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Snow Snow Snow

Howdy ho,
it hath snowed.

Yes the entire campus was shut down today due to snow. Result: lounging.

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Perception

I have a thought that we never do something entirely for ourselves. I believe that what we do is always in accordance with what someone else wants. Meaning, we have two choices. What society wants, and what God wants. (always the case, yes?)

If we are mortally depressed and we decide that we want to broadcast this to the world via blog or AIM, what is our purpose? We know of our own depression, so these messages of depravity must be for others. We want people to know of our saddness. Why? Why are we so intent on sharing our misery with others? Is it for comfort..selfish gain..self-promotion? In any case, it is for other poeple to know, the action we took part in was for someone else besides ourselves.
The motive may be for self gain, but the action was purely for general consumption.
Even as far as people self-promoting themselves as Christians for societal views would not be in accordance with the moral right, yes? It probably depends on the individuals heart. If we perform an action with the right mindset (God) and not an action done out of vanity, it would be good.
Jeremiah 17:10
10 "I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve."
God gave us the choice for humility to counter-act vanity faith. He wants us to have the right motive AND the right action.
Please correct if wrong.

Sense

I often wonder which of the five senses can be the most dangerous. Not in a sense of mortal danger, but rather how we perceive people. We could say that smell could be bad because if someone smells fairly awful, we can assume some pretty bad things about them. Sight can be rather deadly beacuse we don't have to know the person to base judgements off of clothing and the like. I think one that I would label the worst would be hearing. My thought is that we don't even have to see someone before we can hear biases against them.

Over stimulation

Hello and welcome,
This will be my first post using blogger. I have a xanga account, but after talking to my brother
I realized that blogs are somewhat more 'professional' looking and maybe a few more people may read what I have to say.
If anyone has ever read my xanga, they have found that I wrote in more of a continuous stream of thought instead of legible paragraphs. I hope that with this blog I will be able to organize what is in my brain and assemble it in some fashion for general consumption.
To the point:
Due to a conference occurring right now there are a lot of people that I normally socialize with that are out of town. This resulted in a rather boring night of checking my email, facebook, and checking all of my friend's away messages on AIM.
After a few ...hours of this (I normally have a life), I began to grow rather anxious and impatient with myself and just wanted to go out and do something. Whether it be take a walk, practice, or save the rain forest I was up for it. Which led to the thought of, "why do I need to be doing something right now?" During a normal day while I was enduring my 23.5 credit load, I would do anything to just sit and relax. But no, I had the fortune of relaxing and I completely was taking it for granted. I was unhappy because I was getting what I finally wanted. But was this true? Would I really be happier living a hectic schedule? I hope not.
Rather, I think that the fault is due to my normal over stimulation. Day after Day I bombarded myself with constant feed from the Internet, be it social or academic material. We can watch television and have commercials which would never last longer than the attention span of a five year old. It is a very sad thing when people cannot stand silence for more than a minute. I believe this to be the largest fault in prayer. We try to overstimulate ourselves by talking continuously to God, but we never stop to listen. Our thoughts can never be silent, we always have to be worrying instead of just be silent. I ask, is it possible for us to try? Can we let God speak for once?