A Word of Encouragement to Second-Class Nerds

If I have noticed correctly, this world (i.e. The Internet) is an unofficially established hierarchy of nerds. The more "nerdy" you are, the "cooler" you are, and the "higher" you are on the aforementioned "hierarchy." Only a True Nerd knows these nineteen facts about Star Wars, only a Real Harry Potter Fan will recognize who said This Quote, and only a Confirmed Tolkien Addict can list the seven sons of Feanor in alphabetical order.


In other words, if you are not well-versed enough in your preferred literature, you are a second-class nerd. You are not a True Nerd. You're not Enough.


But hark, nerd police, I say unto you, go fudge yourselves.




 Here's why:


If you're Catholic like yours truly, you've probably heard of a person named Saint Bernadette who, as you have probably gathered, was a Saint named Bernadette. If my sources are correct (which they are), St. Bernadette was not well-versed in theology. She didn't know, for example, Who the Three Persons of the Trinity were. When she died and went to heaven, the above nerd police will tell you that St. Peter stopped her and said, "St. Bernadette, when you took the online quiz about whether or not you're a true God Fan, you failed. You are, therefore, not allowed in our inner circle of saints and have been demoted to janitor duties." However, I am pleased to inform you that the nerd police are morons. The amount you know about your world, fictional or not, does not dictate your love for it.


Actually, if you pay attention to pop shows and the media, unless I'm wrong, the general consensus seems to be that a nerd is just a person whose top-priority/interest does not involve sex. At least, that's what I've gathered.


With that said, go read The Lord of the Rings, don't remember every single name or province, and enjoy it regardless. Don't let the muggles get you down. Live long and prosper, and may the Force be with you.

A Bit of Writing Part 7

If I am successful with book #1, this will be at the begining-ish of book #2 which I realize is pushing my luck, but I don't care.

The word "thixophobia" is an unusual one which refers to the fear of touching a fellow human being. The first person in history to suffer from thixophobia was a woman we know today as Typhoid Mary who, in order to avoid physical contact with other people, invented the disease typhoid and appointed herself as its primary vessel, successfully discouraging her friends and acquaintances from touching her ever again. She did not, in fact, carry the disease as many have been led to believe, and thus, we understand, any subsequent outbreak of typhoid was purely psychological.
However, to return to the point at hand, Typhoid Mary's thixophobia was not brought on, as one may guess, by a fear of germs, but rather from an uncomfortable stirring in her soul whenever she happened to brush a hand or foot past the body--living or dead--of a fellow human person. Each time this happened, her soul seemed to flinch and say to itself, "Self, that Thing you just touched is a Person. Tread carefully. If it is in any way damaged, we shall reserve this week's ration of bread and water for the rats."

A Bit of Writing Part 6

You will not be surprised to learn that the first man to experience Deja Vu was Adam. When Adam encountered his first moment of Deja Vu, he did not recognize it for what it was, having never experienced it before, and when he asked Eve what it was, she shrugged her shoulders and said in the primordial language Our Lord had concocted for them, “If you don’t know, then I’m certainly not going to tell you.” The reason for Eve’s chagrin was that she had just offered him a piece of fruit, and he took it without question, thereby implying that he had forgotten what had occurred the first time she had offered him a piece of fruit. As it happened, Adam had not forgotten, but had assumed that Eve had learned not to accept comestibles from super-intelligent reptiles. He told her so, and she apologized for snapping with a kiss on his nose before instructing him to bring in the dog and take out the garbage. However, this was several thousands of years even before the birth of Christ. In the present day….