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Feb. 25th, 2004 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lykomancerOh yeah...
Annie's crashed in my room for the second night in a row. I don't mind. I mean, I think I would, maybe if it was someone other than Annie. But like with Daysha, like with Kris, like with a few other people that I have become so intimately comfortable with, it's almost but not quite like being on my own anyway. I can listen to my music, sing along, surf the 'net, do whatever I want, and Annie's self-entertaining.
I appreciate that.
I do feel a little bad. I feel like maybe I should do something, offer something to entertain her.
She's having relationship problems. But she discovered that she likes girls. A lot. Or at least that's what she said over dinner and a cup of hella strong Depot Coffee (coffee, bandy, Bailey's, and Kahluha). Take that as you like it.
She also asked me to prevent her from ever dating an eighteen-year-old again, and to increase my level of dissuasion as we get older. I told her that I will do my best to prevent her from becoming a pedophile.
Ahhh... my service to society.
We had a guest speaker today in Intro to Christian Thought: an evangelical Luthern preacher with a fascination with forgiveness and grace.
(No. Grace is NOT what you say before you eat. Well... I mean, it is, but that's not what I'm talking about here.)
He argued that grace is God's unlimited, eternal love and forgiveness, and that we are all loved and forgiven by God all of the time, and that it is just a matter of whether we choose to accept this grace or not. I feel that he used grace almost as I would "empathy," for if you so completely understand someone that you are able to feel their joy and sorrow certainly you love them, and certainly you forgive them. I you do not, you are not experiencing true empathy.
He said that sin is the human condition, and that sin is lonliness and isolation.
He said that we tend to draw lines between us and others whom we perceive as different, and that we then claim that God is on our side and that the they are in/going to Hell... but that God does not respect lines, that God is everywhere. That by drawing the line in the first place we are committing sin; we are dividing humanity up and refusing to acknowledge grace between ourselves (because to receive and acknowledge God's grace is to give grace to others). That the denial of grace is Hell, and that we send ourselves there.
It was an interesting lecture, and I feel that if I meditate on what he said for a while I will have an ephiphany, and I will understand not just with my mind but with my being. I think this would be a goal to strive for.
Professor quote of the Day:
History professor Paul Shue in History of Modern Europe, on Freud's ideas about the subconscious:
"There's something going on in your head that you don't know about... there's a party and you weren't invited."
Annie's crashed in my room for the second night in a row. I don't mind. I mean, I think I would, maybe if it was someone other than Annie. But like with Daysha, like with Kris, like with a few other people that I have become so intimately comfortable with, it's almost but not quite like being on my own anyway. I can listen to my music, sing along, surf the 'net, do whatever I want, and Annie's self-entertaining.
I appreciate that.
I do feel a little bad. I feel like maybe I should do something, offer something to entertain her.
She's having relationship problems. But she discovered that she likes girls. A lot. Or at least that's what she said over dinner and a cup of hella strong Depot Coffee (coffee, bandy, Bailey's, and Kahluha). Take that as you like it.
She also asked me to prevent her from ever dating an eighteen-year-old again, and to increase my level of dissuasion as we get older. I told her that I will do my best to prevent her from becoming a pedophile.
Ahhh... my service to society.
We had a guest speaker today in Intro to Christian Thought: an evangelical Luthern preacher with a fascination with forgiveness and grace.
(No. Grace is NOT what you say before you eat. Well... I mean, it is, but that's not what I'm talking about here.)
He argued that grace is God's unlimited, eternal love and forgiveness, and that we are all loved and forgiven by God all of the time, and that it is just a matter of whether we choose to accept this grace or not. I feel that he used grace almost as I would "empathy," for if you so completely understand someone that you are able to feel their joy and sorrow certainly you love them, and certainly you forgive them. I you do not, you are not experiencing true empathy.
He said that sin is the human condition, and that sin is lonliness and isolation.
He said that we tend to draw lines between us and others whom we perceive as different, and that we then claim that God is on our side and that the they are in/going to Hell... but that God does not respect lines, that God is everywhere. That by drawing the line in the first place we are committing sin; we are dividing humanity up and refusing to acknowledge grace between ourselves (because to receive and acknowledge God's grace is to give grace to others). That the denial of grace is Hell, and that we send ourselves there.
It was an interesting lecture, and I feel that if I meditate on what he said for a while I will have an ephiphany, and I will understand not just with my mind but with my being. I think this would be a goal to strive for.
Professor quote of the Day:
History professor Paul Shue in History of Modern Europe, on Freud's ideas about the subconscious:
"There's something going on in your head that you don't know about... there's a party and you weren't invited."
