Camilla Maddison

Are you abiogenesis or biogenesis?

After 5 hours of law (prep for tutorial, actual tutorial then THREE lectures in a row, clearly the right to lunch breaks expired when I hit higher education) I did some preparation for the society I’m president of (philosophy, of course), our first meeting this term is going to be based on extreme religions

After searching in google for extremists views on evolution (Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovas Witnesses etc) I accidentally came across a page about abiogenesis and biogenesis, and because I’m a geek I looked it up

Biogenesis is when living things come from other living things. In aristotlian terms, this means bees come from flowers and maggots come from dead animal flesh, however in modern science this relates to evolution.

Abiogenesis is when living things occur from inorganic matter. A series of experiments have shown this to happen on a miniature scale in controlled conditions. A series of chemicals of course are required, but nothing too complex, and suddenly amino acids form, and prokaryotes appear

In my constant need to compartmentalise, I wonder if this can relate to people. Biogenesis people just make things happen with what they’re given. Abiogenesis people, however, can make something happen out of nothing, taking chances, being slightly unpredictable, but with a little chaos and some enigmatic logic, make a lot of progress.

Are you biogenesis or abiogenesis? Or worse still, (since after all, I was meant to be researching religion) just Genesis, needing age-old symbolism, just trying to be a good person and hoping everything will fall in to place, some day, at some point, probably during the End Times, which, incidentally, Jehovas Witnesses believe began at 1914.

If the end is already here, what are you waiting for?

Anonymous asked: Alright stranger! Will you and Cami be out on Friday? :) xoxox

personal anon messages freak me out, soz. get in touch on facebook or something xox

Anonymous asked: Do you think you are very self-centered?

Probably. But not in a way where I’m unempathetic, more in a way where I think a lot, prefer my own company to others, and have an entire page on the internet with over 200 pages where I just talk about myself, what I’m wearing, and reblog photos that please me. Whatevs. xoxox

Anonymous asked: why did you start playing the ukulele? its such a wannabe hipster thing to do.

Well actually, my dear anon, I bought my first ukulele about 4 years ago when I was going through my 1950’s phase, when I would wear girdles, fully fashioned stockings, and eventually developed what one of my best friends who was studying psychology at the time referred to as a “stage two obsession” with Marilyn Monroe, resulting in me spending about 6 hours in a hair salon to get my then-dark-red hair dyed platinum blonde and cut into a bob. Marilyn Monroe plays a ukulele in the film Some Like It Hot. So I didn’t buy one with being “hipster” in mind, I bought one because I was a massive creep obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, which is probably doesn’t make me as cool, since wanting to be a hipster seems to be everyones common interest these days.

p.s have since upgraded from a pale pink Mahalo to an actual decent one, which I don’t bring to uni as I find it to be a distraction.