Today was a very mind-exhausting day. We started off with Nat discussing the issue of eternity and heaven and hell.
Interestingly enough, the bible never says it in black and white the way today's church has been doing for quite some time. Jewish people never actually believed in eternal life until Jesus started talking about it. Even then, to them it was crazy talk. And Paul even stated that people who are dead are asleep. Never in the bible does Paul talk about our souls leaving our bodies and going to heaven.
We went through a lot of nevers like this. And then we went through the actually's, and to be honest I can't remember what they all are but I know we confirmed them through scripture and discussion. In our conclusion to that discussion, we saw that the promise of the afterlife is that EVERYONE is going to experience some form of judgement. When ancient Christians were dying they wished for a slow death so that they could put everything right, reconciled, and in order before they met God. People today want to die a quick death so it will be painless.
The ancient Christians feared God more than they feared death.
We also got talking about heaven and hell and how they exist. The Jews never believed anyone went to heaven. To them that was just where God lived. They didn't even really believe in an afterlife, they just believed in the here and now. I'm being very vague because my brain is totally fried so I apologize. Our discussion of whether heaven or hell led to the question of why did Jesus die in the first place if it wasn't to get us into heaven when we die?
The answer is simple: to break the separation between God and man. God wanted to bring heaven to us, and He made that possible through Jesus, and used Jesus to show us what heaven on earth looked like. The whole heaven and hell thing isn't for us to worry about right now. It's good to discuss, but ultimately God gets the last say in that, and He'll take care of it when we die. Right now what we do know is that God has commanded us to love Him with all our heart soul and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourself. That's all we should be worried about, and everything we worry about should stem from that commandment.
The thing we got into after our heaven and hell discussion was the good old hated/ignored book of Revelations. We actually didn't get far today because we were running out of time with Nat, but just from scratching the surface we discovered that Revelations is a prophesy, and that if that prophesy had been written for modern times then it would not have been written at the time it was written. God would have revealed that message now.
Through out history, when God made prophesy, He made it within 50-100 years of it happening or less. The people who heard it witnessed it--except for the prophesy of Jesus...which is why the Jews were so impatient about waiting for their Messiah.
From what we read, and what Nat told us, at least part of Revelation was prophesy about what was going to happen to Rome, because the Romans were oppressing the Christians big time. That's literally where we left off, so I'll keep you filled in on how that goes.
We then had someone named Richard come in and talk to us about prayer. He talked about a lot of stuff which most of us already knew, but one thing I found fascinating was when he started talking about the authority God has given us.
A lot of people understand that God has given us authority to pray for people who are possessed and to cast out those demons, but those people then misinterpret that as us being able to pray over the spiritual warfare that is happening completely outside of the physical realm. Richard had several friends who would constantly pray over things like that, and they were constantly sick.
Through prayer and careful reading of the scripture, Richard came to the understanding that God has given us authority over anything on the earth and in the physical domain. The only time we have authority over the spiritual realm is when it is given exclusively or when a demon has possessed a fellow human. Things in the spiritual realm are beyond our authority.
What we are supposed to do is pray for the individual, and when that individual is set free, it lessens the enemies' kingdom. Praying against the enemies' kingdom is dangerous, because we don't have that authority so they will take advantage of us huge.
That's all for today. My brain is fried. Catch you tomorrow.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
Imagio Dei
God made man in His image. Unfortunately, man returned the favor.
This week's topic is, "imagio dei, missio dei" or, "image of God, mission of God", and our speaker is awesome. He's not as interactive as the last few have been, but he is coming at this in a whole new perspective--though most of our teachers have done the same.
Today he started with language, communication, and story. Everyone has a story, and everyone's story influences the way they interpret/look at life. Our speaker(his name is Nat) told us about a college professor who was also the head of chapel at the college. Every time a new student arrived at the school, he would send them a letter saying he would like to meet with them personally at least once. Most of them came in rolling their eyes not wanting to be there, and pretty much every single one of them would say something like, "look, I don't know what your plan is or whatever but I'm pretty secure in the fact that I don't believe in God". He would respond with a simple question, "What God do you believe in?". For those who don't believe, the answer was almost unanimous: "A creator God who lives in the sky"(Nat's description was a little more elaborate but I don't remember it word for word). The college professor/chapel would then respond with, "Well that's interesting because I don't believe in that God either."
