crank 'em out

Happy National No Housework Day!

Basically, I am one lazy, lazy child.

How many times have I posted during 2013? Er, don't answer that.

I have plans, however, to catch up with all of the pictures I have taken during the past year. There are not many, but I like quite a few of them.

Potter-itis has struck me once again. For a while I thought I was on recovery mode, and yet, fortunately, this is not the case. I am as hopelessly obsessed as ever, and soon I am going to enter a full-fledged depression if I don't get an owl explaining how I accidentally did not get into Hogwarts. The only reasonable excuses I will accept are:

   a. Some prankster either Imperiused or Oblivioused the man in charge

   b. I am a part of some covert group that required someone on-field with the Muggles, and I can't remember anything for obvious protection reasons

   c. The entire magical world has collapsed in the past twenty years or so since Harry's triumph.

Anywho, I recently stumbled upon a note that one of my friends created in Facebook, and I absolutely love it. Jesse is an amazing author and artist, probably the most talented girl I know, and she also is incredibly brilliant. 

Exhibit A:

Now for the note:

"Soooo just recently I stumbled upon a comic strip that involved a character that was Mormon--a rather stereotypical Mormon. It was funny. So I scrolled down and started reading the comments because I was curious how people would react.
And I gotta say, I don't understand the majority of the comments that were made.

The vast majority kept saying that the LDS religion was stupid, a load of crap, and so on (hurtful to some extent but there isn't much I can do about it). And yet EVERYONE agreed that Mormons are the nicest people on the planet, that the LDS religion never fails to keep 'cranking out the nicest people on earth.' And they don't know how.

Okay, so, whut? Is it not connecting for these people? Do they not get it? Religion/church isn't a sideline thing, it isn't something you simply go to, like school, then leave and forget about until you remember to go back again. That's not religion--that's something else entirely.

To truly be a part of a religion, to be a religious person, you have to incorporate it in your lives. You LIVE it. It guides and dictates your actions, thoughts, words, and choices. It's who you are, you're center. It's YOU. So to say that the religion is awful but the people are saints doesn't make sense. How can such an awful religion 'crank out' such wonderful people? Easy. Because the religion is wonderful.
And honestly, I don't care what your religion is. If you're a nice person, then whatever guides your decisions is wonderful. Whatever you live by is your religion.
I'm a Mormon and the Gospel is how I love my life. I truly believe that the LDS church, the Gospel is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And it's because it's such a wonderful thing that we have such amazing, good folk as members. Like draws like, my friends.

I'm not sure if I'm communicating this correctly--I'm a little tired and a little upset so everything's a jumble in my head.

Lastly, it's so FRUSTRATING how people seem to not care to get their facts straight, but rather guess and assume what they will and go with that. It's how rumors and gossip and false information is spread and it spreads like wildfire. It's rather exasperatingly funny--the false information spreads faster than the truth. Some of the things I've read have made me laugh with the stupidity of it, others have made me want to scream and throw things, and yet others make me want to cry.
It's the most maddening thing to me."

Sadly, not everyone is as intelligent as she is. But thank goodness there are the "Jesse"s in the world, or it would be a sad, sad place.

xoxo,

McCall

Happy National No Housework Day!

Basically, I am one lazy, lazy child.

How many times have I posted during 2013? Er, don't answer that.

I have plans, however, to catch up with all of the pictures I have taken during the past year. There are not many, but I like quite a few of them.

Potter-itis has struck me once again. For a while I thought I was on recovery mode, and yet, fortunately, this is not the case. I am as hopelessly obsessed as ever, and soon I am going to enter a full-fledged depression if I don't get an owl explaining how I accidentally did not get into Hogwarts. The only reasonable excuses I will accept are:

   a. Some prankster either Imperiused or Oblivioused the man in charge

   b. I am a part of some covert group that required someone on-field with the Muggles, and I can't remember anything for obvious protection reasons

   c. The entire magical world has collapsed in the past twenty years or so since Harry's triumph.

Anywho, I recently stumbled upon a note that one of my friends created in Facebook, and I absolutely love it. Jesse is an amazing author and artist, probably the most talented girl I know, and she also is incredibly brilliant. 

Exhibit A:

Now for the note:

"Soooo just recently I stumbled upon a comic strip that involved a character that was Mormon--a rather stereotypical Mormon. It was funny. So I scrolled down and started reading the comments because I was curious how people would react.
And I gotta say, I don't understand the majority of the comments that were made.

The vast majority kept saying that the LDS religion was stupid, a load of crap, and so on (hurtful to some extent but there isn't much I can do about it). And yet EVERYONE agreed that Mormons are the nicest people on the planet, that the LDS religion never fails to keep 'cranking out the nicest people on earth.' And they don't know how.

Okay, so, whut? Is it not connecting for these people? Do they not get it? Religion/church isn't a sideline thing, it isn't something you simply go to, like school, then leave and forget about until you remember to go back again. That's not religion--that's something else entirely.

To truly be a part of a religion, to be a religious person, you have to incorporate it in your lives. You LIVE it. It guides and dictates your actions, thoughts, words, and choices. It's who you are, you're center. It's YOU. So to say that the religion is awful but the people are saints doesn't make sense. How can such an awful religion 'crank out' such wonderful people? Easy. Because the religion is wonderful.
And honestly, I don't care what your religion is. If you're a nice person, then whatever guides your decisions is wonderful. Whatever you live by is your religion.
I'm a Mormon and the Gospel is how I love my life. I truly believe that the LDS church, the Gospel is a wonderful, wonderful thing. And it's because it's such a wonderful thing that we have such amazing, good folk as members. Like draws like, my friends.

I'm not sure if I'm communicating this correctly--I'm a little tired and a little upset so everything's a jumble in my head.

Lastly, it's so FRUSTRATING how people seem to not care to get their facts straight, but rather guess and assume what they will and go with that. It's how rumors and gossip and false information is spread and it spreads like wildfire. It's rather exasperatingly funny--the false information spreads faster than the truth. Some of the things I've read have made me laugh with the stupidity of it, others have made me want to scream and throw things, and yet others make me want to cry.
It's the most maddening thing to me."

Sadly, not everyone is as intelligent as she is. But thank goodness there are the "Jesse"s in the world, or it would be a sad, sad place.

xoxo,

McCall