"It is contradictory that definitions for words like "nirvana" are prefaced by the word Hinduism or Buddhism in italics, whereas definitions for words like "heaven" are not prefaced with the word Christianity or even the word Theology in italics. This would lead to the belief that these definitions are accepted as general truth by everyone, when ( Read more... )

I need some friends ... in London ...

taken from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23986997/ REEDSBURG, Wis. - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office ( Read more... )

Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm in Florence, Italy, and Steve Schmidt is two beds away from me, snoring. But his snoring is not common, and the other two guys, at almost two AM, are gone, and may not ( Read more... )

So apparently I’ve been supposed to write a journal entry every day, as apropos to my “homework” while traveling throughout Europe. Well, I’ve been writing one about every four days or so, so far, so now I have to make up stuff to write for every day as if I’ve been always writing one every day. As for posting it to LJ, I’m not going to post ( Read more... )

GAME!I love my music so much, and other people agree, but most people don't know the songs. I'm listening to my iTunes list organized by the most played, and I set the list to play random songs. This list is the OPENING lyrics of the first 10 songs that come up, minus the ones that have the song title in the first line, and no artist is doubled ( Read more... )

Right now I’m on the bus leaving France and heading into Switzerland. Thirteen days until I’m back in Wisconsin. We didn’t have another toga party before we left but there’s an interesting story about that. The night we had the toga party, us guys were in our room (there were two guys’ rooms, four in each) and our neighbors were these high ( Read more... )

So, I’m in Paris now. The internet here is apparently pretty good - we’re staying in a hostel - but I haven’t been able to get on the internet because it’s simply not free. So right now I’m writing this on my laptop in my room and I’ll post it when I get a chance to get online ( Read more... )

And ... I'm slacking again. Leave it to an assignment being due soon for me to write something in LJ ( Read more... )

I know, all you jealous people back in 'sconsin are probably all sick of snow, but it's a big deal for me, especially here. Today I should go take a walk through the park. Today I also need to start doing homework, since I haven't done ANY yet. Homework here will basically consist of papers to turn in periodically throughout the semester, with ( Read more... )