Most students walked out because they thought he was crazy.
Everyone's story has defined God for them. We have not allowed God to define Himself, we have simply gone by the traditional English church assumption--which to be quite frank is wrong. He is not telling us He knows how to define God, because the best definition any theologian or philosopher has come up with for God is that He cannot be defined.
To me that statement is simple logic. How can mankind define something that exists outside of their understanding of space, time, and dimensions? This is why I get annoyed when people start pointing the finger at God and say, "You're doin it wrong!". How on earth--literally--would you know? You have only existed for less than one hundred years out of the eons that earth has been around, never mind God. I know it's cheesy to say, "His ways are not our ways." but it's also exactly true--especially in North American culture. God's ways are not always to be financially safe and have a family that you can leave a will to...for some people they are..but not everyone.
Nat then showed us this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU
I highly recommend you watch it--several times. This was the end of Nat's teaching for the day. On that note, we'll be trying to understand the image of God for the week.
Catch you all tomorrow.
This week's topic is, "imagio dei, missio dei" or, "image of God, mission of God", and our speaker is awesome. He's not as interactive as the last few have been, but he is coming at this in a whole new perspective--though most of our teachers have done the same.
Today he started with language, communication, and story. Everyone has a story, and everyone's story influences the way they interpret/look at life. Our speaker(his name is Nat) told us about a college professor who was also the head of chapel at the college. Every time a new student arrived at the school, he would send them a letter saying he would like to meet with them personally at least once. Most of them came in rolling their eyes not wanting to be there, and pretty much every single one of them would say something like, "look, I don't know what your plan is or whatever but I'm pretty secure in the fact that I don't believe in God". He would respond with a simple question, "What God do you believe in?". For those who don't believe, the answer was almost unanimous: "A creator God who lives in the sky"(Nat's description was a little more elaborate but I don't remember it word for word). The college professor/chapel would then respond with, "Well that's interesting because I don't believe in that God either."
Most students walked out because they thought he was crazy.
Everyone's story has defined God for them. We have not allowed God to define Himself, we have simply gone by the traditional English church assumption--which to be quite frank is wrong. He is not telling us He knows how to define God, because the best definition any theologian or philosopher has come up with for God is that He cannot be defined.
To me that statement is simple logic. How can mankind define something that exists outside of their understanding of space, time, and dimensions? This is why I get annoyed when people start pointing the finger at God and say, "You're doin it wrong!". How on earth--literally--would you know? You have only existed for less than one hundred years out of the eons that earth has been around, never mind God. I know it's cheesy to say, "His ways are not our ways." but it's also exactly true--especially in North American culture. God's ways are not always to be financially safe and have a family that you can leave a will to...for some people they are..but not everyone.
Nat then showed us this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU
I highly recommend you watch it--several times. This was the end of Nat's teaching for the day. On that note, we'll be trying to understand the image of God for the week.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Week END
Hello folks! Sorry I missed yesterday's post, but it turned out to be a very busy--and very fun--night.
Rebekah came for a visit! Josiah dropped her off around 3 in the after-noon, and I can only stand by a statement made in a previous post: you never realize how much you mis someone until you actually get to see them again. It was absolutely lovely seeing Rebekah, and it was absolutely wonderful spending time with her even if it was only barely twenty-four hours.
About an hour after Rebekah arrived we went to help out at the soup kitchen run out of the same church we have class in. It was amazing. All we had to do was help set up, and then we just had to spread out and spend time with the people at the soup kitchen. I had some of the most lovely conversations I've had in a very long time. Seriously, people who aren't well off are way more pleasant and easy to talk to then people who are, "financially safe".
I remember as I was talking to one lady in particular--her name was Gracie--she was telling me a story about the church she attends and how they do their annual fall cleaning, and suddenly I could feel God saying, "This is my beloved child, I delight in her". It repeated itself through my head for the rest of the night. Then several hours later everyone was hanging out in our apartment listening to worship music/hanging out, and I closed my eyes and I could see Jesus' face--He was smiling. He said simply, "What you have done for the least of these, so you have done for me."
