...for the fact that I'm awake right now. :P

So, I don't know how serious you guys were about coming to Seattle next summer, but I'm REALLY excited about this idea (hence the lack of sleep)! I will have more to say about this on Saturday (hopefully... cross your fingers- I have to leave at 6am, so hopefully I'll have something posted by then).

For now, a survey thing from John Green that I bookmarked and put in my "bored" folder, for something to do... when I'm bored, obviously.

37 Odd Things… Continue

I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!
Ten thousand flee… Continue

The position we hold—the abolitionist position—is often said to be “extreme,” and those of us who hold it are said to be “extremists.” The unspoken suggestions are that extreme positions cannot be right, and that extremists must be wrong.

But I am an extremist when it comes to rape — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to child abuse — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to sexual discrimination, racial discrimination — I am against it all… Continue

Lately I've been getting a bunch of messages and comments about comments I've made about homosexuality possibly not being condemned in the Bible, at least not in the modern sense. I don't really like arguing from the point of the Bible, because it makes me feel like a hypocrite. But I feel as though some people won't accept homosexuality without it being okay in the Bible. I don't respond to all the messages, because you'd be surprised how many I get, but here is one of my responses:

His commen… Continue

What is LifeStraw®? In short, it is a portable water purifier, which could help save the lives of some 1.1 billion people if it were implemented in the developing countries of the world. Each LifeStraw® can purify up to 18,000 liters of water. They are relatively inexpensive, especially when weighed against the value—even though none could be assigned—of the lives they would save.

It is a great project of Vestergaard Frandsen, which has many other causes also worthy of donations: ZeroFly®, Perm… Continue