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| I am a liar. I won't be using this site as my class blog. I, instead, have moved to blogspot. I'll use this for random. I'll use blogspot for class. sorry. the new one can be accessed here .
check it out
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| From now on, this is going to be my class site for Human Situation III. I'll talk about science and philosophy and maybe the occasional politics and economics, and try to sound very intelligent. I'll probably not do very well at that, but so be it. Maybe occasionally I will even write about other unimportant and irrelevant stuff like religion and sports and trips home and fun nights out with the friends, but we'll have to see. I'm assuming comments are not off limits, so until i hear otherwise, feel free to comment on the things I post, it still makes me feel happy to read that people read, especially now if you aren't in my class, and I guess even if you are. With that said, the transition begins. Welcome to the deep, philosophical thoughts of me. Hope you enjoy, and don't have nightmares.
Sunlight opened up my eyes
to see for the first time
it opened them up
And tonight rivers will run dry
and not for the first time
rivers will run
Hundreds of years in the future
there could be computers
looking for life on earth
Don't fight for the wrong side
say what you feel like
say how you feel
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| first off, i would like to apologize to anyone who has ever been
disappointed after reading a xanga posting of mine, hoping to read
random stupidness about my life, and instead getting to listen to/see
me ____ and whine about random stupidness in my life, or whatever...
so the cool thing in our suite lately has been to read people's blogs
(ddr and prank calls and nerd bowling aside) as objectively as i
possibly can, and i recognize that i am biased and apologize in advance
if and when it comes through, i would like to respond:
These blog things give people an opportunity to speak their mind. yay,
wonderful. i'm all for the first amendment, and i think if the framers
of the constitution could have predicted the internet, they would have
protected it too. However, sometimes we get very hypocritical
about our rights. How dare Harding not let us do this (yes, i've
thought it, said it, and meant it, and often still do)!! I have
the right to drink, to have sex, to be out until 12:16, to skip
chapel...whatever. And I agree, you have those rights, God gave
them to you (with restrictions that he sometimes calls sin), but you
willingly signed them away to your school. That doesn't mean I
still agree with all of them, but it does mean I'm going to abide by
them, or i'm going to be wrong (which again, i sometimes am)
Anyway, digressing. My problem comes when I am looked down on for
having my own opinions. If you think it's ok, and I don't, I'm
just a mindless HU or COC puppet who can't think for myself. If
you don't think it's ok, and I do, I'm one of those phony liberal (if
you're nice, progressive) kids who just wants to be different.
And all the while we wonder why dualism seems to be becoming so much
more of a problem here and in the church.
I'm not always for tolerance. There are times when we need to
stand up for what we believe and stick to it. I'm surely not
always for acceptance. That kills things. If you believe in
something strong enough, then don't just accept the status quo.
Don't think that because things are one way, they can't be
changed. But at the same time, "shut up and deal." ok, you
don't have to shut up, but we really need to learn to deal with things
a little better. whining and complaining gets us nowhere...i've
tried. I wish it were easier to have intelligent discussion on
this campus without so much emotion getting involved, but
unfortunately, a lot of times it's not. So we resort to the
internet and we let our emotions run wild.
I think we'll really start to see change though when we can learn to
accept not the opinions of other people, but the other people that have
those opinions. Just because we disagree doesn't necessarily make
either of us wrong. Is that postmodern sounding? maybe. Is
there room for perception and opinion in the church...or for that
matter in all-inclusive life: all those related areas of politics,
morality, philosophy, etc. I think so.
It's your right to complain. It's you right to call me
wrong. It's also your right to spend the rest of your life
complaining and calling me wrong while never seeing change.
Instead, i'd rather start dealing with things without being so
divisive. without sounding so hateful. without drawing
lines and calling names and stating my opinions as facts. We've
all done it. This is me trying to stop. I wonder what would
happen if we all tried...
insert random lyric of the day by incubus, cause this is xanga...sorry it's old, but i like it.
i suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal
when will we learn, when will we change, just in time to see it all fall down?
Thanks for reading.
Allen
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| so unlike everyone else who has left xanga like an old girlfriend for
the hot young blonde named facebook, i have just been too lazy to mess
around with either. so here's an update:
everything is pretty much about the same as last time i think.
life is good. school is crazy. 20 hours are hard, and God
seems to know just when i need a class cancelled. anyway, next
weekend i'm going home. that should be fun...actually, it will
be. busy, but lots of fun. and i think i'm gonna be gone
from here the next three weekends for something or another.
that's good. anyway, i'm off to fix supper with the
suitemate. then church. then homework or papers or some
craziness...adios mis amigos.
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| This is a guest journal entry by Matt Gaston.
Yes, we're having a great night here in Cone 115. It's Shirey
Day, so that was fun to celebrate with Allen. Overall this
weekend was pretty cool. Allen didn't go to Pettit Jean, but I
did. So I guess that's not such a great thing to talk about on
his Xanga. I also won my first potluck game last week.
Allen didn't have one. I would guess that he would have lost
though.
Even better than all of that is a suitemate who hurt his back very
badly. You see, the natural response to hurting your back is to
take strong pain pills. This can be very fun for roommates who
are awake to be entertained.
That's all for now,
Gastón
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