Rant: I hate how religious my parents are sometimes.
My sister was home recently for Thanksgiving, talking about getting cards for friends for the holidays that WEREN'T religious, and my dad asked why anyone needed non-religious cards, when she pointed out that she had non-christian friends and non-practicing christian friends, my dad said "Why not get religious cards to remind your non-practicing friends what Christmas is about?"...I had to resist the urge to blurt out: "You mean terrorizing the Pegan's and stealing their holidays so that you could "convert the heathens and make the world a better place"?", which would have most certinally gotten me disowned.
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Damned women and their emotions! -FireAza
"Luck is a word the ignorant use to define their ignorance. They are blind to the patters of force that drive the universe, and they name their blindness science, or clearheadedness, or pragmatism; when they stumble into walls or fall off cliffs, they name their clumsiness luck." - Tan'elKoth in Blade of Tyshalle
While you're correct to some extent, it's important to note that the birth of christ was always celebrated long before it was officially placed on Dec. 25th. So it's not like it's just made up or something."You mean terrorizing the Pegan's and stealing their holidays so that you could "convert the heathens and make the world a better place"?", which would have most certinally gotten me disowned.
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No, but Christmas it was put at a very historically inaccurate date (way far from when the Roman Census would be!) for a reason, too.
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So? The Catholic church has a long history of co-opting the customs and major holidays of the non-Catholics they were trying to convert. Easter didn't always involve a bunny, and eggs had nothing to do with it. Same for Christmas being on Dec 25. So what? That was many centuries ago (millenia even?) and doesn't really change anything, and is NOT what "Christmas is about" even if you ask some angst-ridden teen and self-important hippie about it.
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Rant: Had my back window busted visiting the same person that I was visiting when I had the truck towed last week. I have a suspicion somebody that lives over there has it in for me...
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Re: Rantettes & Ravettes Part Dos
Urgh. I was uploading instructions from about 20 different webpages on how to write 20 kanji, and the Internet was very slow because it's wireless and I'm in a metropolitan area. It took an hour to get the first four up, after which I lost the data reconnecting, through which I knocked a few other nearby people from the Internet, probably, and after I'm on my seventeenth, it gets incredibly slow again, so I go over and find my father using the Internet to cheat, e-mailing some woman from a singles line, and quickly he scrolls down as I pretend I'm going for the refridgerator.
I back here, unplug the wireless adapter and plug it back in, and the screen freezes up. I do Ctrl+Alt+Delete and get the blue screen of death. I press space, not wanting to lose my data, in the naive hope it'd stop being frozen shortly. Another screen comes up saying the system is busy or highly unstable. I press space again and the screen goes entirely black. My father gets up to cook biscuits. More than three hours have been gone at this point.
I live in a hotel with four other family members, and only four beds, two of which are made from inflatable mattresses or couch cushions, with zero floor space left over during the night. I homeschool, so I stay up the entire night, and they like to sleep with five layers of blanket over them, so they have the air conditioner on high cool, when it's 30 degrees Fahrenheit inside. I can, however, keep my hands warm by putting them on my easily overheated 1999 Compaq computer with the ME operating system and its wireless adapter.
My father is now looking over my shoulder as some sort of empty revenge. Also, my family isn't getting or giving anything for Christmas this year.
Except, I still have $25 left because I won it in a grades-based raffle in school about two years ago. I'm thinking toward buying a video game. Something that will last long, about fifty to sixty hours, that'd be mostly an "interactive storyline" type game. Having more cut scenes than gameplay isn't a problem for me. Any suggestions?
I know I sound like a LiveJournal user whenever I type here. I'd give my posts their own, topic, too, instead of putting them here, because they tend to be so large, but I don't because they always turn out so whiny...
I back here, unplug the wireless adapter and plug it back in, and the screen freezes up. I do Ctrl+Alt+Delete and get the blue screen of death. I press space, not wanting to lose my data, in the naive hope it'd stop being frozen shortly. Another screen comes up saying the system is busy or highly unstable. I press space again and the screen goes entirely black. My father gets up to cook biscuits. More than three hours have been gone at this point.
I live in a hotel with four other family members, and only four beds, two of which are made from inflatable mattresses or couch cushions, with zero floor space left over during the night. I homeschool, so I stay up the entire night, and they like to sleep with five layers of blanket over them, so they have the air conditioner on high cool, when it's 30 degrees Fahrenheit inside. I can, however, keep my hands warm by putting them on my easily overheated 1999 Compaq computer with the ME operating system and its wireless adapter.
My father is now looking over my shoulder as some sort of empty revenge. Also, my family isn't getting or giving anything for Christmas this year.
Except, I still have $25 left because I won it in a grades-based raffle in school about two years ago. I'm thinking toward buying a video game. Something that will last long, about fifty to sixty hours, that'd be mostly an "interactive storyline" type game. Having more cut scenes than gameplay isn't a problem for me. Any suggestions?
I know I sound like a LiveJournal user whenever I type here. I'd give my posts their own, topic, too, instead of putting them here, because they tend to be so large, but I don't because they always turn out so whiny...
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Thanks for making my day a little less enjoyable. 
I dunno, I suppose some type of lengthy RPG game is in order. Internet game or stand-alone?
I dunno, I suppose some type of lengthy RPG game is in order. Internet game or stand-alone?
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Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead. -- Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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Tasty Biscuit Toothpaste, check out this game right here. I've never played it, but it's supposed to be great, very much a story-line game. Gamespot gave it a 9.3. IGN gave it a 9.4. The price is right, and since it was released in '98, your '99 PC might be able to keep up.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. - Helen Rowland, A Guide to Men, 1922
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