me, rosalie, nathan, and austin were in photography class and we were suppossed to be shooting in chinatown, but somehow the conversation steered from man vs. wild, to south park to scientology and we got what we thought was a great idea.
we hiked up to taylor st. through the most 'mountaineous' route, and found the church that rosalie saw.
basically a lady with very sharp teeth greeted us and made us watch a video full of superflous information (read us our scientology unALIENable rights...coincidence i think not) while she grabbed 'the tests'
we took what was just basically a very long strangely worded personality quiz.
she gave us a copy.
26. Is your life a constant struggle for survival?
(wtf?)
59. Do you consider the modern "prisons without bars" doomed to failure?
(no seriously what does that even mean?)
68. Do you enjoy activities of your own choosing?
(!@#$???)
92. Are you a slow eater?
(why is this even valid?)
they grabbed us individually and showed us the results on a chart.
first she showed me the points on the graph that fell under the unacceptable state. proceded to point out things on the graph that she thought were flaws... i just consider them personality atributes.
(reclusiveness, critical, unstable and dispersed thought)
and then tried to tell me that scientology could help me.
i wouldn't even consider it a religion. its just a giant costly self help course.
i was actually kind of disapointed at theier normalness, besides the vampire-esque lady that greeted us they were just like all the other brain washed religious people i know.
well i can now say as an educated person that scientology is a joke.
today was thoroughly entertaining.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
good to know
Pensive, meditative, reflective suggest quiet modes of apparent or real thought. Pensive, the weakest of the three, suggests dreaminess or wistfulness, and may involve little or no thought to any purpose: a pensive, faraway look. Meditative involves thinking of certain facts or phenomena, perhaps in the religious sense of “contemplation,” without necessarily having a goal of complete understanding or of action: meditative but unjudicial. Reflective has a strong implication of orderly, perhaps analytic, processes of thought, usually with a definite goal of understanding: a careful and reflective critic.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
transparent attempted sincerity
we're intertwined, yet distant
as you breathe out and kiss me
the taste of hotel mints attempting to cover your cigar fills
misleading substance
solely sensory pleasure
this feeling keeps my mind from falling to the future
metaphysics
appearance and reality
what is? and what is what i want it to be?
if i could exist only my own apperception
i could be fully sane
and would come to realize
your comparable to a relationship with the weather
surely fleeting and unsure of itself
as you breathe out and kiss me
the taste of hotel mints attempting to cover your cigar fills
misleading substance
solely sensory pleasure
this feeling keeps my mind from falling to the future
metaphysics
appearance and reality
what is? and what is what i want it to be?
if i could exist only my own apperception
i could be fully sane
and would come to realize
your comparable to a relationship with the weather
surely fleeting and unsure of itself
Saturday, January 12, 2008
You know, he's holding you down with the tips of his fingers
just the same
Will you be pulled from the ocean
but just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
and find a handsome young mate for you to love.
-the shins
covenant to self
i will not settle for someone who doesnt...
-see me diffrently
-empower me
-have expectations and goals for themself
and in the mean time my official new years resolution since i havent exactly wrote it down yet is:
A(practical): learn how to cook thai food
B(self): reaccess my goals and motivate myself. discover my true values and live by them. desubmerge myself in popculture and other petty things. progress artistically every week. become completely comfortable as an independant.
just the same
Will you be pulled from the ocean
but just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
and find a handsome young mate for you to love.
-the shins
covenant to self
i will not settle for someone who doesnt...
-see me diffrently
-empower me
-have expectations and goals for themself
and in the mean time my official new years resolution since i havent exactly wrote it down yet is:
A(practical): learn how to cook thai food
B(self): reaccess my goals and motivate myself. discover my true values and live by them. desubmerge myself in popculture and other petty things. progress artistically every week. become completely comfortable as an independant.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
pragmatism vs. romantasism
i dont know how to start this, and would not like to waste time explaining it. im already ahead of myself trying to think of 7 and i must write them down before they slip away.
1. at almost seventeen, im very confused as to where i stand religiously. secular ideas and my romantic belief in something higher are almost equally balanced, although i do know where the scale is headed. even in the previous sentence as a describe higher belief as 'romanitic' i can feel the scales tipping. a year ago maybe two years i would have said God without hesitation, but now i have absolutlely no faith in the organizied religion Christianity. some of this has come from the fact that it has been heavily pushed on me most of my life (and i know some people would say the same, but i would like to belive that i have more reason then most) and i did, i ate it up for the first half. then however pragmatism kicked in and i began to see things diffrently. i also have drawn many lines from people i dont respect, back to Christianity. people who i dont let become more then aquaintences, athority figures, republicans who warp peoples minds by regurgitating back onto them scripture, that the people can not even quote back themselves, but sadly they absorb it. religion in my eyes in some ways is an added handle another way for someone to take advantage of them. however i have not become uninterested in other religion, in fact it has made me far more curious, and has revealed how little i know about other religions. i spent this winter break reading a few books, one of which being Religious Literacy by Stephen Prethero (for the most part engaging and informative). for now i think i do belive in a higher power, it was explained to me this way: you can trace backwards pretty far, as far back as two atoms, some lightning, and an expanse of space. but at some point you have to stop. where did the atoms come from? what about the lightning? what is this expanse? where did it come from? what is life? love?
i think to live as moral of a life as i can, is the best i can do and not to worry about after, later, ending.
after writing one my brain is still buzzing, but i think i would like to do this in sections. i enjoy writing and i enjoy learning about myself as i write. there is just one but i rambled, and i have a feeling i will ramble and would like to ramble about the rest.
-thank you matt
1. at almost seventeen, im very confused as to where i stand religiously. secular ideas and my romantic belief in something higher are almost equally balanced, although i do know where the scale is headed. even in the previous sentence as a describe higher belief as 'romanitic' i can feel the scales tipping. a year ago maybe two years i would have said God without hesitation, but now i have absolutlely no faith in the organizied religion Christianity. some of this has come from the fact that it has been heavily pushed on me most of my life (and i know some people would say the same, but i would like to belive that i have more reason then most) and i did, i ate it up for the first half. then however pragmatism kicked in and i began to see things diffrently. i also have drawn many lines from people i dont respect, back to Christianity. people who i dont let become more then aquaintences, athority figures, republicans who warp peoples minds by regurgitating back onto them scripture, that the people can not even quote back themselves, but sadly they absorb it. religion in my eyes in some ways is an added handle another way for someone to take advantage of them. however i have not become uninterested in other religion, in fact it has made me far more curious, and has revealed how little i know about other religions. i spent this winter break reading a few books, one of which being Religious Literacy by Stephen Prethero (for the most part engaging and informative). for now i think i do belive in a higher power, it was explained to me this way: you can trace backwards pretty far, as far back as two atoms, some lightning, and an expanse of space. but at some point you have to stop. where did the atoms come from? what about the lightning? what is this expanse? where did it come from? what is life? love?
i think to live as moral of a life as i can, is the best i can do and not to worry about after, later, ending.
after writing one my brain is still buzzing, but i think i would like to do this in sections. i enjoy writing and i enjoy learning about myself as i write. there is just one but i rambled, and i have a feeling i will ramble and would like to ramble about the rest.
-thank you matt
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