Getting Ready for the Future

Here's the top five for the moment:

5) I'm going nuts being a total bum at the moment! Well, not totally nuts, but just itchin' to earn the dollars. Other than that, I've learned a lot in microbiology. I really like the class! By the way, Listerine is an excellent mouth wash:



As you can see, the bacteria are totally gone after 5 minutes. I guess using the mouthwash once a day for 30 seconds is worth the time. Sure beats spending more money to fill those cavities! Other than that, I can't wait to work...eh, maybe I'll find myself eating those words when I actually start working.

4) I was watching 30 Days on Hulu and it was about Same-Sex Parenting. You should watch it, because when I watched it was a very unpleasant hour due to all the conflicts and clashes of ideas:



Ultimately, Christian dogma does make homosexuality a sin. Sure, Leviticus does state that homosexuality is wrong, and it also states that slavery is right, shell fish and pork is forbidden, and a widow should produce a child with the husband's brothers if she has no child. However, Leviticus is not the only book that condemns it. A good number of New Testament books like Romans and 1 Corinthians does condemn it. This just further supports that possibly makes homosexuality wrong. On the other hand, we can argue that the translation was misinterpreted considering that Scripture was originally Hebrew and Greek and was converted to Latin, which was converted to other languages like English, which was again converted to different versions and styles (you should look at the Bible section at a Barnes & Noble or a Borders if you don't know what I'm talking about). I'm not a Bible scholar so I really don't want to divulge on that possibility.

I have to ask the question of is it that wrong for gays and lesbians to marry and adopt kids? Does it make it right that the kids should stay stuck in orphanages and never experience a structured household rather than be in a house with a homosexual couple that can love and nurture them? While 30 Days does show an example of a woman who had an extremely negative experience when she was adopted by a gay couple since they were extremely open about their gay sexuality in front of her, I think a traditional couple who does the same exact thing in front of their kids in terms of being extremely open about their sexuality are screwing them up as well. Perhaps society is more worried about how more openly promiscuous gays and lesbians are in front of everyone than the actual concept of a homosexual couple being perhaps "legitimately" in love. On the other hand, heterosexuals are just as intimate or even promiscuous in front of open society (for example, those PDAs). Perhaps the big question to ask is whether same-sex parenting will be the destruction of our morality in the US or can it perhaps enhance our obligation to take care of those children who have been abandoned?

If you're as confused as I am, then that was the reason for this point. Perhaps you can comment your opinion and make something convincing or more clear. Actually, I'm asking you to comment your opinion about it. Thanks.

3) The last point brings me to an even bigger point. Does goodness and doing what is right ultimately reside on a sole religion or faith? I mean, this is why we fight about these sort of topics like homosexuality. It's really the debate on will we still have a right and good society with or without a strong religious namely a strong Christian backing, despite the fact that the US does not have an official national religion. Yes, I use my Catholic faith to have a more structured path as to what is right and good. However, I don't know if it's a sign of weakness in my faith at the very least or even blasphemous at the worst to possibly entertain the idea that maybe my faith and my way of doing things is not the the only way to doing what is right and good on this Earth. Is doing right and good things even connected to our faith in the first place? I can recall that concept that even though we do so much good on this Earth that if we lack a belief in God, we therefore have a a lack of salvation and our "works" are for naught (a very Protestant concept, I have to admit, but a good one to consider). Does this mean that good and right deeds and concepts can exist even with an absence of God in an individual or even a society's lives?

If you want to answer that one, I appreciate your answer to this point as well.

2) My Lenten commitment to trying to become healthier is working. I lost 10 lbs, which is good! However, when I started this, I found myself starting at 220lbs. Man, I really let myself go my last year in school, and my sedentary lifestyle while at home before Lent really exacerbated the problem. However, at least there's progress. I'm now at the weight when I was in my second and third years. I really need to stick with it though even though Lent is about to end. In addition to trying to be spiritually and mentally strong, I have to be physically strong as well.

Besides what good can you do if you're to physically sick or incapacitated to do anything?

1) Overall, I do enjoy the spiritual challenges that He's given to me at the moment. Sure, I may seem doubtful at the moment, but the big characters and saints of our faith have had doubts and questions before they were lifted by Him to do something great. Perhaps I'll find something beneficial in the end of all this and maybe find my relationship with God stronger.

Perhaps.

That is all.