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oooh, lots to write about.
But first, before I forget--Mr P asked me and Katie to do something for him on Thursday--he wants us to design "shop superheroes" that we'll be painting on the walls of the shop!!!! XD XD XD XD He was saying people like "The Hammer" and his sidekick "The Nail" (who I had a really good idea for late last night) and "The Buzz Saw", wrench, screwdriver, you know--the works! So I want to do that soon. . . I don't know though. . . I'm kinda lacking inspiration. . . all I can think of is people with tools for hands. Although the Nail could carry a nail gun (I'm going to have to find out what one looks like) (then again, there's Mr. P's interesting story about nail guns. . . but it didn't happen to him, it happened to someone else. . .) And the Buzz Saw could have a buzz cut and kinda throw saw blades--like those little round star things, only more like a saw blade.
Anyway. . . I got a whole lot of sleep last night. I'm not sure when I went to bed to take a nap. . . I think Friends had just finished, though. But I went upstairs and i went to sleep, and then when I woke up it was 9:30. I was really confused, I thought it was 9:30 in the morning! But then i looked at my windows and realized they were dark. lol. I could have gotten up, cos I usually go to bed past midnight on weekends, and we're supposed to get off the computer at 11 (10 on weeknights) but I decided to go back to sleep! So I got a whole lot of sleep. I didn't get out of bed til 8:30, although I did wake up a couple of times in the early morning.
much doings at the high school yesterday. I never mentioned it before, because I was too lazy and was going to do it eventually, but there's a big band (symphonic) and choir (concert) (concert band and chorale are the "bad" ones--or the ones you don't have to audition to get into.) (you know, that's very very odd, because "symphony strings" is the bad orchestra, and symphonic band is the good band, and concert band is the bad band and concert choir is the good choir. . . just thought I'd point that out). Anyway, I got really off-topic there. . . There's a big (good) band and choir trip to Boston this weekend. They were supposed to leave early Friday morning, stop in Connecticut to perform at a high school, and then do some performances in Boston over the weekend (at least one). However! They get to the school and find out that one of the bus drivers is not allowed to drive the students from NY to Connecticut, I believe because the bus laws are different in each state or something. Whatever it was, the bus company screwed up big time. So everyone goes into the auditorium to wait.
Between second and third period, I walk around the outside of the building, because it's shorter without the crowded halls. Well, imagine my surprise when I see the buses are still there! In fourth period, I overheard the first whispers about what was wrong with the bus driver. Then I get to fifth period--David pops into our classroom!! XD It was really cool cos he knows Lare and all, but he came by to visit us. :D And then a couple seconds later he came back to remind us about something which I will explain later. It's just so cool being friends with the valedictorian and having him come to visit you. :D (although it's a very strange friendship. . . especially with me and him) Lare was insulted because she asked David why he was here and he said, ". . . just saying hello," or something (saying hello to us! XD) and Lare thinks he should have tried to suck up and say "oh, I missed your class so much I couldn't stay away". ::rolls eyes:: So anyway, Nick and Emily. . . no. . . Emily and someone stopped by a little later (also to say hi to us--we're so popular! lol) and them Lare talked to her because she'd missed class in the morning so Lare wanted to know if she wanted to come in then. (Emily said no, being a smart little girl). So that was fifth period. Sixth period we have lunch. We go into the cafeteria and see Johnny and Adam (both of whom should have been on the trip) sitting with Susan (who's in orchestra. I like parenthesis today, don't I?). So we go over and ask them what's going on, and they tell us everyone's in the auditorium! So we go in, and have a little trouble finding our friends, but we do see Aron in glasses. (yay!!) Then we see David, so we go down to talk to him, and then we spot all of our friends, so we spend the lunch period with them. Then our idiotic District Music and Art director (or some such shit--I hate him) goes into the auditorium and gives this whole spiel about how they're working on getting the buses--but in the meantime they want everyone to go to their classes and there'll be an announcement when they get everything working (AHHH!!!!!) So the kids strike. yeah!! (well, David was going to go to his classes, and a couple other kids--we yelled at David) And I'm not sure how or why, but it did turn out ok because they ended up not having to go. whoo hoo!
