Whatcha Thinkin Bout?
Does everyone else think they're "done"? Like, you're as good as you'll get? That you're as open-minded as you need/want to be? That you know enough about a big enough variety of things for life?
My great-grandmother used to say you should learn something new every day. I can't say that I do, though yesterday I read three books and the day before I learned that I like bbq'd shrimp on sticks, but I definitely think I have many more miles to go before I sleep.
Thank goodness I have my world map shower curtain to help me along on my path to learning new things. Maybe after I've learned where everything is located, I'll move on to the periodic table of elements shower curtain. Who needs school when you have shower curtains?
Growing up, my mother was constantly telling me to look things up. I hated looking things up, so I avoided it whenever possible. Now I question multiple things on a daily basis.
Just yesterday, I questioned Trixie about those Aryian Nation people. There were some on the Tyra show saying they "don't mind" other races aside from white existing, but they should all go back to the countries they belong in. As in, Tyra should "go back to" Africa, even though she personally, was born in California.
Anyway, these white power people were talking about this in relation to inter-racial relationships, and saying God didn't intend for people to mix races. My question is, if God didn't intend that, then why did s/he allow people to be able to be attracted to other races? Why wouldn't God have created people to only be attracted to those in their own race?
Trixie had no answer. Today I'm questioning why my brand new power cord is not working very well. What are you questioning these days?
My great-grandmother used to say you should learn something new every day. I can't say that I do, though yesterday I read three books and the day before I learned that I like bbq'd shrimp on sticks, but I definitely think I have many more miles to go before I sleep.
Thank goodness I have my world map shower curtain to help me along on my path to learning new things. Maybe after I've learned where everything is located, I'll move on to the periodic table of elements shower curtain. Who needs school when you have shower curtains?
Growing up, my mother was constantly telling me to look things up. I hated looking things up, so I avoided it whenever possible. Now I question multiple things on a daily basis.
Just yesterday, I questioned Trixie about those Aryian Nation people. There were some on the Tyra show saying they "don't mind" other races aside from white existing, but they should all go back to the countries they belong in. As in, Tyra should "go back to" Africa, even though she personally, was born in California.
Anyway, these white power people were talking about this in relation to inter-racial relationships, and saying God didn't intend for people to mix races. My question is, if God didn't intend that, then why did s/he allow people to be able to be attracted to other races? Why wouldn't God have created people to only be attracted to those in their own race?
Trixie had no answer. Today I'm questioning why my brand new power cord is not working very well. What are you questioning these days?
Labels: Ejumakashun, Potential Depth, Technical Difficulties
posted by Green at 8/23/2007 01:39:00 PM
11 Comments:
Why do I have to wait another year for SYTYCD to come back on?
Wow. My, haven't you become all ponderous - but in your usual witty way.
Katie
Questioning my sanity of course. Also questioning if it was a mistake to put two new people into this world.
How much I love the poetry of Robert Frost; thanks for the reminder.
I am wondering why a car company can make a fine-looking vehicle with such details like back seat head rests that flip down by the driver touching a button next to the steering wheel (handy for whapping bickering children in the head), Yet said company can't understand that SHITTY drink holders can cheapen the car down for me in about two seconds flat.
I seriously have more deep concerns these days but they only hurt my brain. I don't undertand skinheads either.
I don't think God meant for adults to be attracted to children either, yet pedophiles do exist.
Anon 6:39 that is a very good point. Kind of blows my thought out of the water. Clearly there is more thinking to be done on this subject (ending racism, not pedophilia).
I like the idea of learning something new everyday ... especially if it is on the shower curtain. I remember "back in the day" the little charts and educations graphs they had inside the traperkeepers. Those things are amazing. It's like nuggets of knowledge!
Actually, I've been wondering where I can get another world map shower curtain to replace the one I left in SD. (Buying a new shower curtain when I move is one frivolity I allow myself.) But now, of course, I can't find one. Where did you get yours?
I've been seeing ads for the latest episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the guys tell the girl that her new boyfriend is retarded. She says he isn't, but the seed of doubt was planted, so she asks him. He tells her that that's silly and she responds, "But would you even know if you were?"
Every time I've seen that this weekend, I've thought, yeah, that's what I think. You can swear you're not a bigot, but if you're deluded enough to think that race alone is enough to tell you all you need to know about a person, could I really trust you to be honest and self-aware enough to acknowledge it to me?
And also, at Dobbs the other day, I read an issue of Glamour(?) with a blurb about proposed laws against "multi-tasking" while driving. They had various quotes from women on the subject. One actually said that she was an excellent multi-tasking driver; she could put on makeup, eat, put a video in for the kids, talk on the phone.... But if she's doing all that, would she really notice all the times she swerved into the next lane, caused half a block of cars to miss a green light, or cut somebody off? She may think she's doing all these things, including the driving, well, but why would she not consider that those around her might have a slightly different opinion?
Also on racism - I grew up in a small town surrounded by other small towns where there just were not any black people. All I knew were white people. Like anywhere, I knew some truly nice, good-hearted, hard-working decent people, some rotten-to-the-core, lazy, stupid, mean assholes and lots of in-betweens. I always figured that if that was true of this little group of white, middle class, small town communities, it must be true of what I would find in big cities, in predominantly black communities, in the upper class, etc.
I'm still puzzled how other people around here who have had the same experiences and seem to be relatively intelligent have not made the same connection (I've been thinking about this since I was 8 - it's not like it's rocket science, for pete's sake!) and can still assume inferiority exists in skin pimentation.
The only explanation that I can come up with is that racism is a defense mechanism that some people use when they are extremely insecure about their own worth and place in the world.
Also, I'm pondering, if I'm going to type a freaking book, why didn't I just make this a post on my blog and link to you?
Plain(s), I got mine at Target. They might not have it at the store any longer, but try their website. And, happy moving!
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