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I love how the 36 bus only comes around every half hour and always leaves 30 seconds before I get to the stop.
I set two of my friends up on a date, purely for my own enjoyment.
I can't tell the difference between hunger and cramps. Sometimes I think I have appendicitis.
Basketball for Kansas is getting back at the other teams for football.
To the person who hit my car in Park and Ride. Thank you for adding the new dent to my car.
Here's an idea: paint the back of bathroom stalls with chalkboard material. Graffiti fer er'ybody.
Ellis may have had a rough night, but I have faith that Perry's prowess will destroy Texas. #weloveperry
Is dressing like a homeless person a thing now?
10 straight sounds great
If I tell you I haven't eaten much this week, stop telling me I have an eating disorder..I have a financial disorder.
You remind me of the babe
KU should pay me for all the people that I give directions to, seriously like ten people today. I'll take it in twenties, Bernie.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charlie Chaplin
Chewing bubble gum and tried to be cool and blow a big bubble...
Instead my gum just fell into my lap. God I'm sexy.
Sometimes I put headphones in just so no one will talk to me
Avoid eye contact at all costs.
There were birds outside my window this morning. Usually I find them annoying, but today I decided they were forecasting spring.
When the QR code for the crossword answers doesn't work, I take it as a sign that I CAN DO IT.
Sorry to that person who sits behind me in class. I don't mean to be so tall.
I forget the Olympics are going on right now sometimes... Is that bad?
Went out without a coat today and didn't freeze to death.
Waaaaa!!! Soooo sorry for not flushing!!!
Don't follow the crowd find your own creed
Our beliefs do not have to match those of our parents. If we didn't
realize this before in high school, our time at college should certainly make us realize this simple fact now.
Besides having the freedom to choose what to believe and not to believe, we are also exposed to an overwhelming diversity of religions on campus. As a result, being away for college becomes the quintessential space for opening up to different ways of thinking about God and developing our own personal beliefs.
Some of us do choose to identify with specific beliefs, creeds and doctrines. Conversion experiences as well as stories of reversion to faiths we were raised in can be powerful moments for us, from the student who finds belonging in a new Christian community on campus to the Muslim student who takes on the challenge of praying five times a day, the creeds we adopt in our daily lives can enrich and define our spiritual lives.
Those of us who have gone through this faith journey have come to understand creed in a much different way than our Sunday school experiences. We understand creed as not something that can be shoved down the throat of any self-conscious human being.
No one, not even our parents, should expect that just because they have a specific definition of God, or, even more fundamentally, they say God exists at all, that we should sign up unquestionably as believers of that dogma.
In his book "God in Search of Man," Rabbi Abraham Heschel says, "in formulating a creed, in asserting: God
is, we merely bring down overpowering reality to the level of thought. Our thought is but an after-belief."
What attaches us to creeds begins with an inner questioning, an inner thirst, and then an intimation of some greater reality. Heschel says the "statement 'God is' is an understatement." It is merely a phrase that is an attempt to describe our spirituality and experience with God, something that is surely beyond language.
Behind our "God is" statements, there is something deeper and far more intimate to each of us that is difficult to put into words. This deeper "something" cannot be reproduced by simply reciting the creeds and catechisms of our parents. To do so would be placing these dogmatic statements above the very thing they attempt to describe, that is, God.
In contrast, the creeds we adopt voluntarily are assertions of a faith we've personally arrived at. We understand that creed is actually "an understatement" to larger experiences, journeys, and stirrings of our hearts and minds. Creeds, if we chose to adopt them, are an "after-belief."
Garrett Fugate is a graduate student in the School of Architecture from St. Louis
FFA OF THE DAY
Pretty sure there's a passage in the Bible about why you shouldn't use the left door to enter a building.
HEALTH
Eating 'right' is not easy when health standards change often
1:30 a.m., I'm eating a bowl of plain noodles. I don't feel like I'm breaking any crucial nutritional rules, although Emeril might bat an eye. I give Google a go with, "Is a bowl of noodles healthy?" and am met with a flood of information so useless and inconsistent that, after 30 minutes of research, I still couldn't tell you if a bowl of noodles is healthy.
I'm hit with buzzwords like "MSG," "fried," "sodium," and "carbs." At some point in each of these words' histories, they were chemicals. Now, they've been hijacked by diet books and cooking shows that have turned them into selling points.
There are some basic principles that we all know; soda bad, broccoli good. But every couple of months, the entire field of nutritional science will reverse their position on products and foods.
Despite knowing in general that carbs aren't great and too much red meat makes pooping a chore,the study of nutrition is barely more than a pseudoscience to me.
It's like they're flipping coins.
If this were just about any other scientific field, itd be harmless. When paleontologists announced that the triceratops wasn't its own species of dinosaur, our inner child was bummed out but nothing substantial changed.
When the Higgs boson
made national news over the summer, we all cheered but had no idea what it meant to our daily lives.
When nutritional scientists decide in April that fat is bad in all forms, I avoid fat. In May when they change their minds and claim that fat is essential and carbso are the true culprit, I do my best to adjust accordingly.
All of these are affecting the food that goes into my body. What I eat can protect me from heart disease and make me more prone to it in the same stroke. The choices we make in our diets have both immediate and long-term impacts on our bodies, minds and lives.
Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate a structured diet made up of Nutty Bars, Twinkies and powdered doughnuts. After eight weeks he'd lost 27 pounds and cut his cholesterol by twenty percent.
This wasn't a formal study, more of a class project. His results are no less mind-boggling to me. He consumed the kind of food that diet scientists vilify and yet came out better for it.
These anomalies aren't a
reflection of the nutritional sciences failing. These results are instead a reflection of how fickle and complicated our bodies really are. And, more importantly, how difficult it is to set down broad-stroke rules for diet of any kind.
The current "thing" is being gluten-free. Every restaurant, diet book, and grocery store is pandering to the new regime of anti-gluten and will continue to do so until the next fad comes along. It sells, gives your brand a "healthy, earthy vibe," and the only cost is a few extra "gluten-free" labels and a new set of menus.
I understand that nutrition is an evolving science and that we live in rapidly transforming times. That's all fine and dandy.I'd appreciate it if the nutritional science community didn't run from their laboratories screaming at the top of their lungs that X food is a carcinogen after a single study.
When it comes to America's health, I don't want profits to be the priority.
Nutritional science is the only area of study wherein sweeping generalizations are accepted as truth by morning news shows.
Until, of course, they change their minds a few months later.
Wil Kenney is a sophomore from Leawood studying English
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