Mackenzie your Friendzie

14 Dec 2009
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You ask for miracles

When I give you some miracles, “miracles of coincidence” as I like to call them, you say they aren’t miracles. They can be explained, and are obviously luck. The Sea of Reeds will occasionally dry when there are heavy winds from the North, you say. If it can happen, it’s not a miracle. I give you these miracles, and you don’t take them.

When I give you the other miracles, you don’t believe them. They aren’t possible. There’s no way for a virgin birth, you can’t walk on water. It couldn’t ever happen, so it didn’t ever happen. I give you these miracles, and you don’t take them.

Some people have made up their minds before they hear anything. But what can I do?

14 Dec 2009
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"Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows, and your children fatherless." Exodus 22:22-24

God is a God of the weak. He loves the oppressed. There are only 2 things that stir up the Wrath of God in the Old Testament: Idolatry, and OPPRESSION. Notice the plagues when the Israelites were oppressed by the Egyptians? Yeah, Wrath of God could be used when describing those.

My question is, if our God is a God of the oppressed, doesn’t that mean we should live out our God’s values? Doesn’t that mean we should be helping the oppressed, fighting for their fair treatment, fighting against injustice?

Yes.

So why aren’t we?

13 Dec 2009
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13 Dec 2009
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“The more you believe something to be true, the more tolerant you are of other positions.”

— Michael Bruner

13 Dec 2009
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Dear God

The Broncos didn’t win today. You can make it ok by making sure the Chargers don’t either. Thanks for your time.

Love, Mackenzie

12 Dec 2009
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I was just going to the bathroom

When I thought to myself, “You know, if I was a lion, I would be a friendly lion. None of this attacking other animals stuff. I would mooch off my friends, and become friends with the zebras. I would be the coolest lion ever.”

Yes, this just happened to me. No, I didn’t realize how ridiculous it was until after I finished my thought. Yes, I am super cool.

12 Dec 2009
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God is risking it when He blesses us

Think about that for a second.

Why does he bless us? So we can bless others and enjoy his creation.

What do we do with the blessings we receive? All too often, not as much of the blessing others portion of it. I remember, I saw something the other day on here that said Americans spend $45 billion on Christmas presents, while only $20 billion would provide clean water for all the world. Is that a good enough Christmas gift? Clean water?

But I digress. To whom, or what, do most people attribute blessings? Good fortune, they call it. Coincidence, luck, hard work. But it is never God. The better things get, the less goodness God has caused in our lives, for the most part. I won’t rant, it just really gets me. The more God blesses us, the more we should bless others. The more we should recognize our blessings. It really gets me.

Which I’m in the workings for doing something that I think is very cool. Please do it with me.

That is all.

Goodnight.

12 Dec 2009
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Fun Fact

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In Philosophy Club most people raised their hands in saying that they would hypothetically take money to allow a person to commit adultery with their newly married spouse. One person who didn’t said, “So you are putting a price on adultery?” Then a second question of, “Would you take 10 million dollars if someone you didn’t know had to die?” (Like that movie where they just push the button), and that same guy who was against the adulterous act raised his hand for this along with many others. The honor of a marriage is priceless, but a human life is not, wow. Pretty much everybody also said in the hypothetical situation of somebody coming into the classroom, putting a gun to their head, and telling them to pick somebody to die, that they could pick somebody out to take their place as the victim.

This all stemmed from the discussion of ‘human value,’ or the idea of one life being more valuable to another. You could say that we came to the conclusion that it really is completely relative, but a absolute true value would have to come down to either incalculable or equal.

If you are in AP english with Butler this year…oh man…let me just say you are going to be hearing a lot about human value. I hope it is better for you than it was for us. Good luck.

Yes, I have her next semester. Are these values brought about by discussion or from Mrs. Butler degrading us. I think it’ll be better cause her son won’t be in there this year.

She likes to call it discussion. I like to call it shamelessly egging us on into arguments. And Nick not being there won’t really make a difference. Her other class disliked her just as much, unfortunately.