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2004-01-8 - 5:22 p.m.
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Sunday, January 4
I have my first cold in 2 years. I am pissed. I am sleeping a lot. I had grand plans for productivity this weekend and instead I get exhausted by every little project I try. So I abandon it and then I sit around whining, sniffling, and sleeping.
/whine
Christmas was good though. When I wasn't having fun with the family, I was napping, sitting on the couch with the dog, or both.
Monday, January 5
Still sick. Still pissed.
At this point I'm furious about it. As I was telling
ARGH! ARGH! STOP SNEEZING!! STOP RUNNING!! STUPID NOSE! STUPID FUCKING COLD! IT'S BEEN FIVE DAYS NOW! I HATE THIS! I HATE BEING SICK! AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! etc.
That's about all from my end today.
Tuesday, January 6
12:32pm
Please tell me why I can take half an antihistimine and have the desired effect (no sneezing) only last overnight, but the undesired effect (bombed-out drowsiness) last TWENTY FOUR HOURS!?!?!? I just slept for 3 more hours and it STILL hasn't worn off.
Also, Poindexter is sick too. Poor Poindexter. I feel so bad. He's not mad at me, though.
On the positive side, a guy is coming to look at my chimney today so we get to find out if we can have fires in the fireplace. The skinflint geezer (previous owner, for you newer readers) never used the fireplace ("Coal...burns", I suppose would be his attitude). On the disclosure form where you have to disclose problems with the house, it asked if the fireplace/chimney worked and he said, "Don't know". What an odious man.
Wait a minute, I'm getting un-positive. Let me try again.
Fires in the fireplace. Yippee!!
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9:15pm
State of the Cold update:
Unless this is one of those evil colds that leaves you feeling fine one day and nasty the next, mine has been over as of my 3-hour antihistimine-induced nap this morning. YAY!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! Only a little stuffiness left, which I can deal with. Must've been all those well-wishes from the LJers. THANKS!
Poor Poindexter is down with it now, though, and he looks miserable. I'm glad I'm well enough to take care of him. We're getting ready for bed now so that we're asleep by 10. Toot-a-loo!
Thursday, January 8
OK, I have some questions for Christians. I'm not sure how deeply I'm going to delve into this -- I may not comment at all. But I want to hear what you have to say, because I am very curious about this. Some of my questions are derived from me being atheist/agnostic, and some of them are derived from just a lack of knowledge because I was raised Catholic, which is a whole different ballgame from the kind of Christianity I've encountered outside Catholicism.
Also, atheists reading this: I'm not looking for arguments/proof/debate here, I just want to hear how Christians have resolved these questions for themselves. If you want to argue with them, would you mind doing it in your own journal? Thanks.
Greenpad said something that I've heard mentioned elsewhere in other contexts:
"as long as you know God and have accepted His gift, then the sins you commit don't effect your salvation"
My questions:
What does "know God" mean? Believe he exists and let him into my heart?
What does "accepted His gift" mean? I think I know what the gift is (John 3:16, right?); what's involved in accepting it? Just believing that God did this for me?
What's "salvation", exactly? Everlasting life? What happens if I'm not saved? Hell?
If I believe the necessary things, and my sins don't affect my salvation, what DO they affect? I mean, I can't just break Commandments willy-nilly, can I?
Does this mean that since I'm an atheist, I can live a good life according to God's laws but I'm still SOL in the afterlife?
What if I believe that God created me and wants me to be a good person but I think Jesus Christ was just a nice guy who was unfairly persecuted? (I.e. Jewish or Deist)
What about the people who lived before Jesus? Do they get a chance to know him at some point?
I can almost believe in a God that created me and wants me to love him and try to be a good person. I try to be good, and I'm certainly grateful to whoever it was that made me the way I am and gave me the gift that is my life. But if he's gonna banish me forever because I like my people/beings to be a little more direct and literal, well, maybe we're not well suited.
