Man everybody is posting password protected entries lately. It's a privacy epidemic! I was going to do one too, actually, but I don't really want to. I hardly want to post anything at all. I'm mostly doing this...to contribute, I guess. To the FREE READING MATERIAL, HERE AT NUTANG.COM.

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I saw Full Metal Alchemist. It was interesting. Avatar spoiled me by being so awesome, though. And the ending was MOST unsatisfying. Grrraahh.

I'm reading a graphic novel called Sandman. It is exceedingly interesting and imaginative. It's about Dream, one of the seven Endless in the DC universe.

What else? Nothing of note, I guess. Started guarding again. New manager and staff...

Anyway. Er...that's all, I guess.

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Long post, ahoy!

I forget who told me this story. Probably one of my roommates, but none of them are owning up to it now. It goes something like this:

"I was in the student center, sharing my faith and inviting people out to Bible Talk. There was this table with a few guys, and we were talking."

Me: "OK.",

"Yeah, so, we're talking, because these guys are atheists, and this one guy says, 'Dude, if I saw Jesus right in front of me, I still wouldn't believe. I would think it was a hallucination."

"Wait, what? Really?"

"Yeah, that's what he said."

"That's sort of...extreme, isn't it?"

I can understand it, a little. I mean, people saw Jesus in the New Testament all the time, and most of them didn't believe in him. Even when he performed miracles, people didn't always believe in him. Even less actually wanted to follow him. So I can understand the idea of seeing Jesus in person and still doubting. It's feasible, though I can't say it's very logical. But to make that claim, and be proud of it! That gave me some trouble. I don't know what my friend said after that, but it probably threw him off.


There's this dude in my class. Super friendly guy. He tapped on my shoulder one day and asked if I had done the homework. Apparently he transferred in with credits in a 1000 level CS course and thought he could handle 2000 level. As time has gone on, he's realized that his class was garbage. I'm doin' alright, so I agree to help him out with homework and stuff.

On Monday, we had an assignment due at 11 PM. I'd already finished it, so in class he asked if I could help him out because he was stuck.

"Sure, but I'm basically going to be busy until 7:30 because I've got class and then Bible Talk." Bible Talk is something my friends and I do, where we invite a bunch of people to hang out for a half hour and...talk about the Bible. It's more of a discussion than a lesson, though. One guy leads it by asking the group open-ended questions or getting their opinions regarding biblical and life concepts. It's fun, and it's a cool way to engage people who otherwise might not give critical thought to what the Bible says. This semester Tim and I are exploring the actions and character of Jesus.

We're already friends on Facebook, where he makes it very obvious that he doesn't believe in God. But he seems like an intellectually honest fellow, or at least someone who enjoys dabbling in worldviews, so I ask him anyway: "Actually, dude, would you want to just come with me? It starts at 6:30, then people usually hang around to talk for a bit. Then we can just set up anywhere and do homework."

"Yeah! Sounds good man."

So he comes. Gets there early, actually. People are generally pretty taken aback their first time joining a group like this and tend to just listen, but he actually makes some contributions to the conversation. It was pretty great. Afterwards he got into some conversation with one of the other guys before we finally headed out to work on his homework.

It took hours.

We were chatting occasionally, and he would ask me the funniest questions. What do I think of the rapture? Do I think I could be moral without being religious? What about Young Earth theology? I learned that his grandparents are both ministers so he grew up heavily religious, which makes his openness even more surprising to me because generally people who become areligious after coming from a home like that tend to want nothing to do with faith, if you'll forgive my generalization. At least, that seems to be the prevailing trend in the Georgia Tech students I've met.

Eventually, this comes out, right after he asks about morality:
"Yeah, man, I think I've actually met one of your friends before. But I didn't see him tonight."

Me: "Yeah? Where?"

"I was eating in the Student Center with some friends, and he came up and tried to invite us to Bible Talk. We said no, but then he started asking why, and...well, I sort of let him have it."

"What happened?"

"I told him, if I were to meet Jesus right now, I still wouldn't believe in him. I'd think I was hallucinating or something."

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I can't even. I didn't say anything to him (he had more to say, about how he felt like he'd done something illegal when he said that, stuff along those lines,) but I was laughing and singing inside. What a twist! This guy, who outright refused to come talk about God, was reaching out TO me, and ended up coming out to the same event he had avoided. I barely did anything.

:3

I've spent way too many hours not doing homework, I'd better chip. Later, kids.

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I love this song so much, and the movie it comes from is beautiful.

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I have nothing else to say at the moment. No real way to crystallize this feeling.

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What a long day:

8 - 10; Wake, study, eat, walk
10 - 11 AM; Astronomy Test
11 AM - 12 PM; Electrodynamics Class
12- 3 PM; Working in the lab
3 - 4; Sociology Class
4 - 5:30; Walking, eating, and my free time
5:30 - 7; Family time
7 - 10; Friday Night Devotional and hanging around
10 - 12; IHOP with riddles

As you can see, I keep a heavy Friday rotation. It's weird, I seem to be busier on the weekends than during the week. Oh well. You see that half hour of free time around 5? I spent that writing up cards that the guys gave to the GT/Emory sisters during family time. So yeah.

IHOP was originally a way to put food into my stomach. But then one guy wanted to come. And then my whole car wanted to come. And suddenly nine people were coming. And somehow we spent almost TWO HOURS sitting at the table, just joking around and telling riddles. It was a rare moment where I wasn't aware of the passage of time. Definitely a lot of fun, and I was able to bond with some of the guys I don't see as often (i.e. don't live with).

I'm...really tired.

I have to drive home next weekend to get my driver's license renewed. It expired on my birthday, and I can't do anything about it here in Georgia. Ironic. I have to make an eight hour round trip to fix the thing so I don't get ticketed for driving without it.

mmmm bed now kiddies

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