My Question:
What is healthy sexuality for unmarried adults?
I’m genuinely interested in different perspectives. Reply with your answer.
Print me out a new Pointe shoe please.
Perhaps I should grow up a bit.
Reality. I am not sure that I have ever desired that before. I think I have been afraid of what consequences reality might present. I would rather base my perception of reality on my own desires. I’m quite honest about my life and my beliefs, and that is convenient, for I can easily mistake my honesty for reality. I have allowed myself to assume that being honest about something means that I am not hiding anything and therefore I am being real. But one can be honest about having a dream without assuming that the dream is real. One can be honest about seeing a black smear on a piece of paper, but perhaps glasses would help to present the smear as actual text. So what does it mean to be real? I think ethics gets in the way. I feel that in order for something to be real, it must separate itself from ethics— something is not real based on the idea that it ought to be that way. Separating reality from shoulds and oughts is important. If I want to search for something of substance then I should not base my beliefs on what people WANT me to believe, just as I should not believe in something because that is what I WANT to believe in— I should not believe in something just because I find it congruent with my convenient perception of reality. I should remove feelings of all kinds from reality.
There is a place for ethics though; I do believe that if there is an ultimate reality then based on that reality certain beliefs and values would be more beneficial to follow than would others; hence, ethics follows reality— a concept that is easy to understand but hard to put to practice. Ultimately, I have realised that my reality on how things work and consequently what results from that reality has been based on what I have found to be convenient with the way in which I want to live. I have falsely based my reality around what morals I find are convenient as opposed to basing my morals and my beliefs around what is real (regardless of convenience). Reality is not always convenient.
Now, I find myself resisting this inconvenience, and yet, I am extremely unsatisfied with my life because I feel that it is not based entirely on actual substance. So I hope that by noticing this, I will find initiative to leave my comfort zone, and by doing so, grow up a bit in the process.
Grand Design and Game of Life
The Grand Design. Easy four hour read about Hawking’s view on the M-Theory. I found it to be a briefer-A Briefer History of Time with the addition of superstring and multiverse theories.
Last chapter talked about John Conway’s Game of Life. I started ‘playing’ it. It’s not a game and there is no real point but it’s so addicting. http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
I like the small exploder. :D
Caution: contents very hot
AstroDollar
My cup from Starbucks says:
“Every cup can make a difference. This paper cup from Starbucks Helped save more then 100,000 trees from being harvested last year.”
At first I pictured my little cup wearing a proportionally appropriate red cape with the words SUPER CUP floating directly above the lid. A bit of pride emerged at the thought that my single little cup saved more than 100,000 trees last year.
But then I thought about it…
Bullshit.
There are two ways to look this:
1. By switching to 10% post-consumer recycled fiber, my cup- along with all of the other millions of cups produced- cut down more than 100,000 less trees last year than what would have been cut down had Starbucks not switched to recycled fiber.
2. If the number 100,000 represents the ten percent of trees that were not harvested last year, then approximately 9 times that amount were demolished. This means that my little Starbucks cup helped in the massacre of more than 900,000 trees last year (because 90% of it’s make up is not recycled).
Lame.
Every cup can make a difference.
AstroDollar
How do you take your coffee?
Generally I take mine black, but today while I was sitting in AstroDollar- my ridiculous name for Starbucks- I thought about changing it up a bit and trying some drinks that two of my friends generally order.
The first drink was coffee with a lot of creme and three packets of sugar. I rate this one a 4 out of 10. Way too much sugar for me especially since I normally drink it black. It was almost undrinkable. Sorry friend.
The second drink was coffee with some creme and a packet of honey. I give this one an 8 out of 10. I liked it a lot more than the first one. I think this may be my new coffee of choice. :)
I love my new iPad! :D
(Source: youtube.com)
HELP PROMOTE MOMENTUM AND ORU
Recently one of my dances was entered in a contest on facebook. Which ever video gets the most facebook ‘likes’ goes on to compete in a national competition. Winner gets a documentary made about their studio. The dance is set to an ORU worship song- Carry Now from the Revolution CD. This is the only Christian dance in this secular competition, and ORU is now being represented in the secular dance community. Voting for this dance will not only help my christian dance studio, but it will also help to promote the gospel and ORU nationally to thousands of children. The facebook event page is http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=165520186835598. We are currently only about 20 ‘likes’ away from being in first place. Every vote counts. Voting ends this Monday night so it is urgent that the word gets out right away.
