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I'm confused


Things are moving to fast.

My worldview

I just took a test for one of my classes about what worldview I have.

Apparently there were right and wrong answers to these questions.

I got a 47 out of 170.

Im a secular humanist apparntley. However, all of these questions are based on one person's view of what the bible states. mmmm.....

Im a failure. HA

Serious Questions

Why do we pray with our eyes closed?

Why don't Christians love?

Can we know something without any of our physical senses?

Is there anyway to stop a sect from becoming a church without another sect popping up?

Why do graduated students walk out the door with only belief but faith has never been encountered by their lives?

Why did God command genocide?

Are there life forms out there besides us?(Im not a sci-fi dork but I have recently gotten into the study of the thousands of universes in existance)

Will the church ever stop self managing and start relationally-love working?

Carl Sagin

Carl Sagin "Look again at that dot. Thats here thats home thats us. on it every one you love every one you know everyone you have ever heard of every human being who ever was lived out there lives the agriget of our joy and suffering thousands compantent religions, idioloigies, and economic doctrines, and every hunter and foreger, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization every king and peasant, every young couple in love every teacher of morals every mother and father every hopeful child ,every inventor and explorer, every corrupt politician every super star, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner, in the history of our species, lived there on a mote suspended in a sun beam. The earth is a very small stage i=n a vast cosmic arena. Our posturings, our imagined self importance, the dillusion that we have some privledged postition in the universe, our challenged by this poit of pale light our planet is a lonly speck in the great enveloping in the great cosmic dark and in our obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from else where to save us from ourselves."

The importance of being Foolish by B. Manning

So Im reading The Importance of Being Foolish and I wanted to email you something I read today. It struck me.

In the winter of 1952, during some of the heaviest combat of the Korean War, two Marine corporals were crouched in the bunker of a foward observation post some one hundred yards inside enemy lines. Jack Robison and Tim Casey had been friends for almost a year. They met in ammunition-demolition school in Quantico, Virginia, went on furlough together, then traveled on to Camp Pedleton, California, for advanced infrantry training. Their regiment had arrived in Pusan in the fall of 1951.

It was a little after midnight, and a light snow was falling. Huddled in the bunker, the two were passing a cigarette back and forth when a hand grenade, lobbed by an undetected North Korean twenty-five yards north of their position, landed squarely between them. Casey spotted it first. He nonchalantly flicked the butt aside and fell on the grenade. It detonated instantly, but Casey's stomach absorbed the explosion. He winked at Robinson and rolled over dead.

Theres a second half to the story if you want it. I will probably send it to you later when I have more time. It totally blew my mind.

Love ya

alison

Thursdays suck.

The world

The world in its promisicuous way has offerend the man a life of existance,
the world has taken the man's sorrow and turned into distractions of lust and romance,
the world has knowingly destroyed the man's spirit,

and yet the man returns.

A student doing graduate work at the University of Paris.

"To me a Christian is either a man who lives in Christ or a phony. You Christians do not appreciate that it is on this-the almost external testimony that it is of God-that we judge you. You ought to radiate Christ. Your faith ought to tflow out to us like a river of life. You ought to infect us with a loe for him. It is then tha tGod who was impossible becomes possible for the atheist and for those of us whose faith is wavering. We cannot help being struck, upset, and confused by a Christian who is truly Christlike. And we do not forgive him when he fails to be."

Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard wrote in 1947-
"The great mark of a Christian is what no other characteristic can replace, namely the example of a life which can only be explained in terms of God"

Miscommunication

w So IM painting again. Which I don't mind because frankly I like to paint. It's very relaxing and relieves stress.

Let me clarify what I paint...Walls, ceilings, and the occasional closets which have been the focus of my last endeavors.

So I am told by my mother to paint three closet doors and one regular door, however she misinformed me about these closet doors. Now if you have ever painted a closet door you understand that they can be mighty difficult things to deal with.

That is closet doors sometimes are seen as understatements by most unless you are painting them and then you realize that they are quite different animals. You must see because getting inside a closet being my size with things still in a closet is quite a feat and expedition. It took me a good hour to paint one side of these dastardly closet doors.

So I painted the inside and outside of the inside of a pair of closet doors which required me to; take all of the coats our of the closet tape the floor inside the closet and out and put a sheet over the remaining things in the closet.

So then my mother comes home to me, covered in paint because I kept bumping into one pair of wet closet doors as I was painting the other closet doors on the inside of the closet, and laughs. She just starts laughing like I am Chris Rock and she is in the blooming audience.

And then it comes. "You didn't have to paint the inside of the closet doors!" Oh the laughter we both shared.

So this little tidbit of my life shows just one instance of miscommunication that I live in on a daily basis.