i wanna be a butterfly

// now playing: Seven Day Jesus / Self Titled... you read it right... OLD SKOOL!

I love pulling old cds out: or in this case, old mp3s. (aside: a good policy is, when you find a cd you love, rip it immediately. I did that two years ago when i picked up the SevenDay cd on a fluke considering as how they broke up in like 96, and now, while the cd is eaten up (by some freak Puerto Rican mold), i can still rock out to a cd that, in all likelyhood, I'll never come across again.) There are a lot of good memories associated with this stuff. And yes, I do wanna be a butterfly.

So, right now, clickest thou here and go read Caleb Hunt's blog, cause it rocks, and also, cause I got a reference for what I am about to propound. Yes ladies and gentlemen, step right up, for you will now hear... or read, as it were... andymack's thoughts on relationships.

WARNING: what follows are the sometimes tongue in cheek, sometimes not so, musings of one who tries his best to be bitter at the world, but does a pretty bad job of it. END WARNING

Okay, so relationships... ARE DANGEROUS!!! This was the realization that founded a great, grass roots organization that I'll introduce you to in a bit. Don't you go getting me off track now. Where was I? The price of tea in china? Wait... different web-identity. ;-) Relationships are dangerous. Now, reasons why? Well, probably because inevitably, there's gonna be a girl involved. And girls are dangerous. And unpredictable. And generally understand us more than we want to confess. Which is scary stuff. Plus, the chance exists that you may experience colossal rejection. Or worse, that you'll get dumped. All these are reasons why i recommend that every man join The NoMackPack © ®. The NoMackPack © ® stands on a very basic purpose statement: Stay Free, Stay Strong, Stay Single. Started in the Summer of 2000 by two young men (who quickly left the fold, then rejoined, then left, and now have rejoined again), the NoMackPack © ® exists to call young men to a higher standard. To Stay Free: free from gossip, free from flirting, free from stupid entanglements, free from anything that hinders us. To stay strong: strong in the fight, strong in character, and strong in commitments. And finally, To Stay Single: Not permenantly. There's nothing strange going on here. We, the founders, understand that at some point the man will reach the point where it is a GOOD THING for him to pursue the right girl. But, we stand with Elizabeth Elliot in recommending that you not awaken passion before it's due time. BECAUSE YOU END UP GETTING HURT, MEATHEAD. Or worse, you end up hurting someone else.

Ah, the NoMackPack. The sweater order will be going in sometime around April, so let us know if you'd like one. That ended up being a lot more serious and a lot less funny than I thought it would. I think the reason for that is that I'm over the whole bitterness stage from my last relationship, and am moving on to the... be careful where you step stage. It's a hard world to be an upstanding person in. It's so easy to fall into umpteen different kinds of sin. This is a call to men: to those who are single, let's be upstanding gentlemen to all the girls we interact with. To those who are Not Single, first, allow me to offer my best wishes and encouragment. It's a wonderful thing to be in a good, God honouring relationship. But, the challenge to you is: not only do you have to be an upstanding gentleman to all the girls you interact with, you have to be an upstanding boyfriend / fiance / husband to the girl you are with. Double Duty.

I really think that the area of our treatment of women is a place that guys have really lost a step in. And it's always good to (as Lenny said right before the Oneders rocked out a Villapiano's) pick it up a little! So, lets do it guys. Let be gentlemen. Lets uphold honour and truth in our dealings with everyone.

Okay, so now I'm gonna go. I've gone from wanting to be funny, to being contemplative about the state of mankind. Which means, time to write some philosophy papers! Just a general recommendation: if you have 5 lessons of philosophy due, don't leave them until the day before. It's a bad idea. So, this one goes out to G.E. Moore. "Here is my right hand; here is my left hand. Therefore, an external world exists." You got 'er buddy. I just hope you held up the correct hands when you said it.
wow, this guy is so random with his mood swings.