Impact exposed

Picture Prompt Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently

     The new Bible, duh!  For those of you who are not Jehovah's Witnesses or couldn't make it to the annual meeting and are living under a rock, this past weekend a new English version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released.  While it was already in readable English (instead of Olde English) certain verbiage has been updated (it's in "21st century English" to quote one brother).  My favorite example was 1 Samuel 14:11: "the two of them exposed themselves" became "then both of them revealed their presence".  I keep giggling.  Also, 'alien' becomes 'foreigner'.  No, Abraham did not become a LGM and the Isrealites were not surrounded by extraterrestrial visitors.  Bwahahahaha!  And so on.  And all those double negatives?  Poof!  Yes, reading level has changed.  It saddens me.

     Also, can we take a moment and ponder the amazing amount of work it took to broadcast the meeting to 1830 locations to reach an estimated nine and a half million people?  And it went off with barely a hitch (once the bugs were worked out on Saturday morning).  And everyone got surprised with Bibles.  Good job keeping things confidential Saturday and Sunday morning people!  I heard nary a peep.  I am duly impressed.

I don't wanna die!

Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die

 

     Someday I will go to San Diego Comicon (or any 'con with a Star Trek star) in an amazing costume.  Not sure what yet, but I do have plans for an awesome Vulcan costume in my head.  Now if only I could stay in character ...
     On a spiritual note, I'd like to be a COs wife, but honestly, at this point in my life that is more fairytale, pie in the sky-ish than going to Comicon in an impeccable Vulcan costume.

Don't Die Sis!

Picture Prompt Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without

     This blog is turning into a love letter to my sister, lol! 
     We had friends over for a turkey dinner on Saturday, the AMAZING annual meeting on Sunday, and Monday kinda got away from me so I'm catching up today (Tuesday).

Blind Justice

Picture Prompt Day 11 - Something you hate

How Blind is Justice. by FreyjaSig

     I've never been fond of or terribly comfortable with the idea of justice being 'blind'.  I understand the concept and intent, that justice would be fair to all, despite appearances, income, family name, or and perceived advantage or disadvantage.  Rather than being blind, I'd rather justice be wide eyed and all seeing.  When making rulings, there should be reasonableness and flexibility in sentencing to fit each individual and "the thoughts and intentions of the heart".  It pains me to see unreasonableness and intractability in the name of justice.

     And speaking of unreasonableness and intractability, people who will not make reasonable compromises  drive me up the wall.  I can completely understand not compromising for religious or moral reasons, for the safety of your family or your personal health.  Don't compromise there.  And I understand that there are some things each person feels strongly about, but when one or both sides refuse to even listen to one another or simply rejects everything on principle (HE suggested it therefore it must be terrible), there is a problem.  
     In high school I worked for several years in our peer lead mediation program.  It was always very satisfying when the two sides were able to come to a compromise or work out a solution together.  Unfortunately, not everyone did, but at least they could agree to disagree, worked out a way to avoid one another, and the matter was closed.  I find it interesting and frustrating that adults are harder to mediate than hormonal teenagers.  Those who should be more reasonable and humble and able to think beyond their emotions are more stiff-necked and hard-hearted and stuck in their ways.  No wonder the world is in the mess it is today.

How Blind is Justice. by FreyjaSig at deviantART.  My views are my own and not necessarily endorsed by the artist.  Just sayin'.
Rhett and Link screengrab from Episode 297 of Good Mythical Morning

I Love It

Picture Prompt Day 12 - Something you love

     Yes, I am swapping the two days, don't worry.  I was getting permission from an artist to use their artwork for tomorrows post.

     I made this piece of artwork many years ago in Paint and would like to remake it with manipulated images someday, but it encapsulates pretty well my primary loves: cats, space, and Star Trek.  I love them so much that I'm not sure what to say about them.  Isn't funny that when you feel more strongly about something words fall away because mere language cannot convey the breadth and depth of the subject?

     I'm not sure when cats surpassed horses as my favorite animals, but looking back it was probably around the time I transitioned from my wild and headstrong childhood into my quietly independent adolescence and adulthood.  Also looking back, they've always been an unacknowledged second favorite, starting with my love of Duchess and Marie in Aristocats and blossoming with the Warriors series by Erin Hunter.

     Star Trek is a very important part of my childhood and I consider it such a key part of my make up that I forget to include the movies in my favorites lists, the same as the Disney movies.  Sunday in our house was Hawaiian pizza night, with a big bottle of root beer, and either a Star Trek movie or AFV.  Star Trek is a world where most of the known universes inhabitants have learned to get along and work together to explore the vast and beautiful expanses that lie on our horizons.  They don't fight until they have been attacked first (though naturally they take precautions) and try to use their words to solve the conflict.  It is also much more science oriented than the floofy Force dominated Star Wars universe, which appeals to my logic oriented mind.

     In high school one year, in a social studies class, we were asked to present our favorite artist from a certain era and I chose to feature the receiving station in Australia that collected many of the images of space from the various satellites traversing space.  (It was the Arts Academy, we are free thinkers and I figured I could get away with it.)  The galaxies, gas clouds, stars, and constellations are far more beautiful and thought provoking than any painting by human or beast.

We're Messed Up Man

Picture Prompt Day 10 - The person you do the most messed up things with

     This should be self explanatory.  They have plastic cake decoration foliage in their mouths.  They are goofs and I love them and they make me laugh so hard I have to use my inhaler.  Two live an hour away now, thankfully the other lives a flight of stairs away.

My Rock

Picture Prompt Day 9 - The person who has gotten you through the most

     My Popcicle has gotten me through adolescence, adjusting to two siblings, illnesses, fights with my mother, math and physics classes, strep throat, learning to drive, spiders in my room, countless sprained ankles, the death of pets I loved as family, and every other scary moment in my life.  He has always been there for me and my mother and my siblings and I am eternally grateful, more than words can say.