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| I'm walking from Jewel on Grand to home. I get on the south side of Grand behind this girl, but to NOT creep her out (cause I thought I did... crossing the street at no light to walk right behind her?), instead of following her I decide to cut through a parking facility going south and west. I walk two blocks south, cross to the east side of the street... and realize I had to get back on Ohio to buy something from the Sports Authority. Crap! So I walk a block west, get on the west side of.. LaSalle?, and get stopped by a light on Grand. Standing there, I decide to look around, andI SEE THAT SAME GIRL RIGHT BEHIND ME!!! I could only think of two reasons (not really, but they're funny) of why she would follow me: My headphones do more than play high-quality music, or my smell brings all the ladies 'round me! Seriously though, do people have nothing better to do than to follow someone? And what are you going to get out of it? Because, let me tell you, when a girl follows me I just get all hot and bothered and have to hit on her. PAH-LEEZE!!! ...She was kinda cute though. WHAT AM I SAYING?! uguuuu... Did you know this happened once when I got lost at UIC before I first started there? I'm driving and see this one girl at the intersection in the left hand-turn lane where I make a right. I get lost and start gallavanting through Taylor and Morgan, losing myself into this cul-de-sac. I finally just park the car to think, and there she pulls in front of me to turn around. It was, like, eight streets ago when I saw her. And that, lads and lassies, is why I am a creep: how else am I gonna get back at the world?
Love anda Peace!
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| We are all misunderstood creatures. It would be best, then, to not critically judge all things.
Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
What is fate? It is building a bridge of fate for someone you love. GyeonWoo, My Sassy Girl
What we are supposed to get from watching My Sassy Girl is that no matter how much you try and fight fate, your destiny will never change.
Do not put your faith in Fate. You will be lead like a leaf in the wind, sometimes to fly, sometimes to drown. Instead put your trust in God, so that even if you plunge into the deep He will save you.
Little Children, love one another.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:5
Love anda Peace!
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| ... There's this girl that I know, and she hurt me in such a way that I don't want to forgive her. Wow, three Easter's ago I was sitting in church and I felt something hit my butt. I thought nothing of it except that it kept coming back. It made me shiver and feel violated, and as dumb as it may sound I sorta felt helpless. I later saw who it was, and it shocked me. Later I'm outside and she comes outside. She looks at me, and I turn away, ashamed that I ever let this happen and that a girl would do something like that.
More than a year later in some auditorium, it happens again. For the past year I acted colder around her, hoping that she'd take a hint and be remindful that what she did caused me pain. Well, no such luck here. This time I would slouch real low so that it would stop, but after being as uncomfortable as in one sleeping in an awkward position, I would sit back up. And guess what would happen... more play time on her part. I saw my friend who was sitting next to her later, and he gave me such a disappointed look that I felt that I did something wrong.
So today I thought that I could forgive her but never forget. It's helped me to see the helplessness at least to some degree of my other brothers and sisters who undergo such ordeals, so through this evil good came about. And it just so happens that it's convenient that in order for me to remember this I can always remember what she did. Yet I know it's wrong. Wasn't I the one who, while standing in front of Christ, flipped Him the bird, spat in His face, and abandoned Him? And isn't He the one who forgave me of this, even when I had forgotten all about it? Shouldn't I extend that same grace to her?
Love and Peace!
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| So here's my question to philosophos.com and the answer:
[Is there anything we can say is intrinsically good in these postmodern times? My friend and I were debating about why we do good, going into making the world a better place or for the future of our kids, but what one feels to be good and another feels to be good can be warring issues with each other. Would I not be stepping on someone's sense of good with my own sense of good? I don't know how to answer him, but does relative truth have to lead to anarchy?]
