These Days
I don't really have anything profound to blog about.
It's thundering out. I love thunderstorms! It's my dream to see a tornado up close. I know, I'm weird.
I love the weather we're having. It makes me happy.
I'm trying to work on a 10 page essay of which I know nothing about. I've even read the book I'm supposed to be writing it on and I have to look up every fifth word in the dictionary. I wish my vocabulary was bigger. I'm just not interested in this class at all (liberation Theology). I literally leave every class pissed off because I feel like I've been ripped apart of every belief I have. Oh well. It's a taste of the real world.
I am trying to beat Lord of the Rings on Gamecube. So far, it's not working. I almost beat it last year when I rented it and played three days straight, but I had to return it before I could finish. Now Nathan's bought it and I'm trying to beat it again, but I'm stuck on this one level and it's driving me nuts! I spent 2 hours on it today and then my parents kicked me off the TV :P
I'm going to C4C banquet tomorrow. I'm pretty indifferent about the whole event. I could go and be happy; and I could stay home and be as equally happy. So we'll see how it goes.
We have new neighbours moving in next door. I thought I'd welcome them by playing music really loudly :D Welcome to the neighbourhood!
Lastly, I'm learning that life is too precious to worry about the little things, or even the big things. I'm beginning to realize that my time is better spent with a couple good friends, than with mediocre relationships with many people. Don't worry, you all are still really important to me :)
Anyways, see you all!
It's thundering out. I love thunderstorms! It's my dream to see a tornado up close. I know, I'm weird.
I love the weather we're having. It makes me happy.
I'm trying to work on a 10 page essay of which I know nothing about. I've even read the book I'm supposed to be writing it on and I have to look up every fifth word in the dictionary. I wish my vocabulary was bigger. I'm just not interested in this class at all (liberation Theology). I literally leave every class pissed off because I feel like I've been ripped apart of every belief I have. Oh well. It's a taste of the real world.
I am trying to beat Lord of the Rings on Gamecube. So far, it's not working. I almost beat it last year when I rented it and played three days straight, but I had to return it before I could finish. Now Nathan's bought it and I'm trying to beat it again, but I'm stuck on this one level and it's driving me nuts! I spent 2 hours on it today and then my parents kicked me off the TV :P
I'm going to C4C banquet tomorrow. I'm pretty indifferent about the whole event. I could go and be happy; and I could stay home and be as equally happy. So we'll see how it goes.
We have new neighbours moving in next door. I thought I'd welcome them by playing music really loudly :D Welcome to the neighbourhood!
Lastly, I'm learning that life is too precious to worry about the little things, or even the big things. I'm beginning to realize that my time is better spent with a couple good friends, than with mediocre relationships with many people. Don't worry, you all are still really important to me :)
Anyways, see you all!
9 Comments:
At 10:51 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
How is liberation theology ripping your beliefs apart? Who are you reading for that course?
It seems to me that there are many wonderful things about liberation theology. The people that tend to get the most enraged by it are those most intimately linked to wealth and consumption.
So, I'll assume that you're not one of those people, if you'll explain what it is you don't like.
Cheers.
At 12:34 p.m.,
Aleah said…
Okay. I don't know who we're reading because I haven't read the books. My professor is very much for human rights for everybody, which is good, but sometimes it crosses the lines of what I believe (ie. gay marriage, abortion, etc.). He talks about liberation theology from the Catholic standpoint, but really he just bashes the entire church and in doing so, says that the Bible is oppressive, and blah blah blah. So it bugs me because I have to sit and listen to this for 3 hours and when I argue against him (which I've done) he totally confuses the heck out of me and I just give up. So that is how I'm ripped apart.
And no. I'm not wealthy by any means, though I would say I'm very blessed.
At 1:32 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
Aleah,
I think you are smart in seeing the value of a few close friends. Investing your time in quality relationships is better than having many shallow friendships. I think you will find that in the long run the closeness you develop will be better than the distance of having a large number of mediocre relationships.
I too am studying theology and was a philosophy major in undergrad. I remember in my undergrad the philosophy profs making it seem rediculous to believe in God. Dont this prof bring you down.
At 1:34 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
I meant to say dont let the prof bring you down.
Thanks.
At 5:05 p.m.,
Aleah said…
Thanks, Mr. T! When I'm sitting here at home, it's all good, but I know as soon as I go to class I'll just want to leave because I'm frustrated. But I'm thinking that's a good test in patience and learning what others believe so that I can be strong in what I believe.
At 3:48 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
A few thoughts in response to your answer to my original comment.
(1) It is fully appropriate to talk about liberation theology from a Catholic perspective because it was born out of Roman Catholicism, and it remains, mostly, Roman Catholic.
Having said that it's important for Protestants to realise how much they need to learn from the Catholics. All too often Protestants -- and North American Evangelicals in particular -- simply write off what Catholics have to say and they lose a great deal by doing so. And this is not just because the Catholics challenge what Protestants believe, it is also because Catholics often provide healthy correctives to what Protestants believe.
(2) If you actually read your texts you might be able to make more sense of what you see as church bashing and bible bashing.
In terms of the church, the liberation theologians are often quite critical of ways in which the church has contributed to oppression, and fostered a self-indulgent form of Christianity that neglects the biblical revelation of God's preferential option for the poor. The gospel starts out as good news for the poor, it should remain that way. Thus, the liberation theologians seek to bring the church to the margins. They don't want to abandon the church (at least most of them don't). They want to reform the church. The don't hate the church, they want the church to realise who she really is.
Ditto for the notion of the bible being oppressive. Liberation theologians don't actually believe that the bible is oppressive -- they believe the bible is a marvelously liberating book. However, what they are critical of is the way in which certain powerful groups of people take hold the the bible in order to use it to oppress others.
It's too bad that you're taking so little from what could be a truly transformative course.
At 6:17 p.m.,
Aleah said…
Thank you for that.
You misunderstand me.
I am not talking about liberation theology in essence. I am talking about my professor. Maybe I should have clarified that before. Yes, I do believe liberation theology is wonderful and that if people took care of what it says, then the world would be a happy place...la de da.
Also, I do not think Catholics are bad or whatever. I'm against the Catholic church in the sense that it has become a hierarchical structure of power hungry leaders. Not all, of course. I don't want to generalize the entire clergy, etc. I don't read my books because I don't understand them because that is not how my brain works. I just read Asian Theology of Liberation and I had to look up every fifth word. I'm sorry my vocabulary doesn't seem to be big enough to read these sorts of books.
Also, it's not an area that I care too much about, so my apologies for disappointing you on my lack of learning.
At 6:19 p.m.,
Aleah said…
P.S. I am not meaning to be disrespectful in my comment either.
P.P.S. It was Bible bashing (in my class) because my professor explicitly said "this" and "that" is not true in the Bible (referring to specific events). So that made me angry that he did not present it in an unbiased way, but instead interjected his own personal belief without exploring both sides.
At 4:42 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
Aleah,
I think it is to be understood that a person in undergrad and at your age usually wont have the same vocabulary of someone who most likely has a PhD. It is also tough to respect another person's view when they disrespect your view. So with that being said I think you have a right to be frustrated. If the prof wants people to respond positively to what he says then he should be resepctful to others views.
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