Finally, we watched Tron--the new one. I actually thought it was a huge metaphor for the bible. The main character--played by Jeff Bridges--makes a huge video game world in which you can actually enter, and the programs essentially have minds of their own. Whenever the creator enters the game, a light appears at the top of the tallest tower of the city, as that is the location of the portal into the game. The characters talk about the light being a signal of hope because they know their creator is amongst them. Whenever the creator enters the room, the aura shifts, and everyone knows it.
The creator creates a clone of himself to run the place whenever he leaves to be in the real world, and over time this clone becomes conceited and sees himself as better than his creator(satan). There's all kinds of other metaphors, but I won't get into them right now. Just watch the movie.
It was a fantastic night last night, and today was just as good. Rebekah and I went out for lunch at some vintage fish and chips diner--delicious, and went for an extremely pleasant walk. We finished the day off by watching flushed away until Josiah showed up to take Rebekah home.
And now here I sit, in full realization of how much I miss that wonderful girl, and looking very forward to February.
But at the same time, I'm so excited for everything else that's gonna be happening in between.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Rebekah came for a visit! Josiah dropped her off around 3 in the after-noon, and I can only stand by a statement made in a previous post: you never realize how much you mis someone until you actually get to see them again. It was absolutely lovely seeing Rebekah, and it was absolutely wonderful spending time with her even if it was only barely twenty-four hours.
About an hour after Rebekah arrived we went to help out at the soup kitchen run out of the same church we have class in. It was amazing. All we had to do was help set up, and then we just had to spread out and spend time with the people at the soup kitchen. I had some of the most lovely conversations I've had in a very long time. Seriously, people who aren't well off are way more pleasant and easy to talk to then people who are, "financially safe".
I remember as I was talking to one lady in particular--her name was Gracie--she was telling me a story about the church she attends and how they do their annual fall cleaning, and suddenly I could feel God saying, "This is my beloved child, I delight in her". It repeated itself through my head for the rest of the night. Then several hours later everyone was hanging out in our apartment listening to worship music/hanging out, and I closed my eyes and I could see Jesus' face--He was smiling. He said simply, "What you have done for the least of these, so you have done for me."
Finally, we watched Tron--the new one. I actually thought it was a huge metaphor for the bible. The main character--played by Jeff Bridges--makes a huge video game world in which you can actually enter, and the programs essentially have minds of their own. Whenever the creator enters the game, a light appears at the top of the tallest tower of the city, as that is the location of the portal into the game. The characters talk about the light being a signal of hope because they know their creator is amongst them. Whenever the creator enters the room, the aura shifts, and everyone knows it.
The creator creates a clone of himself to run the place whenever he leaves to be in the real world, and over time this clone becomes conceited and sees himself as better than his creator(satan). There's all kinds of other metaphors, but I won't get into them right now. Just watch the movie.
It was a fantastic night last night, and today was just as good. Rebekah and I went out for lunch at some vintage fish and chips diner--delicious, and went for an extremely pleasant walk. We finished the day off by watching flushed away until Josiah showed up to take Rebekah home.
And now here I sit, in full realization of how much I miss that wonderful girl, and looking very forward to February.
But at the same time, I'm so excited for everything else that's gonna be happening in between.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Courtrooms
Today was awesome. I wonder how many times I'm gonna say that while I'm here.
It started with worship. It was fantastic. We played, "trading my sorrows, awesome God, and blessed be your name". All of those songs are so triumphant and joyful, and I love when worship is triumphant and joyful. It is, after all, supposed to be a time of praise, and what better way to praise than joyfully?
Our teacher then spent five minutes talking/reviewing what we've talked about all week, and then told us that our task for the next two hours was to plan out a drama representation of what a modern courtroom scene would look like concerning the situation in Philemon. I was chosen to play the judge, and it was a ton of fun. Every time I get a chance to act, I realize how much I love it!
I hope God provides more opportunities for acting in the future, cuz I will gladly take them.
We then finished our day with more worship and prayer, which was even better than in the morning.
It may not seem like the most eventful day to those reading, but I think today was one of the most wonderful days I've had while here. Catch you all tomorrow.
It started with worship. It was fantastic. We played, "trading my sorrows, awesome God, and blessed be your name". All of those songs are so triumphant and joyful, and I love when worship is triumphant and joyful. It is, after all, supposed to be a time of praise, and what better way to praise than joyfully?
