A Curious Girl: Working out a riddle or three

Hello... It's me again...

I'm feeling medium. Kind of peaceful, and yet worried about my career stuff. Had a mad pray about that yesterday.

Thinking about freedom lately. I'd swear, thinking philosophically doesn't do anyone any good. It just makes you feel depressed. I blame Sartre, I've been reading The Age of Reason. It's written well but I'm not sure I'm really anjoying it. Abi recommended it. The main character, Mathieu, is forever obsessed with freedom and obtaining his freedom. I don't have any sympathy with him - or maybe I have too much. Anyway, I lay some of the blame on JPS, and the rest on determinism.

As for freedom - I wonder if I'm really free, or am I just going down the path I was always going to go down, and I don't have any choice or say, and the worst thing is, I don't know what the path is.

So I searched through my Bible, and found 'The truth will set you free' and 'Freedom in Jesus Christ.' I never realised how completely obsessed people are with freedom. I was listening to 'Red letters' this morning (by dc talk) and heard the line 'There is truth in the red letters' and that reminded me of the 'truth shall set you free' line. I thought - yes, there is truth in the words of Jesus. So I flicked to the gospels, although the words of Jesus aren't red in my Bible, so I just had to find them myself. I came across this line.

Luke 6:40 "A student is not better than the teacher, but the student who has been fully trained will be like the teacher." NCV I know what it means - in the context it means that you aren't better than God, although you can become like him. Just made me think, what an idiot I am to doubt that God has prepared the path. He leads me to fulfillment, and yet I am free to do what I want to do. I've caught myself clinging to the roller coaster with white knuckles again...

Oh well. Long bus journey home today - traffic in Strood. Thought up weird riddles

She eats all she can, and yet has no thirst
She thrives on the land, but at sea she is cursed
She acts with refinement, but has a deadly embrace
When she has departed, there remains little trace
She dances in elegance, but grows in her storm
She'll kill in her fury, but she'll keep you warm

::Puts on Rolf Harris voice::

Can you guess what it is yet?

Fire

So, riddle composing is a little skill that should come in handy if ever I'm on a journey in underground caves and I meet a psychotic riddler who continually gibbers about his birthday present. Highly useful.

Also thought up the main plot for the Unfinished Novel at last - yeah, I know it's kinda sad that I hadn't thought of it already, but in a way, there's more of two plots than one. There's the main character plot, in which my enchantress in training basically grows up, and then there's the overall plot, the thing that'll keep it going when battling dragons no longer has any context compared with puberty... Worried that's it's slightly cliche, but we'll see. I'm not going to tell you what the plot is, (wait till it's published, hahahah) although the weird thing is, it fits with all the hints and clues I was giving about the future I had only vaguely worked out all too well. I'm going to kill off the chief wizard-y person. He's too much like Albus Dumbledore. Let them cope on their own...

I am reminded of Dr. C is continually going on about how bromoalkanes are a 'happy medium' when dealing with halogenoalkanes. When she says that it always makes me think of a cheerful spiritualist. :-)

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