I gave a copy of Ender's Game to a friend of mine back in high school. He wasn't a reader, per se, despite being in the honors English classes; he was enthralled by this book.
Fast forward ten years, and he's a high school physics teacher. He's taken to assigning this book as extra credit for his physics classes. The school library only has a few copies; the county libraries quickly ran out as well. Librarians were stunned; his English-teaching colleagues were a little freaked out, because they'd be reading Ender's Game in their classes.
So every time I hear about that fantastic novel, I can't help but smile, think of pebbles causing avalanches, and hear the "The More You Know ..." music.
So what test is cancer for exactly? What lesson is it teaching anyone? Sounds more like mockery than a test: "haha, suffer and die".
When new medical advancements lead someone to recover from cancer, should they be thanking God? After all, these medical advancements were only available to them because they were suffering late enough to benefit from them. Those medical advancements come from real people, not from a deity.
(Note: I found your blog because I liked your recent comments on wtf_sexism. I'm not just surfing the internet looking for people to disagree with.)
I didn't even realize I still had this post open. :) This was written three years ago. I don't know that I necessarily feel this same way now. I certainly don't think that God decides who will suffer because of some big plan. At the time that I wrote this, I was struggling to make sense of some of my experiences and this perspective helped me at that time
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Fast forward ten years, and he's a high school physics teacher. He's taken to assigning this book as extra credit for his physics classes. The school library only has a few copies; the county libraries quickly ran out as well. Librarians were stunned; his English-teaching colleagues were a little freaked out, because they'd be reading Ender's Game in their classes.
So every time I hear about that fantastic novel, I can't help but smile, think of pebbles causing avalanches, and hear the "The More You Know ..." music.
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When new medical advancements lead someone to recover from cancer, should they be thanking God? After all, these medical advancements were only available to them because they were suffering late enough to benefit from them. Those medical advancements come from real people, not from a deity.
(Note: I found your blog because I liked your recent comments on wtf_sexism. I'm not just surfing the internet looking for people to disagree with.)
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