How's it goin' everyone?

I'm in Cairo, Egypt. Learning Arabic.

Sweet, right? I thought so, too. ^_^

Anyways, I was just getting on to post that I'm doing well, everything's all good and all that. Hope y'all are having a good summer.

Well, I'm going in for the sonogram thing tomorrow morning. They're going to take a look at my kidneys and see if anything is wrong with them.

The story of what's been going on up until this point is a little complicated and a bit too long to post at the moment....or ever. So, suffice to say that there may be something wrong with my kidneys. And we ( Read more... )

Is it weird that I want to tie a couple lengths of paracord together and whip myself on the back with the ends of the cords? I dunno why, but it seems really spiritual to me. Which is really creepy...It also makes a cool sound when you whip it through the air...which is, again, creepy.

Maybe I'm just a creepy person....after all, no one since the ( Read more... )

Simply disturbing.

A good message for parents, but extremely disturbing.

The next few entries are going to be my response papers I've writen and submitted for my Harvard class. I want to know what you all think of them.

Justin Hudgins

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Response Paper #1

Pesher: Exegesis

The word pesher comes from the Hebrew root p-sh-r, which means “to explain” or “to expound”. It originally was used specifically ( Read more... )

Ok, I know I've been posting a lot recently on LJ, but it's because I have a lot to say. Recently, I've been talking about other people being ignorant of religion. And that theme is continuing in this post.

Now, I've been trying to figure something out for a little while. The question I'm faced with is whether or not the Air Force Academy ( Read more... )

Ok, I know that I promised Lindsay that I wouldn't flame anyone, but I just can't sit here while the people at apologetics.com continue to make false statements and present information as factual while, in reality, it is not.

The radio program offered by apologetics.com is a bigoted program. Not bigoted in terms of race or sexuality, though the ( Read more... )

Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and a loyal citizen?

Consider this:

Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.

Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran).

Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a ( Read more... )

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