a comment...and more

today i just went...shopping. surprise surprise. but the difference was that today i bought some things. well, not just somethings. but clothes... of course. (see above). what else is there to spend money on??? i have added a picture of the latest items to be added to my (small) wardrobe. doh. i am already sick of living out of a suitcase (or two) after two weeks. oh well. only 5 and a half months to go of the same, small collection of clothes. now i know some of you would be like who cares. but i do. i will survive. it will be ok. i hope...

my new purchases (and birthday present - don't stress - it's not till july)

a comment i read(or heard, i can't remember) the other day went like this 'i'd rather be hated for being me, than loved for being someone i'm not'. hmm. i like it. but i wonder how many people in this world could truly say it? i would say that usually i am a fairly confident person and usually i would just be myself and usually i will just say what i think and feel (some would even say maybe a bit too much). but then again, i don't like not being liked. in some cases i truly wouldn't worry if a person didn't like me. but then in other cases, i really do like to be liked. i think most people, if they are honest, do like to be liked. this is where is gets hard. how far do you go to get liked. this is what that quote is all about. just something to think about. have a nice day.

ok, so i just posted this blog a few minutes ago and then i went on the 'sally bloggers' thingy on my page, just because. the first one that came up was in an asian language i didn't understand, the second one that came up was my brothers (i found that amusing), the third one was ok, but then i found this on the 4th one and stole it....(well they had posted it from an email they had been sent so i didn't really steal it!!!)

Does Evil Exist?

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 everythingthat 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 is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matterbecomes 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 breakwhite light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of eachcolor. 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 thiscorrect? 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.

The young man's name -- Albert Einstein.

A true story.