Trials.

Love is one of the hardest things to deal with in this life.

Something

Something in the way she moves,
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

Somewhere in her smile she knows,
That I don't need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.


Something in the way she knows,
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me.
I don't want to leave her now.
You know I believe and how.




---Beatles

Wish

At times like this, it's when it would really be great to be able to make a wish and have it come true.

Dear USU Girl

Dear Girl walking in front of me on USU Campus sidewalk,
If you're going to continue vocalizing your strong feelings about how guys need to do more on a first date than something "simple and cheap", then I'll just follow with one little thought, ... "maybe that's all you're worth"? 
Sincerely, 
Annoyed though Amusing Gent.


I understand that that's a pretty hard way to put how I'm feeling and I wouldn't ever be this rude. My point though is valid. Sometimes girls are so intense about wanting everything to be "classy" and "well planned out." I say, If you can't do something "simple and cheap" and enjoy yourself, you're going to have a VERY rough relationship. The simple and cheap dates are wonderful first dates because they really allow you to get to know the person you're with. Dating is about the person, not the date itself. I agree that sometimes you should have a little nicer dates, especially if you've been dating a while, but come on... If I had to do something "fancy and expensive" (which sounds like the opposite to "simple and cheap") then I wouldn't be dating anymore because I'd be out of money!!!!


Thank you. :)

Religion vs. Science

         Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience.

         Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumable giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show a vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.

        The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but the people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books and matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learned from experience and the light of reason?

--Augustine

Would you condemn an Oak Tree because its timbers had been used to build battering rams?

Would you blame the air for allowing lies to be transmitted through it? 

Would you judge Mozart's The Magic Flute on the basis of a poorly rehearsed performance by fifth-graders?

If you had never seen the sunset over the Pacific, would you allow a tourist brochure as a substitute?

Would you evaluate the power of Romantic Love in the light of an abusive marriage next door?

 

No. 

The real evaluation of the Truth depends upon looking at the clean, pure water, not at the rusty containers.

 

Hmm..... Enlightening. 

-The Language of God; by Francis S. Collins.