ZEAL AND FURY

Almost committed this update to my teaching blog. That'll leave a positive impression on future employers and current peers and coworkers: saying "fuck you" to high school age kids.
Fortunately today's target is older. I think. Anyway we have some shit today so let's go to it.

How do memories influence the decisions you make? Is it better to embrace memories, even the painful ones, or cast them off?

I thought today's WB was interesting. I suppose the problem with this question is it implies embracing memories and casting them off are mutually exclusive things. I can embrace memory and then cast it off.
Personally I feel if you're right-thinking (like how that Buddha fellow outlined) you don't actually need to actively remember anything because the lesson is already committed to heart but whatever people are dumb and like to reinvent the wheel.

Memory hangs behind me like a pale moon in a sunny sky. How is it even possible to cast off the hungry ghosts of one's past?

Easy my friend. Easy.
Just gotta do like Al Green said: lay it down, let it go.

2 swords from Todaiji Temple identified as treasures that went missing 1,250 years ago

The giant Buddha statue under which the swords were found is pictured at Todaiji Temple in Nara on Oct. 25. (Mainichi)IKOMA, Nara -- An X-ray scan has revealed two swords from Nara's Todaiji Temple are the two treasures that went missing from the temple's treasure room 1,250 years ago.

I find it fascinating there are Christian Churches, Muslim Mosques and Buddhist Temples with weaponry in them.
I don't know much about the teachings of Jesus Christ but I'm almost positive he's quoted with saying "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
I know the Bible is often not very clear at all but I defy someone to come up with another interpretation of that line besides "don't fucking fight you idiots."
Buddha and Mohammad (despite not practicing what he preached) both said similar things too, so what the fuck?

The Vatican has issued a warning against an organization known as Opus Angelorum, Work of Angels. This is an interesting-sounding organization founded by a woman named Gabriele Bitterlich, who claimed to be in contact with, and actively invoking, angels fighting demons.

I'm also pretty sure Warhammer taught us using fell powers to fight fell powers is no excuse for making pacts with demonic forces.
Ask Gregor Eisenhorn about it.

What's the craziest thing you've ever done to impress someone? Did it work?

Can't even think of anything. I do what I want, man.

I cut off the last digit of the little finger on my left hand.

Hardcore, son. Probably didn't win any ladies with such a display but I'll give you some credit: you're more badass than I.

Oh, wait. That was William S. Burroughs. I often confuse the two of us.

Oh, well fuck your shit. You've set the bar high only to disappoint me.

A manuscript by Nehemiah Wallington describing the Rebeccah West witchcraft trial and the activities of John Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, is being digitized.

Always good bedtime reading.

If you wanted to have children and had trouble conceiving, would you be more likely to consider IVF, surrogacy, or adoption, and why?

I think it's God telling you not to have children.
Not really but that's what I'd tell everyone to believe.

Kidnapping. Although it removes the joy of the Oedipal ending, it does add the excitement of other risks.

What the fuck? Why would you say something like that?
I know he's trying to be edgy and funny but goddamn he just admitted to pedophilia, basically.
Also you fucking idiot if you'd read Oedipus Rex you'd know he was adopted. I know that's not kidnapping but the critical plot element here was he was not raised by his biological parents.
You know the oracle told him he's destined to kill his father and marry his mother so his parents leave him to die of exposure (common practice in those days)?
Then a woodcutter happened upon him and gave him to a nice family who couldn't conceive?
Then he catches wind of his oracle and leaves his family thinking they were his biological parents?
Oh fuck you read a goddamn book.

Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World?

If you were desperate and hopeless enough to log on to a suicide chat room in recent years, there was a good chance a mysterious woman named Li Dao would find you, befriend you, and gently urge you to take your own life.

Am I reading the plot to a psychological thriller?
A bad one, that is.
Also I'd be interested in how "Li Dao" was written because I suspect it translates to something like "beautiful end" depending on the tone and such.
Subtle.

And, she'd promise, she would join you in that final journey. But then the bodies started adding up, and the promises didn't. Turned out, Li Dao was something even more sinister than anyone thought.

