Sometimes I have days where I just get really sad. There is no reason for me to get so sad, but I do. When I get like this I always just want to run away and just go somewhere else. I don't know if this means that I am just bored , or if I just need something new. Maybe everyone has these days, but it just feels like my mood swings from one extreme to the other always.
I am having one of those days today. I just want to leave. or crawl back into bed. I don't know why but it is a little annoying. Maybe it is the clouds outside, but I don't usually get like this with cloudy days. I am not sure.
I spent 8 hours yesterday at my friend, Jenn's house helping her write her bioethics paper. It was on Abortion and it was quite interesting to read. Typically, I lean towards the pro-life camp - though it gets a little sticky when you start to think about situations such as rape and those where the mother's life is at risk. There were four articles that we read for this paper - two pro-life and two pro-choice (Pope John Paul II (PL), M.A Warren (PC), D. Marquis(PL), and J.J Thomson(PC)). I don't think that the fact that I tend to be more pro-life then pro-choice plays any part in the fact that I found the two pro-choice authors to be completely and utterly ridiculous. I started out thinking that, in both of their articles, they had some interesting points which, despite that they didn't take some issues into consideration with their theories, I could kind of see where they were coming from. However, when they tried to provide examples for their points, I found that they were completely absurd and inconsistent, and they simply glossed over, or blatantly told the reader to ignore, things that didn't make sense within their article.
I think that an issue such as abortion is so complex and multifaceted that it is hard to just say "wrong" or "right" for the whole issue. These two writers, however, were completely ridiculous and so I am still pro-life until someone can offer me a valid, plausible and logical reason why I should believe otherwise. These two authors most certainly could not do this, that's for sure!
4 comments:
Hi Dids,
I have been reading your blog. Very interesting...actually it isn't that interesting. In fact, I would say it is more familiar than interesting. You are simply voicing the exact same reservations I had when I was in university...come to think of it, the same reservations almost every person has when their belief system is challenged. When my belief was shaken and I began to believe there was no God I tried something that settled the matter for me. If you want to know what that is I will tell you, but not on this forum. We can talk privately. It settled the argument for me in no uncertain terms and I haven't looked back since.
Dad
Uhm... What does it mean when you decide to write a blog and the only comments written are from your parents? Does this mean you have an entire audience of 2? Given the size and scope of the internet, a grand total of two readers seems a bit on the small side.
I actually feel like one of those parents who try to validate their kids egos by praising anything they do...I typically mock those types and now it seems I have become one. Oh no.
Still dad.
Yes, but I love her!!!!! And I am proud of being "one of those parents", or any kind of parent that she needs.
But we wont talk about these things on her blog because it will greatly embarrass her!
Love you baby girl :o)
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Oh, and as to why you felt down, well, lets see...
8 hours working on a paper about abortion followed by a cloudy day? Yup, that would do it for me!
You two are too cute :)
I don't think many people know about it.
Or maybe I am just not cool enough - it is a good thing I got past the stage where I get embarrassed by my parents
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