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Take Home Midterm

That...was...long.

Because of a shortage of class hours, our Ancient Jewish Law prof gave us a take-home midterm. Ugh. Nasty. He said it should take around 6 hrs. It took me more like 8. But, to redeem myself, half of that time I was only half concentrating. So, really, I'm not that stupid. Haha.

I really wish we just had an in class exam. One hour plus a few pages of writing sounds good to me. SEVENTEEN pages of typed material - Yuck.

Now I have two days to try and pick a paper topic and prepare a preliminary outline for my Jewish Law term paper. Good luck Kev, good luck.

Cheers.

A Night at Kev's - Running Blog

11:15 AM

Welcome back to life Kevin. No hangover - well done! Eug and Lucas are still sleeping. King left before I got up.

That was a good night.

4:30 AM

If you want to see guys talk, get them drunk. We open up like you wouldn't believe, I swear it.

We really should sleep soon...maybe...I dunno...hopefully??

...Nothing like a good Vodka and Juice to put you to bed.

2:15 AM

We're watching Pulp Fiction, man I love this film.

And seriously, the GI Joe clips at eBaum's World had us rolling around for like 15 mins. I haven't seen Lucas laugh so hard ever in my life. Especially this one.

12:30 AM

Charles, Andrew, Dan, Wing, and Eric just left. We're down to me, Eug, Lucas, and King. Watching Lucas is...fun. Haha. Even King is awesome. Eugene just giggles all the time. As for me, I'm still good. I'm on to #3 - Sapporo. Sapporo is pretty cool, it comes in a huge 650mL metal can (like twice a regular bottle).

And Eug has dripped beer on my laptop twice now. Dork.

11:00 PM

Eugene is very Buble-ish. Dan Wong is addicted to Battlefield 2. Wing is crying and saying he wants to go home and do his midterm. I'm on to #2 - Stella Artois. I think I've noticed a general pattern: beer from the tap is way better than from the bottle.

10:10 PM

Dan and Wing have shown up. Others should be showing up within an hour. I have to say, Beck's was a disgusting beer. Seriously, it was like piss in a bottle. And Eug says that Rickards Red is not anywhere near as good as off the tap. I believe him.

9:30 PM:

We're having a party at my place to celebrate Lucas' and Roxy's birthday. After a beer, I have decided to do a running blog of the night. This is mostly so we can chronical the evolution of Lucas.
Anyways, the Canucks game ended - we won. I spent half the time trying to get F.E.A.R. working. After some initial troubles with the sound, it's all good. And man, what an awesome game. I had the lights off and the speakers turned up - it's like a horror film. Eug and I were jumping every few minutes.

Find your love

If you've been around my blog for a while, you know that when I come across an awesome post out in the blog-o-sphere I love to share it. Well Maggi Dawn has found another excellent nugget. (Original here). Enjoy.

Find your love

You know that dream you carry around with you each day?
It's kinda important.
Wasn't it what you were put on planet earth to do?
They say everyone has a calling, can your still hear it?
Doesn't it eat away at you? That treadmill you are on, did it ever get too much?
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to do your thing?
Did you ever feel time was passing you by?
Just how many days have you left before your last?
Did you ever wonder about stuff like that?
Did you ask yourself 'what was stopping you?'
There is never a right time.
You will be too old. Too young. Too something or other.
When was last time you took a risk?
Did you remember how alive it made you feel?
There are no guarantees of success.
It's not called a leap of faith for nothing.
It's not too late, honest.
Jump.
You might fall.

You might fly.

Worship Dilemma

I'm undecided. Is worship (in that formal sense of singing) supposed to be a. the congregation praising God, or b. the congregation being led to an experience--an encounter--with God.

Are both options mutually exclusive; in other words, can worship be both about praising God and about encountering God. One may counter: how could they possibly be exclusive? I'll explain. If your primary focus is to praise God, then the act of praise does not necessarily mean one in any way actually encounters God. Praising in no way guarantees, nor presupposes, an encouter with the Holy (yay, go Otto). Whereas, if your primary focus is to encounter God (as Otto would put it, to encounter the numinous), then that also does not require one to be praising.
But, having said this, does that mean that if your focus is to praise God then having an encouter with God is not an issue. And vice versa, if your focus is to encouter God then praising God is not an issue.

The logic is a bit fuddled, I admit, but I think the problem remains.

What is worship ultimately about: me or God?

Thesis...antithesis...now time for a creative synthesis.

By the way, I have see-sawed between both sides of the fence over the years.

-Kev

Tango

Man, the Tango is hard. I'd love to get it down though, it does seem like a really cool dance.

This one is gonna take some work. I don't think I'm a natural 'tango-er'.

Kev

Noteworthy Quiz

Surprise, surprise, I'm a Postmodern Christian. I have no idea how Wesleyan ranked over Liberal. And 0% fundamentalist, OHhhhhh yeah! Spot on.

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 86% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 64% Classical Liberal 50% Roman Catholic 50% Modern Liberal 43% Neo orthodox 43% Charismatic/Pentecostal 25% Reformed Evangelical 21% Fundamentalist 0% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com