Tuesday, May 5, 2015

I recently found this band. They're pretty cool:


I gotta say, though: it's kinda hard to take the guy on the mixer seriously. I think he'd be much cooler if he just stood up straight the whole time, and let the drummer do the dancing... or maybe if he slung the mixer around his shoulder like a keytar so he could walk around with it.

... but I do really like DES. He has good taste in t-shirts.

My wedding is coming up quickly. I still have a lot to do to prepare. I have a few hours to spend on the internet, and I haven't blogged in a while.

I bought a bamboo shoot to grow in my apartment -- I'm pretty excited about it. I've wanted a pet ever since I got here, but I can't take care of anything that I might have to feed; these days I'm living at a copper mine every week Monday through Thursday. I wanted some life in my apartment -- something besides myself. I typically don't feel lonely there, but I do feel the absence of other life. I've never had a hard time entertaining myself alone, even when I was little, but I've never liked living alone either. I suppose I could have waited a little longer for Chowon, but I figure she'll want some life when I'm gone, too. Maybe after she gets here we can get a real pet.... I'm still gonna keep the bamboo. I'm naming it Charybdis, because they told me it grows in just water.

Only being home on the weekends also makes it difficult to plan my wedding. Last weekend, for example, I pretty much did wedding prep all day every day.

That leads me to my next point -- the conversation with the atheist. It is still as interesting as ever, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to respond to him. I don't know why, but I feel exhausted by it. Apart from my feelings, I'm beginning to understand why he believes the way he believes. I know exactly what I am going to say, and why I think he's wrong, but I can't bring myself to just sit down and type it. Also, he invited me to have a real-time chat with him sometime. I will be honest, I'm intimidated by it. I typically spend a lot of time considering the things that I put into type, and I'm not good at discussing these things in person.

I've had a lot of practice listening to my coworkers these days; maybe I can draw on some of that. Sometimes I offer my own opinion to my coworkers, but so far I've tried to do it only when they asked. In the case of the atheist, the entire purpose of the discussion will be for me to deliver my opinion and contrast it with his. I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

....

Maybe discussing it real-time is the best way to have our discussion. We're going over morality right now, so our typical point-for-point responses have been somewhat difficult, because our points sort-of blur together.

I'm usually pretty open with my closest friends. maybe I'll take some time to redefine him in my mind as a close friend, and schedule an interrupt to disassociate that qualifier at a future date. Eventually, I'd like to post the whole conversation here.

"God is either all-powerful or He is not."
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my pet!