blogahrah

                   
                   2005 was a good year.

Yeah, “For me to poop on” was the joke. Great job, Einstein.

My New Year’s resolution is 1152 x 864.  At 74.8 Hz.
Also, I said I’m not going to poop this year.  But I lost that game already.

        you’re all dead to me

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except the ones who are motherly and make pumpkin cookies and let me play DDR with their children

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This does not include the required bible minor core.  That has, in
any case, a 4:2 ratio of non-Bible to Bible Bible courses, but everyone
takes those, not choices that those with a Bible major can choose to
study in the text if they wish.
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You know what grinds my gears?

Just moderately, of course.  Nothing too serious.  I just
think it’s interesting.  For those who are not of the Cedarvillian
persuasion who may occassionaly peruse this Xanga, I welcome your
objective thoughts on the matter.

Cedarville is theoretically a Bible College.  But we’re not
officially called that anymore, I don’t think.  We like to thinkof
ourselves as being well grounded in scripture, bringing ourselves up in
that sort of way, etc etc.  So in examination of the Bible
department, we find similar results to last semesters look.

The Philosophy segment has 6 different courses, with a total of 8
sections. There are a total of 198 students currently enrolled in
philsophy, BEPH, classes.

BEPT, whatever that is, has 10 different courses, 12 sections
total.    I think this is a missions-oriented
sector.  There are 221 students enrollled here.

BECE, which is something else that I don’t know, has 10 classes with 11
sections.  There are at least 239 students enrolled here, probably
more because some of them look like senior-oriented things that are
instrcutor approval required.

And, in the actual Bible classes, the Old Testament has a grand total
of 2 classes, with 30 people each between them for a total of 60.

The New Testament departement fairs better, with 4 classes (even though
one is instructor approval inductive studies), but the classes are
smaller and so only 69 people are currently registered for classes here.

This is 658 people in non-Bible Bible classes, and 129 people in Bible
classes that actually look at the text.  Obviously, there are
plenty of other majors.  But is it a matter of concern that those
majoring in Bible have a majority of their classes not actually from
the Bible?  Maybe it’s an ok thing to do.

I would like if we had more Bible-text sorta based classes.  Especially more than 2 Old Testament classes. Oh well.

In happier news, I don’t know any of these girls.  But they’re
really pretty, and I support that and am proud of them for it. 
It’s not that I happy that I don’t know them.  I’m just happy they
are them and are only looking moderately scared to be seen with me.

Three goals of my life, in no particular order.

See him in concert:

Meet her:

And finally, go on a date with her:

See, look how happy I am when we’re together.

I bring you yet another edition of Girls Who Are Not Dating Meâ„¢,

This weeks edition is very, very special.  Because we’re all
special people.  Especially people who share our last names, who
are of questionable genetic relationship to us.  In this case, it’s
probably a good thing that we’re not dating, because all of these last
girls share with me something very special…my last name.  I’ve
never met any of them, and have no idea if we are related or not. 
I hope not though, because they are almost as pretty as me.  Here
it is, Girls Who Are Not Dating Meâ„¢

Amy
Anfang             
            
Rachel Anfang         
               
Maddie Anfang

And another special treat.  Pirates Who Are Not Dating Meâ„¢.

Maribeth the Pirate Queen.  Arrrrrrr.

Debating online is the like special olympics.

I sat outside today at chapel in one of the lounges.  It was
Veteran’s Day chapel.  I’m not usually partial to patriotically
themed chapels, so figured it was best to not get myself worked up.

This is what I wrote.  It’s not supposed to be stunningly accurate.  It’s just how I feel.

At first I want to say its not that I have any bad feelings towards
America.  But that’s a lie.  I don’t even care if the
founding fathers biblically based or deist or serial rapists. 
Where I’ve grown up, culture has isolated me from those around
me.  Is it low to blame isolation on culture?  What if the
culture teaches only the cool people get to have visible
relationships?  And the only visible relationships are
shallow?  I was taught success and independence and what was
apparently what the world, or at least America, wanted of me was for me
to keep my nose clean and to get good grades.  Good grades
equalled success earlier and life, and not much attention was paid to
how success was achieved.  Being smart wasn’t thoroughly doing
consistent, excellent work…it was knowing what the teacher wanted to
hear, and being able to talk your way from a much deserved C- to a
shiny A.  Being a good kid was often enough as well. 
Money.  Do I even need to start on it?  For some reason I
need a hole lot of it, even if I never do anything.  In other
countries they live in poverty.  They say people are
starving.  But some people do survive.  And without money
like we have here.  I’m not saying life is easy, or anything is
right or wrong….but I’m fairly confident what I’ve ben taught is
wrong.  Vietnam, Bay of Pigs….can America’s foreign policy
really be trusted?  Where are the weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq?  Yes, I know from a certain point of view those are
irrelevant, but the point of view of the government was that they were
there, and we were going to get rid of them.  Big question
mark.  Inconsistent war on terror.  We go after those who go
after us, but thats not all.  We also go after those we don’t ,
but where are the troops stopping the sex trade?  We applaud the
veterans, but what are we applauding?  The music filters through,
and it’s beautiful, but does the other side remain the enemy?  Do
they do the same thing in honor of their veterans?  If they do,
does that upset us?  Honor going to those who slaughtered our men
and boys, and women in this enlightened age?  And its slaughter
when its our soldiers.  Luckily, we only kill their men.  And
if our enemies get upset over our rejoicing, so what?  We were
fighting for what was right, anyway.  We view war, at best, as a
necessary evil, going to war only when necessary.  But when its
over, we sing God Bless America, and go into debt rebuilding the
company we squashed.   But I didn’t mean company, I meant
country, right.  So we sing and the music sounds beautiful. 
But the girls being raped in Africa scream that there were no weapons
of mass destruction.  The songs continue to be sung.  over
and over.  In affirmation of America.  America in deep bass,
higher and higher until on the dogs can hear the wonder of America
being preached.  Isn’t that who doesn’t want to hear it?  And
then it switches to Amazing Grace.  Is that valid?  The line
has been drawn.  Can we support it?  Grace will lead
home?  Our soldiers?  Theirs?  Or is home heaven? 
And we think of our noble soldiers, going to a better place. 
Often our enemies go to an even better place, and they have lots of
virgins.  Does that mean we’re on the wrong side?  Or we’re
fighting for grace and justice?  Glory, glory hallelujah. 
Why would you even sing that in war?

Heh.  I’ve been shot down by girls more this year then freshman and sophomore years combined.

In other news, the real reason for global warming has been discovered.

For those of you who have trouble reading that graph….heh. 
Communications majors.  Silly kids.  Coming soon: more girls
who are not dating me and important statistics on the real
issues.  Also, please send me relevant pirate pictures.  I
seem to be sadly lacking.

Who was I kidding?  After a few hours I was beat.  I hadn’t
slept at all this week.  I can’t handle this during school. 
But eventually I’m going to try.  Silly things like studying for
exams and homework, and just plain exhaustion….these get in the
way.  I’ll keep you posted.