Various Topics

I only got questions from one person!  They are:

1) Can you see Russia from your school?

No.  Though there are parts of Alaska that are close enough to see Russia.  I however am many miles away from these parts.

2) What kind of shower products did you buy?

Suave Body Wash and Suave Ocean Breeze Shampoo.

3) How could you not get a salted caramel mocha at Starbucks?

I’ve never had a salted caramel mocha, so I wouldn’t know to go for it or avoid it.

If anyone has any questions in the future, I will gladly post them here.

Events Chronologically:

Saturday morning, I was woken up a little before four to my first drunk person experience.  A man was talking very loudly out in the hallway and pounding away at his dorm's door trying to enter.  There apparently were other people easing the situation, but they took a while.  I tried to sleep, but once I realized that they were in no hurry to resolve the problem, I went on my laptop for about half an hour until I stopped hearing them talk.

Saturday night I went to a United Campus Ministry fund raiser dinner where I ate a salad, chicken and wild rice and green been entree and a raspberry bar dessert.  There were also door prizes I watched other people win.  There was a main donor who gave a speech, during which I was astonished to hear that UCM costs about $55,000 annually.  Lastly, we sung.

Sunday (Today) in the evening I went to reTHiNK Christianity by Randy Newman (Not the one that did songs for Pixar).  It was aimed at people who were going to or who had already dismissed Christianity.  I didn't go for that reason, mind you, but I still wanted to hear what he had to say.  I think it boiled down to urging people to think about where they stand truly, and what motivates them and gives them purpose in life.  To throw away nothing without giving it thought.  

There were key points that I remember.  One being the difference between an apathetic, hedonistic life (Prodigal Son) and a rule oriented life (The Son who stayed home).  That neither had it quite right, that lives led by epicurean indulgences weren't suitable, and that lives regulated by overbearing laws were hollow.  Many outside of faith view religion as the latter only, and for this reason they avoid joining in.

Another was how wrong the idea of 'All religions boil down to the same thing' is.  To say that a Jew and a Muslim and a Christian believe essentially the same thing is both insulting and dangerous.  Apparently there exists the thought of the Blind Man and the Elephant approach to religion that some have accepted.  But this is arrogant to think we can call this person and that person blind as it assumes we see a whole picture they can't.

Lastly, confidence.  People believe you have to be completely assured with not a shred of second thought anywhere.  That anything less cannot be faith, that if one doubts, or has a question they don't know the answer to, that they've failed.

So, I enjoyed it.  The speaker was entertaining.

Prayers: Job, Roommate.

Verse: Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.