*back!*

[alexr_rwx]

So I'm back in Atlanta, and I think these next few days are going to be busy indeed... compilers is due on *shudder* Thursday, and I need to get stuff done for research Really Soon, and I need to get going on that dad-blammed NLU project (but that's going to be really cool, actually -- we're totally going to do machine learning techniques and train our agent on Atlanta Latino so's it can do automated translation...)... and ...

"It's not where you come from -- it's go and go get it."
-- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Where You Come From"

I feel good. I'm ready to get down to business.

And I think it turns out that my mother dramamamalama is more tolerant than I am -- particularly when it comes to people whom I view as having destructively smallminded and Patently Wrong viewpoints -- but that might just mean that I'm 22 and more than a bit paranoid. This came up when we were discussing her new job, which is helping out with the music department at the local Baptist church...

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Re: "You've just got to have <i>faith!</i>"

[child-herald.livejournal.com]

Part of Buddhist doctrine that you may not be familiar with, interestingly... is that you're not supposed to accept Buddhist doctrine without very thorough examination.

Taking World Religions in college and having a few Buddhist friends, I'm familiar with it. I also know people of other religions, including me in mine, who didn't accept their beliefs until they thoroughly waded through teachings and decided what they believed and what they didn't. I, for example, have quite a few differing beliefs from what their church mainly teaches.

My idea of free choice is God knowing what I'm going to do, but still giving me the freedom to make that decision. Reply to your question? Not reply to your question? God knew I would, but I didn't feel Him pulling me one way or another.