January 2011
72 posts
Here's to another two months without the only...
Jess leaves me today. The build up to being sad is so much worse than the actual sadness.
Nine.
Two songs.
Again, the first two that come to mind.
1. Snow and Lights - Explosions in the Sky.
2. Caring is Creepy - The Shins.
Eight.
Three films.
Cutting this down to three is the most difficult task of my life so I’m just going to list the first ones that come to mind.
1. All of the Harry Potter films. In our house, we usually watch a minimum of one per week and we all basically know every single line to all of them.
2. The United States of Leland.
3. Garden State.
How to tell a real Harry Potter fan:
shortley:
They get mega pissed when someone badmouths Severus Snape.
Ughhhhh Deathly Hallows tattoo.. neck or wrist? Decisions, decisions.
I have one on my neck, its a good place for it because it’s nice and symmetrical :)
Seven.
Four books.
Cutting this list down was hard.
1. Harry Potter x 7
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Six
Five foods.
1. Anything of the fruit/vegetable variety.
2. Tea.
3. Sushi.
4. Olives.
5. Anything that my grandma makes.
Once, just once in my whole life I would like to go out in public with my girlfriend and hold her hand without old people looking at me as though I am going to hell, or disgusting males thinking I am doing it to try and turn them on. Just once, please.
I won’t be posting much until next week, I’m busy spending time with my girlfriend in the real world.
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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That student was Albert Einstein.
Brilliant.
Beautifully done.
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wow, this was really albert einstein? had no idea he if believed in anything at all. when stories become about real people don't they hit so much harder?
Five.
Six places I want to go.
1. London London London.
2. New York.
3. Ireland.
4. Paris.
5. Miami.
6. Tokyo.
Four.
Seven wants.
1. To be successful. Preferably in London.
2. To travel.
3. To have a family, and have the kind of relationship with my children as I do with my parents. In the very distant future, obviously.
4. To not have to deal with distance anymore.
5. Motivation.
6. Happiness.
7. To create something worth seeing.
Three.
Eight fears.
1. Losing those close to me.
2. Failing at life.
3. Cancer.
4. Growing old alone.
5. Driving my car off the Bingil Bay Bends.
6. Feet, although I guess that’s more of an inflated dislike.
7. Cartoon bears. Again, just an inflated dislike.
8. That guy that used to report the five o’clock news for channel ten. I had to leave the room every time it came on.
Two.
(I am just going to keep going because in a few days I will be way too distracted to continue)
Nine loves.
1. Family and friends.
2. Girlfriend.
3. My cat x 3.
4. Photographing/days filled with creating.
5. My job.
6. Comfortable silence.
7. Tea.
8. Bottom eyelashes.
9. Percy.
One.
Ten ‘secrets’.
1. I am only in Brisbane because I felt like I had to be. The chances of me dropping out of University and ditching to London at some point this year are scarily high. I have the money to survive, all I need to do is book a flight.
2. It actually breaks my heart a little knowing that I will probably have to leave the country to get married.
3. I think my cat is my...
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT TREAT RESPECT LIKE A CHORE
So right now I have a giant bottle of coke zero in my lap while watching Harry Potter and backing up my horribly crammed Macbook Pro. Jess gets here in less than a week. I’m so excited I could cry.
Tomorrow when I wake up I am going to go through my old clothes and donate the ones that I don’t wear to people affected by the flood.
I need change. If I don’t enjoy Uni as much as I did last year, this year, I’m throwing in the towel and moving to London.
Below are some photos of the flooding. These were taken in South Bank, which is a five minute walk from my house.
It amazes me
How ignorant the world is. I can not comprehend how someone can speak of the flooding in a way that implies that Brisbane, or Australia, ‘deserved it’. Australia donates so much money and offers their assistance to countries all around the world when it comes to natural disasters, and this is what we get in return?
People Need Your Help
jakehollywood:
You can donate to the flood relief here. http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html Please repost this and spread the word guys :)
Apparently our closest RSPCA is about to go underwater. I want to take in a cat but I can’t get onto them. I feel so terrible for all the animals affected by this, it makes me so angry that they aren’t accomodating for pets anywhere that people have to evacuate to. Even if they had to keep them in little cages, it’s inhumane as all shit but atleast they wouldn’t be left...
So Brisbane is supposed to be flooding today. It’s kind of funny how insane everyone here goes when they hear this considering in Mission we will get warning for a category five cyclone and everyones just like ‘ha, okay’.
On saying that though, they probably have good reason to go insane due to Brisbane being built so terribly. My housemates and I should hopefully be fine when...
I cannot sleep.
1. What is your full name?
Hayley Rose McGill.
2. Do you have any hatred for anything bottled up?
So much. I am terrible at confrontation.
3. What is your favourite brand of toothpaste?
I use colgate.
4. Do you have a Facebook?
I do.
5. Do you have a Myspace?
Yes, it has not been used in several years though.
6. Honestly, is your room a wreck right now?
Not entirely. It does need...
51. Have you ever stolen anything?
No.
52. Do you lie to your parents?
I cannot remember the last time I lied to either of them.
53. Do you like writing essays?
If the subject is interesting, but generally no.
54. Are you a “backstage” person or a “star perfomer” person?
Backstage.
55. Are you really rich?
Not particularly, I have worked hard for what I have.
56. How many people...
A little tired of stressing. Even when there’s nothing that I need to do, or nowhere that I need to be, I feel anxious as hell, always.
I am also really tired of people that lack a guilty conscious.
Today was a good day, things are finally sorting themselves out. Now I am going to go play pokemon on my dsi like the giant nerd that I am, and then go see a friend and chill for a while.
Also, I promise myself that tomorrow I am going to clean my room and back up my laptop.