Since my last entry kind of became pointless after I found my iPod again (the assumed loss of which was the reason for my frustrated rant) I've decided I will now update with a little bit of an experiment.

I'll make a short post in English, then translate that into German. (For those of you who don't speak it and might be interested to see what it looks like...lol.) Finally, I will use a translator website and see what they come up with. Maybe hilarity will ensue. Here's hoping. :P


English

It's Friday night, shortly after 8pm, and I am at the office. Usually I wouldn't be here on Friday nights, but this week (and next week) I'm working all five nights instead of four because - as some of you will know - I am going to be spending four and a half days in London at the end of the month. So I basically swapped days with one of my colleagues by filling in for her these two Fridays so that she will work for me when I'm in London. Hence, no need to take any days off. :D Aren't we clever.

I will go out for a post-birthday cocktail with my friend Nicki tonight after work. Other than that I want to go to the gym twice this weekend and also desperately need to clean up my place. You get so much more neglectful when you live on your own. ;) :P

Alright, not much more to say so let's see what the translator website comes up with.

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( My own German translation )

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( German translation by a translator website - completely off )


LMFAO!!! Okay, this probably won't be very funny to anyone who doesn't speak German, but that text makes no sense whatsoever! These translator websites just take the English text and translate it word for word, which means the entire structure of the sentences, the grammar, and the order of the words (all those things that are COMPLETELY different in my language) are just the same as in English, therefore in German it is absolutely wrong. XD

It's like saying in English, "I have big hunger and want something eat" ;D

I am against the Pope.

I cannot understand any Catholic person who glorifies the Pope and follows his teaching simply because he's the Pope, without questioning his actions, methods, and ways of thinking.

Now, as most my friends will know I am an atheist so obviously I do not care for the Catholic faith or any other religions in this world.

But what the current Pope has done and continues to do these days is outrageous and shameful. Especially because the man is German.

He rehabilitated a group of previously excommunicated Traditionalist bishops who are against reforms in the Catholic church - they're essentially conservative hardliners who "reject the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965 which decided, among other things, that neither today's Jews nor the Jews of the time of Christ were all responsible for the death of Christ" (quoted from some website).

Among these rehabilitated conservative asshole bishops is one British guy named Williamson who, in various interviews, directly denied that the Holocaust happened: he doesn't think 6 million Jews were killed (according to him it was "only" 300,000) and he doesn't think that gas chambers existed in the concentration camps.

HOW COULD SOMEBODY NOT BELIEVE THAT THESE THINGS ARE TRUE?!?!
Why do they think anybody would LIE about the gas chambers? I just don't get these ignorant people. It makes me fuckin' furious. And to think that someone like that was re-integrated into the Catholic church! I don't believe for one second that the Pope didn't know about this bishop's beliefs.

(Oh, and by the way, in my country Holocaust denial is actually a crime!)

As if all those things that have been in the news these past few days weren't bad enough, now I find out that the Pope made another outrageous decision:

He appointed (if that's the right word) a new bishop in a town in Austria who thinks the Harry Potter books are "satanic", and that Hurricane Katrina was God's way of punishing the sins of the people of New Orleans (suggesting that those who died deserved it), and who doesn't want anybody in the Catholic church who's gone through divorce.


I know not all Catholics agree with this or think like this; but if you're a Catholic that means you accept the Pope as your "leader". Well, I think you shouldn't. You're wrong about it. I think he's just an old, conservative man (whose personal opinins on some of these matters we don't even know) who is given way too much power.

[/frustrated rant]

LOL this is so cute!!!

VIDEO: Sasha Obama gives her dad the thumbs up after inauguration

23 December 2008

9:20pm

Imke is still at the office and will be for another half an hour. Thankfully, there's not that much to do so she can use the office color printer to print out covers for CDs that she burnt last night (as Christmas presents for certain people).

Anyway.
After I get home tonight I'll have to wrap some gifts, pack my things, go to bed, sleep & then get up, put the cats into their boxes (which, hopefully, they'll let me do without too much protest!), take them to the cat boarding place, then go up to my parents' house... and spend Christmas there.

Ah yes, Christmas! That's happening, too.

Merry Christmas
to every one of my friends who may be reading this! *hugs* :) Hope you have a nice and, most improtantly, relaxing holiday...!!!

I don't know this guy and have never watched his show before, but damn, he just said everything exactly the way I see it! If two people of the same gender wanna get married, what's it to you??

( This is about politics, but it's funny )

If this man becomes president, it is not completely unlikely, given his age, that he might not survive his first term. Then the USA would have President Palin, which would even be worse. Check out ( this woman's stupidity )

OMG she doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is!!!!! How embarassing for someone who's a politician and someone who, as a Republican, supports President Bush!! Yet she doesn't even know what she's supporting. Not to mention the fact that, when she finally does answer the question, she says that it is okay for the U.S. to strike preemptively whenever intelligence suggests that another country might attack the U.S. Yeah, the same way the intelligence "strongly suggested" that Saddam Hussein was an "imminent" threat to the U.S. Basically, if they hadn't invaded Iraq, Saddam would've launched a nuclear weapon against America two days later!!!

Right?

Now, I'm not as naive as to think that if the Obama/Biden ticket wins the election, the world will be a peachy happy place. But if McCain/Palin wins, I do think the world will be a worse place.

This simply deserves its own entry.


You know you're German if...

