Failure

So, it has been officially a zillion years since I have posted. "That is impossible", you may say, but I feel like it has been. Life got a little crazy (as usual) and so my blogging got placed on the back-burner. Oh, well. What do you expect from me anyway?

I do not even know what to say now. I have not really been inspired to blog anything consequential as of late, so I guess I shall blabber on and hope something understandable forms out of these words.

It has struck me how quickly life changes. The old saying goes, "If you want to make God laugh, make plans". It is true. Dominick and I were set on getting married in May of 2010. The date has now officially been moved up to October 24, 2009. I once told myself I would only be married in the Spring. I am most definitely going to be hitched in the Fall. I am not complaining, I just find it amusing that what I once thought was never going to change has.

Other plans that have changed. Well, as of now further education has been put on hold. Getting married in the fall, yeah, no way I can do school and work full time. Dominick has just discovered that his education is going to be pretty expensive. Can't afford me going to school as well. Ah, what are you going to do?

Even if I do go back to school, it won't be for Secondary Education. I no longer have the desire to go to work and come home with more work. I want to be able to go to a job and leave work at work. I don't know if this is actually possible, but I am hoping in my naivete.

Well, life will continue bringing its surprises. And I will continue to go with the flow. What can you do? Nothing. And I am ok with that. I know that my Savior knows exactly where my life will go and that is a comfort to me. Well, I will try my hardest to keep this blog updated. Don't count on it or anything becuase you will, without a doubt, be met with grave and utter disappointment. I am a failure at blogging...

Life

In a couple of my classes students have been challenged to define life and then distinguish life from human. I honestly never really thought about it, I just took advantage that people would know the difference. But, it is important to know this distinction so that one can defend unborn babies and people who have severe disabilities.

My philosophy professor had us watch a video in class on Thursday. It was a silly Stark Trek episode. Sorry for all those Trekkies out there, I was never interested in the show. The cheesy dialogue and predictable events never caught my attention. Well, anyway, we watched this particular episode where this one scientist wanted to disembow and study a human-looking machine. Of course, the commander in charge has a close association with the machine and feels that "he" has rights. So, a court case is held to decide whether the robot should be respected as human or not.

The only thing that kept on popping into my head is how come people in this world have more affection and compassion toward robots compared to unborn babies? I don't understand, I never will, and I am certain this is a good thing. However, it is hard to define the delicate difference between life, human and inanimate objects. So, I challenge everyone, what do you think? How would you define and distinguish each of these things? While you all think about this, I am going to go and write a paper on it. Have fun.