It's An Update to This Site

Greetings and welcome back to the Un-Zone, the only known site on the Internet devoted to all things related to Un. It's been a while since I last updated this blog, so I'm thinking that today will be a good day to post an update about what has been going on in my little part of the world called Lawrence, Kansas.

I'm surviving the final semester of law school. By May, this seemingly never-ending path of education will finally end. And then comes the real world and the final test called the Multistate Bar Exam. No matter which state you decide to take the Bar in, it will be an experience. There's nothing like at least two days of answering questions about the laws of the United States and the particular state that one would like to practice in
This lovely experience will cost a proverbial arm and a leg, maybe more if you've entered law school straight from four years of college. I'm beginning to think that anyone wanting to be a lawyer must have some sort of mental disorder; otherwise, such people would have never subjected themselves to this entire process. This might explain why the bar application asks such probling and personal questions about confirmed medical diagnoses of certain mental disorders like schitzophrenia, depression, and so forth.

My computer, for some reason, is acting up. Every so often, it fails to boot up Windows. Luckily, I save everything on a floppy disk or a flash drive, or so I assumed. Apparently, I failed to save Gray Hall II on a backup media like a flash drive or a floppy disk. To add insult to injury, the Gray Hall II saga was all the way up to Chapter Seven, with two additional chapters in the works. At worst, I'm going to have to redo Chapters Five to Seven, plus two additional chapters on finals and a Christmas party. At best, I just turn on my computer and it works. No messy rewriting needed. I'm hoping for the latter. Thankfully, I saved my Trade Law paper on a flash drive, so I won't have to rewrite that...

A random digression. Apparently, in the early years of Christianity, there were religious texts and gospels that were written by the Gnostics and other sects of Christianity. (This problem of doctirinal questions was not officially solved until 325 AD with the First Council at Nicaea, though by the 200's, many Christian bishops recognized the need for one doctrine set in stone (pun intended)). For those that did not get the pun, one must have an understanding of Latin and Greek, plus some New Testament. Petrus, Petros, the parable about the house build on a solid rock...forget it.
Well, there was the Epistle of Barnabas that claimed that the Bible should be interpreted not literally, but figuratively. The most unusual interpretation involved the prohibition on eating weasels (Chapter X). According to this document, it was not meant to be an admonition against eating weasels, per se, but an admonition against oral sex. They believed that weasels conceived through the mouth.
Or the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. If you read that one, boy, Jesus Christ has some anger management problems. Sure, he did miracles like raising the dead, healing the injured, and so forth, but he also killed two kids who did "bad" things to Jesus. Like throw a stone at Jesus and quite pitifully, splashing water out of a pool with a willow branch. And I thought that certain people has issues...
Of course, these are not "official" Church canon, but documents from the Gnostic tradition. Make of them what you will.


That's all for now.