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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
lachrymal_cloud
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11:24a
HM Revenue and Customs and a plague upon my purse strings
So the bastards in the tax office have just charged me an extra £34.90 for some frigging clothes from the US of A >_> Cunts. As if it wasn't enough that they took tax out of every other thing I buy or earn in this life time. VERY VERY BITTER!
What was MORE annoying is the lady on the UPS phone line tried to help by giving me a number I could call to queery my charges, but the woman on THAT phone line point blank said No there was nothing that could be done. On top of this, if I DIDN'T pay the charges, UPS would send the parcel BACK to the sender and I'd have to pay MORE charges for that on top of the items original price itself or something insane .... So I just forked out the £34.90 in the end....
WHICH MEANT I've had to extend my overdraft YET again, so as to be able to last until I get paid over Christmas. I do NOT like being in this much debt. Work better give me lots of juicy shifts over the holidays. I think I'll have to get a job next semester. I can't keep going into the red like this.
Bloody recession. Bloody HM Revenue and Customs. Bloody expensive everythings.
It snowed this morning ... albeit very lightly and pathetically ... but snow is still snow and along with my advent calendar I feel quite festive .... And now back to coursework.
Here's a tasty treat for the rest of you ... Full length Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Trailer.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEJ9iPOSplPANN
5th of March it's released. WE ARE SEEING THIS FOR MY BIRTHDAY!
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
nymphwithaknife
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5:13p
"Nothing more clearly shows that atheism belongs to religious belief, as the candlesnuffer does to the candle, than the rise of the so-called "new atheism."
Atheism is structurally related to the belief it negates, and is necessarily a kind of rival belief; indifferent agnosticism would be a truer liberation. For Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, the God most worth fighting against seems to be a hybrid of a cheaply understood Old Testament, a prejudicially scanned Koran, and the sentimentalities of contemporary evangelicalism. [...] This God is not very Judaic, or very philosophical: He is not the bodiless and indescribable entity that Maimonides or Thomas Aquinas ceaselessly circumnavigates. [...] Nor is he the Buddha."
Darwinism is presumed to invalidate any religious belief, despite Stephen Jay Gould's concession that "either half my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs." (As the non-believing son of an academic zoologist who became a priest, and practiced both professions, I am inclined to think Gould had a point.)
Since belief in God is clearly madness or weakness, the new atheists must scrabble around for quasi-biological explanations of this stubborn malady. [...] What is intended to be an insult to the varieties of religious experience is also an unintended insult to the varieties of secular experience."
"Eagleton's "Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate", attacks the new atheism as a kind of secular counter-fundamentalism, reserving special scorn for its unrefined notion of God - "the primitive, Phillip Pullman-like view of those who cannot wean themselves off the idea of God as Big Daddy." "
"Thomas Aquinas... "did not see God the Creator as some kind of mega-manufacturer or cosmic chief executive officer, as the Richard Dawkin's school of nineteenth-century liberal rationalism tends to imagine." He is what Aquinas calls "the First Efficient Cause of things." He is not even what we imagine as the Genesis Creator, because Aquinas thought that it did not particularly matter in what order God created things. But this bodiless entity outside our universe sustains our existence; He is, in Eagleton's words, "the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever. Not being any sort of entity himself, however, he is not to be reckoned up alongside these things, any more than my envy and my left foot constitute a pair of objects." Accordingly, Aquinas believed that we can talk about God only indirectly, through analogy."
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
lachrymal_cloud
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6:03p
randoms
Today has been interesting!
A man asked me to marry him on the bus this morning. He first asked me to sit next to him, but seeing the can of Stella in his hand I declined, then he asked me to marry him, to which I declined again. He then threw up his arms and cried "WHY WONT ANY ONE mARRY ME?! I JUST WANT A WIFE! I WANT TO GET MARRIED? WHY WONT ANY ONE MARRY A ONE ARMED MAN?"
I found this slightly odd as he had both his arms (admittedly one was in a sling but seemed mobile). He then continued to harass every female who passed through the bus doors to marry him.
There are a lot of oddballs every where at the moment. Yesterday a young lad (I think he was a little disturbed) started yelling in people's faces on the bus, then tried to stroke my arm. Then later there were 2 old men talking loudly about a girl near them wearing a long dark coat . Their conversation went something like this!
Man 1:"I don't like the looks o'her! She looks like she's out teh get me.... Reckon she's from the FBI or something. WELL IM NOT GOING!"
Man 2: ""Just ignore her, she'll go away ....are you ready to get off?"
Man 1: "yes" *stands in the door way staring blanly at something as the doors open and man 2 walks out ..... and then walks back in again when man 1 doesnt follow and they continue to grunt and grumble until the next stop*
And then we did a walk today for one of our lectures around Brick Lane and every time we stopped we'd get 1 or 2 hobos just coming to listen to our lecture and join our group. One of them declared loudly (obviously thinking it was a tour guide) "o0o she's not very good, I'd get your money back I would!"
ANYWAY Brick Lane smelt amazing. Been a while since I went down there but all the cooking/food/spices made a fantastic smell in the air.
My hands are cold so I'm going to leave it here and go be semi productive ... somehow
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
lachrymal_cloud
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4:14p
I feel incredibly low today.
Maybe it's because I've just handed in one part of a project so I feel like I don't have any thing urgent to do ... I dunno. I'm grumpy too. Also tried to go Christmas shopping in Angel and just couldn't handle it. Hate the public.
Might watch Harry Potter ....
I got this in my inbox .... think it should have gone to my junk mail .... what do you folk think?
(No Subject)
From: Mrs Claire Page (bob.place@bellnet.ca)
Medium riskYou may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: 10 December 2009 12:43:24
To:
I am Mrs Claire Page, I am currently sending you this mail from my sick bed in the hospital,I would want you to contact my lawyer;Email (curtisparkinson01@gala.net)"
that was it ...... weird.
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