"Justify Your Existence"

Was cycling home just now - love cycling. And saw a "Justify Your Existence" sticker on the back of a car. Assumption - the author of this sticker intended this to be read as "justify your existence to others". I think that's a fair assumption. So it's one of these motivational sayings designed to motivate one to "great heights".

I have two observations. Firstly if someone isn't going to respect me because I can't "justify my existence" to them - good stuff, I don't want their respect and if I don't have their respect they're less likely to be in my life. Even better. Secondly if I'm in a position where I need to "justify my existence" to someone in order to feel ok about myself - I have a problem. I'm too wrapped up in what other's want of me, I'm probably better off spending time deciding what I want for me.

There's too much trying to please others in this life I think - well at least in this society. Ricky Nelson had it right when he sang "you can't please everyone so you got to please yourself".

Kinda random thought.. kinda

I don't need to know where I was before this life (if anywhere).
I don't need to know where I'll be after this life (if anywhere).
What I need to know is I have today... I have this moment.
What else can be wished for? What else can be known?

Three level of idiocy

Got a (minor) migraine. These things suck bad. Anyway, was thinking of going home from work, but I got a lot of things to do here, so essentially I'm putting work ahead of health. My girlfriend pointed out the rubber ball analogy thing I've thrown at her when she's done the same. All I could do was agree. I then concluded there's three levels of idiocy, level one being most idiotic and level three least:

1. Perform idiocy and attempt to justify it
2. Perform idiocy and acknowledge it's idiodic
3. Don't perform idiocy

My idiocy would therefore be a level two idiocy. Hmm, room for improvement...

Weight loss tip #1

If you're not hungry, don't eat.

Short and to the point. And effective imo. Sure, weight loss can be much more effective when combined with good nutrition and exercising, but, even when taken in isolation, I think it works wonders.

what people see

I think, generally speaking, people see what they want to see - not what they see.

If that makes any sense!

Baptism - what is it (good for)?

Just thinking the other day about baptism. I was baptised but I'm thinking I don't really care if my children (should the universe be unfortunate enough for me to have any haha) are baptised. I certainly don't see a reason for it. Personally I'm not seeking to appease a god who would damn a child's soul to hell because a particular ritual had not been carried out on the child. We surely must call into question the ethics of a god that would damn a child under these circumstances. I certainly wouldn't refer to such a god as "loving". Quite the opposite.

Words I don't know: Archetypal

Was reading something about Harley's and they being archetypal of something or other. Not much of a Harley fan. Give me a good bandit any day. Anyway, didn't know what that meant, so - this post.

Archetype: the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies.

Aha. It all makes sense now. (c: Anyone else hear that siren?? Driving me nuts!! haha