And then after school we go into the auditorium--and they're still there. Well, Emily and Perin have gone home to drop off the formal concert attire, because that's what they would have been using in Connecticut. :-/ But David is still there playing Billy Joel songs on the piano. Very very nice, very talented pianist. Owns most of Billy Joel's sheet music (moins River of Dreams) and has most of the introductions memorized O_O So we talked and listened to him play for a while. They were supposed to leave at three, so we left, telling David to tell Emily to get a picture of Aron in his glasses (we'd had an argument about whether or not this was cute before) and I stopped by and told Mike (my older brother) to have fun and take care of himself.
While we were talking, we found out what David cares about--mainly being right. O_O He also cares about Katie, and Academons (whew) and some of the time he cares about life--not dying and having enough to eat and stuff, and he kinda cares about music. Jeez!!! That's worrying. We're going to have to work on him. You can spare yourself unhappiness by not caring, but you miss out on a lot of happiness.
Anyway, I was totally on in English today. I did really well. :D (I didn't do so well on the quizzes, but double 80's aren't bad--one question wrong on each quiz. Isn't is ridiculous to make a 5 question quiz worth 50 points? Anyway, I could have done worse. . . I hope it doesn't bring my average down too much. I'm always a bit worried about English. Ah well. . . But anyway. Our "Do Now" was to analyze and interpret (or whatever) this quote: "Nothing exists in itself." But if you read the sentences surrounding that quote, you get ". . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot said to be comfortable anymore." (And I do agree with what you said, but I think you need only the memory of cold or discomfort, I'm not sure if you actually need to have a part of you be cold at that very moment) Anyway, usually when I do my Do Now's I write something, but then paraphrase it when I speak, otherwise I feel silly and rehearsed and unnatural. But today I read exactly what I'd written. Which I don't have at home, but was along the lines of, "Light defines dark. Heat defines cold, life defines death, hope defines despair. Fate defines free will, good defines evil. (I had a whole lot of others that I can't remember!) You cannot truly know or understand something until you have known it's opposite. Having never experienced want, you cannot truly know content. Having never experienced hunger, you will never truly know how wonderful it is to have enough to eat." (that's a slight paraphrase). Well, the class was very impressed. The student teacher said, "yeah, and Brian, what were you saying?" And then she told us that this quote meant that "People need other people, you can't survive by yourself." O_O Whoa. there's a contrast for you! Maybe I'm being conceited (I am quite conceited) but I really really liked what I said--I got some of it from Sandman, which should tell you something--and what she said was not only of a lower intellectual quality--it had nothing to do with the quote!!! (I love it when the class is impressed with the things I say though. I love speaking out against her, or making her look stupid. . . I get in arguments with her too, and she has to ignore me cos otherwise I'd win--I mentioned one of these yesterday) I'm probably being bratty now. . . but I don't really care.
I got the information about the Math SAT II yesterday--and then forgot to tell my parents, so if we want to sign up now I think we have to pay extra!! I want to take it though, so if I do better this year than next, I'll be able to choose. And the more you take the better, right? :-/
Oh yeah, what David was telling us about--Hofstra radio or something is doing a broadcast from our school, and like, Mathletes is going to be on and cheerleaders I think, and god knows what else--and Academons!! :D We're going to have a mock competition (we have like, 5 minutes O_O) so that's cool. The teams are me, Katie, Jamie, and David against Aron, Stephen, Donald, and Doug. So they're actually pretty even. And that's what David was reminding us abut the second time he popped into our English room--we had to go to the office to get a little slip in case we miss any classes. We're going to have to be at the school at 7 (ugh) and we're probably going to be "performing" at 7:19. So we may or may not miss classes, I know these things tend to run late. Unless these radio people are really on the ball.
