Mute Math

For those of you who have never seen Mute Math's Typical music video...here it is! It is amazing good and creative! It is a backwards video and an incredible one at that! As far as I can tell, there is only one cut in the entire video, so it was two very long and complicated scenes while trying to mouth the sound backwards!

Two competing views

Over the past week in my Communication Ethics class (which I highly recommend as a class), we briefly reviewed a segment of the program, The Question of God; Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis with Dr. Armand Nicholi. I have quite enjoyed it because it has been an opportunity to address foundational issues, something I believe C.S. Lewis had a gift for articulating. The program basically contrasts God in light of the works of C.S. Lewis and the humanist Sigmund Freud. One such comparison is this:

“It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power—it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.” – Lewis

“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origins of the regulations and precepts of civilization.” – Freud

It is an amazing comparison. Of course in my mind one view stands heads and shoulders above the rest, yet this program in ways crystallizes the differences between a believe in God and disbelief in God.

End of Session A

It is amazing how this session is almost over! In a little over a week, everyone will be handing in their last assignments and will be going on what must be the Undergrad's first Fall Break. For the past session, I have been taking all communication classes. Though I have throughly enjoyed taking these classes, in some ways I am looking forward to getting back to the classes within my OLAM major. I believe that I have become somewhat attached to these classes over my time here at Regent. I also look forward to those classes because they may be filled with other OLAM students who I haven't seen in a while. Though I plan to thoroughly enjoy Fall Break, I am looking forward to session B!


Video of the day!

Soul Central Bus!!!

So my Church's (Wave Church) young adult movement, Soul Central, is going to run a bus out to Regent to help bring people from Regent to its Wednesday night meetings! For those of you who have not been to Soul Central, it is amazing and I highly recommend checking it, and tonight is a great opportunity to do it! Don't be concerned about getting directions, just jump on the bus and enjoy the ride! Be over at the Communication building at 7:15. The bus will take you to Wave Church and bring you back to the Com Building at 10:00pm.



Also...

Check out this video, artistically, it is amazing cool!

I'm back!

I apologies to all my readers out there for my period of inactivity. I have in fact been so active recently that I have failed to take time to write. The funny thing about being so active is that now I have finally decided to take the time to write, little is coming to me. So since I do not have anything to say at this moment, I will leave you with this:

"The opinions you have of people in your life affects them profoundly. Dr. J. Sterling Livingston, formerly of the Harvard Business School and founder of the Sterling Institute management consulting firm, observed, 'people perform consistently as they perceive you expect them to perform" (Maxwell & Parrott, 2005).

John Maxwell & Les Parrott,
25 Ways to Win With People


How do you perceive those in your life?

Amazing Resourses

Today I took advantage of one of CSD's Lunch with a Professor and had lunch in a group setting with Dean of the Government School, Mr. Charles Dunn. It was amazing and I enjoyed every minute of it. Being at Regent, I have had the opportunity to meet many remarkable individuals of great accomplishments, and Dean Dunn is just one of those individuals. He has so much wisdom and experience in the field I feel called to, so I soaked up every word he spoke today. I also got to see an aspect I had yet seen of him, a man of deep and undeniable reliance upon his Lord and Savior. I encourage you, take opportunity of being at Regent to meet and get to know the remarkable faculty we have here. Also take opportunity of CSD resourses they regularly provide.

Engaging Learning

It feels like we have just barely started school and we are also into the third week of session A! Classes are going so fast, but I am very glad to be back into the work. In fact, one of my classes, Communication Ethics, is turing out to be very interesting. I believe that one of the things that excites me most about the class is that I will be doing a communication ethics analysis project that focuses on a subject of my choosing! I can tell you now, that the subject is going to be about President Ronald Reagan and how ethics played into this communication with the American people!

It is always invigorating when you are allowed to focus what you are learning onto a topics that personally engages you. It really helps bring the focus of the class home to the student.