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Name: Lauren Location: Texas, United States Birthday: 9/8/1986 Gender: Female
Interests: I love music, the outdoors (including everything from hiking and rockclimbing to skydiving and swimming under waterfalls), running, working out, singing, theater and drama, playing my guitar, sciences: (biology, chemistry, neurology, environmental sciences, astronomy, physics), ancient history, anthropology, archeology, cooking, eating, staying out really late with friends, and sleeping! Occupation: Student Industry: Medical
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9/24/2005
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| ...I'm really bored...My summer just began a week ago. I'm almost done with driving lessons; I take my test on Tuesday, then I'll finally have my license. I should be getting a car the last week of May, and then I will truly be free. I can't wait. I can roadtrip to anywhere I please - to Las Vegas, Chicago, maybe even all the way to NYC to visit friends (they know who they are). So getting proposed to in an indirect way is kind of...confusing. It wasn't so much a proposal as it was a suggestion. I didn't know whether the guy was joking or serious, so I just played it off as if he was kidding and laughed. After all, getting married at this age is unthinkable to me. I'm not in love. I wouldn't want to marry someone with whom I am not in love. I was in love once, and it was wonderful. But as they say, "all good things must come to an end". I hate that saying. I don't really believe it... unless you're dead. Besides the guy I was madly in love with, there was another before him whom I cared about unconditionally. I still talk to this guy from time to time, but I'm afraid it will never be the same as it once was. I wish we would run into each other some day in not-so-distant future (maybe 3 or 4 years from now), and completely hit it off. I can honestly say that he is one of the few people from my past who I actually miss. It's amazing how life evolves. One day you can be so depressed and melancholy, and a week later you could have the world at your fingertips. | | |
| How would you counter act gravity? What composes the universe and everything in it? If all we consist only of chemical atoms and compounds, which interact and react in various ways to produce an effect called "Life," then what is memory, and how does it work? Whether to catch a single moment and freeze it in time, or to capture an entire series of biotic and abiotic interactions, memory is an amazingly mysterious phenomenon. Why does one remember certain things said or done, or certain moments drawn out, yet forget so much more. Is it because our brains are incapable of holding so much information? If so, how and why does it [the brain] choose to store some data, while leaving the majority behind in an undocumented past? Which leads to another thought... What is time? How is the "past" measured? Is there really a past or are we simply configurations in a relative position? ...is everything in the universe simply an atomic spatial arrangement that is fixed by the chemical bonding in a molecule and that cannot be altered without breaking bonds? If those chemical bonds are broken, is that when we die? I know that biologically, once our chromosomes are no longer duplicatable, which means that our DNA cannot be replicated, our bodies cease cell repair, causing degeneration. If we could find a way to make our DNA forever replicatable, we could potentially live forever and not degenerate (or "grow old"). Of course, this may also cause cancer (tumors) because one cell may decide to divide continuously. (See, proof that there is always a way out.) If we could manipulate cancer cells, we might be able to grow tissue, even organ tissue, and use it to replace old or deteriorated organ tissue in other patients. (Obviously only with careful consideration of other physiological matters, such as blood type, and acception/rejection of the other person's bodily tissue, etc.) How do we know that once we die, the world does not end, and everything around us is a conspiracy produced by our own chemically altered brainwaves? I realize that by saying this, I sound mad, but I go off on these tangents of questions that go on inside my head.... what no one would understand when they ask "what are you thinking?" ..they are just thoughts.. | | |
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This immigration stuff is pissing me off! Have you heard about it on the news? Illegal immigrants should be deported from our country. We would NEVER be allowed to do this in another country...vote without any right to even be there? This is assinine!!!! I emailed the state department (which my father works for) yesterday to show my support for the ANTI-IMMIGRATION laws, which do not give voting rights to illegal aliens!!! Better yet, send me an email address of someone very important with major influence in congress or the senate, and I will write them a six-page ESSAY on why they should NOT allow "undocumented" immigrants to vote, or for that matter, have any working rights whatsoever in OUR country! It is absolutely REDICULOUS that I go into a gas-station where the owner does NOT speak even ONE WORD of ENGLISH, nor do the people who work there (usually the family)!!! My friend, Krystal said she was driving in Houston a few months ago, took the wrong toll-way and had to drive around for another hour before stopping at the only gas station she could find. When she got in there, she asked three people for directions, and NOT ONE of them could speak English. The owner or manager was talking in sort of mixed language, and she couldn't understand a word. She was lost, in a community near Rice University, TCU, and another college. I quote her, "What type of a community are they serving if they can not even speak English to communicate with their customers?? They need to go home." I agree 100% with that statement. This is not a racist remark at all; Krystal is black. This is not a discrimination among classes, because many people from poor families would take the jobs these immigrants are stealing. Two Mexican friends of mine said it wasn't fair giving jobs to people who were not supposed to be here. Their families worked very hard to get here; they learned English before coming, and applied for working visas.
Not only are most of these immigrants illiterate and not able to speak any of our language, but they are competing with Americans for jobs! What if a mass of Americans went to France, with no education of the French culture or language, and started competing with native Frenchmen for jobs in their own country? Jobs that many of them would take and be willing to earn a salary for?? That would NEVER fly in ANY other country (but ours, obviously, becuase the U.S. government has no idea how to control immigration or patrol borders). And I'm not just talking about the Bush Administration...but all of them!!!! Simply take a look at the News: Fox, CNN, NBC, etc. You will see that these borders are not patroled, nor are the laws regulated. They even film people coming across them, and still do nothing about it!!!!
Contemplate on this for a few minutes, then tell me what you think...
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| I was reading Proverbs, and these are definitely Words of Wisdom (I have capitalized these two words because this comes from the Holy Word of God, which in some denominations is personified as the Holy Spirit, and Wisdom is personified in the Bible as a woman, thus Wisdom is her name):
"The MOUTH of the RIGHTEOUS is a FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, but the MOUTH of the WICKED conceals VIOLENCE.
HATRED stirs up STRIFE, but LOVE COVERS ALL OFFENSES."
- Proverbs 10:10-12
"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion.
When wickedness comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes disgrace.
The words of the mouth are deep waters, the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.
It is not right to be partial to the guilty, or to subvert the innocent in judgment.
A fool's lips bring strife, and a fool's mouth invites a flogging.
The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body."
- Proverbs 18:2-8
So be careful the words you choose to speak to another, because "Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).
Basically, love your neighbor as you love yourself; do not cause strife among others, and you will live in peace. When you are angry at someone, you must forgive that person, or you will hold bitterness in your heart and may cause far more damage than you realize. Also, do not speak ill words to others - for that may cause more damage to one's heart and soul than you think. We should always try to encourage and forgive others, and not hold grudges or put others down with offensive words. For God says that our tongues are the most powerful weapons we have, and they should only be used to praise and exhalt God, not to lie or hurt others. And when you encourage others, you are pleasing God the Father, because each one of us was uniquely created by Him, and we should respect and love one another, as we are each loved dearly by God. Even if someone speaks ill words toward you, do not return the transgression, for they lack sense, and you should not stoop down to their level. But instead, forgive them in your heart, and in return for their ill-doings, be kind to them.
May God bless you, and good luck with tests this week! | | |
| Wow, I have a total of FIVE tests this week and I had one last week. The only problem is that it is so difficult to bring myself to study...I wish I weren't such an extreme procrastinator, but I guess I must live with the consequences (no sleep..). Haha, ironically I took three naps today during every break I got between classes - each lasted 1 to 1.5 hours. I think I'm becoming addicted to sleep! I love sleeping! ...ok, it is now time to study... =( | | |
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