Date: Jan 30, 2008
Weight: 198 pounds
Song: Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Part 2
We're back to -2 today which is good but there are some bogey holes ahead. I was a bit surprised given how many bacon chocolate chip cookies I ate yesterday, but I suppose it's all noise in the short term. It won't be until we see the first 18X reading that we'll know we're on the right track.
On a typical icy Vancouver day recently, a friend of mine was wondering why on earth women would ever wear heels, given their obvious shortcomings on troubled terrain, and presented it in the "This thing other people do is obviously retarded so why do people do retarded things?" format. I get uneasy at this because I always try to make it a point of actually understanding why people do other things. For example I heard another friend completely baffled at the concept of professional sports. It wasn't that they weren't a fan (which is fair enough I suppose) - but they honestly COULD NOT understand why anyone else would ever care about something so clearly pointless.
Should I answer these questions? It's probably a waste - but anyways, just remember that heels are NOT really about practicality - they're about esthetics, beauty, and fashion, and their "non-usefulness" is sort of the point. As for sports? Well - for the most part guys like competing and doing exercise (and hunting and killing things). But if you're not doing it, then it's worthwhile to study others doing it - especially those who do it better than anyone else. This is why it's easy to watch the "best athletes" play hockey, but watching some losers skate around is boring. Cause you're not really learning anything.
Anyways. Lots of people have different values. Some of those values and priorities are different than yours. Try to take a second to imagine why they think that way, rather than assuming they are simply not seeing "your world view".
Along those lines, I've been pondering why people get into religion. Are you dealing with tough questions? Of course you are, and we have easy answers! Come to our ten week course and we'll show you how you to live! And even if you don't like it, you'll meet interesting people with lots of the same questions you have so you won't feel alone, and you'll probably make some friends. And what we speak of can't be crazy, or why else would billions of other people believe it too?
So I do understand why people get religion. But that doesn't mean I believe any of it.