Turns out she's a malevolent spirit borne out of the internet aether.
No, wait.
So I read all seven pages of the article and it turns out it's a dude and etc. I can never tell gender online.
FUCKING PEOPLE PRETENDING TO BE GIRLS STOP IT

Do you think space exploration is important? Is it worth the billions our governments spend?

It's pretty much our future and we'll stagnate and die if we don't, so I guess so.
OH BUT NO TOO MUCH MONEY
SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO SPEND IT ON BULLSHIT

Aleister Crowley was born today in 1875 -- five years to the day after the death of Robert E. Lee. Coincidence?

... Yes, actually.
Hey I was born one month before Veteran's Day to the day. Coincidence?

When you doodle, what shapes, patterns, and/or creatures do you find yourself drawing? What do you think it says about you?

I already told you I doodle geometric shapes and wiggly shapes and lozenges and shit.

The Greater Seal of Solomon.

HERESY.
Anyway so closes another entry to Edie Finds a Corpse.

Oh that's fucking great

You have to be 18+ to read today's blog. I'm going to need at least two forms of photo ID before I let you into this entry.
Today's WB:

What do you like to do when you can't get to sleep?

I like to hum Cars songs and play the drums on my mattress.

The internet , tv , online radio , reading fanfiction , eat my left over dinner and just waiting for me to go to bed .

I have a hard time sleeing eveing i about to go somewhere .

I have a hard time not speaking like a recently thawed caveman.

What's the craziest thing you've ever done to impress someone? Did it work?

I've been playing that new Fist of the North Star game today and whatever the craziest thing this bitch has done isn't half as crazy as the wringer Kenshiro goes through for this Yuria bitch.
He kills at least 20 scores of men that I know of in that entire animu before he even reaches Shin.
But before that Yuria jumps the roof to her doom but not really because some shadowy types rescue her but Kenshiro doesn't know that so Shin's already dead and then Yuria catches that same disease Toki has even though Toki had radiation sickness I thought--
Whew, that plot's all over the place.

Well, not much ... the only thing crazy thing i done to impress an guy is dress up in really sexy outfits and draw love pictures.

Ok ok i'm to shy for anything !

Sexy outfits.
It should be a felony to make "sexy outfits" in sizes greater than, errr, 6.
Is 6 big or small know? I know they were going to change the size to make fatties feel better but then I don't know what happened.

Hello everyone !

Halloween is now over .

Posted at 7:05 PM November 1st. I guess it is.
Oh that's fucking great. A post entitled "2 days until Halloween" and I have to agree that I want to see content "not suitable for minors" and the post is empty. So far this cunt hasn't even said a bad word let alone a racy thought.

How do you feel about public versus private schooling?

No strong feeling one way or another.

Now, now i went to a public schools all my life and well i guess to say my high school years was horrorble . Since i never went to a private school ,but my only anwser is online schooling .

Actually on second thought fuck public schools if this is what they spawn.
"Horrorble."

What are the three all-time greatest summer songs?

SIIIITTIN' IN THE MORNIN' SUN, I'LL BE SITTIN' WHEN THE EVENING COME
WATCHING THE SHIPS ROLL IN, THEN I'LL WATCH 'EM ROLL AWAY AGAIN, YEAH
I'M SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY, WATCHING THE TIIIIIDE ROOOOLL AWAY OOOOH
I'M SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY, WASTIN' TIIIIIIIIIME~
I LEFT MY HOME IN GEORGIA, HEADED FOR THE 'FRISCO BAY
'CAUSE I'VE HAD NOTHING TO LIVE FOR AND LOOKS LIKE NOTHING'S GONNA COME MY WAY
Is that a summer song?

There to many ...... for me to remember.

>missing a verb
>wrong "to"
>ten thousand ellipsis
That's like five spankings.

What subject you like to become more knowledgeable about, and why?

Yes, hi I'd like to answer for marychanel if I may: she'd like to be more knowledgeable about spelling and grammar.

