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Thoughts on things:
Jul. 28th, 2011 07:45 pmETA: Testing, testing.... Is LJ back enough to allow cross-posting ? (According to the tech wonders at DreamWidth, there needed to be some shifting of code to deal with the kerfuffle)
ETA #2: Apparently so, but there was a typo in my password...
One:
The trouble with the "Ugly Duckling" model of "Stick it through, it'll get better when you grow up" pep talks:
The ducks who abused the cygnet for being an ugly duckling would have abused the swan for being an ugly drake, if he'd stuck around: "Your neck's too long!" "Why don't you have a nice green back like the rest of us?!" etc.
Things got better for the title character, true. But not because he "grew out of" an "ugly" phase (he was never in an ugly phase). They got better because he escaped an abusive community and was found by another where he fit in.
Two:
There seems to be a common meme among Theists that atheists view the world with a cold and calculating eye, and thus, live in a world without beauty or wonder. To those theists, I would like to pose the following question:
Is a garden rose, cut and put into a bouquet, inherently more beautiful than a wild rose, growing spontaneously in the forest, simply by virtue that it was bred to be a gift?
Three:
I'm planning on making my next "Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream" post on the Northern European Chaangeling tales (Trigger Warning: discussion of abuse and murder of disabled children). I found one such story on Google eBooks, about a troll-changeling. At first, I thought I'd copy and paste it into my blog, and then write up my thoughts on it.
...Every other story in the book converted to plain text to make this process easier -- except a ten-page span where this particular story appeared.
...It's things like that that lead people to the feeling that The Good People are watching us.
Four:
I miss my parents.
Five:
I forgot to get cocoa at my last shopping trip. A whole week without chocolaty goodness! Will I be able to make it?
ETA #2: Apparently so, but there was a typo in my password...
One:
The trouble with the "Ugly Duckling" model of "Stick it through, it'll get better when you grow up" pep talks:
The ducks who abused the cygnet for being an ugly duckling would have abused the swan for being an ugly drake, if he'd stuck around: "Your neck's too long!" "Why don't you have a nice green back like the rest of us?!" etc.
Things got better for the title character, true. But not because he "grew out of" an "ugly" phase (he was never in an ugly phase). They got better because he escaped an abusive community and was found by another where he fit in.
Two:
There seems to be a common meme among Theists that atheists view the world with a cold and calculating eye, and thus, live in a world without beauty or wonder. To those theists, I would like to pose the following question:
Is a garden rose, cut and put into a bouquet, inherently more beautiful than a wild rose, growing spontaneously in the forest, simply by virtue that it was bred to be a gift?
Three:
I'm planning on making my next "Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream" post on the Northern European Chaangeling tales (Trigger Warning: discussion of abuse and murder of disabled children). I found one such story on Google eBooks, about a troll-changeling. At first, I thought I'd copy and paste it into my blog, and then write up my thoughts on it.
...Every other story in the book converted to plain text to make this process easier -- except a ten-page span where this particular story appeared.
...It's things like that that lead people to the feeling that The Good People are watching us.
Four:
I miss my parents.
Five:
I forgot to get cocoa at my last shopping trip. A whole week without chocolaty goodness! Will I be able to make it?
