All Souls' Night

I have been trying for more than a week now to remember St. Augustine's name. Obviously, I have now done so, but I had to do it by pulling up the papers I wrote on him and rereading them. I do quite enjoy the irreverence with which I treated my "Philosophy of Religion" class, and so I have, again, the urge to share. (I did once before, back in the summer of '07, hence the "once again" bits.)

I'm not quite sure which particular paper (they are for the most part rather short) I wish to share at present, but it probably should have to do with Augustine, since that's the name I wanted to remember. The question is, which one? Well, why not both? Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not necessarily completely agree with the arguments made below. Besides, this is religious philosophy, people. Somebody is bound to be offended. If you flame me, I will wonder (pointedly) where you came from and why you seem to be stalking me. On the other hand, please feel free to respectfully disagree, so I can do the same right back and we can enjoy a pleasant discussion.

( Augustine: Omniscience vs. Free Will )

The next piece, which is much shorter, takes almost the same starting point and goes in a completely different direction with it. I'm a little less sure of some bits of it, but then I'm not actually a scholar of philosophies.

( CRQ #3: Augustine & Cruelty on the Part of God )

So. The attempt to return to Pomona failed. Well, actually, it went through successfully, everything went great, and then I had another breakdown, because the only options left open to me — correction. If I wanted to graduate from Pomona, then the only option that they would accept was one I couldn't stand. At all.

( And when Darcy feels trapped, Darcy gets depressed. )

Ack, ack, ack. I'm so sorry~~~ I've been ignoring LJ in favor of... uh.

Well, in favor of SCA and singing and SheVaCon and calligraphic AUM-type squiggles and thinking about school and sewing clothes and fumbling back through barely-remembered math and Japanese and story ideas and TRYING TO GET CREATIVE AGAIN, DAMMIT and testing out a stronger dose of my meds and talking to people and reading lots and organizing and cuddling Ruby and coding and cooking and.

Yeah.

( Time for a rushed report! )

Good grief, that's a lot of tags.

I've been rereading my CRQ (ciritical reading question) responses from that class in my fourth semester. And lo, they are frequently funny. So I thought I'd put up the ones that amuse me.

Disclaimer: This is religious philosophy, people. Somebody is bound to be offended. If you flame me, I will wonder (pointedly) where you came from and why you seem to be stalking me. On the other hand, please feel free to respectfully disagree, so I can do the same right back and we can enjoy a pleasant discussion.

( Jung: Answer to Job )

So. Tomorrow.

(1) Finally do something about my disc drive which has gone wonk. This unfortunately probably means leaving it in the shop, assuming I can convince them there's something wrong, for at least a couple days.

(2) Mother's Day

(3) Two days before my mother's birthday. I still haven't made her present. I will do that on Monday, and make Dad remind me to do so.

Therefore, Monday:

(1) Make mother's birthday gift.

(2) Deal without computer

(3) Prepare for summer school.

Which leads to Tuesday:

(1) First day of summer school. See if I can remember how the heck to get to the buildings I need to get to, and the rooms inside them, on time. Also make sure I've got enough money for lunch, and a book to pass the time between 1:00 (when the first class gets out) and 3:00 (when the second class starts).

Randomly, those who know me on AIM may or may not recognize this icon as being the same character as the one I use there. Different media, but the same character.