Our teacher then spent five minutes talking/reviewing what we've talked about all week, and then told us that our task for the next two hours was to plan out a drama representation of what a modern courtroom scene would look like concerning the situation in Philemon. I was chosen to play the judge, and it was a ton of fun. Every time I get a chance to act, I realize how much I love it!
I hope God provides more opportunities for acting in the future, cuz I will gladly take them.
We then finished our day with more worship and prayer, which was even better than in the morning.
It may not seem like the most eventful day to those reading, but I think today was one of the most wonderful days I've had while here. Catch you all tomorrow.
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Core
Today was great. We got into looking at the different depths of scripture, and the different messages put into the same book. It was very interesting, and quite eye-opening to the fact that Paul didn't just write letters. Paul was extremely specific in what he wrote, and when you begin to study everything he wrote, you being to see that he did it on purpose.
There are a lot of things which are written outside of today's context within the scripture. This has led to a lot of misguided church, "laws" or understandings of scripture. We didn't get into that very much, but I'm sure it's something that will come up later on.
We then got to the core of the book of Philemon--because it's the book we've been studying all week--and found the core principle Paul is trying to communicate through this book is that of forgiveness. The next hour was spent in meditation and contemplation/prayer with God about things we need to forgive people for/reconcile ourselves with.
The hour after that was spent sharing those things, and then we spent some time in small groups continuing in prayer and sharing. Our small group actually spent quite a bit of time discussing pride and how it relates to forgiveness--especially when we get offended by things that aren't even really offensive...we're just letting our pride get the better of us.
Then the afternoon was spent planning for outreach and the soup kitchen on Saturday. It was fun, but I won't bore you with any details. If it's really that important to you then you can personally message me and we'll discuss it there ;).
After that, I interviewed Wes for the five minute documentary on Greenhaven, and got 30 minutes worth of him talking...which I was expecting due to Wes being known for rambling, but every time Wes gets talking about broken, homeless people you can just see the passion and hear in his voice how much his heart breaks for those people.
Now here I sit, listening to worship practice and loving every moment God has given me with these fantastic people.
There are a lot of things which are written outside of today's context within the scripture. This has led to a lot of misguided church, "laws" or understandings of scripture. We didn't get into that very much, but I'm sure it's something that will come up later on.
We then got to the core of the book of Philemon--because it's the book we've been studying all week--and found the core principle Paul is trying to communicate through this book is that of forgiveness. The next hour was spent in meditation and contemplation/prayer with God about things we need to forgive people for/reconcile ourselves with.
The hour after that was spent sharing those things, and then we spent some time in small groups continuing in prayer and sharing. Our small group actually spent quite a bit of time discussing pride and how it relates to forgiveness--especially when we get offended by things that aren't even really offensive...we're just letting our pride get the better of us.
Then the afternoon was spent planning for outreach and the soup kitchen on Saturday. It was fun, but I won't bore you with any details. If it's really that important to you then you can personally message me and we'll discuss it there ;).
After that, I interviewed Wes for the five minute documentary on Greenhaven, and got 30 minutes worth of him talking...which I was expecting due to Wes being known for rambling, but every time Wes gets talking about broken, homeless people you can just see the passion and hear in his voice how much his heart breaks for those people.
Now here I sit, listening to worship practice and loving every moment God has given me with these fantastic people.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Lady Gaga's genius
Lady Gaga hit the nail on the head. God makes no mistakes. After that her views and opinions drastically contrast that statement, but the statement within itself is quite sound.
I don't remember much about the lesson we had this morning. It was more discussion and in-depth study of the epistles. Not to say it was boring, because we did several dramatic re-enactments of different people living in the time that the book of Philemon was written, and we learned even more about the context of that 20-something verse book which so many people simply glaze over as if it means nothing.
As a matter of fact, doing subjects like this which are not as interesting as others train our minds to see God in everything--not just the things we want to see Him in.
It was dessert discussion today that took the cake--pun definitely intended--because it actually led to a slightly heated debate. We of course left the building laughing and joking with each other, but at the mid point of the discussion I'm quite certain half of us hated the half that wasn't comprised of us.
Which, by the way, is the problem with the church today: they never get past the disagreements. But that's a whole other subject.
We watched an hour and a half video of Lenda Cope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GAlgnnn0mw
talking about the image of God. You can watch the video if you like, or keep reading, or both. I recommend both so that my bias of opinion doesn't cloud the actual message Lenda was trying to get across.
