Friday, September 30, 2005
I MISS EVERYONE
I'm sad that i haven't been able to go to Thursday night bible study because I miss everyone. Of course I miss the bible study too... but I really miss just seeing people. Ecspecially my good long lost friend Taryn who has so much fun at ISU without me and forgets about me here because my name doesn't start with T. I would go on and name other people that I miss but I would leave people out and I'm afraid that would hurt peoples feelings. AND..... I CAN'T GO NEXT WEEK EITHER. I feel like I am in a hole and the only person I see is Jared, not that that's so bad because I love being with him, but I see no one else. I'm too busy. Andddddd I'm starting back at Texas Roadhouse on October 17th because I'm broke and I really need a job and it's an easy job for me and makes good money for little hours. :( So I will really have no life. All those at ISU, dont forget me, I'll be there soon and don't have too much fun without me. :( Or at least if you have fun show me pictures. I'm feeling sorry for myself can you tell? Haha, just kidding. I'm fine. Oh well. Ok enough self pity for Kristi. Really, life has been very good to me lately and things have been going really good. Classes are really good and I finally feel like I know what I want to do with my life. I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY. I love pictures so much and I love taking them. Everytime I take a picture now I think about what my teacher says, "show me something new about something old" I love that you can take a picture of a building and it doesn't look like a building or stuff like that. It's soo cool. Ok well I need to go babysit I'm done talking about really random things for lack of something interesting to post.
kristi
kristi
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Mildew and Gay
I had an interesting conversation today. About mildew and gayness. I know those things are not even remotely related, but today they were for awhile. There were me and two other girls in drawing kind of got into a discussion about being gay and whether it was genetic or not and what we thought on the whole issue. Julie, one of the girls, knows a lot of people who are gay (a friend, an uncle and tons more apparently) I think the conversation started out with her trying to justify her friends being gay and being a Christian. That's where the mildew came in.
Leviticus 13:47-52
47 "If any clothing is contaminated with mildew—any woolen or linen clothing, 48 any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather- 49 and if the contamination in the clothing, or leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. 50 The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected article for seven days. 51 On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mildew has spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a destructive mildew; the article is unclean. 52 He must burn up the clothing, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has the contamination in it, because the mildew is destructive; the article must be burned up.
Ok, I know this is making zero sense.
Julie was saying that in the old testiment God intstructed that if any clothing be contaminated with mildew, that it be burned up. Do we honestly do this today? Of course not because we have Tylex and other things that have invented that will take away the mildew. God was stressing that mildew can be harmful, and the whole article of clothing should be done away with. But today we don't follow this.
She went on saying times have changed and there are parts of the bible that she believes are "old-fashioned" and that we just plain don't follow anymore because things have changed. And that's where she justified her friends being gay.
Side-note...I know this all isn't really connecting really well, because I'm having a hard time retelling every inch of the conversation. I may have missed a part.
So then we asked her, well how do we know what part of the bible is "old-fashioned" and which part isn't? How can we tell what we are supposed to follow and what part we aren't supposed to follow, who makes that decision. She didn't have an answer.
Then, we compared being gay to having a divorce. Each are sins. Each are things that the bible tells us not to do basically. I told her I looked at being gay the same way I look at a couple divorcing. God advices against each. Being gay is a sin just as equally so as having a divorce. They are equal sins as is murder and any other sins because a sin is a sin. It's not our place to judge a sin, so I don't freak out when I hear someone is gay. It's just one of their sins. I sin. We all sin. Yes, it's something they do everyday, but its not something to not like people for.
The conversation kind of ended there. I don't know how she came out of the conversation. I don't know. Any input is welcome. :)
Kristi
Leviticus 13:47-52
47 "If any clothing is contaminated with mildew—any woolen or linen clothing, 48 any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather- 49 and if the contamination in the clothing, or leather, or woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. 50 The priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the affected article for seven days. 51 On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mildew has spread in the clothing, or the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a destructive mildew; the article is unclean. 52 He must burn up the clothing, or the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has the contamination in it, because the mildew is destructive; the article must be burned up.
Ok, I know this is making zero sense.
Julie was saying that in the old testiment God intstructed that if any clothing be contaminated with mildew, that it be burned up. Do we honestly do this today? Of course not because we have Tylex and other things that have invented that will take away the mildew. God was stressing that mildew can be harmful, and the whole article of clothing should be done away with. But today we don't follow this.
She went on saying times have changed and there are parts of the bible that she believes are "old-fashioned" and that we just plain don't follow anymore because things have changed. And that's where she justified her friends being gay.
Side-note...I know this all isn't really connecting really well, because I'm having a hard time retelling every inch of the conversation. I may have missed a part.
So then we asked her, well how do we know what part of the bible is "old-fashioned" and which part isn't? How can we tell what we are supposed to follow and what part we aren't supposed to follow, who makes that decision. She didn't have an answer.
Then, we compared being gay to having a divorce. Each are sins. Each are things that the bible tells us not to do basically. I told her I looked at being gay the same way I look at a couple divorcing. God advices against each. Being gay is a sin just as equally so as having a divorce. They are equal sins as is murder and any other sins because a sin is a sin. It's not our place to judge a sin, so I don't freak out when I hear someone is gay. It's just one of their sins. I sin. We all sin. Yes, it's something they do everyday, but its not something to not like people for.
The conversation kind of ended there. I don't know how she came out of the conversation. I don't know. Any input is welcome. :)
Kristi
