With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
February 20, 2003 - 5:18 p.m.
Now it’s getting personal. Stacey isn’t going to visit me because her mother is afraid of coming to New York. I have to try and be generous here. I’m not afraid. Terrorism never factors into my personal decisions. I could try and argue rationally but I don’t think I could succeed. She’s being silly but there is really nothing I can do. I don’t think it would help to point out that NYC has always been on orange alert and that the rest of the country is just catching up. If it were a purely personal decision I wouldn’t bother me. It isn’t though. It’s affecting Stacy, and Gella, and myself. When it comes to others you have to work harder on overcoming your fears. That is how I got over my arachnophobia. A friend had a spider on her and started to freak so I just picked it up in my hands and got rid of it. If it was on me I’d probably have been freaking out myself.
My finite math class has something to really be afraid of. They are having a test on Tuesday and not one of them did the homework for today. They had an entire week to do it too. I of course let them have it. I stopped going over it and told them that they better do the homework before the test and go over it themselves. It wasn’t my responsibility to teach it to them when they don’t do the work. This was the first time I had to get tough this semester. I feel awful when I see the expression on their faces but it has to be said. I rather they feel bad for a bit and do their work than that they feel good till they fail the course. They didn’t do well on today’s quiz of course. Less than half the class ,new the quadratic formula even though it was the only new thing they had to learn.
On the good side I’m going to be enjoying a nice patty sausage at Carey’s apartment the end of May. Be there or be square.
I’ve been getting closer to two of the first people I met online. Jodie was my very first online friend. I’ve known her for over five years. We used to talk every day then we started talking less often. Our schedules coincide again and we are backing to talking regularly. The funny thing is that the more you talk to a person the more you have to talk about. When we have nothing else to talk about we talk about Buffy. That’s how we met. I made a Buffy chat room on AOL and she joined in.
I called Jena yesterday for the first time in forever. She sounded great. She lives in Austin but hasn’t been taking advantage of the music scene. I’m going to have to do something about that. Next time DVN plays there she is going. I’m not taking no for an answer. I wish she could afford to visit me here. I’ve always felt that she’d get along great with Leah and Gella.
Go and check out their diaries and drop them a line if you like. They’re good people.
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