Charlotte Kay and the Library

I'm in the library with CK and I just wanted to say that I've been in an extremely optimistic mood lately.

Obviously yesterday was a tearjerker, though.

Lovelovelove.

Eskimos Schmeskimos

Please forgive my horrible grammar and choppy sentences. This is very unstructured.



Let's talk for a moment on ethical codes in different parts of the world. The best example for this would be one given in a class I am taking.



Darius, who was a king of ancient Persia, was intrigued by the variety of cultures he encountered in his travels. He had discovered that Callatians, a tribe of Indians, customarily ate the body of their deceased fathers. The Greeks, obviously, did not practice this tradition. Instead, the Greek pepole cremated the bodies of the dead and found it to be the natural and fitting way to dispose of them. Darius thought that a sophisticated understanding of the world must include an appreciation of such differences between cultures.



Eskimo traditons are also very different from our own. The men often had more than one wife, and when a guest stayed at thier residence, the husband would the lend the guest his wife for the night as a gesture of hospitality. Eskimos also seemed to have less regard for human life. Infanticide was common. An early explorer reported that he had once met a woman who had twenty children, but hilled ten of them at birth with infanticide. Also, when people became too elderly and feeble to contribute to the household, they were left out in the snow to die.



In America, it is quite obvious that we don't find it customary to eat our fathers, have more than one wife, or leave our relatives to die. However, the killing of the babies is questionable. But this blog is not about murder of babies, so I won't go into that. We also don't find it customary to have a leader of the religion Islam. Yes, our nation was created for religious freedom. However, a majority of the first settlers of the United States were Protestants. They were followers of Christ. We don't find it customary to "redistribute the wealth", or anything else a certain someone wants for our country.

So in the world and throughout history, which ethical codes are the right ethical codes? The only answer to this question is to look at the ancestors and previous generations. This is not what our Founding Fathers wanted for us when they developed our government. With so much "change" he wants to make, we can expect everything we've worked for since our country was born to be poured down the drain. Barack Obama is not what our Founding Fathers would want.

-Meghan

Emotional Weather.

Sometimes I like it when the weather is emo. aka it is cloudy and dreadful outside. For some reason it is calming.


Just a random thought.

-Meghan

Happy.

Today has been a happy day.
I had tutoring for math and did well. :)
I went to lunch with Mo and Marge.
Marge and I went to the zoo and I saw really cool animals.
(Zebras, Giraffes, Lions, Elephants, Meerkats, Prarie Dogs, Owls, Goats, Snakes, Poision Dark Frogs, Little Monkies, and Big Monkies were among my favorites.)
And, well, I spent time with someone I care about a lot.



Although I did throw up earlier. Eugghhh.

I love to love and to be loved.

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."


Love..
-Meg

Reborn.

I met a woman tonight named Renée. She might be dying.

I'm worried. So, so, so worried.

Work.

Today has been an odd day.

It followed an amazing weekend. I had a reunion with Evan and Curtis and Margaret. Friday we went to Evan's house and just goofed off, and then Saturday we all went bowling, met up with Whitney Witt and her people. After bowling we went to Blair and Blake's. I hadn't seen Blake in over a year, so it was really great to see him. I love that boy. Blair is just a joy anyway. Afterwards we went back to Evan's again and watched most of Aladdin, until I realized I was the only one watching...everyone else was asleep. Ha. Sunday morning I woke up to a text from Nic asking me where I was. Oops.. I thought we had a really great discussion last night at church. I can't really put my finger on why exactly.

Today it is really chilly outside. Cold weather makes me think of him. A lot. Especially right now. It hurts, it really does. But I love him, so I do things for him. One BIG thing. One thing that would make all of the difference. My heart really wasn't in the right place before, but now I've had time to grow. The past few weeks or maybe months have been especially significant. With all of my friends gone at school it's been much easier to take my time.

I feel fresh. I feel revived. And I am ready to do everything the right way this time. And I emphasized that because I mean anything and everything I may come across.

-Meg

Oh and I am such a loser at scattergories.

Options.

It is necessary to either love Him or deny Him. A living option.

A living option is one in which both hypotheses are live ones. Let's say "Be Agnostic or be Christian." Each hypothesis, no matter how small, makes an appeal to or basic established belief.

Too many people put this type of thing off, saying "Oh, I have a while to think about it", or whatever they might say. But how are these people living their lives? Are you one of these people? Do you live as if God exists or as if God does not exist?

So do you love Him or do you deny Him? It is a necessary decision, and by not deciding, you have actually decided to deny Him. You can't put it off too much longer.

-Meghan
with a bit of insight from Dr. Richard Shoaf anf Philosopher William James.


Go read The Will to Believe by William James.