From 16 Myths About Atheists:

'don’t try to teach your religion in science classes by dishonestly giving it a new name and disguising it as “science”...'

Oh good, someone else finally got tired of Darwinism, did they?

Today

There were 7 buses at the bus station this morning. Never seen that before.

Went surveying with Missy. Only did 2, but had a good chat to a girl who didn't like thinking about eternity, cos the whole concept was scary. Just shared something that had helped me when I get scared about thinking about it.

MUST DO MY ESSAY THIS FRIDAY. And probably Saturday as well.

Supertiph came to Nightlife last night. We were talking (loudly :-s ) on the train. Then she started carrying on about this time I was really mad with her.

"You don't need to tell the WHOLE TRAIN," I exclaimed.
"They don't know who we are!"
"By the time you've finished they will!"

We suspect that two girls sitting in a nearby seat were taping our conversations on their phone. Weird. Disturbing.

On another note, one magazine in Coles yesterday claimed that you could become famous by starting a blog. I don't think so.

Home group tonight - hooray! The fun continues.

Beware, Johnny.......

The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

That is a song by Switchfoot from their newest album Nothing Is Sound. The idea behind the song is that there are bad things in the world, that we are not all good as people, but that the shadow proves the sunshine - in other words, the fact that there are bad things and we recognise them as bad means that there must be some standard of good.

I agree with this theory. I don't agree with the theory that you need to have suffering or bad things in order to appreciate good things. God didn't make the world with bad things in it to make His goodness even more apparent - He created it perfectly in the first place. You don't need the shadow to have the sun, but you do need the sun to see the shadow.

Epiphany

Bi-Lo really means "Buy-Low".

After the previous post, I think I'm going a little nuts.

I'm not really serious about putting a Milky Way in the offering bag (although I'm sure it would be a nice surprise for the people counting out the offering!)

Strange

I owe God a Milky Way.

On Wednesday morning I was walking to the bus in order to get to uni. I wanted to catch the 9:50 in order to make it to my 10am lecture. As I was about 100m away from it, I saw that the 8:35am bus was late and it was still sitting at the stop.

I told God that if He would hold the bus for me, I'd buy Him a Milky Way. (What I thought He was going to do with it, I have no idea). Sort of a buddy system - I'll look out for You, You look out for me.

Anyway, as I began running towards the bus, I thought I could make it, but it pulled away before I got there.

I sat down at the bus shelter, out of breath, and thought, "Stuff it, I'll buy You a Milky Way anyway."

I wonder if they accept Milky Ways in the offering bag at church?

I guess there's only one way to find out.

:-)

Convicting

At uni on Monday morning, our guest lecturer was talking to us about various things, and then for some reason went a bit off topic, and said something very true.

"You know when the year 11 students get together in the locker area - guys and girls. And you turn around and you see that girl, or that guy, and you go...." (at this his tongue was hanging out, indicating drooling). "And you turn to your friend and you both go (drool)."

And then he said, "Have you actually asked that person's permission? Have you asked them if they want to be a part of that moment? Or are they just a piece of meat, just an object?"

I don't think he was a Christian, but that was one of the most (if not the most) convicting, challenging and helpful thing for my Christian walk this week. I hope it's the same for you.

Drama

So one person did, once again, cry in our lecture/tute yesterday. But don't worry, she was crying about the little dots that were crying at her. So she's not traumatised or anything.

We were doing absurdism.

Absurdism will take me longer than I can be bothered to spend explaining it, but let's just say: it makes sense to me now. It didn't for ages.

Um, so yesterday was good.

I need lunch now. Janelle and I have a lecture together and it was talking about anti-discriminatory practices, but my mind was on lunch, and I wrote 'FOOD' at the top of my book.

Who am I kidding. Who cares what I wrote at the top of my book?

I need coffee and food. Janelle is 2 computers away and we are TALKING ON MSN. This just proves the drastic state society (or just us, really) are in.

More important and better things later.

Oh yeah, and I'm renewing my learners (AGAIN!) today.........

Miles and Nicola's Monopoly Rules

*With thanks to Parker Bros*

* Rolling a double 1 on the dice = get $100 from the bank.
* Rolling a double 6 on the dice = the ATO (Australian Tax Office) rule. Give half of all your cash to the bank!
* Shuffle all the properties and deal them out evenly to each person before you begin the game (this speeds it up - everyone starts paying rent at once). Leave 3 properties out for negotiation - to be bought at double price if you land on them.
* If you pick up a Chance or Community Chest card and it tells you to pay money, put it in the middle of the board.
* If you land on a square that tells you to pay tax, pay half of it to the middle of the board and half of it to the bank.
* If you land in jail, you get half the money from the middle of the board.
* If you land on the "Just Visiting" jail square, choose between a Chance or a Community Chest card.
*If you land on a 'Community Chest' square, pick up a 'Chance' card. If you land on a 'Chance' square, pick up a 'Community Chest' card.
* If you land on a station - a) pay the rent to the person who owns it.
b) pay a dollar for every station the person owns (today Miles owned 3, so I paid 3 dollars) and get a ride to the next railway station. (But you have to get off after that).

This makes for a very fun game. Oh yeah, and Miles asked me to copyright it, so:
Copyright 2006, Miles and Nicola.

Journey

A very wise girl told me that we believe our feelings too much. So true. At the moment I feel like following Jesus is just a painful exercise. But I have to have faith in the fact that following Jesus is indeed the best choice I could possibly make.

I have a long way to go....

Change of plan

2 blogs is too many. So I'll get rid of the other one eventually.

Updating

I'm updating my second blog every once in awhile. It has to do with what I'm learning at uni. So feel free to offer an opinion on whatever I'm writing about - I think that's what uni is for!

Yes, take me to the post on the literacy crisis!

No thanks.