A day in my life

I suppose this is some sort of diary...perhaps.  Well, I might as well try to put something in the least bit interesting on this site sense I am, how you say, not quite able to afford certain necesseties to put pictures here.

 

Thoughts

What's the difference between dying and falling in love?

 Love is a verb, not a noun. (I think I've heard that from somewhere, but where?)

The line between love and hate is strangely similar to that of bravery and stupidity.

I wonder if mankind's inventions are a product of our imagination or undying boredom...

 How did Charles Manson get those people to murder for him when he never lifted a finger?

Why must we fret over what we wear on dates so much? Simple. Just because we must!

Religion is just thoughts, emotions, creativity and insanity mixed with fear, anxiety and doubt to create something we fool ourselves to give us hope.

Love is overated.

 I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
--Albert Einstein 

 I wonder if my neo-pet will share its lunch...

Thought of the moment: You put the beer in the coconut and throw the can away I said "HOMER!" and you throw the can away I said "HOMER!" -Simpsons

Opinions. Some people say I have a lot to say...it's up to you if what I say is true...

Love/Hate

What is love? We fall in love and even the most sensible of people can find themselves acting in peculiar ways. It makes the wise dumb, the hawk blind and the sun cloud over.
I believe it is a process of dying. Actually, I find that we even go through the five stages of dying before an inevitable break up: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.
What is hate? We hate someone and we can think of nothing but that being. Of how we can humiliate, disgrace or put that person in such a state of depression that they kill themselves so we don't have to. Yes, we can think of nothing but revenge.
Why do I ask these two questions? Because people tend to think that love and hate are completely opposite emotions, when really they are so close to one another they could be family. Brother and sister perhaps, just to keep the notion that they are opposites, but related no less. Isn't it odd how you can love someone one moment and hate them the next? There is only a very thin line dividing these two emotions. A line I myself have crossed many a time in the past six months of my life.

Death

Death is many different things. It is life; it is change; it is love; it is growing up. From the moment we are conceived it is only a matter of time before we are torn from this world of dreams and fake realities.
Death is also a mystery. We do not know why we are here or what happens once we depart, but we do know that we are here for a short time and that we must accomplish what we can within a limit. For ages it has been feared by man, perhaps because it is proof we are not the immortal beings we sometimes consider ourselves to be.
As my brother Stephen asked in a poem of his own, why fear what cannot be stopped? I admit that he has a good point.
Myself, I no longer live in fear of death. After my boyfriend broke up with me, I died, metaphorically speaking. It is just a new adventure to embark upon, a way of waking up even. However, I am not yet overly keen on setting out for this adventure and finally waking up.

Friend To Ex

What are friends but people that at the moment are not your enemies? How often has it been that people who were once best friends have gotten into an argument over quite a petty thing and become enemies who's goal in life is to give them dirty looks in the halls or talk behind their backs?
How often has it been that people fall in love with their best friend? I believe that it has been too often. Having experience in this topic, I believe that loving your best friend is the biggest mistake a person could make. It ruins the friendship. Of course, there are people who can date, kiss, and even make love to their best friend, end the relationship, and be just friends afterwards, but not while they're teens. 
      

Hate

I used to ignore hate. There was a time when I was afraid to hate someone because I didn't want to have to deal with an emotion that was so strong.
I still don't want to have to deal with such an emotion, but I will not ignore it anymore.
Hate is an emotion of complete detest towards something living or inanimate. Every human on this planet will hate something. Even Jesus hated his apostles for not believing in him or the word of God, even if it was only for a short time.
Hate is just another one of those things that makes life exciting, different, and hell.
Don't you just love it?

Religion

I don't believe the devil lives in Hell, but I also don't believe God created the Earth and heavens in seven days. Satan is amongst us, within us, just as God is. They do not live amid the stars or within a mass of fire and brimstone, but here on Earth.
I think religion is just mankind's explanation for things that the living should not and will not know; that it gives us a reason as to why we do things considered bad or good.
Religion is just a way to scare children and make them civilized residents of society. To make them productive workers so we can speed up the process of destroying all that we have worked so hard to accomplish.
I believe religion is bull****, but perhaps a necessary kind.

Death, Depression, and Being Alone

What is the difference between death, depression, and being alone? All three are connected in a web that never ends, just like the snake that eats its own tail.
We die, which can lead to depression and/or being alone, or being alone can result in depression and death, or depression can lead to being alone or death. It never ends.
However, these are all different stages in human growth and development, and as so are very important in building character.
Of course, I don't exactly like what they are doing to me at the moment.

 

Religion Quotes

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
--Marion Woodman Canadian analyst, writer

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
--James Michener

Thinking back over my life, it seems to me that there are different ways of looking out and trying to understand the world around us. There's a very clear scientific window. And it does enable us to understand an awful lot about what's out there. There's another window, it's the window through which the wise men, the holy men, the masters, of the different and great religions look as they try to understand the meaning in the world. My own preference is the window of the mystic.
--Jane Goodal Reason for Hope

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
--Albert Einstein

There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion
--Albert Einstein

My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
--Dalai Llama

Superstition is religion that has grown incongruous with intelligence.
--John Tyndall (1820-1893)

Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
--The Dalai Lama

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
--G. K. Chesterton

Religion altars the mind.
--Tony Follari Comedian

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
--Thomas Szasz, M.D.

Past Debates

Monday August 18-20, 2003 Me vs. Emily on Religion

Earlier this week I received a little note from my close friend Emily in my guestbook saying that she was offended (at least, that's what I got from it) by some of the content on this page about religion. I responded by putting a little note on my page that my concepts on religion are just that: ideas I have in my little head. She signed my guestbook again with this: Date: Mon Aug 18 15:50:20 EDT 2003
"yesunns i know its ur opino lol .... and its like this those who belive are not afaid and those who dont are affraid .... plain & simple" Well...

*Emily, I have a question for you...what are non believers afraid of? I'm using all my will-power to restrain myself from starting a debate because you are my friend, but I simply want to know. What am I afraid of? (Note: No, I'm not mad at you Em, if you're wondering. It's just that my opinion means nothing if I can't back up what I mean. Think maybe I'd be good in debate club.)

Emily has given me a response! Tue Aug 19 09:33:49 EDT 2003
hello karen .. i dont want to start a fight either ... but this is fun ! ok, non believers, i dont think they're afraid of anything ... well i do, maybe some are, but they just don't want to believe.... Or maybe it's something that happened in they're past that wasn't good (ex. a death , car accident ect..)and they can't 4give him. But i learned that that stuff happens 4 a reason ...... (karen , this is fun .. its like a debate .... no fighting)


Yes, it is like a debate, and it is fun. You have a point, perhaps some are afraid. I remember in Quebec after we all visited that church that the non believers were having slight freak-outs...I was one of them. Since then I have been somewhat afraid of it, but I really didn't appreciate how that house of hopeful prayers and pain made me feel. Another of your points is with the not being able to forgive. I have nothing to be mad at him about, but Marilyn Manson never quite forgave Jesus for that embarrasing moment in the school play (I wrote about it on my Manson page). But here is a quote from Mr. Manson: "It's not the one true god I hate, but the god of the people I've hated".