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November 15, 2007

Journal Excerpts: 9/11/2001

6:54 pm | N/A | Comments: 1

I recently downloaded all my undergraduate material from my personal drive at GVSU. It’s great fun looking through it, and I can’t imagine I actually did all that stuff. There are lots of journals for various classes (many of them in German which I can’t figure out anymore), and my personal favorite is the journal for Psychology 101, which I took my freshman semester. Here’s the entry for September 11.

9/11
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked today. It’s strange how quickly things can change in this world. In class we talked about our reactions to the whole business, and it was good opportunity to talk about some very sobering things, like death and control. I personally am not troubled by the thought of not being in control of my own life, because I know that my life is in the capable control of my lord Jesus. But the attack was just a reminder to me of how weak man really is. For me, the question of “why?” is already answered: I don’t need to know why. I know that it is God’s will. We also talked about standards, and how we all have standards by which we order our lives. Why was it “wrong” for the terrorists to do what they did? It can only be because they transgressed God’s Law, which is the only true universal moral standard. So those were my initial thoughts in the wake of the attack.

July 6, 2007

Two-Way Streets

11:32 pm | N/A | Comments: 2

I was recently thinking about how when a single woman gets pregnant, we say she “got pregnant”. Like I just did, no less than one sentence ago. The phrase is errant, in my opinion, because it only tells half the story. Someone not well-educated in how stuff works might think that the poor woman was walking down the street one day and suddenly found that she was in possession of a baby in her womb. That’s not how it works, as most of you should know by now. The “getting pregnant” aspect should not be separated from the man responsible in the given scenario, and it bugs me when such a separation occurs. Just a thought.

In other completely unrelated news, I’m headed to Covmadoodah tomorrow with the Eshelsons. What is Covmakrakrakrazy, you ask? Beats me.