Creative Maladjustment

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Edit: I'm wildroot on Dreamwidth for anyone who is interested.

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself— and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to— letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending— performing. You get to love your pretense....It's true, we're locked in an image, an act— and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image— they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it— they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession." - Jim Morrison

cross-posted to DW.

Norwegian philosopher Nina Karin Monsen has been awarded this years "Free Word" Award which includes 400.000 NOK. Conservative "Høyre"-representative Oktay Dahl thinks Monsen has been harassing gays in the media for years. The Free Word committee states that they chose her as an example of the cost it can bring to participate with independent opinions in a public debate that is characterized by self-censure and a fear of touching incendiary topics and that "Her point is not to attack homosexuals, but to defend marriage as a sacrament".

I wonder what the big deal is and search for more information. The first thing I come across is an interview in Dagbladet. In response to a question about gays having children she says this "They are as different as everybody else. If they are mature, sensible and have love to give, it doesn't matter what sexuality one has".A subsequent paragraph gives a scathing criticism of the Norwegian welfare state; calling it a charade indulged in by self-congratulatory national romanticists.

So far I'm loving this person. That is, until I come across her chronicles at the Preserve Marriage website. Here she writes that a gender neutral marriage law goes against both the Norwegian constitution and the European Human Rights Convention because no religion accepts homosexuality and a gender neutral law is an offence to and discriminates against religious people. She also claims that the new law retroactively invalidates all previous religious marriages and that the law can only be accepted and used by people who deny the existence of God.

So basically she thinks it is morally preferable to discriminate against queers than to take away some of the privilege given to the Norwegian Church for innumerable years. In the end it comes down to semantics yet again. Marriage vs. Civil Union or Partnerships. Monsen did not seem to care at all when gay marriage was called civil unions. When it comes to that particular argument I think I'll just quote Jon Stewart from his interview with Mike Huckabee: "semantics is cold comfort when it comes to humanity".

♥ Jon.

"caution is natural, but fear is not. Do not give in to fear, yet do not abandon caution.

It is a balancing act. Caution is what causes you to look both ways before crossing the street. Fear is what keeps you frozen on the curb forever. You know the difference.
You can feel it.

If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind." - Neale Donald Walsch

" It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. " - Anais Nin

Gah. *flails*

New music from Hanson never fails to make my day.

Two youtube videos I feel compelled to pass on:
1. A rickroll video Obama style.
2. Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls sings a song written by Neil Gaiman.

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Actually it's my city that's dead. I thought the heat would bring people outside to frolic in the sun or whatever, but it's pretty darn dead out there.

Anyway, one of my kitties was the cutest today. While the two black cats look for spots of sunshine to sleep in, my tabby went to a shady bedroom and hung out in front of the fan. I must take a picture of this next time I see him. ilhim the moast

I've heard that you stop producing brain cells around 25. I fear this might be true. >_>

I just got chills watching Legally Blonde the Musical. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. XD

A couple of nights ago I dreamt I was kidnapped by terrorists. They were tough. They were scary. They were kittens. I tried to be tough and talk smack at them (LIBERTY. NUKES. WE HAZ THEM), but they tricked me by showing me their tummies and letting me rub them.

I suspect I'd be a terrible secret agent.

Dude, there's a huge (well, big enough) spider in the fennel I just tried to crack open for the soup I'm about to make. D: Hate spiders in my food. Cracking the fennel messed up its web, so now it's shaking its ass back and forth like a ballroom dancer trying to rebuild it. I'm fascinated, but HALP. >_>

01. Yay! Norway is in the Eurovision finals. XD Hooray Maria and Mira Craig!

02. However the news report on what's going on in South Africa just made that seem a tad insignificant.