Run's House

So it's been a while, and this post won't be controversial. Hopefully. It's not the intent. The intent is to introduce the masses to the new house in Campbell, Run's House. Named after the MTV show following Run DMC member RevRun, Run's house started as a group of friends seceding from Scooby House. Why would they break away from Scooby? It's obviously not because they hate the cartoons (They were the shit!). No no, children. There are two main reasons. The first being an annoyance with certain members (cough cough, Tom, cough cough). We don't hate anyone in Scooby, in fact we get along with and are good friends with everyone we know, it's just they get on our nerves and on our asses because we don't like going to house events (they're stupid). The second is that it seems when in bigger groups, some members tend to become severely immature. With an unwillingness to be associated with these people, we often joked about founding our own house. One day my doppelganger and roommate Casey started calling it Run's House, and thus it was born. Soon I made a Facebook group and anyone can request to join. We use Run DMC's logo as our logo:

Now let's go into what Run's House stands for. We believe in only having house events of stuff we just do as friends. I mean, why force people to go to stuff that they think is stupid? There is no reward system for going to stuff or participation. Also, no stickers for ass kissing. As R.A. (resident assistant, and it's not official so I really have no power), I'll give stickers as arbitrarily as I can and ignore precedence of previous sticker-giving. So any house events are just bros hanging out (girls are allowed as well), and we do stuff we would do even if we weren't a house. We would go bowling, but Cole thinks that's gay and won't go. We have our first house picnic Saturday, where we will go get fast food and eat outside at a park. We also plan on going to see American Reunion when it's in theaters. When it comes to politics within Campbell, we remain neutral. We won't declare war on a house because 2 or 3 kids in the house annoy us, and we won't put snow in anyone's bathrooms. We also won't take sides in outstanding battles (Camelot vs Scooby), or attack someone that declares war on us (Scooby). If anyone even thinks about attacking us, you're stupid. Run's has 3 of the biggest dudes in our hall (Cole, Casey, and I), so you'll get your asses kicked (good luck, though). In summary, we are just laid back people who love to hang and not give a fuck.

If you are interested in joining, we encourage applicants to have the runs. No silly, not diarrhea, the R.U.N.S. It stands for Respect, Unity (formerly Umbrella, because we couldn't come up with a U word), Narcissism, and Sex appeal. The S is most important because we like to portray ourselves as a nice house and attract new members. If you are interested in joining, find the group on Facebook or click this handy dandy link (https://www.facebook.com/groups/134458523349884/). You can pretty much be any age, gender, ethnicity, and go to any school. It's more like a frat or sorority.

Follow me on the twitter (@JVanderah20) if you want to read more from me in 140 characters or less at a time, and find me on Facebook if you want to be friends. Over/Under 24 hours until Tom realizes I mentioned how he annoys me. I go over. He's probably with his girlfriend he's only dating to have sex with. Peace out. Please don't try this at home. Here's a meme for thought: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/Cq/

Science vs Religion vs Politics: Do They Always Have to Fight?

It's amazing how many kids in my Humanities are surprised when our Christian professor tells us that people who reject Evolution are ignorant, and that evolution neither disproves God nor what the bible says about the Creation. The bible says God first created living things in the sea and then on land. Evolution says life was first there was life in the oceans and then on land. Ok, so those points can coexist. Next God took the seventh day off (first four days were the forming of the stars and planets) and then sometime after that God created man. And in  evolution, there was life way before man came about. The Bible says god formed man in the image of himself, out of the dust of the ground a breathed life into him. Evolution says humans and other primates came from a common ancestor. Who's to say that God didn't take that common ancestor to form man, and then let the rest progress naturally to the primate family? You see, people get worked up because they view science as attacking their faith, that it is solely trying to disprove God. What they don't realize is that science is unable to touch the issue of whether God exists. You see, science works in the realm of the natural. They can only test the things on this planet that we can touch, see, or measure. God lives in the super natural, in the things we can't see, touch, or measure. So Evolution can't say that since the Bible didn't mention evolution, that means it is factually incorrect and therefore God doesn't exist. All it can say is evolution happened and maybe God is involved, or maybe not. They can't make any claims about God's existence or presence. 