There so much things to learn in life ,but the one subject i can be more knowledgeable is art history and cooking.

>the one subject
>lists two things
AWWW COME ON. You're not even trying now.
Now here's a writer's block called "Comfortably Numb" and I'm not even reading it.
PINK FLOOOOYD TIME

What's your favorite example of how technology has made your life better?

In my lifetime we have gone from 1 GB hard drives being huge to transferring more in a 24 hour period than 20 of those shits can hold over the internet.
So I'm going to vote "cable internet".

Cell phones and the internet and things are a little bit better now , but it's still a long way to go.

>long way to go
FROM WHAT TO WHAT? We've gone from, in my full lifetime, practically no one having the internet to EVERYONE HAS IT ON THEIR CELLPHONE.
HOW MUCH MORE PROGRESS DO YOU NEED BEFORE YOU CUNTS ARE HAPPY?
FUCK YEAH COMFORTABLY NUMB HAS AN AWESOME GUITAR SOLO

It's hard, it's really hard. It's been one year since michael jackson pass away last year and i still missed him .

What, were you a close friend or member of the family?
It's not like he'd recorded a good song since the 80s.

So for this day i'm seeing this is it and i feel sad that the tour will never happen and but if he was still alive the tour would have been the grandest tour ever .

No one would have given two shits. It's just because he died, stop being silly.
Some books are inspirational. Others are intellectually stimulating or emotionally comforting.

Then there are those juicy, mindless reads that are only good for a plane ride or the beach. Which books or authors fall under this last category?

Question filled with useless information, hello.

I can only think thew things, mangas, comics and "An midsummer's night dream" .

Oh yeah, "An" Midsummer's Night Dream is light beach reading. You know, just deals with Perseus and Oberon and shit. Lovable scamps everyone is familiar with.

I got some bad news for me , well as of last night my great-grandfather has pass away as of last night.

I'm suddenly reminded of that scene in The Matrix where Neo sees the black cat twice and it's deja vu and oh no that's when they've changed something in The Matrix.

Have you even had a moment, an hour, or a day that renewed your faith in the fundamental goodness of humankind?

No it has pretty much been downhill since birth.
On that note I think another glooooorious entry in the annals of "Edie Finds a Corpse" draws to a close.

Let's-- :V

I ran into the gayest character ever a few days ago in FFXIV.
Sorry for the small size but Blogger sucks a fat one. Sort of like this guy's character, har har.
Also yes my character is the girl on the right looking horrified. Somehow playing a petite girl is less gay than playing a burly man character.
Final Fantasy, go figure.
That guy seriously stopped my entire adventure for that day for a minute. OH LOOK AT THIS COCKSUCKER WITH HIS BULGE IN HIS BIKINI BRIEFS NOW I HAVE TO KNOW YOU EXIST
MOTHERFUCKER
Anyway keep this trainwreck image in your mind while we discover today's blog.
Also note my character is named Edie too. Definitely not named after the blog which is named after a character from a TV show or anything.
Today's WB question:

Should there be limits on how much money a political candidate can spend on an election campaign, and why?

Asking the Livejournal think tank confirms the answer should be yes.
Yes, I think a reasonable spending limit in today's dollars is 1,000,000.
Oh thanks for limiting it to today's dollars.
Don't be spending 1,000,000 in electrum on today's election because that would be unreasonable.
Also no one answered why they thought spending should be limited, just that it should. Half credit for not fully following directions but on the other hand it isn't school so I don't know.

Do you think your parents made any major mistakes in how they raised you? If so, how did it affect you?

I really like this question because it shows how self-absorbed Livejournal users are. Not because they think their parents suck but because it's an excuse to talk about their 10,000 real or imagined mental illnesses they have.
It is the perfect WB question because if you want Livejournal users to talk ask them a personal question.

My mothers main mistake was her alcoholism. She was very selfish too. Starting at age 12 I had to run my own life. She was also mentally ill in the same way that I am. And that made life with her a problem I wanted to escape from. At age 15 she cut the strings to me and let me go.

