In your nick of the world, 2009 might’ve started hours ago, so I’d like to wish you a Happy 2009 before it’s too late! May many of your dreams come true in 2009! May the good days outnumber the bad days and may your life overall move toward the good life. To utilize peer pressure to my advantage, I thought I’d post my goals for 2009 publicly. Essentially, I have three goals: Continue working toward overcoming singlism and matrimania, both internalized and in society. Develop emotional freedom. Stop pouring energy into black holes. For the first goal, I will continue … Continue reading »
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Dec 272008
I love the song “Defying Gravity” from Wicked (number 6). Defying gravity is not some sort of metaphysical thing to me. I am not going to start flying around on a broom. To me the song symbolizes defying convention. I’m through with playing by the rules Of someone else’s game Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep It’s time to trust my instincts Close my eyes: and leap! I guess fear’s what’s keeping me grounded. What am I afraid of? It’s scary to fly without a safety net…
Dec 262008
I’ve been puzzling over the claim that Christmas is now largely a secular holiday ever since I first read it (I can’t recall where but here’s an example). Secular means “denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.” Clearly, Christmas has a religious basis. If it weren’t for the claim of the Catholic Church that Jesus was born on December 25th, there would not be a Christmas (there would be other holidays but not Christmas). It does not matter that they usurped other holidays to do that. It does not matter that Jesus was very … Continue reading »
Dec 222008
As I was checking out my phone bill, I noticed that Credo (one of the few progressive phone companies) has put up a survey to find out what people see as the 2009 priorities. I added this under “Other” and then selected it as one of my top 3 (keeping Obama honest and universal health care are the other two): Fight to end marital status discrimination by pushing for legislation that values ALL families, not just families with married couples (and their look alikes) but also single parent families, networks of chosen family and all the diversity we have. Let’s … Continue reading »
Reading Rick Warren’s position on marriage (see the section starting with “bottom line”), made me realize what I disagree with the most: That marriage is somehow better, more valuable, more deserving of rights than any other relationship. The key to my position on marriage is that marriage should not be elevated above all other relationships. There is nothing about marriage that makes it more special/healthy/important to society than other close relationships. Here’s my position on marriage currently, this is still evolving, so I expect my position to become clearer as I ponder this more: Marriage is only one way people … Continue reading »
Dec 172008
Obama has picked Rick Warren as the pastor to give the invocation (whatever that is) at the inauguration. Aside from wondering why a pastor has to be at the inauguration in the first place – after all there’s supposed to be a separation of religion and state in this country – this particular pastor pick is, well, it’s rather offensive. And not just to atheists (invocation is after all invoking god). It is basically offensive to most supporters of Obama: Rick Warren is, according to a quote in the HuffingtonPost article: “[...] is also very established in the religious right … Continue reading »
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