Book meme
1. grab the nearest book.
2. open the book to page 23.
3. find the fifth sentence.
4. post the text of the whole sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

[Note, this is me talking, not me quoting a book]
Here is my problem: The above is clearly Discordian. Page 23, sentence 5? Uh, yeah, definitely. The ironic thing is that the closest book to me when I saw this and tried to do it WAS the Principia Discordia. But you know what? YOU try defining a sentence in most of that book. :P

Page 23 is the "Application for Membership in the Erisian Movement of the Discordian Society" so I'll just give section 5 of the application in its entirety.
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5. History: Education - highest grade completed 1 2 3 4 5 6 over 6th
Professional: On another ream of paper list every job since 1937 from which you have been fired. Medical: On a separate sheet labeled "confidential", list all major psychotic episodes experienced within the last 24 hours

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First of all, for my friends: MAKE SURE YOU LOG ON TO READ THIS STUFF. IF YOU DON'T LOG ON, YOU WON'T SEE MY ENTRIES.

That said...

I spent a while thinking last night. As some of you know, and some of you do not, a friend of a friend, who is a stranger to me, has been keeping track of my journal for some time. While this weirded me out a little bit, wondering why someone who didn't even know me would care, I let it go. I mean, what's the harm?

I have since discovered, however, that there is harm there. I do not fault her, however. This is an online medium, and anything that I don't want people reading should not be posted here. Further, anything I posted could have been posted friends-only, but wasn't.

The reason that I left my entries so openly viewable is because, first of all, I didn't think that anyone who decided to take a glimpse into my little world would use said glimpse as an opportunity to mock me in front of my peers, or to judge me, especially when they don't even know me. There was nothing I said that I cared about other people reading, but just like I would show my peers a certain degree of respect when responding to their personal thoughts and feelings, I expect that same respect in return. I don't mind someone disagreeing with me, and I don't mind an intelligent discussion, but I _do_ mind being judged, and I do mind being referred to in a demeaning fashion.

I know that this post will bring her no small amount of amusement. I don't really care, though. I was willing to give her a chance, knowing she was a friend of a friend. Given that she chose, as her first correspondence with me, to judge me, and then mock me for her friends' benefit, all the while being a hypocrite about the very judgement she was making of me, she is no longer welcome to share my thoughts, and to share in the thoughts of my friends. I am not taking lessons on feminism from someone who would refer to me as "So-and-so's ex", as if that's not demeaning as hell.

So it is, with that, that I say she may as well remove me from her friends list because she will find nothing more from me to read.

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