I seem to be getting tagged a lot these days. O_o Anyway, these are two of the meme's I've been tagged that I haven't taken so far. It's quite long so I'm cutting it for the sake of those people who just aren't interested. :)

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Staring into space
I broke into tears.
I am frightened.
So frightened of everything.

I screamed as loud as I can
So that my voice could be heard.
I screamed until my voice starts to fade
To know how far my voice could reach.

I kept wondering
Of what lies ahead.
I kept holding on
Of what's within my grasp.

I wanna see
What the future holds.
I wanna peak
At that one day years ahead.

Even if it means
I have an undesired future.
At least, I know,
Which way I should go.

I keep on stalling.
And it felt like forever.
I keep on shaking,
Too frightened for just one step.

I wonder if
This feeling would fade someday.
I wonder when
This feet would stop shivering.

Will that day come
That I would be brave enough to say
That despite it all,
I still took that one step.

Last Thursday, June 21, 2007 at exactly 8:45:35pm I received such text message:

Pls read Acts 15:28 and Leviticus 17:10-12. If you have your Bible at home.. Would you still eat blood or "dinuguan?"

Of course I have a Bible at home. My Bible is well kept, clean of dust and put up nicely in my shelf. It's one of my so-called valued possessions like any other of my mythology books. Before I would answer that hanging question of still wanting to eat blood, I would like to point out that I am fond of eating blood, internal organs (even brains, yes), exotic dishes, raw and half cooked stuffs simply because they taste good (at least for me). That is also safe to say the Dinuguan is one of my favorite Filipino dish.

Now, to explain what the heck a Dinuguan is, Dinuguan, for all Filipinos are aware of, is a kind of Filipino dish on which, pork blood is cooked with some pork meat and chili and made into stew. For more info, read this and don't ask me for a recipe.

Going back to the topic at hand, let me post what the King James Bible has to say with the verses left for me.

Acts 15:28:

²⁸ For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

Given that first statement, I couldn't even sleep properly thinking about what relation does it have to do with "blood." So in conclusion, I still do not get why that statement.

Leviticus 17:10-12:

¹⁰ And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

¹² Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

That said, I would accept that his reasoning for not eating blood is because, God says so. Therefore, as an obedient child, one must heed his fathers words. Although, if you would read the later verses 13-15, you would have a clear explanation of why the Bible says so. I guess it's a form of respect to every living being not to eat their blood. For according the Bible, eating a blood of no matter what being it is, it would mean that you are cutting off of his life because his life/soul lies within it's blood.

Thus, I concluded, on this day forth, I would continue to eat blood, in respect to all beings of the Earth. This would mean that I am cutting their life/soul and they will suffer no more for the sake of this eternally damned world. And such is my way of kindness.

You see, the moment you were born is this world, the moment your first cry was heard, is that very moment that you are bound to invisible chains that binds you to this world - chains that binds you to sin, suffering and misery. Even if you reach your death, you would still be kept bounded to this world. And if what the Bible said was true, I would gladly eat your blood. For in that moment, a mere me, a sinful me, could at least free you of those chains.

I wouldn't care less if God's children couldn't see my empathy on this, but as an Atheist, I love other things more than I love God.

- edit -

Err.. I just received a text message from Gabby saying that he's given me a wrong verse. *lol* Here's the right one.

Acts 15:29:

²⁹ You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

How would you know if the food served to you was from a strangled animal? Define "sexual immorality." How would you know if something is sexually immoral and not? Does that include S+M? "You will do well to avoid such things" would be a good advice, though. :)

Guestbook

My guestbook, has a new navigation. It's less cluttered unlike the old one. Thank you Glitch for fixing my horrible coding. Also, I installed something interesting in the guestbook as well, try signing it and see what happens. And oh, even if the guestbook and the tagboard uses the same database, they're of different scripts so that interesting thing doesn't apply when you tag.

Jaiku

I've revamped my Jaiku. I deleted the old entires for a fresh start. I removed my Twitter post from my Jaiku as well because my Twitter post are cluttered all over my Jaiku account. I'll be using my Jaiku account as update portal for all sites and blogs. I'll make use of this wondrous thing called RSS Feeds again. I really hoped that Deviantart would have an RSS feed soon as well. So if you're looking for an update from me, my Jaiku account is your best option. If you prefer it by feeds, I have it as well. You can subscribe through my feeds.

Others

I've updated my gift and rewards section as well and KHS mangas are now re-uploaded. In the case of Happiness!, it wont be re-uploaded until I get a note that we are continuing the project. That project is still on hold.

And lastly, I'm back at DA with a new Hollow Mask. Please visit me! :love:

From Khei over YIM:

Please vote for Ate Frances to be the 6th member of the Palmolive Shining Circle of Ten. You have to register before you can vote. Registration is for FREE and is done only once.

Here’s how to register:
Just type: Shine reg name/age/gender/address
Example: Shine reg fran pasco/22/female/34-16 don pepito ave. angeles city
AND send to 2366

After you have registered, you can vote by just typing: SHINE A/Fran
AND send to 2366

If possible, please do vote for her the maximum number of times allowable which is 4x a day until this Thursday, June 21’07 at 11:59pm. Just change the letter “A” to B,C and D.

Example:
SHINE B/Fran
SHINE C/Fran
SHINE D/Fran

AND send to 2366

Frances Pasco. She graduated high school from AUF-IS one batch ahead of us (I don't remember my batch and I'm too lazy to count) so I kinda know her personally (but we're not that close) since the student population at IS is rather small and she's one of those popular students in terms of academic and extra curricular activities. I think Khei knows her better since they were kinda close and at the same organization, I think? O_o So you go bug Khei instead of me.

I'm posting this simply to show my support because I like her. She's nice.