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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
"Truth". "Darkness". "Secular culture." "People who want little to do with Him (God)."
I don't know about anyone else, but the thing that struck me is that the study guide names and yet does not name who it is that it is talking about. It's one of those things that you have to be "in the...
Yesterday I wrote about the woman from my old church who wanted to know the political leanings of my professor, namely was he a liberal. Today I'd like to go deeper into where this mindset is coming from and why.
Although I now belong to the Unitarian church, I still meet with my friends from...
Had another interesting conversation with a classmate while waiting for class to start. A teacher was walking down the hall and he said, "I think that's the teacher that got hit by a student not long ago." Hit by a student? Yes, it happened in class, he said. A discussion got out of control...
Many of you have probably seen or heard about the Michigan boy whose mother created a Facebook page for him which went viral. His mother created it for him because his 11th birthday is coming up and he told her not to have a party because he doesn't have any friends due to his being on the...
I am beginning to think that going back to school may possibly be the best decision of my life. Not because of the degree. As the Wizard of Oz said to the Scarecrow, "there are people walking around who are no smarter than you, the only difference between them and you is that they have a piece...
The other day I saw a news article about a high school that had banned certain articles of clothing because school officials thought they were too provocative. Yes, that's right, the ruling was primarily aimed at female students. Ok, so this is sexism at work, right?
But then I read a quote...
Yesterday, while I was waiting in the hallway for my class to begin, I caught the tail end of a lecture on, of all things, how to put on a condom. That's right. The instructor had a little wooden penis which she used to demonstrate the right and the wrong way to put one on. She also went into...
I just got done reading Soup's blog "The Abused Woman". Sadly, I have known several women who were or are in that situation, and yet, despite more options for women than ever, choose to stay in such relationships. What really boggles me is that most of these women are young women, in their...
There is a young student from Gabon in my political science class and the other day we were having a discussion about U.S. foreign policy. Not surprisingly, he wasn't too thrilled with it. Neither am I, for that matter, but there is very little I can do about it. We may call ourselves a...
It has now been almost two months since Dr. Teleka Patrick, a resident of Western Michigan University's medical program, mysteriously disappeared. Her car was found abandoned nearly 100 miles west of Kalamazoo in a ditch along I-94 in Indiana and she hasn't been seen or heard from since. What...
I have just finished my second week of school and won't go back until the middle of this week as they are closed for Martin Luther King day. Which gives me an extra day of study and making up work, since I have to have 40 hours a week to keep my full-time benefit status.
Mr. Give Me An...
When I was young, there was a poem my mother used to recite whenever I asked to do something that she did not feel like granting. It went like this: "Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water."
When it comes to...
Today was my first day at school. I was actually supposed to start Monday but the school was closed for bad weather. So you might say that it hasn't got off to a very good start, especially as I fell on the sidewalk walking in.
First I went to the bookstore and got all my books except for...
Yesterday I ran into the junior pastor of my old church and had quite a lengthy conversation with him about why I left so abruptly. Of course he wanted to know where I was going now, if I was going at all, and was rather dismayed to find out I've gone over to the Dark Side...
I have a cousin, I'll call him Luke, who I am pretty sure is on the spectrum. I don't know, however, because whatever Luke has is not to be discussed. As far as I know, he has never been diagnosed with anything. The family attitude is Luke is just Luke. He's different. That's just the way...
Recently I found out that one of my friends from the theater has quit his job and is now unemployed. It wasn't much of a job to begin with, I guess, and there was some BS going on at work. Well, hate to tell you this, but no matter where you go there is always going to be BS. Some places more...
Two millennia ago, so the story goes, a Roman official asked a prisoner who stood before him, "What is truth?" But the prisoner did not reply although up to that point he had been talking quite a bit about truth. The story does not give any explanation for the prisoner's silence at this...
Sometimes I wonder what planet motivational speakers live on. The other day we had one come to my workplace to discuss stress and burnout. This is at our busiest time of year, when we are burdened with complicated, time-consuming projects that pop up at the last moment and have to be done...
I have started composing a flyer that I am going to carry around with me in my purse so that the next time I am ambushed (especially in a sticky situation) about finding a home for a cat, I can hand it to them. I don't intend to distribute it to the general public, only to those people who come...
Once again, I have been asked about finding a home for a cat. This time it was "I rescued this kitten from a man who was going to kill it, but I can't keep it due to whatever, so could you take it in for a while?" Arrgh!
I do not know why people seem to think that I am the go-to person for...