tabular_rasa | Oct. 2nd, 2004

Oct. 2nd, 2004

You are an Orchid! You are very gentle and kind but a little strange. You are shy and often times like to be left alone.
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<img src="http://images.quizilla.com/L/LittleGothicHamster/1096722889_vanescence.jpg" border="0" alt="Evanecscene"> You are Imaginary, by Evanescence. A deep song that i love and a band which are deeper and i love even more.
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Yea, I like that.

You are a dutch colonial! Flexible and not Dutch at all, you are really an all-terrain person. You don't really care about things sometimes, but when you do, you put everything you've got into it!
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I took it thinking it was Hogwarts House, but it wasn't, lol . . .

<img src="http://images.quizilla.com/A/Aliteinthesky/1057724633_CMyDocumentsPurple.gif" border="0" alt="HASH(0x8c123e8)"> You are purple. What a romantic person you are. You're sentimental and forward-looking (those are opposites.). You're a sophisticated and refined--with a refind taste for chocolates and wine (yum...). Tempermental and moody, you let people know when you're angry. But other times, you just sit and sulk. Alone. When around people, you're a generous person, with insatiable needs. You're a starving artist, basically. You're enjoy getting into debates over politics and religion with people of the same intelligence of you. But you know they can never convince you otherwise, you stubborn person, you. As a unique person you are (not to mention just a tad bit eccentric...), you're well-liked by either a few people, or too many people...
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Hey! It's me! Though they do give me more credit for my maturity and sophistication. Though perhaps if I actually DRANK wine, I'd like it . . . lol . . . I DO like chocolate though. Also . . . do I sulk? I think I mostly blow up, passionately and rather immaturely. Though I guess even if my immediate reaction is anger, it flows into cool, sulky spite after a while . . .

Also, I love purple ^_^

Yes *sigh* reading too much into the quizzes again.

That eye quiz Tiffany had really didn't work for me at all. It told me I was all logical and dark blue-eyed, which I am not, really . . . the personality doesn't fit me at all. I do not hold my emotions inside.

My car just got egged with, as far as I can tell, two eggs . . . which makes it just more irksome and stupid than actually offensive. There was no real point in actually taking it to the carwash, so I just stood out in the cold air and hosed it off, scrubbing it away. Stupid, meddlesome kids, lol . . . not evil, mind you . . . just stupid and meddlesome.

Our house smells like pee and cleaner again since Mom did another rug cleaning. It's so gross. Megan, you're really getting foul . . . I love you, but you are, you're just foul . . .

I just came up with most random parallel in response to the think that Jamie was going on about in her journal. I have way too much fun with paralleling Harry Potter and History ^_^

Heehee, Tory's rap songs about Lord of the Rings crack me up . . .

Current Mood: a little irked
Current Music: "Persona" by Blue Man Group

Yea, I like that.

I took it thinking it was Hogwarts House, but it wasn't, lol . . .

Also, I love purple ^_^

Yes *sigh* reading too much into the quizzes again.

Our house smells like pee and cleaner again since Mom did another rug cleaning. It's so gross. Megan, you're really getting foul . . . I love you, but you are, you're just foul . . .

I just came up with most random parallel in response to the think that Jamie was going on about in her journal. I have way too much fun with paralleling Harry Potter and History ^_^

Heehee, Tory's rap songs about Lord of the Rings crack me up . . .

Current Mood: a little irked
Current Music: "Persona" by Blue Man Group

Tory persuaded me to take her to Borders today. She now owes me $1.50, lol . . .

They didn't have "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth," which I wanted to buy, nor did they have the Mulan soundtrack, which I also wanted to buy-- because I can't find my old tape version and I really want to put it on a CD.

So instead, I got a collection of Tchaikovsky's works, all minor (yes!!!), some more Prokofiev (I almost got one with Kije on it again, but didn't . . . there was one with everything that had but Kije and was about $6.00 cheapers), and a Les Miserables soundtrack (though not one of the huge ones . . . because I've never seen the actual musical . . . lol . . . I just love the book like insanely . . . even though, lol, I have yet to read through the ENTIRE unabridged version . . . ). I almost got "Wicked"-- this book about the Wizard of Oz from the witches's point of view that looks really good and has done very well and I don't know HOW I have gone without hearing about it . . . apparently it's got a musical, too . . . lol . . . I think I'll go get it from the library.

However, I DID get a book discussing Harry Potter and philosophy. It's friggin' great. It's part of a whole series; there's Lord of the Rings and The Sopranos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, too, lol ^_^ Yet . . . I saw it, and I went, "WHOA!!! It's someone who's a bigger nerd than me . . . and they're making money off it!"

It's very interesting, too. Half of it, however, I have already thought about before, too, lol . . .

I'm so jealous.

