Orifice, Crap, Whore! Crazy Freethinking Radicals!

I found this amusing. Orifice, crap, whore, indeed. From Mingle2.

I wonder what else are implied-bad words? Hmm, might want to save that for Double Entendre Mondays.

Mrs. Montag would have nightmares about me. Maybe I'm sensitive to it because I'm listening to Fahrenheit 451 right now. Now, it's your job to save the future, so go kill your television. Yes, right now. Pull the plug. I'll wait.

There, don't you feel empowered? It will be difficult the first few days. You'll want to turn it on and sit vegetable-like on your sofa. Resist the temptation. You may start to have anxieties about current events when you read about them. How will you know what to think? What will you have to talk about with your peers if you haven't seen the latest episode of Popular Mind-Numbing Sitcom or Inane Fake Competition Which Makes The Audience Think They Matter?

In case you are feeling lost, here are some starter topics:

• Do you believe in retribution? Which is better: Eye for an Eye, or Turn the Other Cheek? Can you imagine situations in which the belief you don't support might be appropriate?
• What life experience has strengthened you the most?
  
• Is Snape friend or foe, and why?
  
• Do you believe in soulmates? Is there such a thing as "The One," or is it possible to have multiple true loves over one's lifetime?
  
• Do you believe in karma? Why or why not?
• What do you think will happen when you die? How would you feel if it turned out differently than what you expected while you were alive?
  
• When you reach the end of your life, what do you wish to have accomplished?
• If you knew that you had only a few hours to live, who would you need to speak to, and what would you need to tell them? Why don't you call them today?
  
• What is your greatest accomplishment thus far?
• Is beauty truth, and truth beauty? Why or why not?
  
• Pick an argument with Keats.
• Make up with Keats. Swoon.
  
• What is your favorite childhood memory? What did it teach you?
• Rate the following traits/nouns in order of importance: Curiosity, Happiness, Kindness, Knowledge, Leadership, Love, Obedience, Power, Self-Actualization, Success, Wanderlust, Wit. Explain why.

It's not easy thinking for yourself. And there are probably people to whom I would not recommend it. But you might want to give it a try.

Knitting gives you time to think. Totalitarian regimes would do well to fear the knitters, as they are the womb of rebellion. Remember the tricoteuses of A Tale of Two Cities?

So when The Man comes for your knitting needles, you crazy freethinking radical... come over to my place. We'll expatriate to a nice country with lots of wool and silk, philosophy and books, gardening and front porches... and no TV.

I know, some of those topics are kinda heavy. But that's the stuff I think about when I'm sitting quietly and knitting away (on something I don't have to count too closely).

Told you I was crazy.

And, incidentally, I highly recommend Fahrenheit 451.