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Name: Megan
Gender: Female
Interests: I love to do many things...but here are just a few of my favorite things--magazines, shopping, running, hanging out, movies, cities, pilates, indie music, Europe, decorating, food (P.F. Changs:)), writing and traveling!
Expertise: Eating good food
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  megp00
Member Since:
5/10/2004
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| Did God Create Evil...
Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God create
evil?
A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning
challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything
that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created
evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our
works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."
The student became quiet and did not respond to the professor's
hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question,
professor?"
"Of course", replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never
been cold?"
The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young
man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of
physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits
energy, and heat what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460 IF) is the total absence of heat; and all matter
becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does
not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we
have no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not
exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we
can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break
white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each
color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break
into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already
said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's
inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence
everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but
evil.
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it
does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is
just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe
the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what
happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's
like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that
comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
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| - Well its been awhile--like always. I am so bad at writing in these things. But I hope everybody had a great Christmas and new year. I sure did, except it was sad not having my brother with us...he was in Hawaii (poor guy)! He plays basketball for Asbury College and the whole team had to travel there for a tournament. Funny the "tournament" only consisted of two games in TWO weeks!! haha.
It has been great being home this break, the only real work I have done is working on a newsletter I am re-designing for the Heartland Film Festival. Other than that I have slept in til at least 11 each day! I'm really going to miss the college life when its over in a semester. I can' t believe how fast its gone...it seems like just yesterday I was unloading the truckloads of stuff I tried to fit in my tiny little room in Rice Hall. Ahh good times.
I am sad and excited about ending my college career. I am sooo sad to leave my friends, roommates and all the fun memories we have created in the po-dunk town of Anderson, IN. Even though in the midst of my sadness I am so excited too. I am excited to start a new job that I am passionate about, meet new people, gain new life experiences and hopefully get a house of my own that I can decorate any way I want!!! Not only that but I want to go on mission trips with my church, work more with people at an inner-city church downtown and be involved in things that make a difference.
Well thats it for now---it'll probably be another six months before I write---haha...but who knows where I'll be then.
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| It has been so long since I have written in here..I have been soo busy with working for my parents realty company, working at my internship and then on the yearbook:( But, today I finally finished the yearbook and sent it out...it's such a great feeling to finally finish it. I have seriously put in about 20 hours a week for the last month..there was just so much to be edited and so much to be done. But, I absoloutely LOVE my internship. I really think event planning is what I want to do (if that is what God has for me). So, we'll see. But, our first event we made $200,000 and had over 12,000 people. It was awesome. I am leaving for church camp this Sunday, I am going to be a camp counselor for the middle schoolers. I am so excited--not only to hang out with the kids, but to just have a chance to get away from Greenwood and hopefully grow spiritually. We are going to Cedar Point too!! Yaay! Seth, the middle school youth pastor, gave all the camp counselors this book, Be Intolerant: Because Some Things Are Just Stupid. And it has already impacted me and I am only on Chapter one! I just never realized how much I am so tolerant of what goes on around me, when I think its wrong..and I never say how I truly feel for fear of people calling me judgemental or legalistic. It's not about that..it is about loving others enough to say what you are doing is wrong..so they don't continue down a path that could lead to destruction. Besides, it takes more courage and caring to say to a friend, that's not right and here's why, then it does to just sit back and ignore it. So that's what's going on with me..I hope everyone is doing well! Love ya | | |
| - #5 I have way too much stuff I have come to realize. Well, I actually really realized it when I was moving home (3 times this year) and every time took about 4 truckloads. Then, when I got home I had no where to put any of it. Our whole garage was full, my room was full and the hallways were full--all with my stuff. So, my parents were like you have to get rid of this junk!! That was the beginning of the quest to simplify my life. At least in one aspect. So far I have 8 bags full of clothes and stuff I don't need or want anymore. It felt so good to just get rid of it. I tend to have this habit of keeping a lot of stuff because I think I will need it in the future, but that thought was out of my head now and I was just throwing away tons of stuff. It felt great.
My house is so hectic right now, we are getting ready for my brother's graduation. My parents are in the middle of remodeling our house and we just got new carpet...it almost feels like a different place. It is such a change coming from living with one person in a house that was very quiet to coming home to a house full of five people, which is always so LOUD. I do love it, because I like when there is always something going on, but sometimes I just need privacy! | | |
| - Ok-I am really scared. Writing in an online journal is one thing I vowed never to do. Why you ask?
Because it just plain scares me to reveal what I am thinking to the world. I have always been this way I think--it just takes me a while to open up to people and when I do it is after I have gained their trust. But, I have convinced myself that writing in an online journal can be a good thing for me. It can help me process my thoughts. Plus, I don't have to reveal my deepest darkest secrets on here.
Right now, I just miss my AU friends! I love being home and spending time with my family, but there is a part of me that is missing when I'm here and that is my friends! So, to any of you who are reading this right now... I miss you and I am thinking about you!! I love you all!
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