Time to sleep here soon. I've been up adding the search function over there for this site, watching Scrubs, and plenty of other time wasting activities. David, what do you have planned for tomorrow? Well, I have to finish some work for Siemens and Sulic, then I'm going to start cold calling design studios around San Diego to drum up some more work. Horray for marketing.
This evening I rode my bike to Rancho's to eat with Rach - I'm glad she had time to eat before work, I haven't really gotten to hang out with her in a while. Mmmm shittake burrito...Tonight at 8:30pm I went with Jenn and Scott to Michelle and Christie's for a "You Need Some Learnin'" meeting. David F, Anya, Nicole, and a few others were there. John (Pastor John) pretty much lead the whole session by talking about Peter and how to read a certain passage that many people use to say we need to "obey" the "state". Pretty much it comes down to realizing we are individual aliens, as Christians, within a political structure that we honor (not fear though, fear is left for God - the holder of power over our lives) and submit to in such a way that it will show the ignorance and stupidity of that structure. For instance: Rosa Parks disobeyed rules by sitting on the bus, but when she was submissive and went with the police in a non-violent manner - her actions spoke loudly and prevailed to show the problems with society. From there we also talked about the abstract realization of freedom versus concrete freedom. Abstract freedom meaning "you are free to become a rocket scientist" but the concrete freedom being "you are free to become a rocket scientist but don't have the capacity to" - this can be translated in to many realms such as education for the poor, health care, etc. We also discussed how this structure of "freedom" is determined by a political ideology based on the understanding that each person is going to do what suits them best - indivisualism. But since the Church is based on community, love, and being in solidarity with those around us, we are immediately removed from such a political structure (both left and right wings - right wing constructing this freedom by giving everyone the equal oppurtunity and left wing working towards producing the capacity for individuals to succeed in these freedoms) and therefore are seen as "evildoers" and "resident aliens". Anyways, it was very interesting and good to be back in a setting kind of like school. I miss schooling sometimes. Who knows, maybe I'll go back for my Masters. John also told a story about today in class he told a girl she looked horrible. Also the first day in class he walked in to the room and threw the syllabi up in the air and walked out of the class - when he got back in, one of the students had picked them all up and placed them neatly on his desk. He just laughed and laughed. He loves rattling cages.
iTunes: Further Seems Forever - New Year's Project
Here's a kind of cool pic I took tonight of the dusk.
This evening I rode my bike to Rancho's to eat with Rach - I'm glad she had time to eat before work, I haven't really gotten to hang out with her in a while. Mmmm shittake burrito...Tonight at 8:30pm I went with Jenn and Scott to Michelle and Christie's for a "You Need Some Learnin'" meeting. David F, Anya, Nicole, and a few others were there. John (Pastor John) pretty much lead the whole session by talking about Peter and how to read a certain passage that many people use to say we need to "obey" the "state". Pretty much it comes down to realizing we are individual aliens, as Christians, within a political structure that we honor (not fear though, fear is left for God - the holder of power over our lives) and submit to in such a way that it will show the ignorance and stupidity of that structure. For instance: Rosa Parks disobeyed rules by sitting on the bus, but when she was submissive and went with the police in a non-violent manner - her actions spoke loudly and prevailed to show the problems with society. From there we also talked about the abstract realization of freedom versus concrete freedom. Abstract freedom meaning "you are free to become a rocket scientist" but the concrete freedom being "you are free to become a rocket scientist but don't have the capacity to" - this can be translated in to many realms such as education for the poor, health care, etc. We also discussed how this structure of "freedom" is determined by a political ideology based on the understanding that each person is going to do what suits them best - indivisualism. But since the Church is based on community, love, and being in solidarity with those around us, we are immediately removed from such a political structure (both left and right wings - right wing constructing this freedom by giving everyone the equal oppurtunity and left wing working towards producing the capacity for individuals to succeed in these freedoms) and therefore are seen as "evildoers" and "resident aliens". Anyways, it was very interesting and good to be back in a setting kind of like school. I miss schooling sometimes. Who knows, maybe I'll go back for my Masters. John also told a story about today in class he told a girl she looked horrible. Also the first day in class he walked in to the room and threw the syllabi up in the air and walked out of the class - when he got back in, one of the students had picked them all up and placed them neatly on his desk. He just laughed and laughed. He loves rattling cages.
iTunes: Further Seems Forever - New Year's Project
Here's a kind of cool pic I took tonight of the dusk.
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