the boron narratives

Monday, April 19, 2004

i am a sleepy bunny.

*yawn*

christine and julia and i are hanging out. woot.

tomorrow will, per usual, be an insane day. but i wrote a lot of my humanities paper today. and, it has a pretty kickass thesis. aand... oh, i need to explain about soup in the pure land. this issue is very, very important to me. see... there's a school of buddhism. called pure land buddhism. and baaasically... if you're pretty good, but not good enough to be enlightened... you get reborn in the pure land. it's sorta like heaven, but it's... well, it's more like purgatory. but a totally kickass purgatory, and you hang out there until you reach enlightenment. and so in the book, it quoted some pure land scripture, describing the pure land. and buddhist scripture tends to be really wordy and redundant... i will now quote it at you.

... if beings wish the water to be cold, for them it becomes cold; if they wish it to be hot, for them it becomes hot; if they wish it to be hot and cold, for them it becomes hot and cold, to suit their pleasure.

it goes on in that sort of vein for awhile. and then:

and the beings... do not eat gross food, like soup or raw sugar; but whatever food they may wish for, that they perceive as eaten and they become gratified in body and mind, without there being any further need to throw the food into the body.

NO SOUP! the soup nazi is in the pure land!! i like soup! i want soup in my ideal world! and sugar too! but soup! aah!

so this is very important to me. i brought it up in our group discussion. it's. yeah.

soup is good.

oh!! kait! question... like, i don't know my new jersey geography at all... but, how far away are you from like... red bank? could we make a kevin smith roadtrip? if it's out of the question, that's cool... but yeah, for me, new jersey=kait and new jersey=kevin smith. *nod*

sleeep now.

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