I had an eye exam today. Doctor said I'm slightly near-sighted and gave me a small prescription for glasses. Really, I don't even need them (she said so herself) but I drive at night sometimes and you never know, so hey. I'm sportin' lenses now. 8)
Oh, and they were free. Woo, Lenscrafters.
Is awesome. I'm using it right now and it's incredibly fast.
The only problem I've had so far is I can't link anything. Does anybody know how that can be fixed?
I knew this game would be horrible, but I didn't have an appropriate appreciation for the horror until recently. This is the actual plot to the game:
Dumbass Crusader goes to Acre, bangs a Saracen against his vows to his wife and kills Death, taking his weapon home with him. When he gets home, he finds his father and wife dead. His wife made a deal with the Devil: if he doesn't cheat on her, which he would never, ever do, he could come home safe; otherwise she becomes Satan's sex toy.
Dumbass Crusader watches shadow Satan take his wife away, he follows, falls into Hell. He meets the ghost of Virgil who is hellbent (literally and figuratively) to help Dumbass Crusader simply because his wife's ghost told him to.
Dumbass Crusader goes on the boat ride on Charon, who has a giant head that Dumbass Crusader chops off. Dumbass Crusader, with the (lack of) help of Virgil, goes through Limbo and kills King Minos by ripping his face in half with his own tongue.
After defeating Minos for no reason other than it looks cool, Dumbass Crusader walks into Lust, where a phallic tower protrudes from the ground at the behest of a giant naked empress demon. As he climbs the phallic tower, Dumbass Crusader has to face the giant naked demon empress and the evil demon babies that spurt from her nipples (if you think I'm kidding, I'm not). After setting her breasts on fire Dumbass Crusader climbs to the top of the phallic tower and faces giant naked empress demon and her boyfriend and their evil demon nipple babies and prostitutes with cobras spurting out of their crotches. Dumbass Crusader kills giant naked empress demon's boyfriend and giant naked empress demon becomes normal sized and tries to have sex with Dumbass Crusader, who stabs her to death.
Dumbass Crusader moves on into Gluttony, where a giant three-headed man-eating worm called Cerberus is fought and killed. Dumbass Crusader sees wife taken away by Satan again and goes through a mirror place.
Dumbass Crusader then goes through Greed, where he meets and kills his daddy.
Dumbass Crusader goes into wrath, where nothing interesting happens.
Dumbass Crusader then goes into Heresy, which is a big city full of flaming rooms.
Dumbass Crusader goes into Violence, which is unbelievably short until you get to Suicide where his dead mother has turned into a tree and tries to kill him for a minute before getting weepy.
Dumbass Crusader goes into Fraud, which is set up into stages (Hell apparently has arena battles). At the end of Fraud his wife sees a cross and goes to Heaven.
Dumbass Crusader finally gets into Treason, which is a quick walk over fragile ice and a fall into Lucifer's place.
Dumbass Crusader finds out that, in addition to sentencing his wife to eternal damnation, he also freed Satan, who he now needs to defeat. So he does. Then Satan opens up his stomach and Lil' Satan pops out, sporting his dingdong and making a speech about the end of goodness in the universe. Dumbass Crusader defeats Dingdong Satan. Dingdong Satan makes another speech about how much God sucks and how the universe will soon be his, then Dumbass Crusader pulls out a cross and uses thousands of souls to trap Satan back into the ice because that obviously could not have been done beforehand.
Dumbass Crusader then wakes up in Purgatory, completely naked, tears off his cross chest cloth and the cloth turns into a chuckling snake.
By the way, Dumbass Crusader was dead the whole time, making M. Night. Shymalan giggle with glee.
(Not the good kind)
"Take biology, Aethan! Biology's awesome, Aethan! It's so fun and interesting, Aethan! Easy A, Aethan!"
No wonder Richard Dawkins is an atheist. I'd be pissed at God too if I majored in this BS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu6R_0XswBA
Watch from 1:55 onward if you want to see the funny parts.