Now, when you think of the image of God, you usually expect a lecture talking about what God looks like. Or, if you're a more, "in tune" Christian, you expect it to be about how Christians are supposed to represent Christ. I won't say you're wrong, but in this scenario that is not at all what Lenda was talking about.
The trinity is the Godhead three in one and one in three. We think this to be a mind-blowing thing, and for those who have a human perspective it really can be quite mind-blowing--or can it?
The creation of mankind began with Adam. And for a while, it was just Adam. We look at this and don't comprehend the implications of, "Just Adam". "Just Adam" means that the original Adam was a hermaphrodite. This may seem as heresy to many traditional Christians, but if God created many other species to be hermaphrodital(take worms for example) then there is nothing that could stop Him from making man the same way. God said it was good.
It was good, but God decided He could make it better. God took stuff from Adam to make Eve(side note: Lenda called them Adam 1 and Adam 2 because they didn't get names until sin entered). The idea that God took something from Adam means that everything that was needed to make Adam a fully functional physical and spiritual being was there. Now it was in two. Two in one, one in two. "And they shall become one flesh". (I don't have a bible handy, but you can google that phrase and get the exact verse it's from).
Men and Women are created with the same idea that is the trinity. The trinity is a relationship between three forms of God. They are a perfectly harmonious relationship. You never hear the Holy Spirit asking God the Father, "Why'd Jesus get the body?!?!?!". They are in perfect harmony, and there's no sex involved.
The world today is obsessed with sex, and it is how we are told to define our identity. The example God gives us for a perfect relationship doesn't even involve sex. That's just like an awesome gift that God threw in with mortal life. God's example of a relationship is separate parts that originate from the same thing and come together to work in perfect harmony.
God has created men and women each uniquely and individually, but they are derived from the same being--first God, and then the original Adam. Men and women are told from day one to find their identity in their gender. If you are born a man, x is what you do. If you are born a woman, x is what you do. God didn't intend it like that. My favourite quote from Lenda is that the world--and church--of today has put the two genders in their own box. God didn't create boxes. God created a kaleidoscope.
Not all men are what society calls, "manly" but they are definitely exactly the way God intended, and He's more than willing to give them purpose and identity in life beyond how much they can dead lift. The same goes for women. God didn't create women to have their value placed in breast implants.
Lenda then went into this big spiel about the process of a fetus which I fully grasped but not enough to be able to repeat it in writing as I don't know enough about the terminology.
Lenda's main point was that humanity today is searching in vain for an identity in sexuality, but their true identity can only be found in the image of God. Men and women are definitely different, but they are also very much the same in that they were created to be in harmony, just like the trinity lives in harmony. Sex is just a bonus.
I feel like I've already completely done the video no justice whatsoever, so I highly recommend that you take the time to sit down for an hour and a half and watch it, because it is awesome, and is something that the church doesn't address enough--and in some cases not at all.
In fact, I'm making a rule. I forbid you to comment on this post until you have watched the video, because my presentation has a bias of my opinion of what the original content is. Thank you.
Catch you all tomorrow.
I don't remember much about the lesson we had this morning. It was more discussion and in-depth study of the epistles. Not to say it was boring, because we did several dramatic re-enactments of different people living in the time that the book of Philemon was written, and we learned even more about the context of that 20-something verse book which so many people simply glaze over as if it means nothing.
As a matter of fact, doing subjects like this which are not as interesting as others train our minds to see God in everything--not just the things we want to see Him in.
It was dessert discussion today that took the cake--pun definitely intended--because it actually led to a slightly heated debate. We of course left the building laughing and joking with each other, but at the mid point of the discussion I'm quite certain half of us hated the half that wasn't comprised of us.
Which, by the way, is the problem with the church today: they never get past the disagreements. But that's a whole other subject.
We watched an hour and a half video of Lenda Cope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GAlgnnn0mw
talking about the image of God. You can watch the video if you like, or keep reading, or both. I recommend both so that my bias of opinion doesn't cloud the actual message Lenda was trying to get across.
Now, when you think of the image of God, you usually expect a lecture talking about what God looks like. Or, if you're a more, "in tune" Christian, you expect it to be about how Christians are supposed to represent Christ. I won't say you're wrong, but in this scenario that is not at all what Lenda was talking about.
