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So this morning I took an internet IQ test. I won’t actually tell you what my score was but it was amusing.

I thought that my dad’s response was the funniest. I told him that I took a test and he actually had a look of disgust. He then said that he was on “pin and needles” about the outcome (sarcasm is a rarity for dad but it was oozing today 8). . . ). I told him and then I quickly had to change the subject because I realized that he really didn’t care. It was awesome.

This is of course reflective of my parents view of IQ tests. They think that it is just a number to put up as a badge of honor for intelligence and it actually does very little good. I do agree with them but I did have fun. If you do one of these tests, it is mainly having the ability to recognize patterns and do a little mental gymnastics.

Have fun. If you take the test, don’t take the score too seriously. IQ isn’t that great a measure for anything of importance. At least I think that was what I was told during my years of my Psychology degree. If my memory stands, great. If not, . . . what was I just saying?

I have enjoyed Lt’s comments on many things and here I would like to agree whole heartedly with Lt. I think that my concern goes deeper than simple Bible knowledge. I agree that JW’s may have a better system than we have for learning specifics but I don’t think that this is the only concern that the church should have. The thing that they don’t do that is of the utmost importance is to teach people how to think rather than just what to think.

My parents were very excited that I chose to go to University because they were more concerned with me learning how to think and how to be critical (I make a distiction between being critical and having a critical spirit. Having a critical spirit does not require having a critical mind). This is necessary if we are hoping to worship God with our whole minds.

Let us hope for something much more than just knowing facts but to be seekers of the Truth. The One that is worthy of all attention and desires the best of our mind, body and spirits.

Well, google doesn’t know enough about me to actually have anything to say about me. Bah! I deride Google’s ability to know me. (oh, I forgot to mention that this was a site that was recommended by Chris in his blog today). Although if you just look up Mark it says, “Mark is the Beast”. What a mean thing to say. They can’t be speaking of Mark Trew. Mark Trew is the bomb. Take that googlism people. Mark Trew is a Dork. I’ll see if google can pick up on that. Hah!

Actually Google is pretty good about me usually. You can find my old webpage pretty easily. But maybe not easily enough. . .
Today is a big day of homework and tomorrow is looking like a big day of homework. . . Stop the craziness!

And the sun has gone away. . .

It is such an incredible day. It is weird to wake up and just have such an overwhelming sense of the beauty and majesty of God. I feel like I’ve been put through a blender for the last few months but more and more I have become thankful for it. I suppose part of it has been that I’m looking back and seeing that goodness and mercy have been following me through these days but I don’t think that explains all that I’m feeling this morning. I feel complete. I feel like a whole person. I look back over my last 26 years of life and see that I have grown so much and seen so much. I feel blessed today.

I’ve got school work coming out of the wazzoo but all of that seems to be headed in a good direction. I’m not totally sure what that direction is but I’m getting more and more excited about it (while at the same time I’m getting more and more patient with it).

I’m looking at the fears that are in my life and laughing at them now. My fears are silly. They grip me when they come and they sometimes do some pretty fine damage but they are silly. They are based in a world of meaninglessness. They are based in fiction. They are based in a world where Jesus is not Lord. I’m afraid that I spend too much time in that world but at least every now and again I can see a little more clearly that a world without God is a farce. A farce that is truly tempting at times but a farce none the less.

It’s a beautiful day. . . and the Son has said Gooday.

So after a day of only reading books about postmodernism I have come to a conclusion. . . I knew squat about postmoderism and I am sneaking out of the realm of complete ignorance into the realm of informed ignorance.

I had no idea how much I agree with postmodernism and disagree mainly with the notion that there is no absolute truth. Postmodern actually seeks to develop community and calls into question the separation of person and idea that came out of moderism.

I think that I’m going to enjoy this little journey into labelling everything that goes on around me. It gives me a little better understanding of what one means when they say that this piece of art is postmodern.