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To Drink or Not to Drink

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Tacitus wrote, that by the ancient Germans it was held no shame at all to drink and swill four and twenty hours together. A gentleman of the court asked: How long ago it was since Tacitus wrote this? He was answered, about fifteen hundred years. Whereupon the gentleman said: Forasmuch as drunkenness has been so ancient a custom, and of such a long descent, let us not abolish it.

— Martin Luther

And just when I thought living on a college campus had made me privy to every imaginable justification for drunkenness!

Procrastination

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Procrastination is as bad as overhastiness. There is my servant Wolf: when four or five birds fall upon the bird net, he will not draw it, but says: O, I will stay until more come, then they all fly away, and he gets none.

— Martin Luther

Who Needs Finals

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So why am I studying for finals? Theoretically a test, and especially a final, should be simply a reiteration of what has been taught in class or read in the text book. It is simply a way to determine if a student is progressing academically at a satisfactory rate.

In this case, there should never be cumulative finals. A course grade should be an assesment of the cumulative participation and production of a student throughout the semester.

Whereas in reality a final only shows a students ability to retain information studied the day before in frantic effort to grasp those essential bits of information for the test.

Maybe I should ditch college and get a real education.

The Piety of Kierkegaard

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As the individual, through faith in the promise of the Word, revels in the anxiety that is produced when facing the possibility of the freedom that is in that faith, he rests transparently in God, and his relationship to all of the physical world, and most importantly to fellow man, is defined.

God’s Intimacy; Hate

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When God is most intimate his sovereignty is most firmly established and his justice most fearful.

The Christian should not fear God’s intimacy for that justice and wrath is consumed in Christ. But the paradox of the relationship is this: in a sinful world true love is ethically described as hate. For God loved the world in such a way: he caused his son to become a part of the world so that he could kill him. This is God’s intimacy.

Evil Defined?

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Evil: The experience of creation’s insignificance before God.

Creation has always been insignificant before God, but if it is abiding in his power then it will not experience its insignificance. Whereas sin rejects the God and experiences its own nothingness.

Worrying About tomorrow

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When the thought now becomes absorbed into the future, it strays hither and thither in its restless efforts to force or coax from the mystery its explanation; like a spy it hastens from one possibility to another, but in vain; and under all this the wishing soul becomes sorrowful, sits there and waits for the thought to return and enlighten it as to what it might venture to wish with all its heart.

— Soren Kierkegaard