Barbies ARE pretty scary. Even as a gift to little girls, because it's sort of a 'good morning! this kind of unreasonable body type is going to be laid upon you forever as a goal you need reach!'

Why does anyone think anything mean is funny tho ever, really? Took me ages to suss this one out.

I was actually at a Book of Mormon study, of all things, and some guy was reading from Alma, and towards the end of that there's just this huge long war story. He was harping on the why-these-two-groups-were-warring part tho, which was like, just a few sentences towards the bginning.

The one group, our 'good guys' as it were, were just defending. Their land, their families, their right to believe as they did, etc.

The 'bad' group had allied with another bad group knowing they hated the first dudes, and hoping to exploit this so most the good guys were killed and they could subvert the remaining.

Yep. Bad guys like doing bad stuff.

They do bad for bad's sake. They dig it. It gets them off. You find countless sitches where someone is being bullied by someone else, and the bulliee is aking the bullier the same questions-

why are you doing this.

what did I ever do to you?

why can't you just leave us alone?


and in this talk about this chapter of possibly not even real historical people and why they were being persecuted, it came to me- oh yeh. bad people do bad stuff because they LIKE doing bad stuff.

Sucks, but that's usually the answer.