what the hell are you talking about?
Nov. 24th, 2003 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeppomarksI know most people seek solace in a higher power or search for patterns in the universe to try and make sense of things that at their essence make no sense. It seems as per my standard operating measure that just the reverse is true for me. Often it is far more pleasing to my psyche to allow the undercurrent of chaos to drag me here and there like a ragdoll.
I relish the idea that no grand cosmic bias exists to help or hinder me through my days.
We all get what we get and you can take practically nothing and rule the world with it, or you can sit on a big heap of everything and sob quietly to yourself.
It's your popsicle - it's all up to you if you want to suck or not.
I get asked frequently if my atheism causes conflicts with a few of my beliefs that are considered to be "spiritual" by some. I can honestly say it doesn't cause me to lay awake at night, but truthfully I have no explanations for the unusual things that occur around and to me.
So don't ask me to get out the slide rule when I say that a ghost told me the future and then it came true.
I relish the idea that no grand cosmic bias exists to help or hinder me through my days.
We all get what we get and you can take practically nothing and rule the world with it, or you can sit on a big heap of everything and sob quietly to yourself.
It's your popsicle - it's all up to you if you want to suck or not.
I get asked frequently if my atheism causes conflicts with a few of my beliefs that are considered to be "spiritual" by some. I can honestly say it doesn't cause me to lay awake at night, but truthfully I have no explanations for the unusual things that occur around and to me.
So don't ask me to get out the slide rule when I say that a ghost told me the future and then it came true.
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Date: 2003-11-24 01:34 pm (UTC)No, but I would ask you to tell me that story. :)
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Date: 2003-11-24 01:52 pm (UTC)TELL US ABOUT THE GHOST AUNTIE ZEPPO!!!!
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:15 am (UTC)you can't just say that, you know.
you've always said that the Elvis story is your proverbial Big O, and now you've set up a this-is-better??
tell. tell. tell. tell.
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:25 am (UTC)Two separate concepts, IMO.
Yeah, yeah! Tell us about the ghostie! Tell us! Teeeellll uuuuus! *bouncebounce*
Re: Two separate concepts, IMO.
Date: 2003-11-25 08:10 am (UTC)It is almost done.
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Date: 2003-11-24 02:17 pm (UTC)I think we all want to hear the ghost story though. :)
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:11 am (UTC)it sounds like you're winding up for quite the swing...
Date: 2003-11-24 02:30 pm (UTC)It's interesting. My husband is an atheist, but is totally into the idea of supernatural things -- intelligent life on other planets, UFOs, ghosts, and unexplained scientific mysteries. I think that spirituality and a connection with mystery in life expresses itself differently in people. We as a culture can't use formalized religion as the only yardstick for spirituality anymore.
I have a profound appreciation for your popsicle theory.
Re: it sounds like you're winding up for quite the swing...
Date: 2003-11-25 08:12 am (UTC)I choose not to suck...
Date: 2003-11-25 08:46 am (UTC)I look forward to reading the ghost story!
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Date: 2003-11-24 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 08:12 am (UTC)I will make good I promise.
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Date: 2003-11-24 03:04 pm (UTC)I hope it's a tease.
I guess it could be the author's bio on a really bad self help book.
I'll be laying here reading my Bible, waiting on the story.
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-24 03:18 pm (UTC)slide rules are so 1950s, man. be hip, or slip. blah blah, or blah.
:D
yep, i want to hear about the prediction, too. please?
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-24 04:26 pm (UTC)And then spring comes. Spring always comes, and after a harsh northern winter, spring is the most beautiful thing in the world, and it's beauty for its own sake. It's beautiful whether I'm here or not, and spring was beautiful long before I got here and will continue to be beautiful long after I'm gone. And I find that incredibly comforting, that there will always be the glorious, frantic beauty of spring in the North Woods, regardless of whether or not there's anybody around to wax poetic about it.
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:21 am (UTC)you kick my ass all over the place, you know?
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Date: 2003-11-24 05:18 pm (UTC)Smooches and I think you are a very spiritual person regardless of weather or not you believe in God.
LOVE!
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Date: 2003-11-25 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 08:24 am (UTC)It should be up by 1:00 or 2:00 today reasonably.... if I don't completely scrap it in that time and start over that is.
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Date: 2003-11-25 08:22 am (UTC)you call THAT a popsicle stick?
Date: 2003-11-24 05:37 pm (UTC)what THE HELL am I talking about(?)
Re: you call THAT a popsicle stick?
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Date: 2003-11-24 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 08:16 am (UTC)I had to do something - it's sweeps week.
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Date: 2003-11-24 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 08:15 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2003-11-25 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 01:45 pm (UTC)More ghost...
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Date: 2003-11-27 12:02 am (UTC)The masses await the orcale from the incendiary quiche guru.
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Date: 2003-12-18 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-19 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-19 11:46 am (UTC)(Or the name previously known as 'eNZedder' if you prefer.)
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Date: 2003-12-20 09:38 am (UTC)you are added my dear boy.