Le tired...
Mar. 16th, 2004 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradept...but le slightly accomplished. Over the weekend, did work on papers. Now have less to do in that regards, but still more to come. Was going to play broomball again tonight, but not enough females appeared at the game site, and so I was denied the pleasure of playing another game. Garg.
On the way down to see older sister, I saw an interesting billboard. It said, "Get US (and the US was in the red-white-blue of a flag design or so) out of the United Nations!" My initial reaction was "Probably some conservative... nice to know free speech is still available... but he's wrong." I guess I think high enough of the UN to believe that we should stay in it (so pay your dues, Sam!).
The other highlight so far was the optional lecture that I attended tonight. Professor Williams spent 90 minutes on the Book of Job, and I came away from that much enlightened and with a very interesting perspective on theodicy in general. He suggested that Job doesn't solve the problem, but it does tell us about the intimate relationships we can have with the God, and the beauty and love that we can set against the evil that happens to make it bearable. I think the most profound thing he said was, "We ask questions about justice and morals, and we get responses about space, time, and beauty. These are not necessarily the responses that we want." I'm definitely gaining an appreciation for the Bible as a work of extraordinary complexity, if nothing else.
On the way down to see older sister, I saw an interesting billboard. It said, "Get US (and the US was in the red-white-blue of a flag design or so) out of the United Nations!" My initial reaction was "Probably some conservative... nice to know free speech is still available... but he's wrong." I guess I think high enough of the UN to believe that we should stay in it (so pay your dues, Sam!).
The other highlight so far was the optional lecture that I attended tonight. Professor Williams spent 90 minutes on the Book of Job, and I came away from that much enlightened and with a very interesting perspective on theodicy in general. He suggested that Job doesn't solve the problem, but it does tell us about the intimate relationships we can have with the God, and the beauty and love that we can set against the evil that happens to make it bearable. I think the most profound thing he said was, "We ask questions about justice and morals, and we get responses about space, time, and beauty. These are not necessarily the responses that we want." I'm definitely gaining an appreciation for the Bible as a work of extraordinary complexity, if nothing else.