You separate your trash into more than five different bins.
Your front door has a sign with your family name made from salt dough.
You carry a "4You" backpack.
You eat a cold dinner at 6pm.
You call your cell phone "handy" and a projector "beamer".
You have no problems with nude beaches and saunas.
You have asked your Asian-American friend, "No, but where are you *really* from?"
You have gotten splinters from environmentally friendly toiled paper.
You call an afternoon stroll "Nordic Walking".
You are shocked when you have to pay for dental care.
You own a pair of jeans in a color other than blue.
People start talking about Hitler and Hofbräuhaus when you tell them where you're from.
Tenth grade was all about dancing lessons.
You work 40 hour weeks and have 6 weeks of vacation a year, but complain about hard times.
Your childhood diet consisted of Alete and Zwieback. Your college diet consisted of Miracoli and Döner.
You were educated about sex by Dr. Sommer.
You yell at people for jaywalking.
You grew up watching "Löwenzahn" and "Die Sendung mit der Maus". And Baywatch.
You think college tuition is an outrage.
You routinely go 100mph on the highway and tailgate heavily.
On your last day of high school you made your teachers sing Karaoke and jump through hoops.
You wear brown leather shoes.
Your first audio tape was Benjamin Blümchen and Bibi Blocksberg.
You have ended an English sentence with "..., or?".
You can tell at least one Manta joke.
You're a college student in your 11th year.
You spent hours in school learning to pronounce "th".
You expect chocolate in your shoes on December 6th.
You complain that in other countries everything is dirty.


LMAO!! Most of those make me go "OMG yes!!!" :D

Anyway... off to bed.

Our DSL modem at home is broken, and thus the internet doesn't work. So I won't get to read/reply to emails, check LJ, and stuff like that for a little while...

We'll be in Hohenlockstedt on Sunday and Monday, and by the time I get back we should have a functioning DSL modem borrowed from a friend of ours. So don't worry; I'll be back. ;D

Other than that nothing much worth updating for. There's a paper I really need to finish this weekend so perhaps it's for the better that the internet isn't working and thus I can't be distracted or procrastinate.


Oh, and in fandom news: Battlestar Galactica rocks my frikkin' socks!! :D And, uh *cough* yeah, so... *signs resignation papers* I'll have to finally admit that I've jumped the bandwagon: Jamie Bamber is pretty damn hot. ;D

This just totally inspired me. From a comment over at this page:


"...All belief systems are just that - a belief - even atheism is a belief. But I feel better knowing that in believing there is no god, I don't have to worry about whose interpretation of some book is right and don't need to deprive myself of life's pleasures in hopes that my god is the right one so that I can win the cosmic lottery and move on to the afterlife with my pals.

It's so much more fulfilling to just be a good person and enjoy life's true beauty."


I couldn't have said it any better myself! :)

We went and saw "L.A. Crash" last night. OMG so good! It is probably the best film I've seen this year. No kidding.

Seriously. Watch it.

( X your confessions )

Just felt the need to add this...

Tom Cruise: "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body."

LMAO!!

Veronica Mars rules!!!

*winks at cilly* Thanks, girl. Can't wait for Season 2!


And speaking of the entertainment business, did anyone catch Tom Cruise's appearance on the NBC "Today" show? You can view the interview at this site. Now, it's one thing to be rubbing your relationship with Katie Holmes in our faces the whole time and to annoy us with your everlasting phony grin. And yes, I will admit that Tom Cruise isn't the ugliest man on the planet and he's also not the worst actor. He really impressed me in "The Last Samurai".

But to me now, he isn't a good actor or a handsome guy anymore; he's a loony Scientologist creep! A creep who claims that "psychiatry is a pseudo-science". Who claims that he "knows the history of psychiatry" because he's read books about it (I'd bet the contents of my wardrobe that these books were written by Hubbard or other freaks of that pseudo-religion). He is incredibly arrogant and condescending and, frankly, made himself look like a freak, a creep, and a million other things.

Ugh. *shudder*

How can someone who seems so cute and smart be so brainwashed and stupid?!

These days I'd really love to be a journalist, because with his new film "War of the Worlds" coming out I'd find enormous pleasure in bugging Mr Cruise about his new movie and the alien invaders and his take on these topics, seeing as his "church" believes that the great intergalactic being Xenu banned a race of aliens to the volcanos on Earth 75 millions years ago, who have since escaped and possessed us.

Sad thing is, I'm not making this up.

Now, we probably all know that the administration (and many people) of the U.S.A. are currently very much into the "Abstinence-Only" programs when it comes to sexual education in high schools.

Personally, I couldn't be more against this concept! I think it is a) wrong to force moral or religious views and choices of a few "powerful" people into children's and adolescent's heads, and b) even wronger to make it seem as if sex is this "really bad thing" that you shouldn't have until you're married, that it's sinful and blah, blah, blah - which, again, brings me to the wrongness of pushing those views on others!

However, apart from my thinking that "Abstinence-Only" is simply not the right way to be educating students about sexuality, I have now come to realize that these programs are, in fact, just plain crap. Loaded with erroneous and distorted information. Like I said, they're desperately trying to make sex and the risks of it seem a lot worse than they actually are.

I mean, duh, I know there are risks and I know there can be consequences, and it is most important that we educate young people about them!! However, that is exactly what "Abstinence-Only" programs fail to do. They don't educate or inform properly; they just want to make sex look like this bad and sinful thing that will eventually "come back to getcha."

Don't know what I mean?
Well, here is an official government-y report on results of a survey on "Abstinence-Only" programs and curricula in American schools. The curricula teach wrong "facts" about the effectiveness of condoms, the risks of abortion, and some contain scientific errors!

Quote: "The report finds that over 80% of the abstinence-only curricula [...] contain false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health."

Prepared for the details? Read it and weep. (it's a .pdf file).

It's shocking. It's scandalous. And to think that younger generations are TAUGHT like this... It makes me SICK!

  

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