Kurt Gerwitz

was brought up today by Bob Sweeny. A seventeen year old at ris youth was adopted by a black couple, both with Masters degrees. The female is a lawyer. The child had love, role models, “built-in tutors,” financial resources and, I assume, spiritual resources since the lady is converted Catholic stemming from her work as a youth minister. The child chose to steal their car, drop out of CBC and become a father.

Bob asks what did he need? Bob compared the situation to our own Lawrence, a De La Salle graduate with a romantic history. It is unclear to us.

Interpretations:
1) Something truly was missing. We can search the history, find that thing. Science could examine the variables and with comparisons could isolate a factor, or a series that “caused” this youth not to change his path. One possible factor would be “perspective.” The child certainly thought that his choices were the best for him at the time. We always choose the option of the most amount of perceived pleasure, right? The neurons chasing through the mind follow the path of least resistance, right? There is no free will? We are just not smart enough yet to sort out the factors. We don’t have the technology, or organization. We certainly don’t have the energy or the priority devoted to the human sciences relative to selling junk.

2) The “other.” The factor that we are seeking to isolate is simple and large and right in front of our faces. The boy had free will. We do what we can, the rest is up to our clients to CHOOSE. You can lead a hoser to water, but you can’t make him drink the beer, right. (That’s a pathetic attempt at an allusion to that stupid Canadien beer movie that we all love so much. The one with Rick Morannis and Quaid. A spinoff from a SNL skit, they get jobs at a brewery to get free beer and uncover a conspiracy.)

I believe the truth lies not only “somewhere in between.” It is better to say the truth lies in accepting the paradox.

The 1988 patch that was carbon dated was taken from a piece of the shroud repaired or smoke infiltrated in the middle ages.
This will advance humanity if we choose to learn that even though science cannot deny the shroud, our skeptics and cynics can. Speaking of cynical, my own rebuttal comes to mind: we have been ignoring science for hundreds of years. Science should not be jealous of Jesus, though. We have been ignoring Him for two thousand.

Who is mvs79?

Quote of the day goes to my Spanish student Shavanda:
“Gris…that’s what I put in my hair.”

Gris is Spanish for grey and is pronounced “greese”

Parenting or raising children is one of the clearest “growth areas.” We’ve all heard the expression “you have to have a license to drive a car, but any ole chump can have kids.” In Starship troopers, the true prophet of our times, only the graduated “citizens” can have kids. One person cites their reason for joining the military as that they want to have kids. I wonder what happened to orphanages. nowadays, we have family social services, which does somegood work I’m sure. But just as I could tell you many things that are wrong in education, and Officer Betz could tell you what is wrong on the streets, no one with power is listening to what these organizations need. We are not willing to sacrafice liberty for justice. bad parents are protected, not challenged enough.

Bad people are allowed to exist: the Status Quo, stability is security. It’s their right until sacraficed by a conviction for a crime. Our culture could be so much more. Righteous conflict.

Some things that are wrong with the world

1. Addictions

#2. Corporate feminists: the destruction of the family, 40 hour work weeks for moms & dads
#3. Economic disparity

In God’s kingdom all children will be loved and all mouths will be fed. Perhaps we need technology to provide the food and organizational psychology to provide distribution. How come we offer MBAs in supply line, but can’t feed the world?
Adult jerks will be rehabilitated. Brainwashed to be productive members of society. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Rough day. Rough night.

Devil’s Advocate: top 20 film. Just like “American Beauty” it reflects my disgust with materialism.

Eurotrip: Funny and Crude. Vatican scenes familiar since I was just there. Cute German reminds me of Bobby’s Kim Kujane. Love stories are great these days but seniors in high school I don’t relate well with anymore.

Stuck on You: Brotherly Love from Hollywood? I’m impressed despite the tired conjoined twins jokes. Oriental jokes are funny.

“Tact is not saying what everyone is thinking” -Mike, the SLUH volunteer at DLS

I have a Dream. Jesus said that God’s kingdom was on its way and that it was parodixically present. Most thought he meant the end of the world was coming soon.

I look forward to a better world.

“be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi.

8 Sluh students are doing their senior project at De La Salle this month. Talking with one of them who subscribss to the above philosophy brought much FHL. (Faith, Hope, and Love.) He railed against a duty ethic and had a typical cynicism about Religion, yet spoke as if committed to service because it “makes sense.” This attitude is the seed to the revolution I see: Love makes sense! Reason and science will convince the world what religion has taught all along.

Check out the Time magazine article on Happiness. It has seredipitously answered question that I consciously knew I had.

“Doesn’t it feel good after you’ve been to Mass?”
John Gerwitz after Mass in the Pantheon in Rome -Dec 26,’04

Joe Johnson is cool for registering to this site.

Manchurian Candidate: not worth it. I’d love to watch the original to compare. Denzel again saves the world from white people. I lost the plot and began an important conversation.

Dodgeball: not worth it. I did laugh out loud

Starship Troopers 2: worst movie I’ve seen. And Hans didn’t even recommend it.

I should see: Hotel Rwanda
I recommend: Lost Boys of Sudan