All our Academons boys are in a room together on the trip!! lol (well, not all cos it's 4 to a room. . .) it's David, Aron, Jamie, and Doug!! XD lol. Sometimes I wonder what the other Academons boys think of Katie and me. We're smarter than some of them, so it's not like they think we're silly ditzy deadweights, but I don't know. . . it's kinda hard to get across the difference between "having a crush on" and "having a running joke on". lol. Although I love all my Academons boys. Except for maybe. . . Doug. But I'm even warming to Doug!! That is scary. (don't ask--Doug is just. . . Doug)
I discussed religion with Terrell in social studies (I did some work on my DBQ too) (the teacher wasn't there). This is a very interesting experience because Terrell is a hard core Christian. Despite a few moments of hot words (and me saying "no, I'm going to write this essay" to "gracefully" duck out of the argument. . .) we actually managed to get somewhere without insulting each other. I've figured it out. Our g/Gods are different. He says God can't be understood, but then tells me what God wants and how God feels and what God is. I say I think god is out there and loves us. I like to say god wants us to be good, because I'd like to think that, but if I tell someone they should be good, or if I try to be good, it's not because god wants them to be, its because that's a, well, good thing to do. It's right, it feels right, I like it. I think I'm not good to get to heaven, which is one of the problems I have with Christianity. It's very self-serving, isn't it? I also don't like that he thinks the worst person could get to heaven by accepting Jesus. I think that no one, or very few people, go to hell forever--but not everyone deserves to go to heaven, and just because the Bible says you can't reincarnate. . . I think the Bible is one of the big problems with Christianity. It's very ambiguous, and probably unreliable. And sexist--like why was Noah's wife never mentioned?? (or her name) All his sons get in there, but not anyone's wives!! ugh. And if God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of life, why would he put it in the garden in the first place!! (I just don't think god would do that. . . maybe I am trying to define god here, but that doesn't sound right.) Also--does it say in the Bible that the snake tried to tempt Adam and failed, and then had to move to Eve? No!! Why should she be blamed for the fall? Eve succumbed to the temptations of the snake, and to those of God, who left the tree there to tempt them in the first place. Adam succumbed to the temptations of a mere mortal. Who's weaker then? Maybe women have to endure the "pain of childbirth" because we're stronger and we can handle it.
Another problem I have with Terrell is that he wants to be a good Christian before he wants to be a good person, and being a good Christian, from what he said to me, is accepting God into your heart. . . because. . . God is insecure and wants the people he created to love him. . . I think that that is humanizing and. . . belittling him? I think the only reason god would want people to accept and love hir (not him, and if I used him to describe my god before now it was a mistake, although I don't really think human pronouns can fit god) (maybe I don't want to humanize god because it's a scary idea, but that's what I think, for whatever reason) is that it might make us feel better and help us to be good people (like it has helped me).
Terrell said he wants to continue to conversation later, but while I feel it was a really good argument that helped me understand him, Christianity, and myself better, I don't think there's much point in continuing it because I doubt either of us will change our perceptions of g/God, and there's really no need for us too, cos for the most part we're working towards roughly the same thing. Except that. . . well, they were accusing Terrell of saying Jews are going to go to hell. And he said, "I have never said Jews are going to go to hell." Which is where I got involved because I said, "Well, we know you've never said it, Terrell, but is that what you think?" And he opened and shut his mouth a few times and said some long weird thing that I didn't totally understand and don't really agree with. So that's my main problem. I don't like that anyone who accepts Jesus can get into heaven, but even worse than that is that anyone who doesn't accept Jesus is going to hell. That can't be true. And I think it shows that Terrell has a very pessimistic view of human nature, because he thinks that no one is good and this is the only way we can get into heaven. I'm not perfect, but I try my best to be as good as possible. There are good people all around us. There are incredibly terrible people all around us also, but that's that. (which ties in with the whole contrast thing I was discussing at the beginning of the entry) There's a purpose for everything, I think, and hopefully everything will turn out ok, and even if we can't understand what's going on or why things happen, we can still try to be the best people we can.
wow. just wrote the subject. interesting (interesting subjects--the entry itself is probably boring) and varied entry. really long though--I've been writing a lot of long entries lately (and I've been being lazy about commenting) Anyway. . . if you got through all that, congratulations.
