religion is a crutch (pt. 2)
03.30.04 (10:57 am) [edit]soooo sorry that's it has taken so long to get this blog on... my home computer is down, and i wasn't able to blog on wednesday due to homework for anatomy needing to be done, and on friday because i was absent from school because of kerrville tournament. :D anyway, enough of excuses, you probably don't care anyway. to the point....
i am wishing to reply to the following comment left on the blog on the "religion is a crutch" blog.
If religion is a crutch, then reason is a corvette zooming past the guy on the crutch- therealspartacus007
i'm sorry to say, that said person missed my analogy by using the corvette thing. sorry about that to you, therealspartacus007, because your misinterpritation is due to my poor prose. sorry again. what i was alluding to was that walking upright with head held high is the upmost ladder rung of life anyone can achieve. by anyone i include God there too. He's the only one that walks without help. not only can He walk, He can run, and skip, and jump!
don't get me wrong, the mind is a marvelous thing. it can hold vast amounts of information, processes more stuff in one day than any computer could hope to asspire to, it regulates the best matchine ever made-the body. have you ever stopped to think about the vastness of it? our brains tell our muscles how, when, where, how to move, regulates our temperature, pH levels, hormones. all at the same time too! our brains are great things that humans have only scratched the surface of it's potential. survey says we only use half our brains in our life time anyway. just think of what we could do if we actually used all of it!
even if we did use ever scrap of brains we have, we'd still be on the ground getting carpet burn...well, alot of the time anyway. lots of people don't even use their heads, and stay on the ground their whole lives. then there are those who do make use of their brains.
If religion is a crutch, then reason is a corvette that breaks down everytime something unreasonable happens-newbie
i agree with newbie somewhat. reason is another form of a crutch. this crutch is too short. it does not fulfill what we need to stand. reason works, even though we hunch alot due to the incorrect height of the crutch. eventually, due to the weight we put on reason, the crutch breaks. there we are, on the floor again getting carpet burn as we drag around. pretty picture isn't it? pretty lame if ya ask me...pardon the pun.
now, tell me why we'd want to put all of our weight, and depend on something that will not stand up for all eternity? why not trust the only One that will be left in enternity?
religion is a crutch
03.22.04 (10:06 pm) [edit]so many people have thrown that old "religion is a crutch for weak people" in my face. i generally have no idea how to respond, so i just be quiet, and they eat that up of course. but i think i have found my answer this evening as i was doing my devo. you know what? i'm glad to call Jesus my crutch. i can't stand much less walk on my own two feet without Him there to support my every step, and to guide me down the path He has chosen for me. i'm glad i have a crutch. i'm glad i'm weak too, cause in my weakness, He is glorified so He can make things happen through me, that i know i couldn't do without my crutch. i'd much rather hobble around than crawl and drag like i did before i came to Christ. that was horrible. carpet burn scars after a while ya know. can't crawl around down there forever... pick up the Crutch and get hobblin! God bless ya all!
the human torture mechanism
03.22.04 (11:09 am) [edit]yes, today...for a little over 10 minutes i will be discussing the human torture mechanism. the test subjects were four children ranging in approximate age from 8-12, and myself. i was innocently hitting tennis balls on the ball machine on the sunday afternoon of yesterday. the afore mentioned children begin to watch me hit, then, one of the boys decides it would be fun to be moving target for me, screaming "hit me! hit me!" all the while. eventually the supply of missles was running on low so the boy employed a few of his friends to pick up tennis balls and re-supply the missle launcher. i, the hitter, was at this point about to have run to death because i had hit around 200 balls continusly. they laughed at me when i missed one because i couldn't get to it, and thought it would be funny to set the feed speed higher and watch me run like a chicken with its head cut off. there, my "human torture mechanism" kicked in, and i said enough. so i turned it off and went for a drink. when i begin to pick up tennis balls for another round. the children i figured would help out so they could play dodge ball some more, but turns out they enjoyed kicking the tennis balls at me, and watching me pick them all up by myself instead. once again my "human torture mechanism" kicked in, but this time it only kicked up a little, so i just grinned and bared the torture. so in conclusion, there are different levels of torture the human torture mechanism deals with on a daily basis, and there are different ways a human responds to torture, and his torture warning mechanism.
did you know today is national goof off day? happy national goof off day!
by the way...God bless. :D
self defense
03.18.04 (6:14 pm) [edit]i've been meaning to write this blog, and since i'm just sitting here, waiting for my sister to get out of the shower so we can go to dinner, i'll blog.
i was watching tv probably about a week ago. i heard this report that just made me laugh. the reporter was talking about a recently concluded court case. the person on trial-whatever you call them- was a woman who was accused of killing her husband when she stabbed him somewhere around 150 times. she pleaded self defense. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! you do NOT stab someone 150 some odd times in self defense. thankfully the jury had enough brains to convict her of murder. shesh.
