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I spent a lot of time being single, hoping that I would start to appreciate relationships more, being that I'd always break up with the girl after a few months. It would be going fine, but then sooner or later some excuse would arise and I'd end the relationship.  Read More »

Today was a delightfully fun day. I was supposed to wake up at 9:20, study for an hour, go to class, take a lunch break, go to more class, and then go to Pracs. It ended up actually being something like this:  Read More »

I was a kid, swimming around in the pool, going down the slides, climbing back up the slides, sitting in the hot tub, doing whatever I wanted to do. Our family had gotten together with a lot of other family members at some hotel in some town to have some drinks, eat some pizza, and swim in some water. It may have been a wedding, a reunion, or some other family event. I can't remember.  Read More »

Why would a woman choose to have an abortion? Financial problems? No stable father figure? Too young to have a baby? Maybe she just doesn't want children? Conservatives might say "Don't have sex in the first place if you don't want a child!" but this is the real world, honey, and whether someone likes it or not, that's not how the real world works.  Read More »

We can label ourselves as Republicans, Democrats, Muslims, Atheists, Christians, Libertarians, or Communists, but no matter what we consider ourselves to be, people have a tendency to label anyone other than what they are as "the enemy." One label in particular is one we often see in everyday media, on the shelves of bookstores, and even in many of today's churches; that is mainstream Christianity  Read More »

A Southern Baptist convention during the summer of 2007 revealed a desire to see more research in the area of whether homosexuality is caused by genetic factors (as science and research indicates), or personal choice (as the Bible indicates).  Read More »

This is an article about gun control I wrote for the school newspaper when I was a senior in high school. Just your typical conservative/libertarian argument against gun control. It's not necessarily 100% what I believe to this day, but I have love for all of my children.

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Even if there weren't so many terribly misbehaving children who haven't been taught to shut up for one hour, I wouldn't have been able to hear the preacher's low-volume microphone anyway. He was talking, I could tell that much. But what he was saying was anyone's guess. If there had been a clock on the wall, I could have heard it ticking better than anything that was supposed to be relevant.  Read More »