(I've been writing for an hour and 10 minutes!!)
oh yeah, and we have little mini-chocolate chip muffins, and they're really yummy.
Thank god it's the weekend. i'm going to relax and do homework and that's it. In fact, I think I'm going to grab some muffins and watch Monty Python.
But first, before I forget--Mr P asked me and Katie to do something for him on Thursday--he wants us to design "shop superheroes" that we'll be painting on the walls of the shop!!!! XD XD XD XD He was saying people like "The Hammer" and his sidekick "The Nail" (who I had a really good idea for late last night) and "The Buzz Saw", wrench, screwdriver, you know--the works! So I want to do that soon. . . I don't know though. . . I'm kinda lacking inspiration. . . all I can think of is people with tools for hands. Although the Nail could carry a nail gun (I'm going to have to find out what one looks like) (then again, there's Mr. P's interesting story about nail guns. . . but it didn't happen to him, it happened to someone else. . .) And the Buzz Saw could have a buzz cut and kinda throw saw blades--like those little round star things, only more like a saw blade.
Anyway. . . I got a whole lot of sleep last night. I'm not sure when I went to bed to take a nap. . . I think Friends had just finished, though. But I went upstairs and i went to sleep, and then when I woke up it was 9:30. I was really confused, I thought it was 9:30 in the morning! But then i looked at my windows and realized they were dark. lol. I could have gotten up, cos I usually go to bed past midnight on weekends, and we're supposed to get off the computer at 11 (10 on weeknights) but I decided to go back to sleep! So I got a whole lot of sleep. I didn't get out of bed til 8:30, although I did wake up a couple of times in the early morning.
much doings at the high school yesterday. I never mentioned it before, because I was too lazy and was going to do it eventually, but there's a big band (symphonic) and choir (concert) (concert band and chorale are the "bad" ones--or the ones you don't have to audition to get into.) (you know, that's very very odd, because "symphony strings" is the bad orchestra, and symphonic band is the good band, and concert band is the bad band and concert choir is the good choir. . . just thought I'd point that out). Anyway, I got really off-topic there. . . There's a big (good) band and choir trip to Boston this weekend. They were supposed to leave early Friday morning, stop in Connecticut to perform at a high school, and then do some performances in Boston over the weekend (at least one). However! They get to the school and find out that one of the bus drivers is not allowed to drive the students from NY to Connecticut, I believe because the bus laws are different in each state or something. Whatever it was, the bus company screwed up big time. So everyone goes into the auditorium to wait.
Between second and third period, I walk around the outside of the building, because it's shorter without the crowded halls. Well, imagine my surprise when I see the buses are still there! In fourth period, I overheard the first whispers about what was wrong with the bus driver. Then I get to fifth period--David pops into our classroom!! XD It was really cool cos he knows Lare and all, but he came by to visit us. :D And then a couple seconds later he came back to remind us about something which I will explain later. It's just so cool being friends with the valedictorian and having him come to visit you. :D (although it's a very strange friendship. . . especially with me and him) Lare was insulted because she asked David why he was here and he said, ". . . just saying hello," or something (saying hello to us! XD) and Lare thinks he should have tried to suck up and say "oh, I missed your class so much I couldn't stay away". ::rolls eyes:: So anyway, Nick and Emily. . . no. . . Emily and someone stopped by a little later (also to say hi to us--we're so popular! lol) and them Lare talked to her because she'd missed class in the morning so Lare wanted to know if she wanted to come in then. (Emily said no, being a smart little girl). So that was fifth period. Sixth period we have lunch. We go into the cafeteria and see Johnny and Adam (both of whom should have been on the trip) sitting with Susan (who's in orchestra. I like parenthesis today, don't I?). So we go over and ask them what's going on, and they tell us everyone's in the auditorium! So we go in, and have a little trouble finding our friends, but we do see Aron in glasses. (yay!!) Then we see David, so we go down to talk to him, and then we spot all of our friends, so we spend the lunch period with them. Then our idiotic District Music and Art director (or some such shit--I hate him) goes into the auditorium and gives this whole spiel about how they're working on getting the buses--but in the meantime they want everyone to go to their classes and there'll be an announcement when they get everything working (AHHH!!!!!) So the kids strike. yeah!! (well, David was going to go to his classes, and a couple other kids--we yelled at David) And I'm not sure how or why, but it did turn out ok because they ended up not having to go. whoo hoo!
