The Story begins
Yes. I now have 6 weeks to formulate a short story for my Creative Writing class- and the main conflict by tomorrow! HOw interesting, especially considering I have not sucessfullly finished a short story since 7th grade... this is definetely exiciting me alot-- I am scared excited nervous and by the way, have been sortof floating around since the sun came out this Sunday...
posted by Velvet at 2:33 PM
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...actually, it does explore opposing beliefs which is why I transferred here in th first place... one needs exposure to everything to make a real informed decision, hmm?
Ordinary Girl,
An informed decision? You mean you are considering committing apostasy? If not, then what decision do you mean?
no specific decision-- just talking about free will in general
was it socrates who said untested virtue is no virtue at all?
Ergo Sum,
She is having a bloggersation with me... but I don't have a response to her comments about free will and socrates because it is too complicated. Maybe with more thought I will have a response.
Anonymous is someone able to receive and transmit on the Earth's network of computers.
Ordinary Girl,
Wouldn't you agree that to test the virtue of one's self is an evil motivation? I would think that you are not the type of person to have an evil motivation... however your comments might indicate such a motivation to some people... don't you think? Because in relation to transferring schools you write about testing virtue as a possible motivation.
Ergo Sum,
I am happy to see your interesting comments. I cannot respond right now because as with Ordinary Girl's, they are too complicated for an immediate response. But anyway, it sounds like you disagree with my statement about testing the virtue of one's self being an evil motivation. Who is right Ordinary Girl, me or Ergo Sum?
well, lol, to anonymous' first question...
i believe i gave the wrong impression as far as changing schools
i did not transfer in order to test my own virtue, however there was an element of my decision in which i wanted to be able to integrate my beliefs into a secular enviroment, whereas at my former catholic school i felt NOT as if i was not growing in development of character but that it was a first stage of a developement. take the soldier/athletic example... they have intense training and seclusion/boot camp before going out and ACTING on that training... anyways, i think i see Christendom (where I transferred from) as that training stage. i could keep going on this forever but lol, i have homework to do
i don't think i wanted to test virtue, but partly to grow stronger in my ability to be IN the world and yet not OF the world
so back to the question at hand, lol, i did not see in myself any evil motivation for that aspect of myself which truly does/did desire to test my virtue... i tend to see it more along ergo's point in that i simply wanted to know truly know if i was making the decision to live a virtuous life BECAUSE everyone/most ppl did at my old school- i wanted to be able to know myself better and to look at myself and
see my motivations stripped
in a sense... i don't think this is evil...
lol, i dunno who anonymous is but i def. get the feeling its someone i know haha how's that for logical?
Ordinary Girl,
It is nice to hear your comments which further explain your thinking. I think your comments make me consider the distinction between testing virtue and understanding motivations. It is very interesting. Ergo Sum and you seem to have valid points.
Maybe the re-revision of your web site color scheme will now be more to Ergo Sum's liking.
I cannot believe you have written derogatory comments about the Bible in your latest post.
i did not mean to be derogatory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i meant more that the style of writing is very hard for me to grasp... perhaps if i knew greek and read it in the original text my impression would be different...
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