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| i need to find some way to stay motivated to write on xanga...
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| ben: "i feel ashamed now"
connor: "why?"
ben: "well i haven't killed as much people as i should."
in reference to ben's zombie-killing x-box video game. hilarious
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| life is beautiful, the things it throws at you when you least expect it. one day you're stomach is upside down because you dropped your computer, breaking it, and the next day you're praising God because of something unexpected that He gave you.
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| what happens to us when we are deprived of our most necessary commodity...electricity.
the power has gone out here on campus due to severe wind, and it's been out for about twelve hours now. never mind my spoiling milk in the fridge though, because what's far more interesting is observing our behavior after our technological lifeline is taken from us. it seems as though something snaps, and we just go nutty. i don't mean just individually, but collectively. when you encounter a group of people (namely college students) who have no electricity, something strange will result. we exhibit odd, unexplainable, irrational behavior such as lighting fireworks, running around naked, and so forth. in interacting with others, people often seem to be on edge, not really present in the conversation. we enjoy the power outage, because it is an exciting adventure, but we long for it to come back. i'd love to do a sociological study on this anomaly.
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| as a christian, i do not use expletives such as 'jesus!', 'god-damn!' and so forth. the reason is not that i disagree with swearing (cuz i don't) but because someone's name deserves a matter of respect. i realize that the semantic range of uttering 'jesus!' or 'god-damnit!' has lost all association with the historical figure of jesus and the idea of God, but i still respect that the utterance itself involves a person or religion, so it demands respect. 'fuck' and 'shit' are arbitary words, so i have no problem with them. in fact, they are exactly the same word as 'frick' and 'shoot', just with a phoneme difference to make them appear different, thus more acceptable.
my question is, why do you think 'holy' is not taboo? we say 'holy shit' or 'holy crap,' which is an utterance involving religion. not only that, but holiness, alongside love, is the key tenet to christian religion. i think the answer is because it doesn't directly involve a name. but, it still has an extremely religious connotation. or, how about 'pete sake!', 'my gosh!' or 'bloody'?
if you think about it, most of the expletives we use come from christianity.
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