Power of Words

I'm an english major, and as an english major, there are certain classes I must take. Power of Words is one of them. It's basically about how when you talk to someone, you should choose your words carefully because how you say things has a big impact on how people hear things. The other day, our professor decided it would be a good idea to show a video of a woman giving a lecture about Jesus. You know, those ones that play on Sunday morning on, like, every channel? This wouldn't have been a problem if i knew we were going to discuss the program afterwords, but my teacher is a very religious man and I knew we were watching it so he could feel like a good Christian, pushing his religion in our face and all. Well, this woman had a lot to say. Most of it being incredibly ignorant and judgmental. She said that if you have a thought against the Bible, that is the devil possessing you. So...if I don't want to stone my daughter to death, that's the devil in my soul? Oops. It was just a very aggravating video. So much so that I left in the middle of class. This is why I was turned off of my religion in the first place, because of people like this woman. The worst part? People were believing her. I guess the only thing our professor said at the end of class was "Wasn't she a great speaker?" Yeah, I'm sure.

Finishing up Dhammapada

This is a bit late, but I wanted to share with everyone my favorite part of the Dhammapada. I really enjoyed all of Chapter 15: Joy. I especially liked line 197.

"Let us live in joy, never hating those who hate us.
Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those
who hate."

Does anyone else have any favorite lines from the Dhammapada? Or even the Muhammad book since we're working on that now?

Dhammapada

Okay so now that we're into the Dhammapada, I feel completely comfortable saying that I don't think I'm going to enjoy it. It's very repetitive and contradictory. It's like one entire paragraph is the same sentence three times over. Then, the paragraph after that, is saying the exact opposite. It's just aggravating.

Please excuse this short blog post. It is quite hard to do this on a cell phone that isn't meant for internet.