Thoughts for the day

[cosmolinguist]

"The villain is the hero of his own story."

"Actions speak louder than words."

"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." --Romans 7:15

Comments

[foreverdawn.livejournal.com]

"The villain is the hero of his own story."

Exactly why the BEST stories have villains with great internal logic. They think what they are doing is for the best. They aren't just people going "I'm so EVIL!!!" *g*

[hephaestos.livejournal.com]

"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." --Romans 7:15

St. Paul was mentally disturbed.

[cosmolinguist]

I bet he considered it an occupational hazard.

[hephaestos.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine it would be an occupational hazard. :)

[photomoviegeek.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... Most people don't know that quote from Romans. The only reason I do is because at one time (actually two separate times) during my college career I was "born again"/"saved"/better than everyone else. That verse was used to justify extreme mind/self control (by others) and to create an incredible guilt impetus for feeling normal young-person feelings, like lust or the urge to drink a little too much...beware the people that quote that verse to you...Unless you've found it yourself. Additional chatting on this topic is entirely possible & welcome.

[cosmolinguist]

Oh, don't worry; I thought of it myself. I know the verse because I used to really like reading Romans.

I was raised Catholic, but, despite that, by the time I was a teenager I actually read the Bible, made up my own prayers as I went along, asked questions, and did other terribly subversive things. I basically succumbed to the rituals of it to please my dad. I've had one or two experiences that are sort of like "being saved," but of the less extreme kind: I didn't buy into the idea that I was better than everybody else. I didn't buy into lots of things, actually, and do even less so now (I'm pro-choice and all for birth-control and I have been known to assert that monogamy is overrated ... ).

I retain a lingering fondness for Christianity, but I don't worry about it too much. I put the verse here just because it's the best way I know of to express that kind of frustration with oneself ... which I happened to be wallowing in that day.

[photomoviegeek.livejournal.com]

Rock on! " (I'm pro-choice and all for birth-control and I have been known to assert that monogamy is overrated ... )." I also think monogamy is over-rated, limiting, and sometimes boring; However, I don't know what that has to do with your pajama pants...

This is a tough area to live in for pro-choice pro-birth control )almost typed "birth-console") & quasi-monogamous people. Guess I'd be a little better off at UMM, with more people around close to my age...

[cosmolinguist]

It took me a second to figure out why you thought monogamy was related to my pajamas, but then I remembered writing about how I couldn't chose between putting on my pajamas and watching The West Wing, so I took both! I do not think that one should have to choose one love, or even one at a time! :-)

But really, I brought up monogamy when talking about that because I saw an opportunity to be silly, even if it was in an inside-joke kind of way because only one person would get it. I have a friend who was, at that time, giving me reason to keep saying that it makes sense to me for her to really love two people, in two different ways, at one time.

I myself have been perfectly monogamous in my relationships--all two of them, so far--so I'm not saying this to justify anything that I do, I just think it's silly to limit love to one person, necessarily. Or even one person at a time. :-)

Anyway ... sick of my rambling yet? :-)