stories, Fight Club, and striving to exist around the mundane

[thejunipertree]

My brain has been teeming with stories lately. It usually starts just as I'm trying to fall asleep in bed, which kind of sucks because then I either a. forget about them or b. can't sleep because the stories will eat me.

However, this and the fact that I have a willing collaberator has given me a new drive to continue my writing. Maybe I'll even finish the two short stories sitting on disk that have gone untouched for two years. Phooey.

The Engineer and I watched 'Fight Club' this evening, it being the first time he'd ever seen it. He didn't like the story twist at the end, although I think it's brilliant. We also got into a bit of a discussion involving fundies, because I told him about a conversation I had with one of our neighbours in the wee hours of the morning involving religion.

She's a bit dizzy, you see. Sometimes, very intelligent things come out of her mouth and it gives me hope. But, that gets squashed down with the next ten sentences that she baa's forth. Raised a Baptist and all she knows is what she's been told is correct. The Bible is law and God is infallible. Everything written in the Gospels is correct and there are no disagreements allowed.

I gave her a bit of a run around with the story of Sodom and Gommorah, though. And I briefly brushed into Leviticus, though I quelled my desire to start shouting about it. It wouldn't do for me to go into a full scale rant in the back parking lot of my apartment building at two in the morning.

I'm not the type of person to hide my religion, I never really have been. But, I know who I should or should not speak freely with. And this girl, unfortunately, is firmly placed into the catagorey of "should not know". I find this a bit stifling, I don't like having to run around statements about what I actually believe in. I don't like hiding things or obscuring the truth. But, I think it's better for all parties involved to just not know.

Comments

[adriftwithin.livejournal.com]

     I don't even discuss religion anymore with anyone because of people who were trained to believe. On a community I'm a member of, I stated that I don't like Pope attempting to control the queer marriage decision of leaders, then I got some guilt bullshit because apparently I didn't like him stating his non-politically-correct beliefs. I controlled my desire reply and let it go.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

I don't even discuss religion anymore with anyone because of people who were trained to believe.

I don't mind so much discussing it with people who believe, but it's the people who are brainwashed I have a problem with.

My boyfriend's best friend is going to be a priest and we have some pretty intense religion conversations.

(though it has become a game with me to see how many times I can get him to cross himself during a conversation.)

View points..

[thane-of-ghosts.livejournal.com]

I thinks it's pretty funny, to get the "blind followers" spun up. 6+ years of Catholic school made me feel that way. But usually I don't discuss Religion or Politics unless you know the person. Too many conflicts...

[wemble.livejournal.com]

i was actually VERY surprised to find out the other day how well versed my mother is with other religions. she knew what your belief system basically is and that it isn't what hollywood has made it out to be.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

YOU TOLD YOUR MOTHER?!

>:O

[wemble.livejournal.com]

oh no... i didn't TELL her...jeez... though she'd probably say something along the lines of "well, she believes in god at least" ...heh...

somehow we got into discussing other various religions and i informed her of my recent education of what voodoo (spelling?) actually was... and it just surprised me that she knew this.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

You just saved your skin, girl. :P

[wemble.livejournal.com]

phyew!

[hexennacht.livejournal.com]

I done told MAH Mama! An' she sai', do she know howda cook some Cajun to go wit dat blasphemy?

And I said yeah!