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Well, it seems that it has been a rather long time since I posted anything on here. I just have felt no compulsion to. Perhaps I have been numb or just busy from trying to get myself back into the swing of things with college. This is semester seems to be going well so far. I am meeting more people finally. Maybe I con finally put away all that teenaged angst about not having many friend here and blah blah blah! Even I got tired of complaining about it.
Just had my Eastern Relions class for the first time today. I am not sure how it is going to go, It seems vaguely interesting in the least. We were discussing primitive cultures and the "Scientific Adam" today. Apparently there is scientific evidence that we all come from one ancestor. It seems that at times I will have put put aside my personal beliefs as Christian and just vie wthis class from a detached point of view. I would not be the first time. I don't want to have arguements over whether evolution is true or not. Perhaps it is and that is how God formed man if you do not want to do a literal reading of the Bible. Perhaps ancient people had no words for the process and so they wrote down the story the way it is. Maybe it happened exaclty as it is written. I just know I belive in Creationism, however it was achieved. I don't know why I felt the need to say that. Perhaps it is just that at this school, people seem to want to to have a clearly defined line and idea of what you believe in and how you believe it. So there, I just drew the line. I don't want people to stand on one side or another. It is not you're with me or you are against me. It is simply what I believe. Stereotypes aside, I respect that other people have other ideas. I just hope and wish that people would respect that I have my own.
Wow, perhaps I was wrong and I do have a tendency to get on my soap box. I start to feel stupid when people don't comment back but instead just sit there and knod their head, like they are humoring a little child by listening to them tell some fantastical story that a rational adult knows to be make-believe. Saying that is hypocritical, though, because it feels like to me that I do the same things at times. I'll listen to others ideas without injecting to many of my own because I am simply not in the mood for a debate. Is there ever a happy medium in life?
Wow.....I suppose I do have a tendency to get philosophical without meaning to. This did start out as a rather mundane post. It is kind of a form of catharsis in a way. I should do this more often.
-Audra
Just had my Eastern Relions class for the first time today. I am not sure how it is going to go, It seems vaguely interesting in the least. We were discussing primitive cultures and the "Scientific Adam" today. Apparently there is scientific evidence that we all come from one ancestor. It seems that at times I will have put put aside my personal beliefs as Christian and just vie wthis class from a detached point of view. I would not be the first time. I don't want to have arguements over whether evolution is true or not. Perhaps it is and that is how God formed man if you do not want to do a literal reading of the Bible. Perhaps ancient people had no words for the process and so they wrote down the story the way it is. Maybe it happened exaclty as it is written. I just know I belive in Creationism, however it was achieved. I don't know why I felt the need to say that. Perhaps it is just that at this school, people seem to want to to have a clearly defined line and idea of what you believe in and how you believe it. So there, I just drew the line. I don't want people to stand on one side or another. It is not you're with me or you are against me. It is simply what I believe. Stereotypes aside, I respect that other people have other ideas. I just hope and wish that people would respect that I have my own.
Wow, perhaps I was wrong and I do have a tendency to get on my soap box. I start to feel stupid when people don't comment back but instead just sit there and knod their head, like they are humoring a little child by listening to them tell some fantastical story that a rational adult knows to be make-believe. Saying that is hypocritical, though, because it feels like to me that I do the same things at times. I'll listen to others ideas without injecting to many of my own because I am simply not in the mood for a debate. Is there ever a happy medium in life?
Wow.....I suppose I do have a tendency to get philosophical without meaning to. This did start out as a rather mundane post. It is kind of a form of catharsis in a way. I should do this more often.
-Audra