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August 31, 2003
Strange
So, I realize that I don't need to reinforce the idea that I have certain weirdness-ess and am an overall quite ecentric person. But here is something that happens to me on a fairly regular basis...
I am at some place that I don't frequent and I have to use the restroom facilities. After locating them in whatever establishment that I am in it is always a very quick descision about which room I will use. I (being a male) always have and always plan to use the mens room. But as it so happens every so often I will enter the room and proceed to an open stall to fufill the desire to ease my bladder when after sitting I suddenly become slightly disoriented and the phobia enters my head: "What if I am sitting in the womens restroom?" Now I know because I have worked at several varied and distinct locations where it has been my task to clean the restrooms and therefore unwittingly I have had the opportunity to compare the facilities avalible to men and to women. So I know that they really aren't very different. I have heard women talk about buffets and other such luxuries in their bathrooms and that is why they travel there together. But honestly I don't believe them. From what I have seen the rooms are often roughly the same size and equally equiped except of course urinals for the men and those scary little white trash cans in some womens rooms. So because I am familiar with the similarities I am beset by this terror. "I might be sitting in the wrong room." So I attempt to peer around the cracks in the door in attempt to gain any clues about my whereabouts. If someone else should happen to enter the room I try and decipher their gender by analyzing their cough or the speed of their walk and the heaviness of their step. It is in reality quite a complicated proceedure. I also must admit that I have leaned over and tried to catch a glimps of the shoes of someone in the stall next to mine. I guess it never occured to me that my neighbor might be in a similar state. Anyway in most occassions I have been able to readily determine the room that I have so hastely placed myself in and set my mind at ease to continue with my intended pupose for being there in the first place. But, on rare appointment I have been forced to finish my business and venture from my safe haven and brave the embarrasement of possibly being in the wrong. These fears have always been unfounded but every now and then I still sit in wondering, have I wandered into the taboo loo?
And thats all for now...
Posted by paul at 12:21 AM | Comments (1)
August 29, 2003
God vs. Love
I had an interesting thought the other day...
I have often given God the same attributes ascribed to Love in 1 Corithians 13. My line of reasoning is simply that if God is Love (1 John 4:8) then he easily embodies all of the purity of Love described in 1 Cor.
I have been using this concept for awhile when I realized a more then slight disparity between the the way that Love is portrayed in 1 Cor. and the character of God purported through other passages. Mainly our God is a Jealous God (Exodus 34:14) desire us and our attentions. This is in direct contridiction with 1 Corithians 13:4 which explicitly says that Love is not Jealous. I am not sure what now to do with this... I always enjoyed understanding God through this description of Love. Also the question arises is God therefore not always loving or not completely Loving? When does his Love stop and his Jealousy begin? Help me think critically here... What do you think?
Posted by paul at 02:25 PM | Comments (1)
August 24, 2003
I am Alive
I am still here.
Either my computer or I has been in transit for the past however long it has been since my last post. But since all of my lovely readers have probably gone long ago I shant post anything tonight.
Hey reply to this and tell me that you are alive and checked this thing. I think it would be interesting to see which of you responds the fastest...or is brave enough to admit that you weren't the fastest hehe... :)
Posted by paul at 09:44 PM | Comments (4)