light the fire
03.18.04 (11:03 am) [edit]i really don't have too much to say today. suprisingly nothing interesting has gone in my life the past two days. that's crazy. nothing going on in a teenagers life?! there's ALWAYS something looming in our midsts for us to blow way out of porportion and become stressted or angry over.
i am concerned about myself though...more specificly my walk. i just don't think i'm on fire enough. i feel just kinda "eh" about God alot here lately, and that's not how it's supposed to be. i should be jumping for joy, swinging on the chandalers type deal cause this Jesus guy is the real deal. no fake-a-teer. but for some reason i'm not. *shrugs* part of it is probably i'm not in the Word as much as i should be. i'm just getting scared because i think my beliefs aren't having a day-to-day effect on my thought process or decisions anymore. no good. maybe it's also because i'm not forced to live out loud these days because i've sheltered myself this year by associating myself only with other Christians. i've come to the conclusion that having a mixture of Christians and non-Christians in the life of those that strive to be Christ like is essential to our soul's survival. Those non-Christians that get annoying and saden us when we're close to them keep us on our toes and give us a challenge. maybe that's the problem with my city too. we tend to be known as the buckle of the Bible belt... church on every street corner...literally. maybe then living in a church setting, like a convent, or monastery may not be the best place for someone to grow closer to God. well, you could grow closer on the outside, but not on the inside from my observations. or maybe this is just me. so you will be happy to know, i will never commit myself to a convent! lol. like i was going to.
well, it's nice to know i have learned something valuable. i guess the education i recieve for free from our gracious public school system is valuable as well, but not as life saving/improving what i have just figured out all by myself.
well, i had go study for a test my valuable education requires me to take. good bye, and God bless.
*lyrics (and my prayer)* (not sure who sings it)
[b] light the fire[/b]
i stand to praise You
but i fall on my knees
my spirit is willing
but my flesh is so weak
so light the fire in my soul
fan the flame
make me whole
Lord, You know just where i've been
so light the fire in my heart again
*rolls eyes and screams*
03.16.04 (9:55 am) [edit]ok, not much time. have to finish studying for my anatomy test. yikes! nothing like procrastinating huh? just wanted to express my disgust about some situations. the first one occured yesterday during tennis practice in the afternoon. the softball field was in use for a game. (as you know, i never approved the site for the field-DIRECTLY NEXT TO THE TENNIS COURTS-anyway) they thought it would be lovely to pump some of the most trashy music over their speakers while they warmed up, which happened to last our ENTIRE practice. i just about had a mental breakdown because of the horrible lyrics, and some of my own memories that go along with the particular songs being played...on a cd, so they played over, and over, and OVER. i seriously almost dropped to the ground in convulsions. if i had a shot gun, and knew how to shoot it, i would have shot out there speakers since i do live in texas. 0:-) ok, maybe i felt like it but i highly doubt i would do that. my protest fell in when the icky music finally was turned off, while the softball cried out, "awww" i shouted as loudly as i could, "YEA!!!!" *evil laugh*
ok, enough of that. you would think that high school students would be at least a tiny bit mature, but no. as i was walking through the academic hall today i smelled something aweful. then i put a label on the smell. it was a stink bomb. seriously now, aren't we a little more mature than that?
ok, i'm done complaining about my fellow students. boy i must complain alot. i really am not that pessimistic; i promise. :-) must go. God bless
God of choice
03.10.04 (8:20 pm) [edit]in sunday school last sunday, we discussed music. brandon read us a quote from bach that basically said "music is meant to be an avenue of praise and worship of God". i said that i agreed with the quote and what it said, then someone attacked my opinion by saying that even relient k-had brought two lefts don't make a right...but three do to class as requested by katie- as a Christian band didn't "praise God" with all their songs. i rebutted that i don't believe our God is super strick like the god of islam where ya HAVE to do this, and that. most of what He gives us are not orders, but suggestions on how to live a better life. i think the only order He gives us is to love. i believe our God is a god of choice. He doesn't force us believe in Him; we choose to believe. He doesn't force us to follow His commandments; we choose to obey. personally, i think the whole choice thing is what proves the challenge in Christianity. we have to make choices daily, and when we come to Christ, we are to ask His opinion. doesn't mean we have to ask. although He does love it when you ask, as asking shows you're trying to do His will. (how will you know His will if you don't ask?) He's there as our life consultant. who better to ask...the One that made us, lived through life perfectly- as not one other has done-, and loves us. *sigh* our God really is awesome. well, i really have no more to say. that says it all. :D
now you know the rest of the story
03.10.04 (8:05 pm) [edit]sorry to leave ya hanging last time. been soo busy. still busy but i'm tired of doing homework, so i'm procrastinating further. ya, tornado came through the area last thursday. did some damage to kenny's house, and a few other houses and businesses and ripped up some trees, but other than that, all good. no one hurt or dead. that's quite amazing. definatly a God thing there. ok i'm gonna end this blog, then write another one on a different topic. hehe
