RuneScape

Funny thing, I've been a part of the RuneScape community for about six years or more, but over the past two years or so, my interest in it has declined, and eventually I just stopped caring altogether. I officially quit a few weeks ago.

Keeping up

You know, it's a funny thing, I've been blogging for at least two months now, and it was only a few weeks ago that Anders Behring Breivik bombed a street in Oslo, Norway, and then proceeded to murder almost a hundred innocent people... that'd be the kind of thing you'd expect a blogger interested in the world around him or her to talk about. And I had a blog all planned out to talk about Norway, too, but I never got round to writing it, could never quite make it sound right, and gave up on it.

I really don't always keep up with the times that well. I used to compensate for this by setting CNN as my homepage to keep up with the news, so that I was fairly well up to date with current affairs. But even with this, I'm still not one of those dedicated "with-it" people who'll always be talking about current affairs. I guess it's not the end of the world, and there's no obligation to be one of those people, so I shouldn't really worry about it.

I try to follow this maxim: It doesn't matter if the train's already left the station, just jump on it and make the best of it before it goes even further away into the distance.

~Leonidas

LGBT - Coming Out

It's odd, really. I enjoy blogging a lot, because it's great fun, regardless of the small demographic, but I never show my parents my blog... because I talk on it about the fact that I'm bisexual. And the odd thing here is, well, everyone knows it. I'm openly bisexual, but, I'm not open about it with my parents. Here's the kicker: they already know.

Closed-mindedness

I'm troubled.

I normally tell people not to be closed-minded. Do I follow that maxim myself? I doubt it. This isn't something I only just started thinking about, but I was reminded of it when I randomly came across a song that I really liked, and it made me think... "Just how many songs are there that I like?" There's only one genre of music that I really like: classical. I don't listen to anything else.

Is it closed-mindedness, is it apathy? Either way, I'm not always a very adventurous person.

Boredom

It's pervasive, y'know. I wanna know, what do you guys do when you're bored? Do you have a fail-safe for such situations? Or do you just ride it out til the next day?

Ego

If I were to say that "human beings are selfish" right now, I wouldn't purely be referring to the kind of destructive greed that ignores anybody else's needs, I'd be referring to the fact that we, in the most literal sense of the word, care the most about our self. Most of us can sympathise and the good ones among us will do a lot to help those who are in pain or in need of help, but the true altruists who solely care about others and pay no heed to their own welfare... well, they're few and far between.

Leonidas and religion (Pt. III)

So I joined a great group on Facebook for atheists that's just started up yesterday. Lovely people there, and it didn't take much at all to start a multitude of debates among us atheists. One such debate reminded me of a common theme in religious arguments.

The gender divide (and Male Sexism)

So I was buying presents earlier this evening (only just managed to get to the card shop before they closed,) and it was after I had secured cards for my friends that I realised I was having a lot of trouble finding something for said friends, all of whom are girls. It occurred to me that, while I'm a very feminine guy, I still don't understand girls that well. (Nor does my memory help, I can never remember who likes what, who'd wear what, etc., and clothes are a no-go due to my naivety.) At times like these, it really brings to the forefront the huge gap that is only separated by one Y chromosome.

I have had an amazing week so far!

No, nothing serious this time, just some innocent ramblings! <3

A rumination on ruminations II

One of the last English assessments I undertook was a presentation on something that we hate, for which I chose: people who don't think. My last Business Studies lesson involved having to come up with something which we could talk about for a few minutes and ostensibly "teach the class", again I chose thinking as a topic (although I missed the second part of the lesson because of an assembly, so someone else read it out >_>)

And so I wanted to touch upon it one more time, on a place where there's a (admittedly very small) chance that people might see it.