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Thursday, May 12, 2005
if I could be...
Kristen "tagged" me with this a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to doing it.
How to play: I have to pick 5 occupations out of the list below and post my answers. Then I tag 3 other people to post their answers on their blog. If I tag you, and you don't want to be a part of this, then that is okay. Just let me know and I'll tag someone else.
The Questions: If I could be a scientist...If I could be a farmer...If I could be a musician...If I could be a doctor...If I could be a painter...If I could be a gardener...If I could be a missionary...If I could be a chef...If I could be an architect...If I could be a linguist...If I could be a psychologist...If I could be a librarian...If I could be an athlete...If I could be a lawyer...If I could be an inn-keeper...If I could be a professor...If I could be a writer...If I could be a llama-rider...If I could be a bonnie pirate...If I could be an astronaut...If I could be a world famous blogger...If I could be a justice on any one court in the world...If I could be married to any current famous political figure...
Well, I was going to get all smart-alecky and say that this being twenty-first century America, I could be any of these things if I really, really wanted to be, but my priorities are such that I am... um, not. However, I won't be a smart-alec, I'll just do the meme the way it was meant to be done. :) (except that I'll skip the "tagging" part, and just let people copy it if they want to.)
If I could be a scientist: I would work for the Institute for Creation Research, and I would make a HUGE effort to let the world know exactly how bad a fit Darwinian evolution is with the fossil record.
If I could be a farmer: I wouldn't. No way would I want my livelihood and that of my family to depend so completely on the weather and other unpredictable natural events. Which shows that I need to trust God more, I guess, or else that I read the Little House series too many times as a little girl.
If I could be a librarian: I think I might someday. I would be friendly to everyone, especially the kids, have sugarless suckers behind my desk, recommend really good books to everyone, and smell the books when nobody was looking.
If I could be a gardener: Nobody would want me to. I kill plants just by looking at them.
If I could be a musician: I would have studied the piano really thoroughly and not taken a twelve-year-and-counting hiatus from it after finishing high school. I would perhaps conduct a medium-major orchestra, or else play the flute for one. Whichever it was I would never tire of the way the air vibrates when the cello plays, and the feeling it makes in my chest like being in love. I would live in a house with hardwood floors and slanting sunlight, tastefully decorated, with a whole room dedicated to music which would contain a gleaming Steinway grand piano. I would have a complete personality transplant so that I could be surrounded by lots and lots of interesting friends and be at ease with them, and we would get together on weekends and make music together. And I would be really lonely and wish I had the friendly, crazy, happy life I have now, with my family around me in my lived-in little house.
Comments
Wasn't Darwin like a devoted Catholic who said that evolution was merely God's tool. Sort of like making love being the tool to use for getting pregnant. Evolution works on so many levels in life (Down to simple evolution of ones personality), that I find it hard to dismiss it. However, I do concede that it is highly probable that the way he works it might be less that rational. By the way, Rachel; you are still a musician. Just like after your children are grown and moved out, you'll still be a mother. I'm so stealing this and posting it!
Posted by: jenn at May 12, 2005 10:45 AM
I don't think Darwin was Catholic, except possibly in the sense of Anglo-Catholic (aka, high-church Anglican). Darwin certainly did not think his theories went against his religion, however. (Anglicans, as I understand it, are among the denominations who believe that the Bible is meant to teach by parable rather than literally.) You may be thinking of Thomas Henry Huxley, another ardent Christian who did a lot of fighting for Darwin's ideas, who said, "Creation by wholesale is *grander* than creation by retail." (Referring to putting natural laws in place and letting them unfold, as opposed to creating each little detail one by one.)
Posted by: dichroic at May 12, 2005 01:38 PM