And then after school we go into the auditorium--and they're still there. Well, Emily and Perin have gone home to drop off the formal concert attire, because that's what they would have been using in Connecticut. :-/ But David is still there playing Billy Joel songs on the piano. Very very nice, very talented pianist. Owns most of Billy Joel's sheet music (moins River of Dreams) and has most of the introductions memorized O_O So we talked and listened to him play for a while. They were supposed to leave at three, so we left, telling David to tell Emily to get a picture of Aron in his glasses (we'd had an argument about whether or not this was cute before) and I stopped by and told Mike (my older brother) to have fun and take care of himself.
While we were talking, we found out what David cares about--mainly being right. O_O He also cares about Katie, and Academons (whew) and some of the time he cares about life--not dying and having enough to eat and stuff, and he kinda cares about music. Jeez!!! That's worrying. We're going to have to work on him. You can spare yourself unhappiness by not caring, but you miss out on a lot of happiness.
Anyway, I was totally on in English today. I did really well. :D (I didn't do so well on the quizzes, but double 80's aren't bad--one question wrong on each quiz. Isn't is ridiculous to make a 5 question quiz worth 50 points? Anyway, I could have done worse. . . I hope it doesn't bring my average down too much. I'm always a bit worried about English. Ah well. . . But anyway. Our "Do Now" was to analyze and interpret (or whatever) this quote: "Nothing exists in itself." But if you read the sentences surrounding that quote, you get ". . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot said to be comfortable anymore." (And I do agree with what you said, but I think you need only the memory of cold or discomfort, I'm not sure if you actually need to have a part of you be cold at that very moment) Anyway, usually when I do my Do Now's I write something, but then paraphrase it when I speak, otherwise I feel silly and rehearsed and unnatural. But today I read exactly what I'd written. Which I don't have at home, but was along the lines of, "Light defines dark. Heat defines cold, life defines death, hope defines despair. Fate defines free will, good defines evil. (I had a whole lot of others that I can't remember!) You cannot truly know or understand something until you have known it's opposite. Having never experienced want, you cannot truly know content. Having never experienced hunger, you will never truly know how wonderful it is to have enough to eat." (that's a slight paraphrase). Well, the class was very impressed. The student teacher said, "yeah, and Brian, what were you saying?" And then she told us that this quote meant that "People need other people, you can't survive by yourself." O_O Whoa. there's a contrast for you! Maybe I'm being conceited (I am quite conceited) but I really really liked what I said--I got some of it from Sandman, which should tell you something--and what she said was not only of a lower intellectual quality--it had nothing to do with the quote!!! (I love it when the class is impressed with the things I say though. I love speaking out against her, or making her look stupid. . . I get in arguments with her too, and she has to ignore me cos otherwise I'd win--I mentioned one of these yesterday) I'm probably being bratty now. . . but I don't really care.
