Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Despite not going to bed until three this morning (I close Tuesday evenings), I arose early enough before my ten o'clock seminar with Dr. Reed to eat cereal and to look up the words for the next passage from The Symposium I am translating in Greek class. However, during Dr. Reed's class Jason (with whom I also take Greek) informed me we were to have translated a passage from Titus for today's session. Scheisse.
The two of us being exhausted, we went to get coffee (straight-up coffee for him, a frappuccino für mich). En route I decided not to attend Greek, for I had not brought my Bible to take notes and hadn't even glanced at the text, anyhow. Steve must be disappointed, for I have probably missed six or seven classes by now. But I have an "A" nevertheless.
Yesterday a Bible-thumper came to the public area between the student union building and the library to screech about how everyone (but him and the elect, apparently) is living in sin, wickedness, etc. I happened to first walk by around eleven in the morning, before a sizable crowd had gathered, wearing my baggy black cargo JNCOs, a heavy black sweater, and the almighty grey hat Lindsay crocheted. As I passed, this misguided young man was calling out, "...and you are all living in darkness; you are lying in darkness next to your boyfriend or girlfriend, and you do not want to wake up..." Obviously he hadn't gotten a rise out of anyone yet, but I kept walking and refused to dignify him with any reaction.
Later I saw my friend Jenn, who is the Jewish half of my brain. She told me the Bible-thumper appeared around this season last year (perhaps he has a circuit) with much the same rhetoric. A couple of her friends dared her to start an argument with him: "I don't believe in a hell concept- I win!" Lustig.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 9:39 AM]