I have a massive headache....
Jun. 9th, 2003 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscambut I was a good girl. Finished my globalisation essay, done one fifth of my Internship report, finished the television story and still have my take-home exam to go. No worries, it's all on track - 'cept I'm battling the fricking Aussie flu. Sod off, germs. My body is on summer setting, it's not feeling like battling winter diseases.
Saw a really good program yesterday on the India-Pakistan nuclear race. You know, even when being enemies, humans are the same. Same kind of rhetoric, same kind of fear, same kind of reasons to hate each other. You see it with the fundamentalists muslims and the fundamentalist Christians, too. Humans are so like humans everywhere, even when being different. I wrote my final report on globalisation on this, and how globalisation to me is really just another name for human relations. It's all about humans dealing with other humans, be it in a cultural, economic, military or environmental way. I've always been fascinated with humanity. It's so self-contradictory and utterly unpredictable - yet very much the same everywhere.
Speaking of Christianity, my LJ comment on a review calling for a Lina-Gimli wedding seems to have sparked a little argument. We're all free to believe what we want in this world and express that opinion. However, OFUM is *my* story and I feel no obligation whatsoever to apply a Christian moral code to it. I am not Christian, nor was Tolkien's world. It had a religious theme to it, yes, but that is not the same thing. I will write OFUM as I see fit, and I will not marry off a couple merely because a moral code I do not follow demand so. I don't follow Islam, so I do not cover my hair. I respect others believing in whatever they want to believe in, but I would not let them enforce their moral codes on me, just as I wouldn't not expect my moral codes to be enforced upon them.
Now, I might marry off Lina and Gimli for plot reasons or because I find it more appropriate to Tolkien's world (however, as Lina is of our world, she would probably wait until she was very sure before marrying someone from another dimension. Not to mention that she is young). I haven't decided yet. But arguments for it because of Christian ethics will be promptly ignored. It's only likely to get me rather peeved. I am *not* Christian. You're entitled to my faith, I am entitled to mine. And it is *my* story.
So, the ethical argument on Lina and Gimli's relationship is hereby closed. However, you're entirely fee to give suggestions for plot reasons why they should marry, of course.
And for the record, I have friends of Christian, Islam and Buddhist faiths as well as atheists and have many very interesting debates on various aspects of religion. However, sometimes you just need to know when to shut up and agree to disagree. This is such a moment.
So, I'm shutting up.
Saw a really good program yesterday on the India-Pakistan nuclear race. You know, even when being enemies, humans are the same. Same kind of rhetoric, same kind of fear, same kind of reasons to hate each other. You see it with the fundamentalists muslims and the fundamentalist Christians, too. Humans are so like humans everywhere, even when being different. I wrote my final report on globalisation on this, and how globalisation to me is really just another name for human relations. It's all about humans dealing with other humans, be it in a cultural, economic, military or environmental way. I've always been fascinated with humanity. It's so self-contradictory and utterly unpredictable - yet very much the same everywhere.
Speaking of Christianity, my LJ comment on a review calling for a Lina-Gimli wedding seems to have sparked a little argument. We're all free to believe what we want in this world and express that opinion. However, OFUM is *my* story and I feel no obligation whatsoever to apply a Christian moral code to it. I am not Christian, nor was Tolkien's world. It had a religious theme to it, yes, but that is not the same thing. I will write OFUM as I see fit, and I will not marry off a couple merely because a moral code I do not follow demand so. I don't follow Islam, so I do not cover my hair. I respect others believing in whatever they want to believe in, but I would not let them enforce their moral codes on me, just as I wouldn't not expect my moral codes to be enforced upon them.
Now, I might marry off Lina and Gimli for plot reasons or because I find it more appropriate to Tolkien's world (however, as Lina is of our world, she would probably wait until she was very sure before marrying someone from another dimension. Not to mention that she is young). I haven't decided yet. But arguments for it because of Christian ethics will be promptly ignored. It's only likely to get me rather peeved. I am *not* Christian. You're entitled to my faith, I am entitled to mine. And it is *my* story.
So, the ethical argument on Lina and Gimli's relationship is hereby closed. However, you're entirely fee to give suggestions for plot reasons why they should marry, of course.
And for the record, I have friends of Christian, Islam and Buddhist faiths as well as atheists and have many very interesting debates on various aspects of religion. However, sometimes you just need to know when to shut up and agree to disagree. This is such a moment.
So, I'm shutting up.