I got the information about the Math SAT II yesterday--and then forgot to tell my parents, so if we want to sign up now I think we have to pay extra!! I want to take it though, so if I do better this year than next, I'll be able to choose. And the more you take the better, right? :-/
Oh yeah, what David was telling us about--Hofstra radio or something is doing a broadcast from our school, and like, Mathletes is going to be on and cheerleaders I think, and god knows what else--and Academons!! :D We're going to have a mock competition (we have like, 5 minutes O_O) so that's cool. The teams are me, Katie, Jamie, and David against Aron, Stephen, Donald, and Doug. So they're actually pretty even. And that's what David was reminding us abut the second time he popped into our English room--we had to go to the office to get a little slip in case we miss any classes. We're going to have to be at the school at 7 (ugh) and we're probably going to be "performing" at 7:19. So we may or may not miss classes, I know these things tend to run late. Unless these radio people are really on the ball.
All our Academons boys are in a room together on the trip!! lol (well, not all cos it's 4 to a room. . .) it's David, Aron, Jamie, and Doug!! XD lol. Sometimes I wonder what the other Academons boys think of Katie and me. We're smarter than some of them, so it's not like they think we're silly ditzy deadweights, but I don't know. . . it's kinda hard to get across the difference between "having a crush on" and "having a running joke on". lol. Although I love all my Academons boys. Except for maybe. . . Doug. But I'm even warming to Doug!! That is scary. (don't ask--Doug is just. . . Doug)
I discussed religion with Terrell in social studies (I did some work on my DBQ too) (the teacher wasn't there). This is a very interesting experience because Terrell is a hard core Christian. Despite a few moments of hot words (and me saying "no, I'm going to write this essay" to "gracefully" duck out of the argument. . .) we actually managed to get somewhere without insulting each other. I've figured it out. Our g/Gods are different. He says God can't be understood, but then tells me what God wants and how God feels and what God is. I say I think god is out there and loves us. I like to say god wants us to be good, because I'd like to think that, but if I tell someone they should be good, or if I try to be good, it's not because god wants them to be, its because that's a, well, good thing to do. It's right, it feels right, I like it. I think I'm not good to get to heaven, which is one of the problems I have with Christianity. It's very self-serving, isn't it? I also don't like that he thinks the worst person could get to heaven by accepting Jesus. I think that no one, or very few people, go to hell forever--but not everyone deserves to go to heaven, and just because the Bible says you can't reincarnate. . . I think the Bible is one of the big problems with Christianity. It's very ambiguous, and probably unreliable. And sexist--like why was Noah's wife never mentioned?? (or her name) All his sons get in there, but not anyone's wives!! ugh. And if God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of life, why would he put it in the garden in the first place!! (I just don't think god would do that. . . maybe I am trying to define god here, but that doesn't sound right.) Also--does it say in the Bible that the snake tried to tempt Adam and failed, and then had to move to Eve? No!! Why should she be blamed for the fall? Eve succumbed to the temptations of the snake, and to those of God, who left the tree there to tempt them in the first place. Adam succumbed to the temptations of a mere mortal. Who's weaker then? Maybe women have to endure the "pain of childbirth" because we're stronger and we can handle it.
Another problem I have with Terrell is that he wants to be a good Christian before he wants to be a good person, and being a good Christian, from what he said to me, is accepting God into your heart. . . because. . . God is insecure and wants the people he created to love him. . . I think that that is humanizing and. . . belittling him? I think the only reason god would want people to accept and love hir (not him, and if I used him to describe my god before now it was a mistake, although I don't really think human pronouns can fit god) (maybe I don't want to humanize god because it's a scary idea, but that's what I think, for whatever reason) is that it might make us feel better and help us to be good people (like it has helped me).
