I should post more...
Last night we went to a passover seder. Some people from the messianic synagogue Tim goes to explained everything for us.
It was really interesting; I had never participated in anything like that before.
I still need stuff to read.
I started reading a graphic novel, Bone, a while ago. I really like it, but there are only nine books and I've read five of them. They're not all that long, either.
...Unsurprisingly, now everyone in the house seems to be reading them (or wants to). I managed to get through the first four before that happened, though, which was better than I was expecting, I guess.
(If that didn't make sense to you at all, refer to... two posts before this one? Maybe three.)
Anyway, once that's done I don't know what I'll read. I'm still taking suggestions. People have recommended some things, but nothing that sounds too interesting to me.
A couple things that have been bugging me lately:
1. It seems like half the conservative people I know are convinced that the media is dominated by liberals. Whereas a good portion of the liberal people I know are pretty sure the media is dominated by conservatives. This, obviously, is because the media is not dominated by anything. It's just biased. Everybody is. Some are biased toward the left, and others toward the right. People tend to not notice as much when people are biased toward opinions that they themselves share (or when they do notice, they naturally do not care). I wish people would stop pretending one political ideal or another is "in control of" the media at large. Is it 50-50? Probably not. But how are you supposed to obtain statistics about bias?! Opinion polls?
I'm suuuure that would work out reeeaaal well.
"Oh, yeah, sure. We're really biased toward the left wing, yep yep."
The next time you start to accuse anything of being dominated by a particular bias, just remember that it's all about your perspective.
2. Why must everyone abuse the language I love so much?! (Question: Why do I love English? Answer: I don't have a clue. It's quite the weird language. That could actually have something to do with it... Also the fact that it's what I was brought up with... and it's the only one I know well.)
Firstly, let us review the forms of the word fail. Fail is a present tense verb (the third person singular form is fails). The present participle tense is failing, and the past tense is failed (and so is the past participle). All of these forms are verbs. So what do you do when you want to use a noun? Well, let me introduce you to a new word you may not have heard: failure. It's a multipurpose word, because it can refer both to the act of failing and a person who has failed! Isn't that great?!
...Why do I keep hearing people using the world "fail" as a noun?! (Even when they use it as a verb, they ignore all its other tenses and use just "fail" for every situation.)
I'm sorry, people, but that just makes you sound clueless. It's not cool. It's not funny. It's dumb.
Please, let's go back to speaking like civilized people and using English properly wherever possible (except for effect, cuz u knw hao i lyk efekt). This makes you sound intelligent. People will want to hear what you have to say. They will respect you. They will treat you like an adult, even -- and this is the crazy part -- even if you're not.
Now let's move on to a related topic that I've touched on at least once before: The word epic.
I will now explain the only situations (yes, only) in which it can properly be used:
1. To describe epic poetry. It's a genre. Ever heard of Beowulf? It's an epic. That's what it's called.
2. To refer to any sort of story or storytelling that has the characteristics of an epic (heroes, big adventure, saving the world... all that stuff). For example, The Lord of the Rings could be described as "epic" or being an "epic".
3. An event or series of events that is long, on a large scale, and characterized by heroism, adventure, or great trial (in other words, the kind of thing that would happen in an epic).
When I hear people use the word "epic", they're almost always talking about something "big" or "cool". Epic does not mean big and/or cool. It means one of the three things listed above.
Plus, I hear the word WAY too much. Get a bigger vocabulary... I mean really.
OK, enough being a jerk for today.
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