I realise I haven't been keeping up as much as I should have. I'm sorry, but it does get a little tiring.

I'm leaving for the Middle East this Sunday. We're going on something called a Bibleland tour, where we'll be visiting ancient Biblical sites and so on. I'm hoping this will help me make my choice, because I'm tired of waiting for my miracle.

A long time ago, I read this entry in child's Bible encyclopedia (I like reading children's encyclopedias. They're pretty funny.) about agnostics. Basically it said that agnostics were people who denied the existence of things they couldn't confirm the existence of with their five senses. Then there was some stuff about God being evident in Intelligent Design and how the entire world proclaimed the existence of God and that agnostics ignored the OBVIOUS SIGNS OMGZ because they were actually not actively looking for God in the world around them. So maybe I haven't been looking too hard for my miracle? I don't know.

Also I was thinking about this a few weeks ago and I have a theory that children don't turn out like their parents. Because kids will rebel against the way they're treated. [NOTE: Here we are assuming that the parents are unsatisfactory in some way. Of course, this can also backfire, in that the kids who are raised badly grow up to raise their own kids badly.]

Example: if you are an overbearing, authoritarian parent who imposes your beliefs, values and desires (STFU) on your kids, they'll rebel and reject those beliefs, values and desires (STFU).
Evidence: Parents who were forced to learn piano/ballet/whatever as kids don't force it on their own kids. And I read so often about pastor's kids who become Prodigals and Stray From the Narrow Road to Wallow in the Darkness of Their Intellect. Also, Exhibit A: Alu.

Example 2: if you are a faggy parent who beats his kids and wife and kicks at cute kitties and displays terrible manners and has no societal graces, etc., your kids will find you disgusting and faggy and will be try to be as unlike you as possible. D<
Evidence: my (small) circle of friends. Also, Exhibit A: Alu.

We just got back from the hawker centre. My mom had some tomato-based pasta and she dropped a $2 bill into the sauce (WHEN SHE HAD FINISHED EATING OKAY. ALSO IT WAS A PLASTIC NOTE). Since I had expressed the wish to buy some jelly, she told me to use that bill (it was saucy on one side and okay on the other) to pay the guy at the fruit stall. I went D: and was all "No! You so inconsiderate!" And then I asked for 10 cents so I could go wash it at the public toilet. To which she said the sinks were outside the toilet, so you didn't need to pay to use them.

WTF MAN.

There are many things wrong with this. Obviously, the first is suggesting using the bill to pay the stallowner in the first place. But as is obvious in what she said later, she is aware of the existence of the toilet, down to the fact that the sinks are located outside said toilet and therefore do not require payment. I wouldn't be so outraged if she didn't know that there was a toilet, but clearly she was fully aware of it, and STILL suggested using it to pay the stallowner. WHAT THE HELL MAN THIS IS SO NOT SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTH.

I hope I turn out to be a good person. -w-