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An Education on the point of futility

I'm now a university student, and it's not even been a week and I'm already growing bored of two of my classes. High school was six years ago, but a lot of this stuff is still fresh in my head. It's like I've come full circle and the interregnum never existed.

It feels kind of good, in a way. Also, I'm a "mature" student, which puts me about four years ahead of most of the other students in my classes. Four years of hard work and strife, and I've already put a boot down for one professor, who started to lecture me on the real world.
I'm willing to listen and learn, but nobody gets to tell me about how the real world works when they're cloistered in an educational institution for eight months of the year.

Just a small rant there.
Otherwise, things are good.
And I'm glad I went this year. If I had waited any longer, I would have probably ended up feeling a bit like a pedophile, ogling the young girls.

11/09/2010

Happy Justification Day.

September 11th is still giving us cause to do shit, even some nine years on.

I've died and...

...ended up in Limbo.

Fuck embedding. Just click the link and watch the video. I'm officially pissed that this shit can't size itself on the page.

Nearly a decade of internet standards, and the prisses are still only concerned if their fucking textboxes are to some obscure measuring standard.

Fuckers.

Lexicon

In the story of the Priest, the religion/government of the land is known as the Dogma. I thought this a fitting term until a friend of mine, a stiffly-raised Christian, told me that a faithful follower of a religion will never call their faith a dogma, that such a title is reserved only as a title of derision for a heretic to refer to his old religion.

I was enlightened by what he told me, thinking that what I had chosen was a neutral term for religion by rote, a system of control. And indeed, to unbelievers, dogma is a term without connotation. But to believers, it's completely different.

So I hunted. I tore through the English language, looking for a term that describes a faith, but connotes a rigid control - a kind of governance by the Book, by the reigns of power. I tore and I shredded and I compared and I sought.

Nothing.

I even searched latin, greek, french, and spanish for a term.

Nothing.

This is the first time a word has honestly eluded me. The meaning is there. But can it be that English has not a term for what I seek?