So I have two languages. I don't mean English and Norwegian. One is religious and one is science-based. One is based on what you can't see and one is based on what you can. I don't know why the discord between the two. Has one 'evolved' out of the other? My question is, since evolution as a theory has been used to erode the idea of the soul - can ( Read more... )

Okay so for a variety of reasons I must write a blog ( Read more... )

WHY IS IT THAT I ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, AT SOME POINT IN THE DAY, END UP SITTING IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER??? Can't I substitute this desire/craving/feeling of cold-turkeyness for something productive? Like "Uh-oh, I feel like I need the computer. (Imaginary bell going off.) Time to go pick up a book." And yet, here I am, computer on lap ( Read more... )

Just walked back with Rich from the post office and we talked about how this is just the appropriate time for everyone to part ways as people are starting to get on each other's nerves. This rings true: Aileen keeps back-talking Elizabeth, Elizabeth didn't come to the group dinner yesterday, Ali is pissed at me for having to pay me back (as was ( Read more... )

First and foremost, I would like to say I am so pleased William took the time to write a good long entry ( Read more... )

Perhaps no quest for "self-improvement" is worth its name without massive discourse around one, simple, pretty little word: control. Aye, what is schooling, what is dating, what is politics, what is the will to sound profound, without an element of self-interested control ( Read more... )

sooooooooooo i'm talking to olla for the first time in a while, and found out we had read about her uncle extensively for my class: the CEO of the Iceland Genome-mapping project. funnily enough i had thought about olla as we read about him, and this, compounded with the continual references about the fact that in iceland people are quite closely ( Read more... )

Went to the meeting for Rome students today. Trinity College is a pretty school. And nice people. Gothic style, like Harvard or Yale. It's strange too how close Connecticut is to where I am... closer than Boston. Yale, New Haven, CT, is closer than Harvard, Cambridge, MA. Yale...Harvard... I'M SO CLOSE TO YALE AND HARVARD!!!

In NYC, it struck me. As scrolling text on the buildings, flashing lights, trademarks, etc, abounded, I suddenly understood what it all meant. "USA: the land of opportunity." Granted, Europe has the history, the culture, the style, much of which I have missed dearly up until this point. But the USA has CHOICE; resources, political bipolarity, ( Read more... )

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