{A lot of things can be meant by "postmodernism", but it seems from your question that you are centering in on the relativity of truth insofar as it applies to morality. In that case, then strong relativism would hold that morality is reducible to the individual and so yes, you do run the risk of stepping on someone else's sense of the good in fulfilling your own self-imposed moral obligations. A weaker relativism would reduce morality to the level of the community or possibly the nation-state. This gives scope for legal authority to hold sway over a nation but not every nation (take the example of sharia law in strong Islamic countries). So no, relativism doesn't have to lead to anarchy. However, one might ask why stop at weak relativism? What is there (other than the fear of anarchy) to prevent one going on to strong relativism if it is the logical conclusion of the argument? If weak relativism is an arbitrary restriction it would seem as if maybe all moral relativism does indeed lead to anarchy.
It also might be worth asking, what is wrong with stepping on someone else's sense of the good? If this is wrong then it seems to imply a sense of morality that transcends the individual. -- Kevin Macnish}
Pretty interesting. I had asked this question coming from the Christian background I uphold, and the guy couldn't answer it. I would think, then, that being able to tell him of all this would have him questioning whether God really does exist, and that if there is some sort of good that goes beyond humanity that there has to be a specific God saying which is good and which is not, forcing him to reconsider whether Christianity is something we can bring to the table of our lives in a more intellectual way and not necessarily as one who is ignorant of the world around him. I would have to at least bring that question to mind.
To answer his questions, I might bring up that not only would I be imposing on the others' goods, but also on their standard of living if my good is to live a life with little no worries of my finances if it means that I will be leaving some or many jobless. Who knows, maybe one person whom I do this to will go on a killing spree due to the injustice laid upon him and I might be a victim of one of his bullets. Maybe my actions might be the last straw on another country's back and an uprising might occur, thus another war with hundreds or even thousands of lives might be at stake. No one can have this foresight, as this is only looking towards a future very distant and focused, but at least looking out for others interests may make the possibilities of these events much less.
I'm still thinking about trust. This really is one of (if not the) the biggest issues I'm facing now. I do test people by putting myself out there with information that may hinder me (I gotta think about using something other than girls though!!!), where I know I can trust some completely with my information, others with at least knowing how they will react, and now some whom I know I can't say a word to them. If trust has to be built, then aren't I going about this the right way? I now have to think about who to trust with my emotions, as this is much more difficult and serious to me, and I see that there really aren't many (and maybe rightly so) whom I can trust with this. Though I know in my head and my heart, and though I may not be very good at practicing this, at least I know there is One whom I can put my full trust in, and I'm very glad that He has made Himself known to me that I will never be abandoned.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! long entry.
Love anda Peace!
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| I was at philosophos.com or sumthin like that and the guy was explaining how philosophy came to be, gaining the spirit of the idea from this man Nietzsche: the priests said that God created the world and such, but who taught these priests these? You then ask what is God, and here we have philosophy... really? Go here for the argument: http://www.philosophos.com/knowledge_base/archives_17/philosophy_questions_17.html go here for where Nietzsche says about good and evil On the Genealogy of Morality: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogy1.htm attention 4&5 to see how he differentiates good from bad, 6 for his view of priests, and 7 for where, in so many words, he claims where God was made (NOTE: Nietzsche is very anti-Christian).
The question still stands in today's society: Why should we trust God if we don't even know Him to exist? We'll bring in the Bible, but as the first question in that argument from the first link shows, people will not trust the Bible as well. Immediately Matthew 5:11 comes to mind, where Jesus says blessed are you who are persecuted on account of me: rejoice and be glad for your reward will be great in heaven. At least, though, give people the chance to do so. We should, because God gave us a mind to think and the power to act, be using our reasoning capabilities and spread forth the good news, maybe in ways people will understand and for even some, in arguments and debates.
So what shall we use? Our experience ought to come out, maybe give a testimony or such, show that God has came into our lives. We'd probably get ridiculed for doing so and taken as naieve and dumb Christians. Obviously it would be a wrong tactic to use by starting out with this. We should lead them in, right? I was just thinking that we should talk on how useful experiences are in the world. Of course I started bringing in philosophers such as Hume and Descartes (one for miracles and how they are perceived, the other on how important our experiences are), and if we can have them see how important experiences are even in their own lives wouldn't our experience be a better convincing proof? I had a lot more to say, but for now I cannot think, so I will end it here (my stamina has gone down considerably!!).
Love anda Peace!
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