimenting and left what could be construed as evidence to suggest what scientists propose as fact. I seriously do wonder if that's how all these many many dinosaur skeletons came into existence. In fact, I do wonder if God had a pre-man world consisting of dinosaurs, kind of like how kids used to have ant farms. It's not mentioned in The Bible, but whose to say that's not what God did? The Bible doesn't mention every single shred of information/knowledge/fact that could ever be conceived to be confirmed or denied/refuted.
Anyway...just some thoughts.
God did appararently speak light into existence.
After he created light
Verse 6 through 8 @ https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+1&version=NIV
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
God said "...."
SO GOD MADE "..."
And it was so.
God called "..."
I don't know how on Earth Charles Darwin and/or anyone else knows or thinks they have enough information to establish the Theory of Evolution (ToE) as fact. I haven't studied it. I'm not at all academically accomplished. I don't even think I'd know where to start in studying it. If I cracked open ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, I'd probably be overwhelmingly lost by the middle of page 1. I highly doubt that mankind originated from organisms in the water that morphed into different forms of life. During the creation process, it seems possible that God was experimenting and left what could be construed as evidence to suggest what scientists propose as fact. I seriously do wonder if that's how all these many many dinosaur skeletons came into existence. In fact, I do wonder if God had a pre-man world consisting of dinosaurs, kind of like how kids used to have ant farms. It's not mentioned in The Bible, but whose to say that's not what God did? The Bible doesn't mention every single shred of information/knowledge/fact that could ever be conceived to be confirmed or denied/refuted.
Anyway...just some thoughts.
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