time has slipped away
03.05.04 (11:07 am) [edit]well, sorry guys, my time in bcis has slipped away into retarded assingments. i figured we wouldn't do anything in here since 2:55 this afternoon signals the begninning of our spring. quick over view of yesterday. ended up going to san angelo instead of going to school. had to play tennis. or at least we were supposed to. more on that in a second. first...on drive down there, the boys' van hit a deer. only in texas when you hit a deer, you get out and look at the damage and go, "eh, she's alright. let's go see the damage done to the deer!" shesh. so ya, all the boys had to go look at the mutalted deer....or at least what was left of it. most of the way i just worked on my anatomy worksheet packet or talked to my team mates. the rest of the trip went smoothly...until we arrived that is. we got to bentwood country club-the girls' site for the day- got on the court, and five games later, the sky got so dark, we could hardly see. then it started to pour. and when i say pour, i mean drenching rain. sopping wet, you know. nothing like about fifty girls screaming and running from a thunderstorm. oh, it was a classic. so my team, coach scott, and i crammed into the sumburban to wait for the rain to let up. but it just gets heavier. followed by some hail, and more lightening. now, understand i was doing my anatomy the entire hour we were sitting in the suburban waiting out the storm, with tornando sierns going off all around us. yes, at this time of panic, i chose to do my homework. when it finally let up, we headed toward... where else but, THE MALL!!! yea! we shopped for an hour and a half. most of us found nothing, but brittney found the prom dress that she had fallen in love with over the internet. *applause* we ate lunch at the chick-fil-a at the mall there.
well, have to go. bell going to ring. will continue yesterday's tale another time....maybe tomorrow evening or this evening. helping with tornado clean up after school *hint, hint*, and then going to meeting for site directors in preparation for tomorrow when i will work at ahs all day. God bless!
nothingness
03.03.04 (10:36 am) [edit]you know what? i actually have nothing to talk about. its probably cause there's so much going through my head right now, i can't make sense of any of it, so thinking about it, and using all that brain space, and power is totally useless since none of it makes sense. make sense? lol. i made a funny.
you know what else? i'm really hungery, and really tired too. hungery cause i didn't have any protien at breakfast. here's your nutrition tip of the day: start your day off with some protien. it fills you up quicker, and makes what you ate last longer, cause protien is harder to digest. i should charge for such great advice *puffs up* ok, maybe not. *pulls blow up toy stopper out of self, and deflates* do you know why i'm tired? i think it's not so much as tired as drained...emotionally, and mentally. the worst kind to have. emotionally cause i'm just emotionally high strung right now due to nature, and the fact that spring break is next week. mentally cause like i said, it's the week before spring break, and every teacher thinks he or she HAS to get their test in before spring break. except for mrs. kinslow with anatomy. may God bless her soul mightly for putting off her test till after spring break.
the dud has a poster in his room...well actually he has alot of posters, but my favorite is "apathy is not an option" lol. it just makes me laugh cause i have that argument with myself alot. "to care, or not to care....that is the question" lots of times i want to care, but you know what, i just don't. and sometimes people have a problem with that. then they get all made at me, and i'm like i'm super sorry i don't care, and have made you mad, but i really just don't care rightn now. try again later. lol. just like one of those magic 8 balls.
speaking of magic 8 balls... does anyone out there remember that episode of rocko's modern life on nick where mr. bighead had that magic hairball and he asked it everything, then it broke and he cried and cried, forever? lol. kinda random i know but you know what? that whole episode is a allusion to huck finn, where jim has the magic hairball that "talks" to him. lol. encredibly random yes, but i couldn't help but remember rocko cause it was one of my favorite shows when i was younger. why? i'm not sure. but i was a weird kid, so there :P
oh my goodness...mrs. roadcap is actually going to make us do more than take a quiz and do a word search this class period! she's out of her mind! this must be the largest daily quota to fill ever! *gasp* better get to it. later. God bless you all!
monday blues
03.01.04 (9:49 am) [edit]yes, i have them, the dreaded monday blues...they kinda eat away your soul or something like that. lol. i don't know...maybe not, but this monday is going down the tubes fast. i think i sent it down the tubes last night before monday even began, but you know what, i am not going to complain, i'm going to plaster a smile on my face, and do my best to not look like i've bawled, despite the fact that i'm sure my make-up is nice and sumged all over the place. oh well.
haha, this is cute. jo jo's chillin next to me trying to read the instruction manual to his cd player i think in spanish. very interesting. i can see he's concentrating very hard. that's something jo jo doesn't do very often.
o yes, almost forget part of the reason for my blues. haven't finished my anatomy homework yet. better get to that, while poor mrs. roadcap blabbers, on, and on, and on.
