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Ainsley_Rose
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Name: Rose
Gender: Female
Interests: my exercise clothes, chocolate, the gym, running, swimming, mountains, Maine, coffee, California, sailing, tea, sleep, archeology, vocals, art, painting, portraits, photography, astronomy.
Expertise: Photography (I hope), vocals, modern artist.
Occupation: lifeguard; student
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AIM:  Buggyrosey
Member Since:
7/29/2006
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| You might be wondering why I haven't been updating lately. Well actually I have... I have a new blog on blogspot.com. I find it a lot more practical, and it seems that more of my friends are on that site and that it's just a new and more appealing look. I thought I'd let any followers know, you can still catch up on my latest activities at my new blog!
Also, I have not "protected" this posting just in case old friends wanted to see my new blog as well. | | |
| Last week we raced to two regatta's, one in Tulsa then we drove the same day to another one in Omaha the next day. I've been working on a women's pair for the last two months, we placed first in both races! It was awesome. Today my coach told me that we're going to Dad Vails. It's a really competitive regatta in Philadelphia. We're going to be flying out Wednesday of finals week and the races are May 8-9. I'm so excited and equally nervous. I know that my coach wouldn't be sending us if she didn't think we had a chance, but it's going to be some TOUGH competition. There are nineteen other crews that we're racing against, including Emory, Georgia Tech, Amherst, Brock, Manhattan, Philly U., Dayton, Pittsburgh, Alabama, etc. I don't even think I've raced against half of these crews before. It's definitely going to be intense, but I'm ready. Ange (my pair partner) and I had a really great row this morning at 5:30 AM, and it can only get better in the next three weeks!
TULSA ROUTE 66 REGATTA:
Race 10: Womens Open 2- Final @ 09:10 AM
1st 1 OCU (A. Hibbs) 05:30.00 05:30.00 00:05:30.00 (THAT'S ME!)
2nd 2 Bay Area (A. Hielscher) 06:14.12 13.4% 00:44.12 06:14.12 00:05:30.00 00:00:44.12
OMAHA UPPER MIDWEST REGATTA:
Womens Open 2- Final @ 9:30 AM
1st: OCU (A. Hibbs and R. Lane)
2nd: St. Catherine's
3rd: St. Thomas | | |
| Due to that fact that I feel lots of people are now reading my xanga, I've decided to make it protected. If you would like to read it you're first going to have to admit that you read my xanga and then you'll have to ask me for an invite e-mail. So fess up all you crazy stockers. haha. No, but I just need to not have the feeling that people that I don't want to read my xanga are, or that people I don't know are reading all about my life. So it's officially become protected. | | |
| Okay, so last night I had an in depth conversation with Nate. He’s in Texas right now working at his uncles’ ranch, but he called me last night to ask me about my day, and we ended up talking for an hour and a half. It was really fascinating. There’s so much that I didn’t know about his beliefs and so much that I don’t understand, I just want to learn and see what he believes and why. First of all, and this is all that I understand at the time, so it might be twisted a little, but I am still learning, but Christian Scientists do not believe that man is in sin or have a “sin nature”. Man is not material, but it is the spirit that counts. Nate has never gone to the hospital in all his life and never taken a drop of medicine. Now this is an odd concept for me because my family is engrossed in the medical field, what with my father and my brother and even my brother-in-law. But here’s what my question is… If man is perfect and without sin in and of himself, then why did Jesus need to come to earth in the first place? Why did he need to come and break the separation between God and man? Because there was a sin separation right? Also, why did God command us to offer up sacrifices? I mean first with Adam and Eve, then Abraham, Isaac, the children of Israel, etc. but until the day that Jesus died on the cross and ripped the veil of the temple. What were those sacrifices for if not to be an offering to God to cleanse us of our sins? So needless to say interesting question there, and one that I do not fully understand of yet.
Second, Nate said that he has never been in an anatomy class and knows nothing of the human body, because that is a material thing, it is not the inside of us, the anatomy of humans that matters, rather it is our spiritual side. While I know that knowing what you tibia, phalanges, fibula, etc are isn’t going to matter in heaven, I believe that not only is it completely fascinating to know, but God did give us this information, I mean he formed Even out of Adam’s rib, God’s bringing up the skeleton of humans himself. Haha. I know that’s a weak argument, but maybe you at least see where I’m coming from.
The part of the lecture that Nate said that he didn’t agree with this past Sunday was that the man mentioned medicine at all. He said that mentioning that medicine can help people and in about the same amount of time as some of the healings of the Christian Scientist religion is almost undermining what they believe in a way. I thought that I very interesting that he took it that way, but I do understand where he’s coming from.
Anyway, there is so much more I would like to say about all of this, but all in good times. I’m sure Nate and I have many, many more conversations to come. And he’s coming back tonight, probably really late so I don’t think I’ll be able to see him, but I get to see him tomorrow!
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| Christian Scientists. Other then being extremely friendly people, their beliefs are very interesting as well and also quite logical in a sense of the word. The lecture that I went to this past Sunday was called The Medicine of Christian Science and among other things it was about medicine, what is qualified as medicine, what are the side effects of medicine, do we need medicine, what Christian Scientists believe is the only medicine people need, etc. Christian Scientists believe in the power of prayer rather then using medical means of healing. The speaker was a five generations Christian Scientist that had been practicing for sixteen years. There are tons of cases of healings in this religion, and there are lots of records when healings were quick and others when they were longer. Nate was talking to me afterwards and he said that he didn’t agree with everything that the speaker said, but I’m not quite sure what he didn’t agree with- we haven’t actually talked about it yet. But the man did have a couple of really interesting points. I don’t think that people need all the medicine that they’re taking these days, but I think that it definitely can speed the process of healing in a scientific point. I mean doctors have researched and studied and they know what works and what does not. I know that sometimes prayer is just as powerful as the medicine that we use today, but I’m not convinced yet that we should not use medicine at all. I mean if I was in a situation where someone was hurt or sick my first instinct would be to get help for them, in whatever way possible. I need to have some more in depth discussions with Nate, but I’m learning and discovering which I always love… | | |
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