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same_difference) wrote2007-06-23 11:52 pm
same_difference) wrote2007-06-23 11:52 pm
I won't wear dresses...
...especially chain mail ones. Which is why I've spent most of today modifying my suit of chain mail. Pre-modified it went down to below my knees, the sleeves were long enough to cover my entire arms and hands leaving an inch over lap, and it's chain mail so the weight tends to pull it inwards, making it figure* hugging (well figure squashing). If it weren't for me being a 20-something male, and it being made of chain mail, I could be described as looking like a little girl playing dress up in her Mum's dresses.**
I think tomorrow might kill me, still that would make things nice and simple for me (though less simple for the GM's). Before I removed bits it weighed 19 kilos, I've taken a few inches of the sleeves and split it at the bottom (so I can walk), so I doubt it's all that much lighter. Plus there's plate to go top. Still if I survive it might help me get fitter.
If I start going to the Medieval Martial Arts regularly, and salsa fortnightly I hope it'll get me fitter. Both are fun so that's good. Even if it may take me a while to pick up salsa well enough to keep up with the pace of the lessons. Then if I actually start swimming like the physio recommends to build up that muscle group in my back that I otherwise never use, I might be reasonably fit again.
Anyway enough self mocking, here's a meme for you to do so instead:
Ask me or my characters up to five questions on anything - opinions, politics, my life, your life, whatever, and I'll try to answer them. I reserve the right to ignore or mock the rude ones.
*Not that I have one.
**I'm not sure I want to be giving you that particular mental image of me.***
***I am sure you don't want it either.
I think tomorrow might kill me, still that would make things nice and simple for me (though less simple for the GM's). Before I removed bits it weighed 19 kilos, I've taken a few inches of the sleeves and split it at the bottom (so I can walk), so I doubt it's all that much lighter. Plus there's plate to go top. Still if I survive it might help me get fitter.
If I start going to the Medieval Martial Arts regularly, and salsa fortnightly I hope it'll get me fitter. Both are fun so that's good. Even if it may take me a while to pick up salsa well enough to keep up with the pace of the lessons. Then if I actually start swimming like the physio recommends to build up that muscle group in my back that I otherwise never use, I might be reasonably fit again.
Anyway enough self mocking, here's a meme for you to do so instead:
Ask me or my characters up to five questions on anything - opinions, politics, my life, your life, whatever, and I'll try to answer them. I reserve the right to ignore or mock the rude ones.
*Not that I have one.
**I'm not sure I want to be giving you that particular mental image of me.***
***I am sure you don't want it either.
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I do. They are complicated, best to start with the history.
I was raised Roman Catholic, did the whole working up through the sacraments thing up till confirmation, because they're seemed no reason not too. Following confirmation, school R.E. (At the RC comprehensive) went into more detail about such things as the doctrine of the catholic faith, resulting in a very much 'You have got to be joking reaction!', also had issues about the difference between performing a ritual behaviour and appreciating and intending the meaning behind it.
Decided then that faith made more sense as a purely personal thing, and it would be hypocritical to attend masses where I did not fully agree with the beliefs I was required to subscribe too. Realised later than I never prayed to anything other than a God figure, and so would probably more describe myself as some kind of deist, where I used to say non-denominational Christian.
My belief in some ways is kind of strange, and very vague and ill defined. So I don't talk about it because primarily faith of any kind should be a personal thing, and because I have no real opinions to argue. Other than everyone should be entitled to believe or not believe whatsoever they wish as long as they cause no harm to others through their faith, religion, agnosticism or atheism.
All I can really say to describe it, is that I don't need faith to answer questions or provide meaning or to justify either the good or evil in the world. I like science's answers, and I believe in the importance of finding ones own meaning. Though I have no issue with the existence of a creator (not a designer), even only one who set a few equations and then hit start and who maybe fiddles the numbers occasionally so certain things happen; if only because it gives me an extra perspective from which to appreciate the wonder that the universe inspires in me.
What I need and what I get from my faith is an indefinable, but very real and effective sense of support when I cannot provide it for myself. One I received in a very poignant way when I really needed it, and one I can draw upon whether I need to.