Terrell said he wants to continue to conversation later, but while I feel it was a really good argument that helped me understand him, Christianity, and myself better, I don't think there's much point in continuing it because I doubt either of us will change our perceptions of g/God, and there's really no need for us too, cos for the most part we're working towards roughly the same thing. Except that. . . well, they were accusing Terrell of saying Jews are going to go to hell. And he said, "I have never said Jews are going to go to hell." Which is where I got involved because I said, "Well, we know you've never said it, Terrell, but is that what you think?" And he opened and shut his mouth a few times and said some long weird thing that I didn't totally understand and don't really agree with. So that's my main problem. I don't like that anyone who accepts Jesus can get into heaven, but even worse than that is that anyone who doesn't accept Jesus is going to hell. That can't be true. And I think it shows that Terrell has a very pessimistic view of human nature, because he thinks that no one is good and this is the only way we can get into heaven. I'm not perfect, but I try my best to be as good as possible. There are good people all around us. There are incredibly terrible people all around us also, but that's that. (which ties in with the whole contrast thing I was discussing at the beginning of the entry) There's a purpose for everything, I think, and hopefully everything will turn out ok, and even if we can't understand what's going on or why things happen, we can still try to be the best people we can.
wow. just wrote the subject. interesting (interesting subjects--the entry itself is probably boring) and varied entry. really long though--I've been writing a lot of long entries lately (and I've been being lazy about commenting) Anyway. . . if you got through all that, congratulations.
(I've been writing for an hour and 10 minutes!!)
oh yeah, and we have little mini-chocolate chip muffins, and they're really yummy.
Thank god it's the weekend. i'm going to relax and do homework and that's it. In fact, I think I'm going to grab some muffins and watch Monty Python.
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Date: 2002-04-27 08:51 pm (UTC)My biggest problem with this is, if a Jew can't get into heaven, then Jesus couldn't be in heaven with his father because he was born onto this planet as a Jew. Besides, if God felt that it was okay for his son to be born a Jew, then why wouldn't Jews be good enough to enter heaven?
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Date: 2002-04-28 06:41 am (UTC)Anyway, my grandpa, my little grandpa, was such an incredibly wonderful man, I think he alone is proof against the Christian belief that those who did not accept Jesus don't go to heaven. I can't imagine. Like. Anything else. And I was really lucky to have him as my grandpa. Really lucky. So here's another thing to keep me from losing my faith in humanity.
also--there's a lot of religions out there. A lot of gods. For me. . . I don't know. I can't decide which one is right. I mean, if people were exposed to all religions when they became old enough to choose, and allowed to decide for themselves which one feels right, feels the best. . . I don't know. And there's a lot of things about Christianity that I'm learning that I hope my friends who are Christian don't follow. Like, I can't think of any examples, but when I was a kid I thought there were such beautiful, simple messages (I went to my friends Bible study class, actually, and aside from the shocking discovery that non-Christians go to hell--which I didn't accept, even then, when I considered myself Christian--I liked what they were telling us) and now I'm finding out more about it, or more about how people interpret it, and it isn't pretty or nice at all.
Oh! Like Jeroboam. We had to learn about him in English. Actually, my sister studied him and then told the rest of us what happened there (I had Jonah, a story I did actually like--although I read the Jewish version, a summary off a Jewish site, so the interpretation may be different but it was nice). Anyway, apparently Jeroboam. . . if I can remember correctly. . . was leading a revolt (and I'm afraid I can't remember who against, but it was someone bad). And I believe he was successful and he did well, but then to. . . what was it. . . strengthen people's resolve or something? He built some statues to represent God--not statues of God, some golden cows, to put in the temples so people would have something to focus on, I think? And God like, cursed Jeroboam, and damned him to hell (probably) and now whenever there's a crappy king they say he's as "bad as Jeroboam."
Now that doesn't make any sense to me. First off--he didn't hurt anyone!! Gyahh!! He was a good king, I think. Second off--what, God is worried about his image?? I don't get it! I know that you're not supposed to worship idols, but jeez. I don't think it's that big of a crime, and they weren't idols. . . I don't know. The Catholic church has got a million statues of saints-- or crucifixes!! People worship those!
:-/ I think I got off topic. . . I just don't think that god cares about stuff like that?