Mormonism Part 2

The second video in my Mormonism series. The subject of this one is the beliefs of Mormons. Mormons claim to be Christians, but Christians do not accept Mormons as Christians. Being a Christian I have commented on some of my objections to their beliefs and why I believe some of them to be unbiblical.


The next one is going to be on family and will also address polygamy more in depth. I just mention it briefly at the end of this video.


Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=544a_3NFl_A

Mormonism Part 1

I figured I would do some videos recording interesting things and facts that I am learning about in my Mormonism class. These videos are not intended to be a replacement for actually studying the religion yourself though should you be interested in it. This is part 1.

Natural Human Rights

First video post for this blog. I may actually continue to do this in the future because it is easier for me than having to write these posts out. The audio is behind the video, but I figured out what the issue was so future videos will not have this issue. If the embed does not work for you the link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-vm7Lhb2c

What I Learned About Introversion and Extraversion

Psychology has been something of interest to me ever since I took a course in it in college, and if I could have at that point I might have changed my major but it was the final course so I wasn't able to. Well lately I have been looking into introversion and extraversion. What has prompted this interest has been, as modern psychologists might say, "the way I have been experiencing myself" recently. Commonly it seems that extraverts are thought to be people who are outgoing, sociable, always up for doing something, and incapable of reflection. And it seems that introverts are thought to be people are not outgoing, prefer to be with their thoughts, and can go for weeks without social interaction. Now I think there is truth to those definitions, but I think that it is an incomplete definition of introversion and extroversion.

Life Interrupted By Life

This last week you could say that my life was very much interrupted. Last Wednesday (May 11) I got word that my grandmother had passed away, and while it wasn't totally unexpected news to me it did come sooner than I had expected it to. I had been enjoying a much needed mini-vacation from all the work I had been doing earlier this year and this news changed the non-plans I had quite quickly. Instead of me sitting back and enjoying my time off and catching up on some video projects for church that had been pushed to the back burner I was forced to make a 20+ hour drive up to Pennsylvania with my brother and spend my days running around helping complete everything that was necessary for the funeral. 


Now it would be very easy for me to be quite angry and upset at all this because my plans had been interrupted and I was forced to put in much more work than I had been planning to this past weekend, but I'm not. I'm glad that my life was interrupted like this because it forced me to reevaluate the direction that my life is headed and the some of the choices that I am making in heading that direction. My life being interrupted was a very good thing in this case.

Rules

I've been reading Psalm 119 over the past few days (it's so long it warrants a two day reading in my opinion) and it occurred to me that the psalmist is quite joyed at the fact that God had given rules for him to obey; he is excited that there are rules! His attitude seemed very strange to me at first because I myself do not get excited about following rules usually; I certainly follow them, but I don't think to myself, "Woohoo! I get to follow rules! Yeah!" As I thought about it some though I realized that this should be my attitude.

Back and out of body

It has been a while since I actually posted something due to my being so incredibly busy; not because I had forgotten or lost interest in this project. 


Being really busy will do a lot of things to you, a lot of bad things. This last semester I have been working 2 jobs along with taking a full course load (4 courses + 1 independent study from last semester), which has left me little time for being me. When your entire life consists of moving from one task to the next you tend to lose touch with yourself and instead become like a robot who only completes tasks. So now that I've had time to relax a little it has been like having an out-of-body experience in a way: I will do something, find it enjoyable, and think to myself, "Wow, this is really fun! Did I like doing this before? Oh yeah, I did like doing this before, I remember now!" These sorts of experiences have been cool; they remind of all the unique gifts that God has blessed me with.