Gut: Where is the love?
Spill: One thing I would like to change about the world is prejudice. Whether it be because of background, race, or status, people are judged and viewed in a particular way based on their physical, material being. One can claim to love everyone, but only God can love everyone. What difference should it make if someone who grew up in the 'burbs is best friends with someone who grew up in a ghetto or if an Irish guy dates a black woman or if a millionaire marries a person who lived in a trailer park their entire life? Putting up these barriers between each other only puts up barriers between us and God. I think the Gospels try to explain that God sees hearts, and if someone's heart is right, then nothing about them is wrong. "To discriminate only generates hate, and when you hate then you're bound to get irate."
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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Gut: What is the point?
Spill: This whole biology lesson about Colony Collapse Disorder and bees reminded me of what is the purpose of our lives? I mean, if we can survive without pollinators, why does it matter if they become extinct? Well, if we can't make a change and our lives make no difference, what is the purpose of them? I don't think working for a change and knowing it will never occur makes working for that change meaningless/purposeless. I think knowing it won't and deciding not to work for the change you want makes your life purposeless. Working for a change you cannot see and that may not ever happen is hard, but it gives life purpose.
Spill: This whole biology lesson about Colony Collapse Disorder and bees reminded me of what is the purpose of our lives? I mean, if we can survive without pollinators, why does it matter if they become extinct? Well, if we can't make a change and our lives make no difference, what is the purpose of them? I don't think working for a change and knowing it will never occur makes working for that change meaningless/purposeless. I think knowing it won't and deciding not to work for the change you want makes your life purposeless. Working for a change you cannot see and that may not ever happen is hard, but it gives life purpose.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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Gut: We've been dead for a while.
Spill: We are so consumed with making grades (some of us are) that we don't learn anything anymore. We memorize information mindlessly for a test on something we often don't even care about, all for a GPA that doesn't suck. The standards we try to achieve are based on what's been drilled into us, but what about our own standards? Learning is only worth something if you apply it. We need to wake up and determine for ourselves where we're going, not where they say we should go. We've been dead for a while, and I'm tired of it.
Spill: We are so consumed with making grades (some of us are) that we don't learn anything anymore. We memorize information mindlessly for a test on something we often don't even care about, all for a GPA that doesn't suck. The standards we try to achieve are based on what's been drilled into us, but what about our own standards? Learning is only worth something if you apply it. We need to wake up and determine for ourselves where we're going, not where they say we should go. We've been dead for a while, and I'm tired of it.
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