Let me take this moment to use my little bit of cyberspace as a megaphone, so lets all join in with this next ditty, you all know the tune:

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Edge
Happy birthday to you!



Yay! 44 years to the day, and the inspiration for so many young (and aging) guitarists world throughout! Keep Bono in line, and make sure to change your guitar strings regularly.

and forgive me for the bad picture quality.

I am reminded of my U2 fandom today. I have not put it on hold nor hidden it, but have turned down the volume, even the greatest band in the world gets a bit old whenits all you listen to! I've taken an interest in three or four bands: Wilco, Dishwalla, Vertical Horizon, and Sister Hazel. The latter two I already liked a bit, though I've never owned any of their music. I bought Summerteeth by Wilco and ordered Pet Your Friends by Dishwalla at Borders yesterday, honestly, thos coupons certainly do their job of luring people to the store to buy stuff they don't really need "at a discount" LOL.

Orientation is Thursday! yahoo! Can't wait to see who my teachers are :D Need to start preparing all my stuff, too. I wanna take it up there with meh so as I don't have to lug a ton o' stuff up there on the 18th.

Was contemplating last night on the heated subject of homosexuality. Probably to my loss, I have spent time on the Christianity messageboards (on AOL) and the one thing that ever really came clear while I was there was that the Bible never really seems to talk about simply 'being homosexual' its always the act of homosexuality thats addressed, is it not? Therefore, is not plausible that there are some people who are, in fact, born homosexual? Because just being something doesn't automatically mean you have to things associated with what you are. For example, all humans are sinners but we [Christians, anyway] are not obligated to act on our sinful nature (translation: just because we are humans doesn't mean we must sin) [Romans 8:12-14]. Or all humans are omnivores, but just because humans are omnivores doesn't mean one must act on it and eat animal flesh (or reverse and say that you don't have to eat plants as an omnivore if you don't want to). Some people are genetically prone to drinking problems, but they don't have to be alcoholics or even light drinkers. We make choices people!

Being genetically or otherwise prone to something doesn't make it "okay." I don't want to be misunderstood - I'm not saying homosexuality is right. I'm just saying that, in my mind, it is not entirely preposterous that someone could be born as a homosexual, the question is whether they choose to act on it.

Ponder on that, mates, and get back to meh with comments at either EnvisionedLight@aol.com or avaenetela@yahoo.com or on my xanga |