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Youngest kid of six with an inferiority and black sheep complex, but determined that God saves not just his soul to heaven but the remainder of his manic-depressive life, so others won't say he became a Christian and remained a jerk.
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On identity i won't be transparent before i'm opaque. and you'll get to know me starting from the small things: who my favourite bands are. what kind of movies i like. who are my heroes. On Christianity I’m convinced that when confronted with sincere, real love, the Jesus factor will become obvious. But let’s not plant the cross before we carry it. I’m not trying to con you. On dreams Some dreams are meant to be achieved. I know that. But maybe other dreams are meant to drive us, privately. Never known to anyone but ourselves.
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On melancholy It is a sadness that, when choosing between crying and sighing, will choose sighing. I'd almost say that melancholy is being sad about sadness itself. On memory and nostalgia It saddens me when life moves forward and people decide that certain things are worth forgetting. On language I've learnt that the word irregardless is filed as a non-standard word in the English language. That's a lexicographer's way of saying it's not a real word. On politics Crowds are fickle things. So when we stand in the thousands and cry against the present government, do we know who we're actually crying for? On society People always want the best for themselves. But I want to sometimes take second or third or fourth best, just so that the loser down the road doesn't always have to come in last. It must feel like shit to always come in last. On growing old Leasehold property make me feel sad. It doesn't matter how old the family photos are that you put on your wall. It's your family but it's not really your wall. On philosophy I ask you, if God loves everyone, and if God is also incapable of loving evil, how can there be such a thing as an evil man? On a daily basis One line quips, like this. CHAT
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
9-YEAR OLDS & THE DEGENERATION OF CIVILISATIONi used to hold the belief that society, culture and civilisation as a whole was on the decline, that humanity was becoming increasingly degenerate. you could say i had a linear worldview on the progress (and therefore regress) of mankind. then i grew up a little and i started to see that degenerate attitudes have always been around - that they were only expressed through different means. the greeks, the romans, the middle ages, the industrial revolution, maoism, and 21st century liberal americanisation. are they all so different from each other, if not just in content but not in value? bearing in mind, when i say value, i mean it in relation to biblical values. you always need to relate your values to something. so for a while, i had what you might call a cyclical worldview of humanity - it was all going round and round. liberal traits flourish and this is taken over by conservative trends, which will grip the people till new liberal explosons occur. fine. as i sit in this internet cafe surrounded by 9 year olds going "f you, you dumbass!!! f you!!!" as they play Counterstrike (or one of is permutations), i feel compelled to marry the two worldviews and say that the degeneration of humanity is spiralical - it is not like a cycle, it is like a spiral. yes, it's true that we seem to keep going in circles, visiting and revisiting eras or epochs of liberal and conservative trends interchangeably. but each time we revisit each of these (imagine the same point of a spiral, one spiral lower), it takes on a new shape, a new form. its attitudes are usually so markedly changed that you can't really equate it with the ways of the old. i consider 9 year olds yelling "f you!" to each other in broad daylight public the lowest point of my present generation. it is worse than the bag-snatching, car-park raping, street-side prostituting, family murdering nonsense that fills our newspapers. these are kids! it is not acceptable but this is the world as we know it. some days i really wake up to the world around me. i'm so insulated sometimes, with the chappys in Kidzone singing "Yes Jesus loves me", that these kids go into their marketplace, their tuitions and schools, facing a hate, anger, violence and coarseness proportionally worse than what we adults face. all around me is gunfire! all around me are kids! Labels: violence Genusfrog [
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