November 4, 2007
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Life is just weird. How ridiculous these things are we do everyday.
Driving. Ever imagine drivers without their cars? To see people just floating above the road in the sitting position? Arms outstrecthed, all flying quickly through the air?
Eating. While eating I stop with eyes wide. What am I doing? I’m putting this stuff inside me? What! Most things I don’t put inside me, but this I do? This is mad! And it is standard to meet with others, so we may put stuff inside us together?
Talking. I can make noise, and this noise makes sense to others? Most noise, the sounds in the world, is just noise. But some noise is noise with meaning? And I can choose to make this meaningful noise?
Talking on the phone. I can speak into this thing, and somewhere else someone hears me? If I talk into anything else, my voice doesn’t come out of another of that object. But two people, far apart, can hear each other by making noise into this certain piece of matter?
Sleeping. I lie down and wait. Eventually this makes me unconscious. My thoughtless, sightless body lies there motionlessly until some time later when I start seeing and thinking again. What crazy thing is this! Why does my body do such a thing? I am terrified as I go to bed, thinking, what am I doing! What is going on!
Who expected these things, that they should be called normal? What madness we adapt our minds to! We are all so sleepy.
Comments (12)
It’s nice to know that I am not the only person in the world that thinks like this, too.
I often wonder about breathing or blinking our eyes. Just amazes me.
you know what is really weird? the fact that you won’t come to Toledo…
Good stuff. I agree.
Thankyou!
Just a silly scribble from today! Nice to”meet” you.
Very strange.
Take care,
libby
ps. i hope you don’t mind me stopping by and commenting… maybe we could be friends?
interesting…i never thought about my life like that…it gives me a new perspective…
very cool site! loved the4 Calvin and Hobs…i am a fan of them!
comment me.
Or writing! Just think, this jumble of shapes is what we use to convey meaning?
Regarding your comments on my FWB post: I don’t find what you wrote to be convincing at all, mainly because there were a lot of assumptions that you didn’t support. You wrote that:
>> marriage is the culmination of relationships on earth; externally, it’s the highest you can go. In confessing your resolute and final love for one person until the day of death is a serious explicit description of your love. <<
I agree, and this is a great argument against having an affair or cheating on your spouse (including kissing someone else). But you go on to make a pretty big leap by saying the following:
>> Thus, anything you would do that isn’t loving your spouse is counteractive to the extremity of your claims at the altar. This is why if you have promiscuous sex you aren’t loving your spouse, even if it’s your future spouse you wouldn’t be loving. <<
You lost me here. You’re claiming that if I have sex with someone right now (and presumably not just promiscuous sex, as you oddly specified, but even sex within a dating relationship), and if I do so when I’m not married, then I will be indirectly harming my future spouse. I have several objections to that.
First, that’s just unsubstantiated opinion (you didn’t explain why you think it’s true).
Second, that’s like saying that by merely *kissing* someone else right now I will end up hurting my future spouse. I fail to see why you can arbitrarily draw the line at sex. If non-marital sex is wrong because you’re not saving your first time for your spouse, then kissing and other forms of physical intimacy should also be reserved for marriage. It may be true that *some* things we do now can have an adverse effect on our future spouse (i.e. self-castration while in a drug-induced craze), but not all things. Some things are insignificant. If I take my girlfriend to Paris for a vacation, but then we break up, it would still be perfectly acceptable for me to take my future spouse to Paris (I may or may not be obligated to tell her about me taking my girlfriend there — that’s a separate topic).
Third, it’s most likely that my future spouse will have already had sex with other people before we get together. And that’s totally fine for me. Some couples may thrive better if they lose their virginiy to each other, but that’s not how everybody functions.
And as I noted before, non-marital sex per se wasn’t forbidden for the Israelites. I think it would be strange for it to suddenly become wrong upon Jesus’ birth without anybody coming along to clarify or elucidate.
– Pat
I should add this: I don’t think that the Greek word “porneia” will be of much help since it broadly means “sexual immorality”, which presupposes a list of sexually immoral acts, which then begs the question of whichs acts are immoral (and how we know that they’re immoral).
i printed off this entry and showed my friends.
they loved it.
yes, i think like that sometimes. people talking on bluetooth things…
yes, all of my dear friends tell me to get a myspace. whats that? i ask then they tell me how wonderful it is. anything involving a possible reality show spin off is not cool by my standards.
zanguh is where its at
The behaviors such as eating, sleeping, and pooping show that God has a sense of humor. Heh…Ha!