I guess I'll just have to write a history parallel to it instead, lol . . .

Listening to the Les Miserables soundtrack . . .

Yea for dramatic French Revolutionary-ness!

Aww . . . listening to Javert commit suicide. Sad day, poor guy. I remember when I first figured out he was going to do that . . . when I read ahead on the bleachers at Tory's track meet, when I was in 10th grade, when Nichole and Kristina had been nice and come with me to watch ^_^ and I was reading and not paying attention (sorry, Tory . . . not that you were running at this point, anyway).

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: "Javert's Suicide" from the Les Miserables soundtrack

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: "Javert's Suicide" from the Les Miserables soundtrack

This Harry Potter book is really good. You know, not that I haven't thought about most of this before, and made a lot of these parallels myself, lol, but I did it in a less of a "I've got a PhD in Philosophy" sort of way.

You are a true throwback, a swordsman out of your
time.

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I'm a total quiz whore today.

At least I'm not a dance whore, like "Michael" in that song, lol . . . Tory and I had way too much fun with that.

World History really is an interesting class-- though it still is awfully eye-opening . . . if you make it that way. I think a lot of focus has been on religion in my class, for some reason (it's not like the kids in the class have been pushing for it-- though I find it fascinating-- but I don't know whether the class is usually this heavily focused on religion or not). Which is more reliable, History or Faith? History doesn't necessarily always follow faith . . . or at least assumptions often associated with it. For instance, Christianity, historically, didn't just pop out of the sky in full form, which, when I was little, was what I had always thought it had done . . . you know, God just like told everyone what to do in one fell swoop. Yet God seems to have planted hints throughout time, instead, and the religion continues to be shaped.

I mean, the accepted Christian doctrine, the Nicene Creed, the whole concept of the Trinity, Jesus's dual divinity and humanity, and even the establishment that Mary gave birth to Jesus and not to God (which when I read that was like, "Wait . . . Mary giving birth to God? If He was given birth to by Mary, where was He for the whole Old Testament? Does that make Mary God?" and then it made my head hurt so I stopped thinking about it), were all established by a league of scholars appointed by Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, rather arbitrarily. There were many conflicting views among the early Christians of Rome--they were too busy trying to stay alive and Christian in a persecuted environment to be organized enough to bother about arguing over detailed doctrine; they were just Christian, that was all that was necessary at that point-- like the Arians, who believed Jesus was not divine and only human, and was not resurrected (rather like the Deists and such), and the other, opposite group, which believed he was solely divine. So Constantine decided it, and people who believed otherwise were obviously traitors and heretics (double whammy . . . don't you LOVE the lack of separation between church and state? Lol . . ), and annihilated-- or at least hidden until they could start a small minority sect under the cover until the Holy Roman Empire fell.

So it was Constantine . . . not God . . . who defined Christianity into what it is today?

It's crazy. It's a good thing I'm not really stuck in one particular view, or that at least I don't mind if it turns out what is traditionally accepted as right turns out to be-- well, not wrong-- but a little off what I thought. There's got to be some kids out there who would be positively offended.

Yet, really, it's not such a big deal. I mean, Jesus was a good guy who was martyred and started a religion, whether He was divine or not. God exists in any which way or form. It really doesn't matter whether they show up in threes, or just one, or whether Mary was divine or the mother of God, or even if Jesus had a wife (lol Da Vinci Code . . .). It's still the same basic concept.

Yet, unfortunately, it is over the details people get needled up so much.

I think I remember singing some song in church choir about it back in the day . . . something about "So many churches and denominations got their opinions, and their documents and statements and beliefs, sometimes there's a miscommunication, and we complicate the truth, and we convulute the story . . . but as far as I recall, I do believe it all comes down to man, dying on a cross, saving the world."

Wow, I didn't even realize I remembered that much of it. Come to think of it, I think that song has been haunting me in the back of my head for all of these years. Crazy.

Speaking of The Da Vinci code, I noticed Vidhi was reading it on Friday. I wonder how she'll interpret it. I mean, she's been raised in America long enough to understand-- and even be somewhat indoctrinated with-- Western culture, but with her Indian background, a lot of the Christianity-- and even concepts like chivalry and such from Western Europe . . . it would be very interesting to hear her take on it, just as I would love to read a controversial book about Buddhism or something. It would actually seem less controversial, since all the assumptions would not be there.

It's a test of blind faith, isn't it?

HOkay, anyway, on a less potent note, I like this song. I also like the remake-- actually, I like it better, which is crazy . . . you know, the one about death? Though this song . . . this song reminds me of you, Nichole . . . kind of. Maybe. I STILL need you to hear your actual song, though.

Anyway, off to Earlham tomorrow. I hope this is fun.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: "Every Breath You Take" by Sting