Envy

Such beautiful architecture! They don't make architecture like that anymore. =( Anyway what I find to be really beautiful are ice storms and snow storms. However, photography can not properly capture the beauty of them for me. So I don't have any pictures.

I have a really bad sore throat. Not so much at this exact moment, but it's been off and on for the past few days. =( I'm just really glad the migraine part of it is over.

I understand. The term has been twisted around and that's what it is oftentimes used to mean these days. However, the fact of the matter is that if it is a sexuality, meaning it is about sexual attraction.

Envy: Age: 23 Current location: Oklahoma What I want to be when I "grow up": Band director Favorite:: Car: Just give me one that works and has air-conditioning. I don't care much beyond that. Color: Pink. Band/Artist: Chicago Letter: I don't know... Number: 26 Sport: Marching band. Soccer team: I don't keep up with soccer. And if I substituted this for 'marching band', I'd give off which high school I went to. lol Day: Tuesday Animal: English Bulldog Instrument: Bassoon, Saxophone (except for Soprano), and Oboe/English Horn. Season: Winter Food: Pizza Video Game: Animal Crossing/The Sims Pony: Pinkie Pie Font: Anglo Text (the font I used for 'Bassoonist' in this signature)

If you are physically attracted to cisgendered people and non-binary gendered people that is the actual definition of 'pansexual'.

A (mini) pine tree. My pony stays tough and vibrant even through the toughest times.

You are stereotyping atheism to a point I don't even understand. How in the world is it a hollow existence? Many atheists (such as myself) don't believe in any kind of afterlife. We live for this life. The one we know we have. If that is a 'hollow existence' I have the definition of those terms way off. I know I don't. It's the very opposite. Anyway, sorry about assuming you meant we had to believe in a higher power. It's just that I have a Christian friend who has said that same thing: "You have to believe in something", and he was referring to a higher power. I very much do believe in something to that effect - That the only life we have is our one here on Earth, and that we should make the Earth the best we can be for other people. And while we may not have any 'afterlife', the world keeps on turning after we pass away and others and their children (etc.) keep on living. Making the world better for them is what I 'believe'. But it's not a 'belief' in a religious sense, so it's strange to refer to it like that. So you don't need to be sad for the Atheists. You are stereotyping them in a way that I guarantee you the vast majority of the members who voted there if not all of them aren't anything like. BTW, I had never heard of auto-theism and what I posted was based off of what I found on Google. What it defined it as was self-worshiping, and I don't see how that's good at all.

Auto-Theism? *looks up* So... You'd rather me be a self-absorbed self worshipper than to simply not believe that there is any such thing as a higher power? I'm not getting it. You are free to believe whatever you want, but not all of us have to believe in "something". I have been given absolutely no reason to believe that there is some higher power or purpose, and in fact the thought of there being either or both of those is actually quite disturbing to me. Obviously, that's not why I am an Atheist. I am an Atheist because there being a higher power just doesn't even make any sense to me given the way everything works, and there is no evidence at all for such a being's existence. There's no reason to believe for me. I don't see why I have to believe in something when it's so blatantly obvious to me in my world view that there is nothing of that sort.

I'd change my entire life 2007 and beyond. I'd have graduated university last year like I should have. And if I could change it, I would still be with my girlfriend from my second year of college. I don't know if that can or even should be changed (I'm no longer in love), and if not we'd have never entered the relationship and be best friends now instead. Before I get too much more personal I'll stop this. Lol.

I'm not understanding how we could possibly believe that an ancient civilization could ever predict when the world would end to begin with. I'm just completely at a loss as how to anybody could actually believe that.

Washington D.C., Southern California, and Indianapolis. Washington D.C. because I love history. It was fun to see all of the museums and all of the buildings in person. Southern California because it's just so different. I would never want to live there because I have to have cold weather and snow. However, it was interesting just because it was so different. The mountains were so pretty, and it was neat to get to go to a beach. I loved those tall palm trees, too! Indianapolis I say not because it's Indianapolis, but because that's where I go to go to perform in the national marching band competition. Because of how awesome that was I have to mention Indianapolis even though nothing else about the place was memorable. lol

Feeling quite miserable (as in very sick). Just happy to be off from work now.

But, in reality, the Bible says nothing about loving the same sex and homosexual relationships. At least not to my knowledge. It's very specific in referring to sexual relations. Now I know that's usually the road relationships go down. However, I've never been convinced that the Bible actually states/means much of anything that the Christians who claim so boldly that their religion is against homosexuality say.

