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Monday, January 23, 2006

HTML, pffft

More like H-T-M-crap.

I wish I spoke computer languages.

I wish I spoke more than one language.

I wish I spoke English.

I wish I would speak.

I wish I could shut up.

I wish the person others see and the person I am were the same.

You can't always get what you want... but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.

The world is full of fools and performers.

More and more frequently... you know. You know.

Why must love and love conflict? Why break a heart? Better safe than sorry, I say. Stay solid. Keep your chin up, kid.

I'm angry that beauty is intrinsically valuable, and people are loved for their physical beauty, and whose choice was it? Tell me an answer to THAT. Why would God make some people more intrinsically valuable than others? WHY? Why did some of us just sort of miss out arbitrarily? Are we not good enough? Perhaps we couldn't be trusted with the challenges that accompany great beauty, and God entrusted it to stronger, wiser souls than ours? Or perhaps its a scaled-down version of Calvinism: the elect get beauty, and the rest are screwed. I don't understand. I don't know why I have to hurt inside for something that shouldn't matter because it wasn't my choice.
But people hurt all the time because of things outside of their control, right? The important thing is to trust God. But I just want to question him until he gives me an answer about this whole beauty thing. WHY? What is beauty and why do some people have it and others don't? And what about inner beauty? Beauty of spirit and character? HUH?
Something about fallenness... we more easily recognize tangible sins because our perspective is based on embodiment. So we think that sins of the flesh are worse than sins of the mind, and beauty of the flesh is better than beauty of the heart. Ok, that makes sense.
I wish, then, that I were blind.
No, that's taking the easy way out. To take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them...

3 Comments:

  • Though it had little to do with HTML or any other compuer.. uh... thing, I appreciated your honesty. And also I don't think you should measure yourself against Hollywood's standards becuase its not what we good guys care about. Its true that men are visual but you are not handicapped in that department. What I see and what most guys I know see is not simply a product of genetic "favorability". Your actions, intelligence, and especially mysteriousness (read Wild at Heart or Captivating) alter what we see.

    By Blogger URBWes, at 8:12 PM  

  • So I won't argue with you that outward appearance makes a difference. But no one is the same inside so your example is flawed.

    By Blogger URBWes, at 5:46 PM  

  • I thought you might like to know that I check your blog almost every day. Keep 'em coming.

    By Blogger URBWes, at 5:41 PM  

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