I've been taking note lately at the huge mass of freedom in my life. More freedom than I've ever had, and I believe the most I'll ever had. Reading and talking with other of my buds still in school, they're tied down with homework and group projects and other things from academialand. From other folks at work I hear about their family / wife / girl friend obligations. As for me, I wake up when i want, go to work when I want (within reason), go to bed when I want, and do what I want inbetween times.

Hrm, that sounded a bit on the selfish side, but I think you get what I mean. With all that comes lots of time to think too. There's always fun questions like "what is my purpose here", and "why am I alive", and "what kinda of dining set defines me as a person"...er, yeah, maybe not so much. So we're going to start reading this book called "The Purpose Driven Life" in our bible studies at church. I started reading ahead a bit, just to get an idea. I can tell I'm going to be very nitpicky with the author on several things, as in the first two chapters I've found a few key points that I disagree with. That's probably good, as it will give us more to talk about. That, and he used the classic "the bible is our owner's manual" line, which I think is wrong, and it rather annoys me when people say that. Feel free to disagree with me on that, but advanced warning you probably won't change my mind. You see, if we are a "tool" and the bible is our "owner's manual", then the owner's manual would be written for the "user" - God, or some other god. For example, a human creates a tool and writes a book so other humans know how to use that tool. God created us, and gave us the Bible, not so we would understand better how we work, but who God is. We can relate to stories in the bible because we already understand how we work and can apply it to the story.

Anyway, I may post some more interesting disagreements between me and this book, as I go through it. We'll see.