Lake Titicaca (it's okay, you can say it)

Lake Titicaca is a beautiful place. I believe it sits at around 12,500 ft. And is the highest navigable lake in the world (that's according to Bolivia...this factoid is debated by other countries with higher lakes:). We can safely say it's ONE of the highest navigable lakes in the world. We had Monday off from school so 7 of us teachers went to Lake Titicaca. One of the teachers, Stephanie, got us the hook up through a friend of a friend who owns a lake house there. It was awesome. We relaxed, read, played games, hiked, tossed the disc. It was a nice way to spend our weekend.

Week 5 done.

Well, that was a riveting discussion on Conditional Immortalism :)

In other news...

We've finished the 5th week of classes. We are tearing through this semester.

I just went running. It was very hard... That's all I have to say about that.

Have a good weekend!

Conditional Immortalism.

http://wisdomandfollyblog.com/2009/08/04/a-defense-of-conditional-immortalism/

Hey faithful readers:
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the above blog post.

The more traditional view of Hell is that if you don't believe in Jesus you will go to hell and suffer conscious torment for eternity.

Another view of hell called Annihilationism says that there is no punishment in hell...when you die you are just annihilated.

The view presented in the blog, Conditional Immortalism, does hold to a very real punishment in hell...however, it is only for a designated time. Ultimately, a non-believer, after punishment is destroyed and will no longer exist.

The blog, wisdomandfollyblog.com, is my professor's and his wife's, Jim and Amy Spiegel. Spiegel is a professor of philosophy at Taylor University. At Taylor I was in a band with him and with Steve and Chris Jones. I got really close with them and with Jim's family my last couple years at Taylor.

Many of you know I start many thoughts and stories with, "Well, Spiegel says..."

I hope you are able to get something from his and Amy's blog.