If you were a hotdog.... Would you eat yourself?

Okay so after class on Thursday I stayed to talk with Dr. Borders about this and now I want to see what anyone else thinks. Please don't limit this to one person. I really want to know other peoples opinions on this.

So we talked about death (kind of a big deal). This lead me a question I've had for a long time. Try to follow this.... We think of time in a chronological sense called Chronos. Then we (GENERALIZING) also believe that God does not follow and is not limited to this idea. We say that "God's time" is Kairos. It's hard to explain Kairos because we all find it so hard to not think in chronology. But the Bible says God is, was, and will always be. Think that but all at once.  Okay, now that my horrible explanation is done I'll give you the question.

Predestination.... most people I know don't like the idea because of the "no free will" thing. My question is that if we truly believe that God is not in "our time" but "God's time,"(Kairos) can't predestination and freewill exist simultaneously?

A thought and answer that I toss around is that yes they can exist. God knows what we're going to do before we do it, not because he has planned out every step in our lives, but because he is omnipresent through time and is simultaneously there when we make each decision. Or something like that.

The other thing that I question is how the Parousia will happen. When we die do we stay in our sense of time and actually wait out for the Second Coming? Or when we kick the bucket do we join God in "His time" and enjoy the Parousia right when we die? I don't think there are definite answers to either of these questions. I'm just looking for your opinions on it.


J-Pow

Why Change?

This kind of just hit me last night so I figured I would write about it.


We say we want to change Huntingdon and our community. Great idea. But then I started doing what Dr. Bee (haha... continuing bee joke way longer than anyone should) told us. I started to think "So what?" Say we have an impact here at Huntingdon... So what? What is it that we're trying to accomplish? And more importantly why are we trying to accomplish it? I know a lot of us will throw out the "I want to make Huntingdon a better place" reasoning. This would be great if I believed you. Everyone in our class (I think) will be gone next year or the year after. You might say, "Jon I want it to be better even if I'm not here." To you I say, stop lying. Most people want to see results while they're here and the process and ideas we're trying to bring to Huntingdon are not short term at all. So I ask again, why are we doing this? What is it that we truly want out of it? I don't know. Just a thought.

B7...... BINGO!!!!

So the crap is about to hit the fan. This doesn't really have anything to do with class.... well sort of I guess. So I don't know if any of you know/care about gambling but Frazer is going through some crap that kind of makes me want to punch people in the face (mainly the media). So Milton McGregor is the owner of VictoryLand. He is a member at Frazer and recently was arrested for some charges that haven't been proven dealing with gambling. Anyway, the media has taken this opportunity to twist it all into this "How can a church support gambling??" thing. I've already heard a couple of people say that others have questioned how they can go to a church that supports gambling. This is were my issue is. First off, I know for a fact that the pastors at Frazer went to see McGregor and others as spiritual advisors. Just like any other situation, the pastors went to give advice.

So back to the point I'm trying to make... The question that really upsets me is "how can you go to a church where they support gambling?" WHY THE CRAP DOES THAT MATTER?!?! Isn't church supposed to be a place where people can go to worship and faith as a community? It pisses me off that people and the media are more interested in assuming what churches believe and support than the overall purpose of church. Thank you media. You suck. The End.

J-Pow

Short but sweet (like honey)

So yeah. I don't have a lot to say... I just wanted to say that sometimes I wish we were like honey bees. And not in the dying for no reason way. I mean in the "individual doesn't matter" way. Some people think that its heartless but some of those same people are strongly for uniforms in school which is the same thing... ish... The only problem I see with humans being like bees is that we wouldn't have drive anymore. Right now, I see a lot of people with the goal to be better than the next guy. If we take away the individual, there wont be any of that feeling anymore. I think I have that mindset and I, personally, don't want to loose it but the idea of individual importance not existing is kind of awesome.

J-Pow