Friday, December 17, 2004

school's out!

The semester is finally over, and I'm not experiencing that strange feeling of now not having to study. LOL It's rather nice actually. Now I can sleep in, work on making candles and other stuff for Christmas, and catch up on some books that I actually want to read.
Right now I'm working on Doubt, A History by Jennifer Michael Hecht. I'm greatly enjoying it. So far I have worked though Hellenistic Greece, Judaism, Buddhism, and Rome. And I'm just now getting into the first few centuries of Christianity, which is fascinating, especially since I can compare it to what I've read in the Bible. It turns out that there was a lot going on that you don't get in Church--though I did get a taste of it in my religious history classes at TNU.

Out of the chapter on Roman doubt, I picked up a quote that I think is just wonderful. I wrote it on a sticky note and put in on my computer moniter.

If there is a God, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou be governed by it. -Marcus Aurelius


I'm also working a bit on The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough, Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Denett, and Crypto, by Steven Levey. I doubt I will be able to work though all of them before school starts back up again though. So many books, so little time!

4 comments:

james said...

Thanks for dropping by the blog. Curious how you made your way.

Drop by anytime. You're certainly welcome. Just know that I post some bits on discipleship here and there. Just a heads up.

Mikayla Starstuff said...

Not a problem :) But thanks for the heads-up.

Mikayla Starstuff said...

BTW, I found you just by browsing though the blogs.

james said...

Cool. Browsing the blogs can be quite interesting.

I should probably note on the "heads up", you won't be so-called "witnessed" to, or find some of us trying to re-convert you or anything. We try to keep a good open and honest discussion going when we can. The heads up was more of an us being honest thing