Another thing Atheists like to tear apart about the Bible is Noah's flood because there is no geological evidence of a great flood that ravished the whole world. There is no uniform layer of sediment that contains the same fossils that goes all the way around this world. Plus, at the time that the flood would have happened, the Chinese and Egyptians lost no population and maintained throughout. The also never wrote about a great flood that they all survived through. It is because of this that people love to save religion is wrong and false. They seem to forget that at that time, Noah's people had no way of knowing that the Chinese existed, and that maybe the Great Flood affected the entire area that Noah had known. So what if it wasn't worldwide literally: it could just be that everything he knew had been destroyed. People who take the bible literally are easily offended by even this interpretation. What nobody really considers is that the entire bible is made up of stories that were passed by tongue. The story you knew depended solely on what the person you heard it from said. And when stories get passed by word of mouth, they tend to become bigger and better with less truth to what actually happened. They do, however, retain enough of the original to portray the message of the story. It wasn't until the 1500s, with the invention of the printing press, that Bibles were mass produced meaning there was over a thousands years of orally telling the stories. Granted, there were hand written bibles, but those were few and far between. Also when they became mass produced, they were also translated into languages other than Latin, which led to more minor alterations to the stories. All I'm trying to say here is that yes the Bible may not be 100% accurate as to how stuff happened, but it is completely accurate in the fact that the things happened. So what if it wasn't as massive as what they say, it's still pretty amazing.


As the title indicates, I'm going to bring politics in to this. Why? Because everything involves politics now a days. Like being political correct means not hurting other people's feelings. Well I generally don't care what people think about me or what I believe. Yeah, so what if I'm Catholic. And a Republican. It doesn't mean I'm against handing out condoms, against gay marriage, and against teaching evolution. We should encourage the availability of condoms in schools because kids are going to have sex no matter what. Teaching strictly abstinence in school isn't a good idea, because since kids are going to have sex either way, they would tend to have unprotected sex because they weren't taught about condoms or anything. Granted, in today's society they should know about them anyway, but it is best to be safe and inform them. Being informed doesn't make them more likely to be immoral and make them make bad choices. It actually does the opposite usually. If they know about other options other than what is considered right, people usually aren't as tempted to try the bad. As for gay marriage, I'll sum it up since I mentioned it in an early post. Marriage shouldn't be the term used as to not upset religious people and to give homosexuals equal rights. Civil Unions should be the thing and everyone should be able to get them. And we should teach evolution because it really doesn't conflict with creationism as much as people believe it to. Just because you believe something to be wrong doesn't mean it should be illegal. And this is something some politicians *cough* Rick Santorum *cough, cough* don't understand (He's not the only one, he's just the most relevant). In politics it is necessary to keep your personal  beliefs present, but not foremost. You are representing millions of people who don't see eye to eye with you on everything. In government you have to make compromises, and you have to make decisions that benefit everyone as a whole, not just people who support you. That is when government works best and is most efficient. America doesn't seem to get this. The two party system is terrible. It automatically pits two sides against each other, and if you agrees with the other and/or compromise, you are seen as weak or a flip-flopper. There really should be no parties and should just be people individually running for each position. That would make the most sense, and take away most of the favoring of certain groups. So in government, a strong moral backing is important, whether it be from society, church, or family, but when it comes down to making decisions it should be what is best for all that is predominant and not your personal beliefs.


Thanks for taking the time to read this, hopefully you didn't stop halfway through out of frustration or being offended. Follow me on the Twitter (@JVanderah20) if you want short snippets that may or may not make sense on a daily basis. But fair warning, my mind can be scary. Oh and just because a guy is being nice to you, doesn't mean he's creepy. He's just being nice. Peace out girl scouts. High Fashion.