The trinity is the Godhead three in one and one in three. We think this to be a mind-blowing thing, and for those who have a human perspective it really can be quite mind-blowing--or can it?
The creation of mankind began with Adam. And for a while, it was just Adam. We look at this and don't comprehend the implications of, "Just Adam". "Just Adam" means that the original Adam was a hermaphrodite. This may seem as heresy to many traditional Christians, but if God created many other species to be hermaphrodital(take worms for example) then there is nothing that could stop Him from making man the same way. God said it was good.
It was good, but God decided He could make it better. God took stuff from Adam to make Eve(side note: Lenda called them Adam 1 and Adam 2 because they didn't get names until sin entered). The idea that God took something from Adam means that everything that was needed to make Adam a fully functional physical and spiritual being was there. Now it was in two. Two in one, one in two. "And they shall become one flesh". (I don't have a bible handy, but you can google that phrase and get the exact verse it's from).
Men and Women are created with the same idea that is the trinity. The trinity is a relationship between three forms of God. They are a perfectly harmonious relationship. You never hear the Holy Spirit asking God the Father, "Why'd Jesus get the body?!?!?!". They are in perfect harmony, and there's no sex involved.
The world today is obsessed with sex, and it is how we are told to define our identity. The example God gives us for a perfect relationship doesn't even involve sex. That's just like an awesome gift that God threw in with mortal life. God's example of a relationship is separate parts that originate from the same thing and come together to work in perfect harmony.
God has created men and women each uniquely and individually, but they are derived from the same being--first God, and then the original Adam. Men and women are told from day one to find their identity in their gender. If you are born a man, x is what you do. If you are born a woman, x is what you do. God didn't intend it like that. My favourite quote from Lenda is that the world--and church--of today has put the two genders in their own box. God didn't create boxes. God created a kaleidoscope.
Not all men are what society calls, "manly" but they are definitely exactly the way God intended, and He's more than willing to give them purpose and identity in life beyond how much they can dead lift. The same goes for women. God didn't create women to have their value placed in breast implants.
Lenda then went into this big spiel about the process of a fetus which I fully grasped but not enough to be able to repeat it in writing as I don't know enough about the terminology.
Lenda's main point was that humanity today is searching in vain for an identity in sexuality, but their true identity can only be found in the image of God. Men and women are definitely different, but they are also very much the same in that they were created to be in harmony, just like the trinity lives in harmony. Sex is just a bonus.
I feel like I've already completely done the video no justice whatsoever, so I highly recommend that you take the time to sit down for an hour and a half and watch it, because it is awesome, and is something that the church doesn't address enough--and in some cases not at all.
In fact, I'm making a rule. I forbid you to comment on this post until you have watched the video, because my presentation has a bias of my opinion of what the original content is. Thank you.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Blah
When you do kind things for those in need, is it to make yourself better(selfish ambition) or is it because you genuinely care for these people?
We dug more into Philemon and the Epistles today, but there was nothing that we came across which I found to be interesting enough to remember or write down.
We also watched a documentary on Japan, which only increased our excitement to go there! We also had a short language session, which was hilarious and mostly disastrous, as Japanese is preposterously different to the English language.
We then proceeded to have small groups, which is where the initial question of this entry was brought up. I thought it was interesting, and I implore you all to answer the question for yourselves. Because, to be honest, I kind of feel that if you are simply helping the needy without actually caring, you're not helping at all. You're simply making them feel more and more insignificant, because your helping them out of pity only makes them feel more pitiful. Food for thought.
Catch you all tomorrow.
We dug more into Philemon and the Epistles today, but there was nothing that we came across which I found to be interesting enough to remember or write down.
We also watched a documentary on Japan, which only increased our excitement to go there! We also had a short language session, which was hilarious and mostly disastrous, as Japanese is preposterously different to the English language.
We then proceeded to have small groups, which is where the initial question of this entry was brought up. I thought it was interesting, and I implore you all to answer the question for yourselves. Because, to be honest, I kind of feel that if you are simply helping the needy without actually caring, you're not helping at all. You're simply making them feel more and more insignificant, because your helping them out of pity only makes them feel more pitiful. Food for thought.
Catch you all tomorrow.
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