First of all, I just want to say that people who use the inability of archaeologists to find ruins and evidence of biblical happenings to say that those events never happened, therefore the Bible is wrong, are stupid. How can you base your beliefs about basically everything on the ability of a human being? Humans are not infallible and sometimes DO make mistakes. There's no way to prove that something didn't happen just because you can't find it. You can only say something definitely happened because you found evidence of it. Innocent until proven guilty, that sort of thing.
This weekend was a good one. We saw Nights in Rodanthe on Friday and everybody cried. It was great. Then I spent a lot of the day shopping (and spent way too much money :\) and then ordered pokey sticks (AMAZING) and watched a movie last night. We finished the first season of Gossip Girl last night, too, and i must say that I am addicted. I'm finishing what there is of this season so far in the next couple days. I'm excited. Tonight I have dance practice which I'm excited about. Usually I don't know how much I miss having dance until I go back to it. This week is cancer awareness week and I'm excited about that. It makes me happy when people are made more aware of the problems of the world. Kudos to mom :)
I'm going home this weekend because Cam is, too! I'll be happy to see him and spend time with all 4 of us. We're going to talk about going to Disney World over Christmas break! I got excited for Christmas about last week. I can NOT wait! I think this Christmas break is going to be one of the best ones EVER because I might get to go to Disney World, I'm throwing an engagement party for my BEST friends and it's freakin' Christmas!!!!!!! [also, the semester will be over.] :)
"One step at a time, there's no need to rush
It's like learning to fly or falling in love
It's gonna happen and it's supposed to happen
That we find the reasons why, one step at a time"
Jordin Sparks
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
That's the meat of my really bad exam sandwich.
Title attributed to Cameron Teague.
Last week was a really good week. I got a big for APO and went to initiation, got my big, etc. EXCEPT i had my cell bio exam and that wasn't too happy. And we lost to Va Tech. And the Panthers lost, too.
Nothing too big this week. Last night I had my first APO pledge meeting, which was just informational about what we have to do as pledges. We have to work an hour in the Lost and Found each week (mine's Tuesdays 1-2), wear our pledge pins, decorate our notebooks, and do conditionals. There are 2 conditionals and a final review, at which we'll say what all we have done so far, answer questions about the chapter, and one silly question. Then the brotherhood votes on our progress. That might be stressful, but not too bad. I had dance practice for Fall For You last night and I'm falling in loooooove with that dance slash song. It's amazing. Also I applied to be on a Relay for Life committe and I find out very soon which one i'm on. I'm excited. I hope that I get on the survivor one, because thats the one I'm most invested in.
I feel like there's a lot that's been going on but I don't think I have anything else to write about, which is odd. Anyway, keep this and cherish it:
World's spinning round,
There's no sign of slowing down,
So won't you take a breath?
Just take a breath.
People change and promises are broken.
Clouds can move and skies will be wide open.
Don't forget to take a breath.
Last week was a really good week. I got a big for APO and went to initiation, got my big, etc. EXCEPT i had my cell bio exam and that wasn't too happy. And we lost to Va Tech. And the Panthers lost, too.
Nothing too big this week. Last night I had my first APO pledge meeting, which was just informational about what we have to do as pledges. We have to work an hour in the Lost and Found each week (mine's Tuesdays 1-2), wear our pledge pins, decorate our notebooks, and do conditionals. There are 2 conditionals and a final review, at which we'll say what all we have done so far, answer questions about the chapter, and one silly question. Then the brotherhood votes on our progress. That might be stressful, but not too bad. I had dance practice for Fall For You last night and I'm falling in loooooove with that dance slash song. It's amazing. Also I applied to be on a Relay for Life committe and I find out very soon which one i'm on. I'm excited. I hope that I get on the survivor one, because thats the one I'm most invested in.
I feel like there's a lot that's been going on but I don't think I have anything else to write about, which is odd. Anyway, keep this and cherish it:
World's spinning round,
There's no sign of slowing down,
So won't you take a breath?
Just take a breath.
People change and promises are broken.
Clouds can move and skies will be wide open.
Don't forget to take a breath.
Monday, September 15, 2008
hello beautiful, it's been a long time
OKay so it's been a really long time, but I MADE IT THROUGH RUSH WEEK!! And Elizabeth and I tied for the most points, aka we're getting bids. Which is really exciting. But it also means I don't have much to tell you. I didn't have any free time from last Sunday until Friday afternoon (at which time we watched Gossip Girl, went to dinner, watched V for Vendetta, and watched more Gossip Girl. Then I did more APO Saturday morning, and then watched Gossip Girl again Saturday afternoon. Then we had shopping therapy in the afternoon and ate at the Cheesecake Factory! Saturday night APO had an end-of-rush party and our small group leader from last year had a dance party, so we were busy. Then guess what we did! We watched more Gossip Girl. We're already on the 3rd disc out of 5 for the first season. :) Good news. I met a lot of awesome people over the last week and I'm super excited about hanging out with them from now on because we'll be brothers (haha).
