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| Next semester is going to be fun. Greek, Christian Worldview Development, Pentateuch, Romans & Galatians, and Religion & Culture. 16 credits. And nothing that I don't want to take. Should be nice after this semester, which has been perhaps the most boring of my entire school career.
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| I like the fact that I got tons of sleep over break, because now I'm staying up late and not really paying for it. However, I have a feeling that this will soon end. O well.
I need to get around to finishing Paradise Lost. It's sitting untouched on my desk. But the fact that I have things to get accomplished again is somehow keeping me from feeling like reading for personal pleasure/edification/whatever.
Ah well, I think I'll go to bed so that I don't sleep through classes tomorrow.
| You Are 44% Open Minded |  You aren't exactly open minded, but you have been known to occasionally change your mind.
You're tolerant enough to get along with others who are very different...
But you may be quietly judgmental of things or people you think are wrong.
You take your own values pretty seriously, and it would take a lot to change them. |
| Your Monster Profile |  War Murderer
You Feast On: M&Ms
You Lurk Around In: The Ocean
You Especially Like to Torment: Hippies |
| On Average, You Would Sell Out For |  $271,741 |
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| So I read my first Kierkegaard over spring break, and really liked it. He's one of the best authors I've ever read, and can make extremely boring stuff quite interesting. Definitely merits more reading at some point in the future. And now, for some of my favorite quotes:
"I prefer talking with children, with them one can still hope they may become rational beings; but those who have become that - Lord save us!"
"Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
"I think I have the courage to doubt everything; I think I have the courage to fight everything. But I do not have the courage to know anything, nor to possess, to own anything."
"What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being."
"Let others complain that our age is evil; my complaint is that it is paltry. For it is without passion. People's thoughts are thin and flimsy as lace, they themselves are as pitable as lacemakers. The thoughts in their hearts are too paltry to be sinful. For a worm it might be considered a sin to harbour such thoughts, but not for the human being shaped in the image of God..."
"The pleasure consists not in what I enjoy but in having my way."
"If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both."
"Music is an art which requires experience to a high degree to justify one's having an opinion about it."
"Irony is and remains the taskmaster of the immediate life."
"Every individual, however original, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family, of his friends. Only thus does he have his truth. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, he becomes ridiculous."
"We want to be edified in the theatre, to be influenced aesthetically in church, to be converted by novels, to enjoy books of devotion; we want philosophy in the pulpit and the preacher in the professorial chair."
"Memory is pre-eminently the real element of the unhappy."
"Unhappy individuals who hope never have the same pain as those who remember."
"What wonder, then, that the world is regressing, that evil is gaining ground more and more, since boredom is on the increase and boredom is a root of all evil."
"Those who don't bore themselves usually bore others, while those who do not bore themselves amuse others."
"When love stops fighting it has come to an end."
"There is something treacherous in wanting only to observe."
"The philistines who think they have pretty well come to that point in life when the thing to do is listen and look about (perhaps even in a newspaper) for a life partner have already excluded themselves from first love."
"The man who marries for this or that reason takes a steap as unaesthetic as it is irreligious."
"The great thing is not to be the singular, either immediately or in a higher sense, but in the singular to possess the universal."
"The personal relationships you are afraid of are those which, in inquiries, congratulations, compliments, yes, even presents, aspire to enter into a relation with you that cannot be measured in money."
"It needs courage to want to be healthy, to want the truth in all honesty and candour."
"Despair can never be a task; it is a conventience, but only seized upon, I will admit, by those who see the task."
"There is, in every person, something which to some degree prevetns him from being completely transparent to himself."
"In choice personality immerses itself in what is chosen, and when it does not choose it wastes consumptively away."
"The personality already has interest in the choice before one chooses, and if one postpones the choice the personality makes the choice unconsciously, or it is made by the dark powers within it."
"The more time goes, the more difficult the act of choice becomes."
"Nothing finite, even the whole world, can satisfy the soul of one who feels a need for the eternal."
"Any person who has not tasted the bitterness of despair has missed the meaning of life, however beautiful and joy-filled his life has been."
"Any life-view with a condition outside it is despair."
"It is a sign of a magnanimous man of profound soul that he is disposed to repent, that he does not go to law with God but repents and loves God in his repentence."
"To repent metaphysically is a misplaced superfluity, for the individual has not created the world after all, and so need not take it so much to heart if the world should really turn out to be vanity."
"There is nothing great, only inferior, in being an exception."
"Marriage is not harmed by seducers but by cowardly husbands."
"It is precisely through work that man makes himself free, through work he becomes master of nature, through work he shows he is higher than nature."
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