January isn’t even over yet and I’ve drawn more than I did in 2008 :/ I FEEL LIKE SOMEONE’S BEEN SLIPPING ART STEROIDS INTO MY DAILY TEA OR SOMETHING.
Class in five hours OFF TO BED BYE.
Edit: This isn’t meant to be offensive, don’t take it too seriously. Trust me, you’ll know when I’m trying to offend :B
Back story: I have a friend who, like myself, started university this year. She, unlike me, is living in a dorm, so naturally, she’s frequently exposed to parties and alcohol and all the good things university life has to offer. Long story short, she was getting hammered every single weekend and hooking up with a zillion guys for a good half of the term and falling behind in her classes, but she’s cleaned up her act since then. So today, she was telling me about an email she received from her brother. Said brother is a very devout Catholic and lives at a monastery. Apparently, he had told her that he was really disappointed in her conduct and strongly advised her to break ties with any and all non-Christian friends that she had, because they will inevitably lead her to sin.
…Yeah, uh, what? Excuse you?
My philosophy is that I’ll respect your beliefs if a) they are not discriminatory and/or hateful and b) if you respect mine (or lack thereof). And believe me, the respect I have for this guy is deep in the negatives.
I’d love nothing more than to type a tl;dr response to this, but I’m afraid I’ll be too bitchy (religious fundamentalists hit all my right buttons) and I’m tired as shit so I’ll leave it at this: hey, at least I don’t need an invisible man in the sky to be my moral compass. I strive to be morally good not because I fear some deity or don’t want to spend an eternity in hell, but because I genuinely want to be. I recognize sexual orientation is biological in nature have nothing but contempt for those who denounce the “homosexual lifestyle”.
If that makes me a sinner, then I can’t wait to get into hell. I’ll bring the booze.
Re: UBC Student Union Files United Nations Complaint Over Rising Tuition Fees
I am outraged and so incredibly embarrassed by this whole ordeal. Normally I’m pretty apathetic towards school politics, but this is just…wow. Way to make UBC students look like stuck-up, spoiled brats.
“I see that as a win, but that doesn’t give me a mandate to do whatever it is that I had planned to do. So that means that whenever I make a decision, I’m going to have to consult with students on what it is that I’m doing.”
Blake Frederick likes to spew garbage about how important it is to be accountable to the student body. Meanwhile, he and VP External Tim Chu go behind the back of AMS council and file a human rights complaint to the United freaking Nations. Someone’s perception of accountability seems to be a little skewed.
He then tries to spin it off as though people opposing his (and Chu’s) actions are proponents of tuition increases. Seriously? UBC students aren’t stupid. This isn’t about rising tuition, it’s about the president and VP external of the AMS blatantly disregarding democracy and going rogue à la Sarah Palin.
Did I mention how he spent (at least) $3000 of AMS’s money hiring a firm to lodge this complaint?
The recent Ugandan proposal allowing gays to be executed is a human rights violation. The genocide in Darfur is a human rights violation. Tuition being allowed to rise 2% per year, as much as I hate it, is not even close to being a human rights violation. By pulling off this stunt, Frederick and Chu completely trivialize the plight of every human being on earth being denied their inherent rights.
In short: impeach these two buffoons.
recent comments