Over the past week in Old Testament we've studied the Flood and now we're on the Exodus. Bart is finally getting around to saying why this part of the story could NOT have happened and trying to argue that the Bible is simply meant to be read as good religious literature. While he's doing that, I'm able to come up with arguments in my mind to refute what he is saying, so it's been an interesting week, but good for me, I think.
Dance started back last week, too, and it's been fun so far. I always miss dance so much so I'm pumped to be dancing again. And it's keeping me in shape. And last week One Tree Hill came back on, and it was a horrible episode (horrible as in I didn't like what happened). The high schooler that we've all come to love was shot and killed! So first of all I hated that that happened, but it also made me think that it could happen to anyone, so it was kind of a traumatic night! But I'm ready for it to come back on tonight! <3
Over the past week in Old Testament we've studied the Flood and now we're on the Exodus. Bart is finally getting around to saying why this part of the story could NOT have happened and trying to argue that the Bible is simply meant to be read as good religious literature. While he's doing that, I'm able to come up with arguments in my mind to refute what he is saying, so it's been an interesting week, but good for me, I think.
Dance started back last week, too, and it's been fun so far. I always miss dance so much so I'm pumped to be dancing again. And it's keeping me in shape. And last week One Tree Hill came back on, and it was a horrible episode (horrible as in I didn't like what happened). The high schooler that we've all come to love was shot and killed! So first of all I hated that that happened, but it also made me think that it could happen to anyone, so it was kind of a traumatic night! But I'm ready for it to come back on tonight! <3
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Life.
"Life is about interruptions and spontaneity. You have to learn to just go with it." --Hollister Dibble.
Quote for the day.
So last week in my recitation we discussed the Creation stories. Did you know there are actually two different creation accounts in Genesis 1-2? The first story depicts the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. The second one focuses more on the creation of man. In the two stories, the order in which things are created is different. How does this affect the truthfulness of the story? Not much, in my opinion. I mean, who says we are to take every single word of the Bible literally? How do we know that God actually created everything in exactly 6 days? That is, 144 hours. Then rested for one? God is outside of space and time, and when we try to restrain him by adding specific human times to his doings, it's not going to work out. There are things that even we don't understand, no matter how scientifically advanced we think we are.
My professor has said that it is now believed that Moses did not write the Pentateuch (aka Torah, first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible). Specifically, because it is not written in the 1st person (which is not a good enough reason...) and because the end of Deuteronomy talks about Moses' death and burial. Those don't give enough evidence to say that the entire Torah was not written by Moses. Nevertheless, it doesn't quite matter exactly who wrote what - it's what's written that matters. They have attributed some of the contradictions in the Bible (i.e. the order of creation, the flood narratives, etc) to different sources. They name these the J, E, P, and D sources. I'm not sure of the accuracy of this statement, but it certainly makes sense of the differing creation stories, the different number of animals Noah took on the ark, and many other small inconsistencies.
Tonight starts Rush Week for APO. For the next week I will have NO TIME. Which is okay, because I'm going to have fun. I'm going to meet people, I'm going to do service, I'm going to be happy. I enrolled in the Public Service Scholars program last night. They require that I have 300 hours of service, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0, one service learning course, and 4 skills trainings. I figure with APO, I'll have plenty of opportunity to get those hours. My only concern is the service learning course, because that has to be next semester. But it should be fine. If I get in APO, I'ma be a brother! woot!
Quote for the day.
So last week in my recitation we discussed the Creation stories. Did you know there are actually two different creation accounts in Genesis 1-2? The first story depicts the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. The second one focuses more on the creation of man. In the two stories, the order in which things are created is different. How does this affect the truthfulness of the story? Not much, in my opinion. I mean, who says we are to take every single word of the Bible literally? How do we know that God actually created everything in exactly 6 days? That is, 144 hours. Then rested for one? God is outside of space and time, and when we try to restrain him by adding specific human times to his doings, it's not going to work out. There are things that even we don't understand, no matter how scientifically advanced we think we are.
My professor has said that it is now believed that Moses did not write the Pentateuch (aka Torah, first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible). Specifically, because it is not written in the 1st person (which is not a good enough reason...) and because the end of Deuteronomy talks about Moses' death and burial. Those don't give enough evidence to say that the entire Torah was not written by Moses. Nevertheless, it doesn't quite matter exactly who wrote what - it's what's written that matters. They have attributed some of the contradictions in the Bible (i.e. the order of creation, the flood narratives, etc) to different sources. They name these the J, E, P, and D sources. I'm not sure of the accuracy of this statement, but it certainly makes sense of the differing creation stories, the different number of animals Noah took on the ark, and many other small inconsistencies.
Tonight starts Rush Week for APO. For the next week I will have NO TIME. Which is okay, because I'm going to have fun. I'm going to meet people, I'm going to do service, I'm going to be happy. I enrolled in the Public Service Scholars program last night. They require that I have 300 hours of service, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0, one service learning course, and 4 skills trainings. I figure with APO, I'll have plenty of opportunity to get those hours. My only concern is the service learning course, because that has to be next semester. But it should be fine. If I get in APO, I'ma be a brother! woot!
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