January 2012
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Absent
Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple weeks. Ever since getting back from England I’ve been visiting with family and doing all of the holiday festivities. More Rome and Paris pictures still to come! Promise!
December 2011
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November 2011
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Going to Roma, Italia tomorrow for the weekend!!
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Munich, Germany tomorrow! So excited! Photos to come…
October 2011
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Rome! →
Just booked my flight for Rome, Italy in November!! Can’t wait to take some photos!
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Let Go. A Frou Frou cover by Blake Harnage from...
London!
Yesterday I made the trek to London! It was pretty much inevitable. We arrived at 11:00 to Victoria Station and then walked to Buckingham Palace which was about a 15 minute walk down the street. After taking our token photos we met up with Stephen Wojtila that has been studying in Florence. Throughout the day we also visited Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Tate Britain (Museum), misc. shops and pubs.
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September 2011
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Here we go!
So here I am. In Cheltenham England. In our five days that we have been here, I have had some of the most enriching and perspective-changing experiences. By means of seminars and meeting English students I have learned so much about the UK that I had not known prior to this trip. I’m not going to go into great detail about everything but the British Educational System is so different from...
July 2011
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Platinum Hit! →
“Your attitude determines your altitude.”
May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Artist Wanted: In Focus
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
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That student was Albert Einstein.
Brilliant.
Beautifully done.
January 2011
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When you listen to your iPod in public places.
On the outside you’re like:
But on the inside you’re like:
Yup. Basically.
Watch
December 2010
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A good year...
Well I’m sitting here once again in the wee hours of the morning not able to sleep and just thought I would write about a little something called 2010. This past year has definately had some ups and downs. I recorded a cd with one of the a cappella groups that I am in, I had lots of great and crazy times with my friends, I finally bought an SLR, my sister tied the knot with her fiancé and ...
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Rasputin. So Classic and so good! haha
NEVER EVER WATCH HUMAN CENTIPEDE.
alenalerch:
NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.
EVER.
November 2010
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“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who...”