Dead puppies
So, that's another driving test and another $220 dollars that I'll never see again. The only conclusion that I can come to is that God does not want me to drive, maybe because in a past life I caused a 35-car pileup on a remote highway killing a pregnant woman, a blue-eyed toddler and nineteen fluffy puppies who were all on their way to a non-profit pediatric centre to visit orphaned terminally-ill children stricken with cancer in a country torn apart apart by civil war. Yes, I'm sticking with that regardless of what the cuz says.
Is it selfish, I wonder, to pray for something for yourself, rather than for other people? Or is refraining a sign that you don't believe that God will actually do something for you, because you don't actually believe that God will forgive all his sinning children? Is that a greater blasphemy than taking God's name in vain when someone has sliced into yuo with a scalpel and you very possibly have dead horse floating around somewhere in your bloodstream?
I think I'm just one of those people that things happen to. That would explain the past few years.
posted by Slinky @ 6:51:00 PM
9 Comments:
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vaoliveiro commented:
Gosh, they really do want to discourage people from driving don't they?
Chin up, Slinky. There's always another attempt. And remember, someone else we know failed his driving test, what ... 16, 19 times?
On another note, how's the cycling coming along?- » November 03, 2006 12:23 PM
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oh hey! 19 times??!? there IS someone who broke my colleague's record of 9 failed driving tests.
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Slinky commented:
Darling Vern, there is always another attempt, but there may not be oney to make it. I pay my own way, remember? And I have already spent a whole QUARTER of my semester's budget (that includes costing for rent, food, transport, books etc) on just fucking driving alone. Fucking country.
Any who's Mr. No. 19? My goldfish memory has forgotten.- » November 04, 2006 1:12 AM
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vaoliveiro commented:
Didn't Kabir fail his driving test that many times? Or were people joking?
In any case, I also just wanted to say: no, there's nothing wrong with asking God for help. The gospels are replete with people crying out for Jesus to heal them / drive demons out of their children, etc., and Jesus always eventually acquiesces to their requests. Asking for help is a most human acknowledgement of our weaknesses; asking God for help is a most sure sign that we recognise His greatness and His ability to make all things right.- » November 04, 2006 10:34 AM
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commented:
babes, i paassed the damned test only on my 4th blardy try in sg. I like to think it was the difficult ubi area and that i refused to wear a short skirt. HAHAH. yeah. it was costing good bucks too. dun give up! haha tis worth it, the price u have to pay. :) plus see how nicely i drive now AHHAHA. kaayyy!! kopi when i return.. verns ure not back anytime soon right?? --pw
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vaoliveiro commented:
Only during Christmas!
Incidentally, I was at Evensong service at a monastery this evening - monks dressed all in black, ornate altar in a stone chapel. The scripture reading came from Revelations 13:11-18, which ends, "let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six". It was surreal.- » November 05, 2006 1:09 PM
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commented:
Aiyoh, must all Catholic ex-convent girls always exaggerate everything to dizzy heights of epic drama and make life seem far more complicated than it really has to be?
It must be something in the water, lah.- » November 07, 2006 5:54 AM
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Slinky commented:
Vern - no lah, it was only 8 times, I think. Ha! I wonder.
About asking God for help - soemtimes it feels selfish to ask, becasue it seems like the easy way out, you know? And there's all the ridiculous Catholic guilt, of course, augmented by the voice of ym mother in my head sayin absurd things like "There are people dying in [insert war-torn country of choice] you know, and you still ask for help?" Crazy, I know!
And the monastery service sound creepy. honestly. Like a B-grade horror flick setting, just before the satanic hellmonster bursts through the floor.
P.W. - wheeee, that cheered me up! I keep labouring under the impression that everyone whizzed through on the first attempt and I'm ome sort of driving retard. Kopi, definitely. And are we celebrating Christmas together ,girls? Ooohh, and I got you a little present!
Jiang Wei - Because if we didn't all you boring atheist boys would make the world so insufferably dull that everyone would kill themselves out of despair and promptly go straight to hell.- » November 07, 2006 12:42 PM
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Hey, I'm not atheist. However, I am Methodist. Which I suppose, in Catholic eyes, is far, far worse.
Hmm, according to legend, when Pandora opened her little box, one of the things that sprang forth was a bunch of nuns armed with child education degrees and a fixation with pinafores.- » November 07, 2006 1:50 PM