I became a Foster Child. Now I live with BPD, (Borderline Personalty Disorder)
At first I was a little dubious about her diagnosis of BPD. On one hand it isn't the typical "I have autism XP" self-diagnosis but on the other hand-- I don't know.
Incidentally people with BPD (almost always female, further proof bitches be crazy) cannot be easily treated even with medication so the only clear treatment is of the 10mm persuasion.

What is the worst insult you've ever received from someone? Were you able to forgive them?

Someone called me a coward on Xbox Live once so I shot him in the fucking head (in the game not in real life obviously).
No one calls me a coward.

What is the biggest mistake of your life so far? What did you learn from it?

Hold on to your asses because here comes a motherfucking answer:

My biggest mistake was touching my daughter inappropriately on two occasions.

:V

I was sentenced to 20 years and spent 4 years in prison. What leg me to make that mistake in judgment? Methamphetamine, speed, meth, crystal, I will never use a again.

>what leg
HEH I'LL SAY!
Also cool excuses. It can't be because you're fucked up, can it? Nope, gotta be BPD or meth or something else.

And I may never see my daughter or my grand-kids. Is there a high judgment awaiting me? I am ready for it if and when it comes!

By "high judgment" I assume you're talking about some kind of god and by "some kind of god" I mean the Christian God.
Oddly the Bible is eerily silent on the subject of pedophilia and at one point appears to condone it (between father and daughter at least) or, if not condone it, at least permit it. I mean God was handing out judgment left and right and turning people to pillars of salt all up inside that book but suddenly Lot is fucking his own daughters and God turns a blind eye.
Makes you think.
Oh Christ what's wrong with me? I see you have a website called "Chrissy Photos" and I click on it. Gee, what kind of images could a ped take?
Well fortunately it was all landscapes but still, I wasn't thinking.
Anyway that's the end of today's blog.
Well let's go for a Two play Wednesday, why not?

i know i havent updated much.

Life's been so busy and I'm very happy these days.

^_^

k
Now there's a picture of his knife collection and words that I'm sure amount to something about how much he wants to murder people or something.
To be fair I am ignoring the title of this blog: "either love me or leave me alone".
Definitely not following directions, nosir.
Now here's a post accusing me of being an asshole.
Hey, guilty as charged, what can I say?

You didn't get mad...

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

Define "legal invasion". According to whose laws? Do I need the permission of the country I'm invading before it's legal?
If so I have some news.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

Well it is a huge waste of money, but--

You didn't get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

Hey, hey, hey. The ends justify the means.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

Logical error. If I didn't get mad at the "illegal" war that is Afghanistan shouldn't I be upset that the primary objective of "stopping terrorism" which would be achieved via capturing bin Laden was failed?
If I did get angry at the "illegal" war shouldn't I be glad they didn't capture bin Laden because he's just a freedom fighter?
Can't I logically call both parties assholes?

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

Yes I did.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city drown.

To be fair they were told a hurricane was coming and to get out while they still could.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

Are you fucking kidding? I bitch about that at least once a post.
I don't know about this policy bullshit but I do know simple economics and how infrastructure works.

You finally got mad when.. when... wait for it... when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you but helping other Americans... well fuck that. That about right? You know it is.

Don't put words in my mouth. I sat back and let both sides discuss it reasonably before I ultimately concluded that while it was a good idea it would mean less healthcare for a higher cost because the government cannot possibly implement anything, let alone something as sweeping as healthcare reform, in a timely and costly manner.
I have no moral objections against war, either. Evidently man has always fought war and evidently creatures not human (chimpanzees, for instance) fight organized wars too, so what the fuck? It's a natural thing.
Outside of the sheer horror of war I'd like to hear one rational objection against it.
I can wait.
It gets you what you want, people, face it.
From the bananas on your table to the gold in the computer you use to type this nonsense conflict keeps your prices low and your quality of life up.
Well he just admitted he's a fan of Berserk, the second manliest animu ever so I think we can part ways here.
You're all right, you fruit.