The diet. Day 1.
Sep. 6th, 2006 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberreinigerI have returned from the store with many vegetables, fat-free and sugar-free condiments, and lean meat which Mel assures me she will somehow turn into food. I have faith in my beloved's alchemy, but still fear the sheer magnitude of power that must be invested to make this transmutation take place.
Shopping today has taught me so much I didn't know. How long has there been more than one kind of parsley? Cabbage seems like a bargain at fifty-nine cents a pound until you pick one up and discover that your average single head of cabbage has a density roughly equivalent to your average white dwarf star.
I forgot the avocado.
My unmotivated co-worker who found a better job before me finished out his two weeks Monday night. Last night in his place they gave me the co-worker I call Spummy. For those who do not remember or were not around for Spummy, I don't feel like explaining him all over again, but he's a piece of work. Last night's topic on the Spummy Listens To Himself Talk While Everyone Else Ignores Him show was how everybody who believes in any religion is a fool incapable of critical, analytical thought. He bragged about how he basically bullied the poor 19 year-old seminary student who works there (and is really the sweetest, friendliest kid you could hope to meet,) asking him all these questions about contradictions in the Bible that he couldn't answer.
Whether the Bible is self-contradictory or not isn't the issue. The issue is that Spummy is a bully who thinks he's an intellectual colossus because he can talk circles around some poor young kid only just beginning to learn about theology, semiotics, hermaneutics, and the like. Spummy, btw, likes to try and confuse people by not letting them talk and by changing topics every few seconds. He's also a skinny sixty year-old man who looks like Mr. Whipple from the old bathroom tissue commercials.
Spummy repeatedly asserted to me that he is more rational than most people, that most people are not rational at all. But he is. Well Spummy, the Bible may have its share of contradictions, but there's one little gem in it that I don't recall getting shot down anyhwere else in the text at all, and that's Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. But I'm sure Spummy can shoot it down, him being rational and all.
I just kept my mouth shut and didn't say anything, though. Just sat there and played Kingdom of Loathing, making it as apparent as I could that I had no interest in anything he was talking about. My thoughts on religion tend to anger people no matter what they believe in, and I was honestly just too tired for it at that time of night.
Hopefully next week someone more permanent and less... Spummy... will be filling the position.
Shopping today has taught me so much I didn't know. How long has there been more than one kind of parsley? Cabbage seems like a bargain at fifty-nine cents a pound until you pick one up and discover that your average single head of cabbage has a density roughly equivalent to your average white dwarf star.
I forgot the avocado.
My unmotivated co-worker who found a better job before me finished out his two weeks Monday night. Last night in his place they gave me the co-worker I call Spummy. For those who do not remember or were not around for Spummy, I don't feel like explaining him all over again, but he's a piece of work. Last night's topic on the Spummy Listens To Himself Talk While Everyone Else Ignores Him show was how everybody who believes in any religion is a fool incapable of critical, analytical thought. He bragged about how he basically bullied the poor 19 year-old seminary student who works there (and is really the sweetest, friendliest kid you could hope to meet,) asking him all these questions about contradictions in the Bible that he couldn't answer.
Whether the Bible is self-contradictory or not isn't the issue. The issue is that Spummy is a bully who thinks he's an intellectual colossus because he can talk circles around some poor young kid only just beginning to learn about theology, semiotics, hermaneutics, and the like. Spummy, btw, likes to try and confuse people by not letting them talk and by changing topics every few seconds. He's also a skinny sixty year-old man who looks like Mr. Whipple from the old bathroom tissue commercials.
Spummy repeatedly asserted to me that he is more rational than most people, that most people are not rational at all. But he is. Well Spummy, the Bible may have its share of contradictions, but there's one little gem in it that I don't recall getting shot down anyhwere else in the text at all, and that's Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. But I'm sure Spummy can shoot it down, him being rational and all.
I just kept my mouth shut and didn't say anything, though. Just sat there and played Kingdom of Loathing, making it as apparent as I could that I had no interest in anything he was talking about. My thoughts on religion tend to anger people no matter what they believe in, and I was honestly just too tired for it at that time of night.
Hopefully next week someone more permanent and less... Spummy... will be filling the position.
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Date: 2006-09-06 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:03 pm (UTC)Go you, I think I'd be incapable of keeping my mouth shut.
And booh for forgetting the avocado! :P
As for difficulties in shopping, I used to tell my students the US was too advanced for me. A number of kinds of tomato sauce that scores in the double digits? Insane and terribly inconvenient, the amount of time one spends trying to decide is just too much ;)
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Date: 2006-09-06 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 03:14 pm (UTC)Its a good thing you forgot the avocado. Avocados are directly linked with Satan, so you barely escaped that one!
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Date: 2006-09-07 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 02:02 am (UTC)I dont care what religion you believe in. Having faith in SOMETHING is very important, I think. Somehow, I think my father is the fool in this area...
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Date: 2006-09-07 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 02:23 am (UTC)And that food sounds yummy. I LOVE eating stuff like that. Especially the avacados. Another thing I haven't eaten in a long time (and really should just go buy) is an artichoke.
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Date: 2006-09-07 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 05:26 am (UTC)Couldn't resist...
Date: 2006-09-07 06:52 am (UTC)-The Dalai Lama
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