Progress happening so slow bothers me so much. But what I mean by being glad that I wasn't born 'before', I'm not really even talking about homosexuality, or homosexuality specifically anyway. Not too long before I was born - well, 20 years - Jim Crow laws were still in effect. While I'm not black and could not be personally discriminated against, I would have still been so disgusted to be around and see that. We're very lucky that it's marriage we're having to fight for. Although, if somehow homosexuality was a visible trait then I'm certain many more rights would have had to have been fought for. It's not that the right to marry isn't important, though. It's just, considering history we have it good. Although, it's still bad. It's still wrong, very wrong. It's just not anywhere near as atrocious as what other groups have had to go through. It's just that here in 2012 we're still dealing with this at all. It's that somehow we haven't learned from history. That we're still catering to those who are less progressive. Like somehow catering to their hatred is more important than people of this time having their rights. That's so ridiculous. Those who hate can deal with it. Those who are denied those rights only get to live once. They don't get to see further down the line when society is better. There is no excuse for this.

I have the game, but I don't have wireless internet. So I can't play it online. But that's fine as I'm really no good at it, and I haven't played it consistently since like one month after it came out.

I do, too. I don't even know the state of same-sex marriage in my state (aside from it not being legalized) and I honestly don't even want to know. All I can say is that I know it won't ever be legalized, not until same-sex marriage is legalized federally. It makes me very sad, but I know I don't want to remain in this state or anywhere near the South anyway. It's just sad that we even have to go through this process of progression. I suppose I just have to be happy that I wasn't born any earlier because it was far worse before.

I want better games. But the only vibe I'm getting from the Wii U is more gimmicks and more "we don't need power for good gameplay". After the Wii, that does not work on me anymore. It has no foundation. So right now I'm really not excited. There isn't much Nintendo can do at this point. They just released Skyward Sword, so no new Zelda anytime soon, and Sakurai just started on Super Smash Bros. 4 (or is getting ready to? Not sure. Either way, it's a long ways out) and those are the titles they could really get me excited for the system with. However, looks like another New Super Mario Bros. is what they have instead. And Pikmin 3. I'm happy for the Pikmin fans and everything, but that series was never for me.

I haven't had a muffin in many years. I have cupcakes quite frequently, though, so I have to go with cupcakes.

Pink is my favorite color. And by quite a wide margin.

Moths. I can't stand bugs in general, but moths are the worst. They have no control over themselves and they have fur. Bugs should not have fur! They freak me out a lot. and like when they end up touching me I flip out so much. I hate them. I know it's about as irrational of a fear as one can get, but that doesn't help me.

Wow. Old topic. lol. We just had an new instrument topic recently, I believe. Anyway, I can use this post to say that I just recently got a tenor saxophone and am now learning that.

I don't know if I've told this one before, but it's the only one I can think of at the moment. Back in high school I was in marching band and we were on the buses ready to leave for the national competition. I had my pillow and blanket and was sitting in my seat ready to go. I also brought a six pack of Dr. Pepper bottles. A 12 hour bus trip can be quite long! So I opened one of them up, and it turns out it had been shaken up too much, and at the time I hadn't learned about opening bottles up slowly. So it got all over everything - my shirt, my pillow, my blanket, and the floor. T_T My mom was still outside for some reason, so I had to give up my blanket and pillow. Then I had to go back to the bus bathroom and change into a generic band shirt that was way too large for me. The shirt I had to change out of was my section's shirt, which we had just gotten the night before. We stopped for a rehearsal right before we got there, and my band director made a general comment about how my section was all wearing their section shirts. I was, of course, the only one in the entire section not wearing the shirt. I wanted to cry. lol

Oh, I know them! They were an opening band when I went to see Streetlight Manifesto.

Seems like the kind of music for this topic. =P @Narutardedscum: That is pretty much the most stereotypical Southern Rock song ever. Not my favorite either, personally. Perhaps I've just heard it too many times. I really like America, though. Both them and the Eagles. @swordfishtrombone: I recall going over that style (Hank Williams) in a popular music history class I took. I was shocked at how different (and so much better IMO) it is than modern country. I even recall my professor playing an early Country Blues (I believe that's what the genre is specifically called) song with jazz influence (in instrumentation at least). I don't remember what it was called, though.