Pet peeves and crazy talk

I hate the cold! I've been walking around in the cold for exactly one day. I say, bring on the rain. Maybe I should dress a little more warmly, though.

It must be really, really hard to spell in front of a class on the board. I come to this conclusion because so many really, really smart people have such a problem with it. I realize that intelligence doesn't automatically translate into spelling skill, but I'm not just talking about one professor here. Just today, a Phd student who was filling in for an absent prof spelled a word, then changed it, making it wrong.

What is selfishness? Traditionally, it might be defined as concern for one's own good above another's.

But if you extrapolate that far enough, getting to a store at 6 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving so you can get that great deal on a computer is selfish. You're considering your good (the great deal) over the 101st person's (assuming there's 100 computers for sale that day), aren't you?

If your mom saw $300 (perhaps the amount that you'd save on a computer if you got to the store at the insanely early hour--and you saw it too a second later--lying on the ground, what good person would rush and pick it up and refuse to let their mother have it? Everyone knows that whoever sees it first should get it.

My point is that in interpersonal relations, Christians know that they are to prefer the other to themselves. But when it's not personal, when you can't see the other person, much less know that person, we don't think about it.

I'm talking crazy talk I know. I just thought about this today during class. Maybe that's why it's so fuzzy. And yes, I still believe in getting in lines.

While we're talking about selfishness, why isn't it selfish to become a Christian? It's looking out for #1 isn't it? You're thinking, "Ok, if I do this now, this will happen to me then and that won't."

Well, one reason that's not selfish is because it affects no one else adversely. Salvation is a free gift to whoever wants it. There's no limitations. If I get into heaven I don't bump someone else out. You know?

Another thing I don't like is when a preacher opens it up to the congregation to share and no one does.

Anyone have any limerick subject ideas? btahq@juno.com. This is in honor of Sam.