Well, I finally read J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. One thing with this book, you really do either love it or hate it, and there are a lot of people on both sides of the fence. To be honest, I only read it to see what my opinion on it would be.
It's annoying as hell. Until the end. Then the rest of it is put into a weird perspective and I found myself enjoying it a lot. I'm not sure I get all the "big themes" in the book, but I still liked it.
I'll be reading The Name of the Wind next.
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. -- Colossians 1:15-25
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. -- John 1:2-5
"The gates of Hell are locked from the inside."
I'm a panentheist. The word comes from the Greek "pan," meaning "all," "en," meaning "in," and "theos," meaning "God." So "panenetheism" literally means "all is in God," or, "God is in all things."
There's a distinct difference between this and pantheism. "Pantheism" means "all is God." In pantheism, I'm God, you're God, the neighbor's pet dog, Rufus, the one that peed on your shoes, is God. God and nature are synonymous in pantheism; in panentheism God is greater than nature.
The meaning of life is simple: all of nature is within God and desires to be with God. That is the purpose of existence. We live so that we can become as close to God as possible and then finally be with Him when we die, inseparable from the ultimate goodness to which we all desire.
So what is Hell in this picture? That, too, is simple: Hell is the permanent separation from God, the ultimate denial of the one thing for which we exist.
People often say that Hell is more interesting. There'll be cool people in Hell, who'll want to party or talk about how much religion stinks or whatever. I think these people are correct.
As the book says: I think they do, in fact, serve beer in Hell.
I think Hell has the party drugs and all the sex you could ever want. I think Hell is inhabited by some brilliant people with a lot to say: philosophers (Nietzsche, for instance), scientists, artists, musicians, patriots, familymen. In fact, I think Hell looks similar to Earth.
All of these people in Hell will be what they were in life: searching for meaning and finding hollow uselessness. The philosophers will be speculating on the absence of morality or the constant dwindling of the intelligence of humanity; the scientists will be chalking up existence to the interaction of molecules and atoms and subatomic particles; the artists will be trying to paint their reflections to no avail; the musicians will conduct a symphony that will never hit the right note; the patriots will boast about their country and their accomplishments while ignoring their faults; and the familymen will ignore it all for the sake of their relatives, who may or may not even be with them. They will look for meaning in all of these things but will never find it because they are separated from the very thing that gives them meaning in the first place.
I do not think this needs to be permanent. If Hell is for those who want meaning separate from God (and thus is without meaning) then I think some people, even in Hell, can recognize this.
In the Book of Job, God favors him because of his faith and Job is prosperous. Satan comes around and says to God, "He's only faithful because of his prosperity; were he desolate, he'd have no faith." So God permits Satan to take away everything Job ever found meaning in, including his family, property and land, and when Job cries out for these things ("What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.") God comes down and says "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?" And Job, realizing that his despair in things and even his family caused him to reject what gave his things and his family any reason to despair in the first place, was rewarded a hundredfold what he lost.
I think people in Hell are like Job after they have lost everything of meaning--which means they can reclaim it and more beyond their imagination. But like Job, they'd have to first give up everything they have, and for the people in Hell, that would be harder than anything else, and they won't want to do this. Jesus says in Matthew 10: Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The ones who don't will stay in Hell, surrounded by false happiness and hollow pleasure, completely separated from the very thing they look for. They will find their lives. And, being separated from God, they won't even be themselves; if all is in God then to be separate from God would have to change what you are, your very essence.
This is the fire and brimstone and suffering of Hell. Never being what you are, trying to find what you are in false promises and hollow truths, and looking for meaning where it will never be found is the worst fate imaginable even for people who think they're perfectly happy as they are.
CliffsNotes version: Hell is populated by people looking for happiness and apart from God, even though God is what gives something happiness and meaning in the first place, resulting in a hollow, meaningless void.
My school is offering free shots today, so I went and got one. Already I can feel the government's secret mind-control formula working deep within my bowels. . .
*Fart*
I entered my profile and what do I see? A webpage eight miles long due to people My Feed doing so much stuff that it stretches on and on and on and on and on and on and on. . . . .
Stop doing stuff. :cry:
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