today i ate lunch with a gay couple.
it was great.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
but let's love
i suppose the best way to start a blog which you don't know how to start is by stating that you don't know how to start it.
i don't really know how to start this.
whenever i am asked about my religious beliefs, i don't know what to say. usually i answer with "i don't have any" and then people assume i am an atheist.
that doesn't quite describe it. Atheism is a negation of the existence of god.
i do not negate it. i do not confirm it.
some may say that i'm staying in this horrible, cowardly middle point but that's not the truth.
i don't care whether god exists or not.
knowing whether a singularity decided to infinitely expand, or a being said "let there be light;" that never helped me get any friends.
knowing whether i was created on monday or developed from a single cell organism in the span of millions of years; that never helped me love anyone unconditionally.
knowing whether it was jesus, ala, buddha, or amaterasu, that never gave me or the people around me a hug or company.
i could spend my time loving a god and praying, but i'd rather open my eyes to reality and see that no matter how we got here and how this world was made, we are all here. and all we have is each other. your neighbor, that girl that's a fool at school, that guy who pisses us off at work; they're all we have. and we have to love them and understand them. so that they can love and understand us.
i often hear god is love.
i disagree.
love is god.
love is the only thing that matters and the only thing that can save us from misery.
god works in mysterious ways?
love has reasons of which reason knows nothing [blaise pascal]
"god gave us free will"
love took it away. we so often do things for love that we would never choose logically.
they talk of god as a creator.
we were all created from love.
the scientist loved his experiment in a test tube. the rapist loved the moment of power he received, the drunken couple loved each other like they never thought possible, and the loving couple became one.
in that moment.
and if love is god, fear is satan.
not hate.
fear is what keeps us from getting close to and seeing each other how we really are deep inside and loving each other never the less.
fear.
of rejection.
of pain.
of the future.
of god.
of hell.
keeping us from loving one another.
from getting close.
from holding hands.
from sharing our feelings.
fear.
Love cures people-- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~Dr. Karl Menninger
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Love always wins.
Death may end a life, but not a relationship.
~ Morrie Schwartz
love eachother or perish
~tuesdays with morrie
i don't really know how to start this.
whenever i am asked about my religious beliefs, i don't know what to say. usually i answer with "i don't have any" and then people assume i am an atheist.
that doesn't quite describe it. Atheism is a negation of the existence of god.
i do not negate it. i do not confirm it.
some may say that i'm staying in this horrible, cowardly middle point but that's not the truth.
i don't care whether god exists or not.
knowing whether a singularity decided to infinitely expand, or a being said "let there be light;" that never helped me get any friends.
knowing whether i was created on monday or developed from a single cell organism in the span of millions of years; that never helped me love anyone unconditionally.
knowing whether it was jesus, ala, buddha, or amaterasu, that never gave me or the people around me a hug or company.
i could spend my time loving a god and praying, but i'd rather open my eyes to reality and see that no matter how we got here and how this world was made, we are all here. and all we have is each other. your neighbor, that girl that's a fool at school, that guy who pisses us off at work; they're all we have. and we have to love them and understand them. so that they can love and understand us.
i often hear god is love.
i disagree.
love is god.
love is the only thing that matters and the only thing that can save us from misery.
god works in mysterious ways?
love has reasons of which reason knows nothing [blaise pascal]
"god gave us free will"
love took it away. we so often do things for love that we would never choose logically.
they talk of god as a creator.
we were all created from love.
the scientist loved his experiment in a test tube. the rapist loved the moment of power he received, the drunken couple loved each other like they never thought possible, and the loving couple became one.
in that moment.
and if love is god, fear is satan.
not hate.
fear is what keeps us from getting close to and seeing each other how we really are deep inside and loving each other never the less.
fear.
of rejection.
of pain.
of the future.
of god.
of hell.
keeping us from loving one another.
from getting close.
from holding hands.
from sharing our feelings.
fear.
Love cures people-- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~Dr. Karl Menninger
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Love always wins.
Death may end a life, but not a relationship.
~ Morrie Schwartz
love eachother or perish
~tuesdays with morrie
Monday, February 11, 2008
but let's dream
as far as i can remember i know that my objective is to rescue this girl.
whose face i don't remember.
or any of her features.
pretty sure she was wearing white.
it starts out with me [batman] hanging upside down, like in the new movie.
and the bad guy with the gun says "what kind of freak are you? get the fuck out of here before i put a bullet in your face" and puts the gun on my forehead.
and i'm all bad ass and don't move or anything and i say in the batman begins voice [you know, the raspiness]: "I don't think you're aware of the gravity of the situation you are in right now."
and the guy gets a dumb look in his face and i move really quick and the cape goes everywhere and he starts shooting but i'm grabbing the gun and pushing it away.
then i come down from [the ceiling i guess] and punch him in the face and then i
see his face literally punched in with blood everywhere.
and then i look down a hallway and i see i really big guy pulling the girl who i'm supposed to rescue out of the building and then i look back and there are like 50 guys coming at me with all kinds of guns.
so i start running, jump out a window and use a cable to land safely.
a bunch more start coming out and so i steal a bike and they chase me on bikes.
there's like this really crazy chase scene in which i'm taking all kinds of curves and jumping and stuff like that while taking out some of the bikers behind me.
finally i get away into a parking lot and there's a bunch of cars parked and i go to the empty end and i press a button on my arm and the batmobile appears
and it's huge and awesome
and then, while kind of running i just punch the side of the door and it opens [for some reason in my dream i thought that was cool] and i jump in and when i turn the lights on i see the big guy pulling the girl behind him and i think "i gotta move fast" and i step on the gas and just slam the bat mobile into a wall with the big guy in between the two.
from the outside you see a batman arm pulling the girl into the car
and then i woke up
mission accomplished i guess
[about time]
whose face i don't remember.
or any of her features.
pretty sure she was wearing white.
it starts out with me [batman] hanging upside down, like in the new movie.
and the bad guy with the gun says "what kind of freak are you? get the fuck out of here before i put a bullet in your face" and puts the gun on my forehead.
and i'm all bad ass and don't move or anything and i say in the batman begins voice [you know, the raspiness]: "I don't think you're aware of the gravity of the situation you are in right now."
and the guy gets a dumb look in his face and i move really quick and the cape goes everywhere and he starts shooting but i'm grabbing the gun and pushing it away.
then i come down from [the ceiling i guess] and punch him in the face and then i
see his face literally punched in with blood everywhere.
and then i look down a hallway and i see i really big guy pulling the girl who i'm supposed to rescue out of the building and then i look back and there are like 50 guys coming at me with all kinds of guns.
so i start running, jump out a window and use a cable to land safely.
a bunch more start coming out and so i steal a bike and they chase me on bikes.
there's like this really crazy chase scene in which i'm taking all kinds of curves and jumping and stuff like that while taking out some of the bikers behind me.
finally i get away into a parking lot and there's a bunch of cars parked and i go to the empty end and i press a button on my arm and the batmobile appears
and it's huge and awesome
and then, while kind of running i just punch the side of the door and it opens [for some reason in my dream i thought that was cool] and i jump in and when i turn the lights on i see the big guy pulling the girl behind him and i think "i gotta move fast" and i step on the gas and just slam the bat mobile into a wall with the big guy in between the two.
from the outside you see a batman arm pulling the girl into the car
and then i woke up
mission accomplished i guess
[about time]
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